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Hyperparameter tuning in machine learning algorithms is a computationally challenging task due to the large-scale nature of the problem. In order to develop an efficient strategy for hyper-parameter tuning, one promising solution is to use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Leila Zahedi , Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , M. Hadi Amini

The series-parallel (active) redundancy allocation problem with mixed components (RAP) involves setting reliable objectives for components or subsystems to meet the resource consumption constraint, e.g., the total cost. RAP has been an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Wei-Chang Yeh

In dynamic collaborative settings, for artificial intelligence (AI) agents to better align with humans, they must adapt to novel teammates who utilise unforeseen strategies. While adaptation is often simple for humans, it can be challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ravi Hammond , Dustin Craggs , Mingyu Guo , Jakob Foerster , Ian Reid

This paper research review Ant colony optimization (ACO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA), both are two powerful meta-heuristics. This paper explains some major defects of these two algorithm at first then proposes a new model for ACO in which,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-12 Hassan Ismkhan

Informationization is a prevailing trend in today's world. The increasing demand for information in decision-making processes poses significant challenges for investigation activities, particularly in terms of effectively allocating limited…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Qian Huang , Weiwen Qian , Chang Li , Xuan Ding

Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) optimization algorithm is one of the recent population based probabilistic approach developed for global optimization. ABC is simple and has been showed significant improvement over other Nature Inspired…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Sandeep Kumar , Vivek Kumar Sharma , Rajani Kumari

Chemotaxis can be defined as an innate behavioural response by an organism to a directional stimulus, in which bacteria, and other single-cell or multicellular organisms direct their movements according to certain chemicals in their…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vitorino Ramos , C. M. Fernandes , A. C. Rosa , A. Abraham

The multi-armed bandits (MAB) framework is a widely used approach for sequential decision-making, where a decision-maker selects an arm in each round with the goal of maximizing long-term rewards. In many practical applications, such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-21 Sakshi Arya , Hyebin Song

Deployments of Bayesian Optimization (BO) for functions with stochastic evaluations, such as parameter tuning via cross validation and simulation optimization, typically optimize an average of a fixed set of noisy realizations of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Henry B. Moss , David S. Leslie , Paul Rayson

Resource constrained job scheduling is a hard combinatorial optimisation problem that originates in the mining industry. Off-the-shelf solvers cannot solve this problem satisfactorily in reasonable timeframes, while other solution methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Su Nguyen , Dhananjay Thiruvady , Yuan Sun , Mengjie Zhang

Computational models in fields such as computational neuroscience are often evaluated via stochastic simulation or numerical approximation. Fitting these models implies a difficult optimization problem over complex, possibly noisy parameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-03 Luigi Acerbi , Wei Ji Ma

Many real world problems are NP-Hard problems are a very large part of them can be represented as graph based problems. This makes graph theory a very important and prevalent field of study. In this work a new bio-inspired meta-heuristics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Chiranjib Sur , Anupam Shukla

Metaheuristic algorithms are becoming an important part of modern optimization. A wide range of metaheuristic algorithms have emerged over the last two decades, and many metaheuristics such as particle swarm optimization are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Xin-She Yang

The goal of this paper is twofold. First, it explores hybrid evolutionary-swarm metaheuristics that combine the features of PSO and GA in a sequential, parallel and consecutive manner in comparison with their standard basic form: Genetic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Piotr Urbańczyk , Aleksandra Urbańczyk , Magdalena Król , Leszek Rutkowski , Marek Kisiel-Dorohinicki

Metaheuristics are popularly used in various fields, and they have attracted much attention in the scientific and industrial communities. In recent years, the number of new metaheuristic names has been continuously growing. Generally, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhongqiang Ma , Guohua Wu , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan , Aijuan Song , Qizhang Luo

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

The Meta-Agent Conflict-Based Search~(MA-CBS) is a recently proposed algorithm for the multi-agent path finding problem. The algorithm is an extension of Conflict-Based Search~(CBS), which automatically merges conflicting agents into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-10-27 David Tolpin

This paper studies a multi-armed bandit (MAB) version of the range-searching problem. In its basic form, range searching considers as input a set of points (on the real line) and a collection of (real) intervals. Here, with each specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Siddharth Barman , Ramakrishnan Krishnamurthy , Saladi Rahul

This paper investigates the optimal signal detection problem with a particular interest in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The problem is NP-hard and can be solved optimally by searching the shortest path on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Le He , Ke He , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida