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This paper presents the Multi-Objective Ant Nesting Algorithm (MOANA), a novel extension of the Ant Nesting Algorithm (ANA), specifically designed to address multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). MOANA incorporates adaptive…

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Combinatorial optimization (CO) underpins applications in science and engineering, ranging from logistics to electronic design automation. A classic example is the NP-complete Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP). Finding exact solutions for…

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger

We propose an incomplete algorithm for Maximum Satisfiability (MaxSAT) specifically designed to run on neural network accelerators such as GPUs and TPUs. Given a MaxSAT problem instance in conjunctive normal form, our procedure constructs a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 David Warde-Farley , Vinod Nair , Yujia Li , Ivan Lobov , Felix Gimeno , Simon Osindero

We present Atos, a task-parallel GPU dynamic scheduling framework that is especially suited to dynamic irregular applications. Compared to the dominant Bulk Synchronous Parallel (BSP) frameworks, Atos exposes additional concurrency by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yuxin Chen , Benjamin Brock , Serban Porumbescu , Aydın Buluç , Katherine Yelick , John D. Owens

Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) underpins many large-scale data mining and machine learning applications, with efficient retrieval increasingly hinging on GPU acceleration as dataset sizes grow. Although graph-based approaches…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Yaowen Liu , Xuejia Chen , Anxin Tian , Haoyang Li , Qinbin Li , Xin Zhang , Alexander Zhou , Chen Jason Zhang , Qing Li , Lei Chen

This Paper will deal with a combination of Ant Colony and Genetic Programming Algorithm to optimize Travelling Salesmen problem (NP-Hard). However, the complexity of the algorithm requires considerable computational time and resources.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Rishita Kalyani

Column generation (CG) is a powerful technique for solving optimization problems that involve a large number of variables or columns. This technique begins by solving a smaller problem with a subset of columns and gradually generates…

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The proper planning of different types of public transportation such as metro, highway, waterways, and so on, can increase the efficiency, reduce the congestion and improve the safety of the country. There are certain challenges associated…

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Detecting communities from complex networks has recently triggered great interest. Aiming at this problem, a new ant colony optimization strategy building on the Markov random walks theory, which is named as MACO, is proposed in this paper.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-03-26 Di Jin , Dayou Liu , Bo Yang , Jie Liu , Dongxiao He

Graph-based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search (ANNS) is widely adopted in numerous applications, such as recommendation systems, natural language processing, and computer vision. While recent works on GPU-based acceleration have…

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Utilization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in military and civil operations is getting popular. One of the challenges in effectively tasking these expensive vehicles is planning the flight routes to monitor the targets. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Murat Karakaya

Approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) is a core problem in machine learning and information retrieval applications. GPUs offer a promising path to high-performance ANNS: they provide massive parallelism for distance computations, are…

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As the acquisition cost of the graphics processing unit (GPU) has decreased, personal computers (PC) can handle optimization problems nowadays. In optimization computing, intelligent swarm algorithms (SIAs) method is suitable for…

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Generating graphs subject to strict structural constraints is a fundamental computational challenge in network science. Simultaneously preserving interacting properties-such as the diameter and the clustering coefficient- is particularly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Dávid Ferenczi , Alexander Grigoriev

In the context of object detection, sliding-window classifiers and single-shot Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) meta-architectures typically yield multiple overlapping candidate windows with similar high scores around the true location of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 David Oro , Carles Fernández , Xavier Martorell , Javier Hernando

In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective ant colony system algorithm for virtual machine (VM) consolidation in cloud data centers. The proposed algorithm builds VM migration plans, which are then used to minimize over-provisioning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Adnan Ashraf , Ivan Porres

This paper proposes an extension method for Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm called Dynamic Impact. Dynamic Impact is designed to solve challenging optimization problems that has nonlinear relationship between resource consumption…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jonas Skackauskas , Tatiana Kalganova , Ian Dear , Mani Janakram

As large-scale HPC compute clusters increasingly adopt accelerators such as GPUs to meet the voracious demands of modern workloads, these clusters are increasingly becoming power constrained. Unfortunately, modern applications can often…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Rutwik Jain , Yiwei Jiang , Matthew D. Sinclair , Shivaram Venkataraman

This paper presents a comparative analysis of the performance of the Incremental Ant Colony algorithm for continuous optimization ($IACO_\mathbb{R}$), with different algorithms provided in the NLopt library. The key objective is to…

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