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This paper presents a novel population-based metaheuristic, Indian Wedding System Optimization (IWSO), inspired by the socio-cultural dynamics of traditional Indian weddings. IWSO models the matchmaking process driven by collaboration among…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Deepika Saxena , Kishu Gupta , Jitendra Kumar , Jatinder Kumar , Sakshi Patni , Vinaytosh Mishra , Niharika Singh , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

Random weight change (RWC) algorithm is extremely component and robust for the hardware implementation of neural networks. RWC and Genetic algorithm (GA) are well known methodologies used for optimizing and learning the neural network (NN).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Mohammad Ibrahim Sarker , Zubaer Ibna Mannan , Hyongsuk Kim

Bayesian optimization (BO) methods are useful for optimizing functions that are expensive to evaluate, lack an analytical expression and whose evaluations can be contaminated by noise. These methods rely on a probabilistic model of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-04 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Bayesian optimization is a class of data efficient model based algorithms typically focused on global optimization. We consider the more general case where a user is faced with multiple problems that each need to be optimized conditional on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-04 Michael Pearce , Janis Klaise , Matthew Groves

Optimization problems involving mixed variables (i.e., variables of numerical and categorical nature) can be challenging to solve, especially in the presence of mixed-variable constraints. Moreover, when the objective function is the result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Mengjia Zhu , Alberto Bemporad

In this paper, we propose a predictor-corrector type Consensus Based Optimization (CBO) algorithm on a convex feasible set. Our proposed algorithm generalizes the CBO algorithm in [11] to tackle a constrained optimization problem for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Hyeong-Ohk Bae , Seung-Yeal Ha , Myeongju Kang , Hyuncheul Lim , Chanho Min , Jane Yoo

Bayesian optimization techniques have been successfully applied to robotics, planning, sensor placement, recommendation, advertising, intelligent user interfaces and automatic algorithm configuration. Despite these successes, the approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-01-12 Ziyu Wang , Frank Hutter , Masrour Zoghi , David Matheson , Nando de Freitas

In many real-world optimization problems, we have prior information about what objective function values are achievable. In this paper, we study the scenario that we have either exact knowledge of the minimum value or a, possibly inexact,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hanyang Wang , Juergen Branke , Matthias Poloczek

A new method to improve the performance of Random weight change (RWC) algorithm based on a simple genetic algorithm, namely, Genetic random weight change (GRWC) is proposed. It is to find the optimal values of global minima via learning. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Mohammad Ibraim Sarker , Yali Nie , Hong Yongki , Hyongsuk Kim

In Bayesian optimisation, we often seek to minimise the black-box objective functions that arise in real-world physical systems. A primary contributor to the cost of evaluating such black-box objective functions is often the effort required…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Adam X. Yang , Laurence Aitchison , Henry B. Moss

This paper presents an Improved Bayesian Optimization (IBO) algorithm to solve complex high-dimensional epidemic models' optimal control solution. Evaluating the total objective function value for disease control models with hundreds of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-03 Yuyang Chen , Kaiming Bi , Chih-Hang J. Wu , David Ben-Arieh , Ashesh Sinha

In robotics, methods and softwares usually require optimizations of hyperparameters in order to be efficient for specific tasks, for instance industrial bin-picking from homogeneous heaps of different objects. We present a developmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Maxime Petit , Emmanuel Dellandrea , Liming Chen

Over the last three decades more then sixty meta-heuristic algorithms have been proposed by the various authors. Such algorithms are inspired from physical phenomena, animal behavior or evolutionary concepts. These algorithms have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Ashish Kumar Tripathi , Kapil Sharma , Manju Bala

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method to optimize costly black-box functions. While traditional BO optimizes each new target task from scratch, meta-learning has emerged as a way to leverage knowledge from related tasks to optimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jiarong Pan , Stefan Falkner , Felix Berkenkamp , Joaquin Vanschoren

Sea Horse Optimizer (SHO) is a noteworthy metaheuristic algorithm that emulates various intelligent behaviors exhibited by sea horses, encompassing feeding patterns, male reproductive strategies, and intricate movement patterns. To mimic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Fatma A. Hashim , Reham R. Mostafa , Ruba Abu Khurma , Raneem Qaddoura , P. A. Castillo

Markov Decision Problems (MDPs) provide a foundational framework for modelling sequential decision-making across diverse domains, guided by optimality criteria such as discounted and average rewards. However, these criteria have inherent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Dibyangshu Mukherjee , Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan

For a wide range of applications the structure of systems like Neural Networks or complex simulations, is unknown and approximation is costly or even impossible. Black-box optimization seeks to find optimal (hyper-) parameters for these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Janina Schreiber , Damar Wicaksono , Michael Hecht

A global optimization framework, acronymed COMBEO (Change OfMeasure Based Evolutionary Optimization), is proposed. An important aspect in the development is a set of derivative-free additive directional terms obtainable through a change of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-10 Saikat Sarkar , Debasish Roy

With the growing demand for power and the pressing need to shift towards renewable energy sources, wind power stands as a vital component of the energy transition. To optimize energy production, researchers have focused on design…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-14 Paras Singh , Vishal Jaiswal , Subhrajit Roy , Raj Kumar Singh

Brain storm optimization (BSO) is a newly proposed population-based optimization algorithm, which uses a logarithmic sigmoid transfer function to adjust its search range during the convergent process. However, this adjustment only varies…

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