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The fine-tuning of pre-trained language models has resulted in the widespread availability of task-specific models. Model merging offers an efficient way to create multi-task models by combining these fine-tuned models at the parameter…

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This paper investigates current software testing systems and explores how artificial intelligence, specifically Generative AI, can be integrated to enhance these systems. It begins by examining different types of AI systems and focuses on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tanish Singla , Qusay H. Mahmoud

This paper demonstrates the systematic use of combinatorial coverage for selecting and characterizing test and training sets for machine learning models. The presented work adapts combinatorial interaction testing, which has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Tyler Cody , Erin Lanus , Daniel D. Doyle , Laura Freeman

Designing successful interactions requires identifying optimal design parameters. To do so, designers often conduct iterative user testing and exploratory trial-and-error. This involves balancing multiple objectives in a high-dimensional…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ryogo Niwa , Shigeo Yoshida , Yuki Koyama , Yoshitaka Ushiku

Design problems in industrial engineering often involve a large number of design variables with multiple objectives, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms for multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Xin-She Yang

Nature-inspired algorithms such as Particle Swarm Optimization and Firefly Algorithm are among the most powerful algorithms for optimization. In this paper, we intend to formulate a new metaheuristic algorithm by combining Levy flights with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-09 Xin-She Yang

Recently, numerous meta-heuristic based approaches are deliberated to reduce the computational complexities of several existing approaches that include tricky derivations, very large memory space requirement, initial value sensitivity etc.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Bryar A. Hassan

Cognitive radio (CR) is to detect the presence of primary users (PUs) reliably in order to reduce the interference to licensed communications. Genetic algorithms (GAs) are well suited for CR optimization problems to increase efficiency of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-12 Md. Kamal Hossain , Ayman Abd El-Saleh

Combination drug therapies hold significant promise for enhancing treatment efficacy, particularly in fields such as oncology, immunotherapy, and infectious diseases. However, designing clinical trials for these regimens poses unique…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Nan Miles Xi , Man Mandy Jin , Lin Wang , Xin Huang

Subjective assessment tests are often employed to evaluate image processing systems, notably image and video compression, super-resolution among others and have been used as an indisputable way to provide evidence of the performance of an…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Shima Mohammadi , Joao Ascenso

Pathogen control is a critical aspect of modern poultry farming, providing important benefits for both public health and productivity. Effective poultry management measures to reduce pathogen levels in poultry flocks promote food safety by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ganga Gireesan , Nisha Pillai , Michael J Rothrock , Bindu Nanduri , Zhiqian Chen , Mahalingam Ramkumar

A preference-based subjective evaluation is a key method for evaluating generative media reliably. However, its huge combinations of pairs prohibit it from being applied to large-scale evaluation using crowdsourcing. To address this issue,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yusuke Yasuda , Tomoki Toda

What really sparked my interest was how certain parameters worked better at executing and optimization algorithm convergence even though the objective formula had no significant differences. Thus the research question stated: 'Which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Valdimir Pieter

We propose Data Swarms, an algorithm to optimize the generation of synthetic evaluation data and advance quantitative desiderata of LLM evaluation. We first train a swarm of initial data generators using existing data, and define various…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shangbin Feng , Yike Wang , Weijia Shi , Yulia Tsvetkov

Bayesian optimal experimental design (OED) seeks to conduct the most informative experiment under budget constraints to update the prior knowledge of a system to its posterior from the experimental data in a Bayesian framework. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Rafael Orozco , Felix J. Herrmann , Peng Chen

Click-through prediction (CTR) models transform features into latent vectors and enumerate possible feature interactions to improve performance based on the input feature set. Therefore, when selecting an optimal feature set, we should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Dugang Liu , Liang Chen , Xiuqiang He , Xue Liu

Dynamic multi-objective optimization with a changing number of objectives has recently attracted increasing attention due to its relevance to real-world problems whose evaluation criteria may evolve over time. However, existing benchmark…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ke Shang , Zhiyun Xiao , Yuxuan Liu , Jianguo Li , Shaojiang Wang , Wei Sun

Combinatorial optimization is one of the fundamental research fields that has been extensively studied in theoretical computer science and operations research. When developing an algorithm for combinatorial optimization, it is commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yuko Kuroki , Junya Honda , Masashi Sugiyama

The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Johann Sienz , Mauro S. Innocente

The firefly algorithm has become an increasingly important tool of Swarm Intelligence that has been applied in almost all areas of optimization, as well as engineering practice. Many problems from various areas have been successfully solved…

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