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It has been well documented that the use of exponentially-averaged momentum (EM) in particle swarm optimization (PSO) is advantageous over the vanilla PSO algorithm. In the single-objective setting, it leads to faster convergence and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Anwesh Bhattacharya , Snehanshu Saha , Nithin Nagaraj

Model merging has emerged as an efficient strategy for constructing multitask models by integrating the strengths of multiple available expert models, thereby reducing the need to fine-tune a pre-trained model for all the tasks from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Kehao Zhang , Shaolei Zhang , Yang Feng

Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both continuous and discrete independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-09 Joshua Lukemire , Abhyuday Mandal , Weng Kee Wong

In this work, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm has been used to train various Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs). This approach is motivated by the fact that commonly used gradient-based optimization methods can suffer from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Marco Mordacci , Michele Amoretti

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a stochastic technique for solving the optimization problem. Attempts have been made to shorten the computation times of PSO based algorithms with massive threads on GPUs (graphic processing units),…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Chuan-Chi Wang , Chun-Yen Ho , Chia-Heng Tu , Shih-Hao Hung

In this chapter we give an overview of the consensus-based global optimization algorithm and its recent variants. We recall the formulation and analytical results of the original model, then we discuss variants using component-wise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Claudia Totzeck

Many real-world problems are dynamic optimization problems. In this case, the optima in the environment change dynamically. Therefore, traditional optimization algorithms disable to track and find optima. In this paper, a new multi-swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-08 Somayeh Nabizadeh , Alireza Rezvanian , Mohammd Reza Meybodi

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Divergence-guided PSO (DPSO), which augments…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kleyton da Costa , Bernardo Modenesi , Ivan F. M. Menezes , Hélio Lopes

Data clustering is a recognized data analysis method in data mining whereas K-Means is the well known partitional clustering method, possessing pleasant features. We observed that, K-Means and other partitional clustering techniques suffer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Jayshree Ghorpade-Aher , Vishakha A. Metre

PSO is a widely recognized optimization algorithm inspired by social swarm. In this brief we present a heterogeneous strategy particle swarm optimization (HSPSO), in which a proportion of particles adopt a fully informed strategy to enhance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Wen-Bo Du , Wen Ying , Gang Yan , Yan-Bo Zhu , Xian-Bin Cao

In this paper we propose a variant of a consensus-based global optimization (CBO) method that uses personal best information in order to compute the global minimum of a non-convex, locally Lipschitz continuous function. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Claudia Totzeck , Marie-Therese Wolfram

This paper presents a particle-based optimization method designed for addressing minimization problems with equality constraints, particularly in cases where the loss function exhibits non-differentiability or non-convexity. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 José A. Carrillo , Shi Jin , Haoyu Zhang , Yuhua Zhu

This paper introduces a new dynamic neighborhood network for particle swarm optimization. In the proposed Clubs-based Particle Swarm Optimization (C-PSO) algorithm, each particle initially joins a default number of what we call 'clubs'.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Wesam Elshamy , Hassan M Emara , Ahmed Bahgat

Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is a powerful optimisation algorithm that can be used to locate global maxima in a search space. Recent interest in swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) begs the question as to whether PSO can be used as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lauren Parker , James Butterworth , Shan Luo

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. In the literature, the potential of the particles of swarm has been used to show that slightly modified PSO guarantees…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Alexander Raß , Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaichen Ouyang

Addressing the issue of SVMs parameters optimization, this study proposes an efficient memetic algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO) and Pattern Search (PS). In the proposed memetic algorithm, PSO is responsible for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-10 Yukun Bao , Zhongyi Hu , Tao Xiong

This article introduces an enhanced particle swarm optimizer (PSO), termed Orthogonal PSO with Mutation (OPSO-m). Initially, it proposes an orthogonal array-based learning approach to cultivate an improved initial swarm for PSO,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Lewis Mitchell

In this work, we illustrate an example of estimating the macro-model of velocities in the subsurface through the use of global optimization methods (GOMs). The optimization problem is solved using DEAP (Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-31 Oscar F. Mojica , Navjot Kukreja

This paper presents an algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), adapted for multi-objective optimization problems: the Elitist PSO (MO-ETPSO). The proposed algorithm integrates core strategies from the well-established NSGA-II…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ricardo Fitas