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This paper investigates the feasibility of using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for classical motion planning problems. We propose guiding both continuous and discrete planning algorithms using GNNs' ability to robustly encode the topology of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Arbaaz Khan , Alejandro Ribeiro , Vijay Kumar , Anthony G. Francis

Despite the recent successes in robotic locomotion control, the design of robot relies heavily on human engineering. Automatic robot design has been a long studied subject, but the recent progress has been slowed due to the large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Tingwu Wang , Yuhao Zhou , Sanja Fidler , Jimmy Ba

Recently, there emerged revived interests of designing automatic programs (e.g., using genetic/evolutionary algorithms) to optimize the structure of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for a specific task. The challenge in designing such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Zhe Li , Xuehan Xiong , Zhou Ren , Ning Zhang , Xiaoyu Wang , Tianbao Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various graph-based tasks (e.g., node classification or link prediction). Despite their triumphs, GNNs still face challenges such as long training and inference times,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Chu-Yuan Wei , Shun-Yao Liu , Sheng-Da Zhuo , Chang-Dong Wang , Shu-Qiang Huang , Mohsen Guizani

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has produced strategies to modify a graph's edges using gradients from a trained GNN, with the goal of network design. However, the factors which govern gradient-based editing are understudied, obscuring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Donald Loveland , Rajmonda Caceres

In recent years, there has been notable interest in investigating combinatorial optimization (CO) problems by neural-based framework. An emerging strategy to tackle these challenging problems involves the adoption of graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Peng Zhang , Shirui Pan , Zhao Li , Hongyang Chen

Unraveling the complexities of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is crucial for understanding cellular processes and disease mechanisms. Traditional computational methods often struggle with the dynamic nature of these networks. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hakan T. Otal , Abdulhamit Subasi , Furkan Kurt , M. Abdullah Canbaz , Yasin Uzun

Genetic Algorithms (GA) are a powerful tool for stochastic optimisation and non-parametric symbolic regression, already widely used in cosmology. They are capable of reconstructing analytical functions directly from data points without…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Matteo Peronaci , Matteo Martinelli , Savvas Nesseris

In this paper, we compare the three most popular algorithms for hyperparameter optimization (Grid Search, Random Search, and Genetic Algorithm) and attempt to use them for neural architecture search (NAS). We use these algorithms for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Petro Liashchynskyi , Pavlo Liashchynskyi

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have received much attention recently, owing to their capability in handling graph-structured data. Among the existing GCNNs, many methods can be viewed as instances of a neural message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Tien Huu Do , Duc Minh Nguyen , Giannis Bekoulis , Adrian Munteanu , Nikos Deligiannis

Many scientific and technological problems are related to optimization. Among them, black-box optimization in high-dimensional space is particularly challenging. Recent neural network-based black-box optimization studies have shown…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Changhwi Park

Learning agents can make use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to decide their actions by using a reward function. However, the learning process is greatly influenced by the elect of values of the hyperparameters used in the learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Adarsh Sehgal , Nicholas Ward , Hung La , Sushil Louis

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown superior performance on diverse real-world applications. To improve the model capacity, besides designing aggregation operations, GNN topology design is also very important. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Lanning Wei , Huan Zhao , Zhiqiang He

Generalised hypertree width ($ghw$) is a hypergraph parameter that is central to the tractability of many prominent problems with natural hypergraph structure. Computing $ghw$ of a hypergraph is notoriously hard. The decision version of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Matthias Lanzinger , Igor Razgon

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a type of deep learning models that are trained on graphs and have been successfully applied in various domains. Despite the effectiveness of GNNs, it is still challenging for GNNs to efficiently scale to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Yingxia Shao , Hongzheng Li , Xizhi Gu , Hongbo Yin , Yawen Li , Xupeng Miao , Wentao Zhang , Bin Cui , Lei Chen

Surrogate Optimization (SO) algorithms have shown promise for optimizing expensive black-box functions. However, their performance is heavily influenced by hyperparameters related to sampling and surrogate fitting, which poses a challenge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Nazanin Nezami , Hadis Anahideh

Despite the remarkable success of generative adversarial networks, their performance seems less impressive for diverse training sets, requiring learning of discontinuous mapping functions. Though multi-mode prior or multi-generator models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Jogendra Nath Kundu , Maharshi Gor , Dakshit Agrawal , R. Venkatesh Babu

Graph Neural Networks have emerged as the most popular architecture for graph-level learning, including graph classification and regression tasks, which frequently arise in areas such as biochemistry and drug discovery. Achieving good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Lukas Fesser , Melanie Weber

Many mathematical optimization algorithms fail to sufficiently explore the solution space of high-dimensional nonlinear optimization problems due to the curse of dimensionality. This paper proposes generative models as a complement to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Pouya Rezazadeh Kalehbasti , Michael D. Lepech , Samarpreet Singh Pandher

Edge intelligence has arisen as a promising computing paradigm for supporting miscellaneous smart applications that rely on machine learning techniques. While the community has extensively investigated multi-tier edge deployment for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liekang Zeng , Chongyu Yang , Peng Huang , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu , Xu Chen