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Biological network alignment is currently in a state of disarray, with more than two dozen network alignment tools having been introduced in the past decade, with no clear winner, and other new tools being published almost quarterly. Part…
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Neural architecture search (NAS) in expressive search spaces is a computationally hard problem, but it also holds the potential to automatically discover completely novel and performant architectures. To achieve this we need effective…
We introduce a novel multiobjective optimization algorithm based on the conformational space annealing (CSA) algorithm, MOCSA. It has three characteristic features: (a) Dominance relationship and distance between solutions in the objective…
With the rapid development of the satellite industry, the information transmission network based on communication satellites has gradually become a major and important part of the future satellite ground integration network. However, the…
Variants of the GSEMO algorithm using multi-objective formulations have been successfully analyzed and applied to optimize chance-constrained submodular functions. However, due to the effect of the increasing population size of the GSEMO…
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We present ULSA, a novel stochastic local search algorithm for random binary constraint satisfaction problems (CSP). ULSA is many times faster than the prior state of the art on a widely-studied suite of random CSP benchmarks. Unlike the…
Variable selection problems generally present more than a single solution and, sometimes, it is worth to find as many solutions as possible. The use of Evolutionary Algorithms applied to this kind of problem proves to be one of the best…
Binary neural networks have attracted numerous attention in recent years. However, mainly due to the information loss stemming from the biased binarization, how to preserve the accuracy of networks still remains a critical issue. In this…