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Automated heuristic design (AHD) has gained considerable attention for its potential to automate the development of effective heuristics. The recent advent of large language models (LLMs) has paved a new avenue for AHD, with initial efforts…

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The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into evolutionary frameworks has established a new paradigm for automated heuristic discovery. Despite their promise, these methods typically search in the discrete space of program syntax,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Cheikh Ahmed , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Zirui Zhou

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, inspired by natural evolution. Recent theoretical studies have shown that EAs can achieve good approximation guarantees for solving the problem classes of submodular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Chao Qian , Dan-Xuan Liu , Chao Feng , Ke Tang

Designing search algorithms for finding global optima is one of the most active research fields, recently. These algorithms consist of two main categories, i.e., classic mathematical and metaheuristic algorithms. This article proposes a…

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A variety of optimization algorithms have been developed to solve engineering design problems in which the solution space is too large to manually determine the optimal solution. The Modular Optimization Framework (MOF) was developed to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Brian Andersen , Gregory Delipei , David Kropaczek , Jason Hou

Meta-black-box optimization has been significantly advanced through the use of large language models (LLMs), yet in fancy on constrained evolutionary optimization. In this work, AwesomeDE is proposed that leverages LLMs as the strategy of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Weixiong Huang

One of the most critical issues in machine learning is the selection of appropriate hyper parameters for training models. Machine learning models may be able to reach the best training performance and may increase the ability to generalize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Caner Erden , Halil Ibrahim Demir , Abdullah Hulusi Kökçam

This paper presents the application of socio-cognitive mutation operators inspired by the TOPSIS method to the Low Autocorrelation Binary Sequence (LABS) problem. Traditional evolutionary algorithms, while effective, often suffer from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Aleksandra Urbańczyk , Bogumiła Papiernik , Piotr Magiera , Piotr Urbańczyk , Aleksander Byrski

The automation of neural architecture design has been a coveted alternative to human experts. Recent works have small search space, which is easier to optimize but has a limited upper bound of the optimal solution. Extra human design is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Yuanzheng Ci , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Boyu Chen , Hongwen Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a kind of nature-inspired general-purpose optimization algorithm, and have shown empirically good performance in solving various real-word optimization problems. During the past two decades, promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Sequence generation and prediction form a cornerstone of modern machine learning, with applications spanning natural language processing, program synthesis, and time-series forecasting. These tasks are typically modeled in an autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Vincenzo Collura , Karim Tit , Laura Bussi , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Maxime Cordy

Ultrasound Computed Tomography (USCT) constitutes a nonlinear inverse problem with inherent ill-posedness that can benefit from regularization through diffusion generative priors. However, traditional approaches for solving Helmholtz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xiang Cao , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xinliang Liu , Lei Zhang , Xiaoqun Zhang

Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) is an active research area due to its utility in solving complex search and NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems in the real world. The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) introduce…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Pham Vu Tuan Dat , Long Doan , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

Evolutionary algorithms usually explore a search space of solutions by means of crossover and mutation. While a mutation consists of a small, local modification of a solution, crossover mixes the genetic information of two solutions to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Henri Thölke , Jens Kosiol

Dynamic Optimization Problems (DOPs) are challenging to address due to their complex nature, i.e., dynamic environment variation. Evolutionary Computation methods are generally advantaged in solving DOPs since they resemble dynamic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zijian Gao , Yuanting Zhong , Zeyuan Ma , Yue-Jiao Gong , Hongshu Guo

In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Tapabrata Ray , Mohammad Mohiuddin Mamun , Hemant Kumar Singh

Neighborhood search operators are critical to the performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and rely heavily on expert design. Although recent LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) methods have made notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junhao Qiu , Xin Chen , Liang Ge , Liyong Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Scientific algorithm discovery is iterative: hypotheses are proposed, implemented, stress-tested, and revised. Current LLM-guided search systems accelerate proposal generation, but often under-represent scientific structure by optimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Youssef Mroueh , Carlos Fonseca , Brian Belgodere , David Cox

Once an optimisation problem has been solved, the solution may need adaptation when contextual factors change. This challenge, also known as reoptimisation, has been addressed in various problem domains, such as railway crew rescheduling,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Maximilian Kratz , Steffen Zschaler , Jens Kosiol , Gabriele Taentzer

Software configuration tuning is essential for optimizing a given performance objective (e.g., minimizing latency). Yet, due to the software's intrinsically complex configuration landscape and expensive measurement, there has been a rather…

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