English
Related papers

Related papers: Multi-objective Test Case Selection Through Linkag…

200 papers

In this paper, we present NSGA-II-SVM (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm with Support Vector Machine Guidance), a novel learnable evolutionary and search-based testing algorithm that leverages Support Vector Machine (SVM)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Lev Sorokin , Niklas Kerscher

We propose a novel approach for the challenge of designing less complex yet highly effective convolutional neural networks (CNNs) through the use of cartesian genetic programming (CGP) for neural architecture search (NAS). Our approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Cosijopii Garcia-Garcia , Alicia Morales-Reyes , Hugo Jair Escalante

Regression testing is an essential activity to assure that software code changes do not adversely affect existing functionalities. With the wide adoption of Continuous Integration (CI) in software projects, which increases the frequency of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Rongqi Pan , Mojtaba Bagherzadeh , Taher A. Ghaleb , Lionel Briand

Recent advances in biological research have seen the emergence of high-throughput technologies with numerous applications that allow the study of biological mechanisms at an unprecedented depth and scale. A large amount of genomic data is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Nanwei Wang , Laurent Briollais , Helene Massam

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely used to solve multi-objective optimization problems, and have become the most popular tool. However, the theoretical foundation of multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), especially the essential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Chao Bian , Chao Qian

Continual learning (CL) has spurred the development of several methods aimed at consolidating previous knowledge across sequential learning. Yet, the evaluations of these methods have primarily focused on the final output, such as changes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Nishant Suresh Aswani , Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Abdullah Hanif , Muhammad Shafique

Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms (MBEAs) can be highly scalable by virtue of linkage (or variable interaction) learning. This requires, however, that the linkage model can capture the exploitable structure of a problem. Usually, a single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Arthur Guijt , Dirk Thierens , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer diagnosed among men worldwide. The current PCa diagnostic pathway comes at the cost of substantial overdiagnosis, leading to unnecessary treatment and further testing. Bi-parametric…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-23 Alvaro Fernandez-Quilez , Trygve Eftestøl , Morten Goodwin , Svein Reidar Kjosavik , Ketil Oppedal

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Continuous Integration (CI) requires efficient regression testing to ensure software quality without significantly delaying its CI builds. This warrants the need for techniques to reduce regression testing time, such as Test Case…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ahmadreza Saboor Yaraghi , Mojtaba Bagherzadeh , Nafiseh Kahani , Lionel Briand

Process monitoring based on neural networks is getting more and more attention. Compared with classical neural networks, high-order neural networks have natural advantages in dealing with heteroscedastic data. However, high-order neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Peng Jingchao , Zhao Haitao , Hu Zhengwei

In this paper, we propose an efficient NAS algorithm for generating task-specific models that are competitive under multiple competing objectives. It comprises of two surrogates, one at the architecture level to improve sample efficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Zhichao Lu , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Both feature selection and hyperparameter tuning are key tasks in machine learning. Hyperparameter tuning is often useful to increase model performance, while feature selection is undertaken to attain sparse models. Sparsity may yield…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-14 Martin Binder , Julia Moosbauer , Janek Thomas , Bernd Bischl

The concurrent optimization of language models and instructional prompts presents a significant challenge for deploying efficient and effective AI systems, particularly when balancing performance against computational costs like token…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Cláudio Lúcio do Val Lopes , Lucca Machado

An important challenge in reinforcement learning, including evolutionary robotics, is to solve multimodal problems, where agents have to act in qualitatively different ways depending on the circumstances. Because multimodal problems are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Joost Huizinga , Jeff Clune

The sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) is a new population-based meta-heuristic algorithm. In addition to exploiting sine and cosine functions to perform local and global searches (hence the name sine-cosine), the SCA introduces several random and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Kamal Z. Zamli , Fakhrud Din , Bestoun S. Ahmed , Miroslav Bures

Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm (LTGA) is an effective Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to solve complex problems using the linkage information between problem variables. LTGA performs well in various kinds of single-task optimization and yields…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Huynh Thi Thanh Binh , Pham Dinh Thanh , Tran Ba Trung , Le Cong Thanh , Le Minh Hai Phong , Ananthram Swami , Bui Thu Lam

One of the major distinguishing features of the dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) is the optimization objectives will change over time, thus tracking the varying Pareto-optimal front becomes a challenge. One of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Min Jiang , Zhongqiang Huang , Liming Qiu , Wenzhen Huang , Gary G. Yen

Observational epidemiological studies commonly seek to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on an outcome. Adjustment for potential confounding bias in modern studies is challenging due to the presence of high-dimensional confounding,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-29 Susan Ellul , Stijn Vansteelandt , John B. Carlin , Margarita Moreno-Betancur

Deep learning models achieve state-of-the-art performance across domains but face scalability challenges in real-time or resource-constrained scenarios. To address this, we propose Loss Trajectory Correlation (LTC), a novel metric for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Manish Nagaraj , Deepak Ravikumar , Efstathia Soufleri , Kaushik Roy