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Increasing nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are applied to solving the real-world optimization problems, as they have some advantages over the classical methods of numerical optimization. This paper has proposed a new…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Bing Zeng , Liang Gao , Xinyu Li

Heuristics are commonly used to tackle various search and optimization problems. Design heuristics usually require tedious manual crafting with domain knowledge. Recent works have incorporated Large Language Models (LLMs) into automatic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Shunyu Yao , Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhichao Lu , Zhenkun Wang , Qingfu Zhang

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Benyamin Ghojogh , Saeed Sharifian , Hoda Mohammadzade

This paper proposes distributed algorithms to solve robust convex optimization (RCO) when the constraints are affected by nonlinear uncertainty. We adopt a scenario approach by randomly sampling the uncertainty set. To facilitate the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Keyou You , Roberto Tempo , Pei Xie

Swarm intelligence is a research field that models the collective behavior in swarms of insects or animals. Several algorithms arising from such models have been proposed to solve a wide range of complex optimization problems. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Erik Cuevas , Miguel Cienfuegos , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

A significantly under-explored area of evolutionary optimization in the literature is the study of optimization methodologies that can evolve along with the problems solved. Particularly, present evolutionary optimization approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Liang Feng , Yew Soon Ong , Ah Hwee Tan , Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang

A new technique of global optimization and its applications in particular to neural networks are presented. The algorithm is also compared to other global optimization algorithms such as Gradient descent (GD), Monte Carlo (MC), Genetic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Homayoun Valafar , Okan K. Ersoy , Faramarz Valafar

Business optimization is becoming increasingly important because all business activities aim to maximize the profit and performance of products and services, under limited resources and appropriate constraints. Recent developments in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-30 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb , Simon Fong

With the development of science and technology and the need for Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM), the optimization problem to be solved becomes extremely complex. The theoretically accurate and optimal solutions are often difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Peiying Zhang , Fanglin Liu , Gagangeet Singh Aujla , Sahil Vashist

This paper proposes a novel evolutionary algorithm called Epistocracy which incorporates human socio-political behavior and intelligence to solve complex optimization problems. The inspiration of the Epistocracy algorithm originates from a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Seyed Ziae Mousavi Mojab , Seyedmohammad Shams , Hamid Soltanian-Zadeh , Farshad Fotouhi

Metaheuristic algorithms are optimization methods that are inspired by real phenomena in nature or the behavior of living beings, e.g., animals, to be used for solving complex problems, as in engineering, energy optimization, health care,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ardalan H. Awlla , Tarik A. Rashid , Ronak M. Abdullah

This paper presents the Variable Landscape Search (VLS), a novel metaheuristic designed to globally optimize complex problems by dynamically altering the objective function landscape. Unlike traditional methods that operate within a static…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-08 Rustam Mussabayev , Ravil Mussabayev

In today's day and time solving real-world complex problems has become fundamentally vital and critical task. Many of these are combinatorial problems, where optimal solutions are sought rather than exact solutions. Traditional optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Pravin S Game , Vinod Vaze , Emmanuel M

Heuristic design with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising approach for tackling combinatorial optimization problems (COPs). However, existing approaches often rely on manually predefined evolutionary computation (EC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yiding Shi , Jianan Zhou , Wen Song , Jieyi Bi , Yaoxin Wu , Zhiguang Cao , Jie Zhang

Many machine learning algorithms minimize a regularized risk, and stochastic optimization is widely used for this task. When working with massive data, it is desirable to perform stochastic optimization in parallel. Unfortunately, many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-27 Shin Matsushima , Hyokun Yun , Xinhua Zhang , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Over the past decade, several researchers have presented various optimisation algorithms for use in truss design. The no free lunch theorem implies that no optimisation algorithm fits all problems; therefore, the interest is not only in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Uche Onyekpe , Stratis Kanarachos , Michael E. Fitzpatrick

Non-polynomial hard (NP-hard) problems are challenging because no polynomial-time algorithm has yet been discovered to solve them in polynomial time. The Bacteria Foraging Optimization (BFO) algorithm is one of the metaheuristics algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Saeid Parvandeh , Parya Soltani , Mohammadreza Boroumand , Fahimeh Boroumand

In this paper, the idea of a new artificial intelligence based optimization algorithm, which is inspired from the nature of vortex, has been provided briefly. As also a bio-inspired computation algorithm, the idea is generally focused on a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Utku Kose , Ahmet Arslan

Metaheuristic algorithms have gained widespread application across various fields owing to their ability to generate diverse solutions. One such algorithm is the Snake Optimizer (SO), a progressive optimization approach. However, SO suffers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Genliang Li , Yaxin Cui , Jinyu Su

Submodular functions have found a wealth of new applications in data science and machine learning models in recent years. This has been coupled with many algorithmic advances in the area of submodular optimization: (SO) $\min/\max~f(S): S…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Richard Santiago , F. Bruce Shepherd