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Mean field equilibrium (MFE) has emerged as a computationally tractable solution concept for large dynamic games. However, computing MFE remains challenging due to nonlinearities and the absence of contraction properties, limiting its…

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Classification is one of the most studied tasks in data mining and machine learning areas and many works in the literature have been presented to solve classification problems for multiple fields of knowledge such as medicine, biology,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Alvaro R. Ferreira , Fabio A. Faria , Gustavo Carneiro , Vinicius V. de Melo

Evolutionary many-objective optimization has been gaining increasing attention from the evolutionary computation research community. Much effort has been devoted to addressing this issue by improving the scalability of multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Zhi-Zhong Liu , Yong Wang , Pei-Qiu Huang

In last decades optimization and control of complex systems that possessed various conflicted objectives simultaneously attracted an incremental interest of scientists. This is because of the vast applications of these systems in various…

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Federated learning enables decentralized model training while preserving data privacy, yet it faces challenges in balancing communication efficiency, model performance, and privacy protection. To address these trade-offs, we formulate FL as…

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Autonomous space vehicles need adaptive control strategies that can accommodate unanticipated environmental conditions. The evaluation of new strategies can often be done only by actually trying them out in the real physical environment.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. W. Greenwood , X. Song

A boundary evolution Algorithm (BEA) is proposed by simultaneously taking into account the bottom and the high-level crossover and mutation, ie., the boundary of the hierarchical genetic algorithm. Operators and optimal individuals based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhaoyang Ai , Chaodong Fan , Yingjie Zhang , Huigui Rong , Ze'an Tian , Haibing Fu

Finding the optimal parameter setting (i.e. the optimal population size, the optimal mutation probability, the optimal evolutionary model etc) for an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is a difficult task. Instead of evolving only the parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mihai Oltean , Crina Groşan

This paper presents the Multi-Objective Ant Nesting Algorithm (MOANA), a novel extension of the Ant Nesting Algorithm (ANA), specifically designed to address multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). MOANA incorporates adaptive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali Tarik A. Rashid , Seyedali Mirjalili

User information needs are often highly diverse and varied. A key challenge in current research is how to achieve controllable multi-objective generation while enabling rapid adaptation to accommodate diverse user demands during test time.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Guofu Xie , Xiao Zhang , Ting Yao , Yunsheng Shi

Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

We present safe active incremental feature selection~(SAIF) to scale up the computation of LASSO solutions. SAIF does not require a solution from a heavier penalty parameter as in sequential screening or updating the full model for each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Shaogang Ren , Jianhua Z. Huang , Shuai Huang , Xiaoning Qian

Given a ground set of items, the result diversification problem aims to select a subset with high "quality" and "diversity" while satisfying some constraints. It arises in various real-world artificial intelligence applications, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Chao Qian , Dan-Xuan Liu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Safe exploration is essential for the practical use of reinforcement learning (RL) in many real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present a generalized safe exploration (GSE) problem as a unified formulation of common safe exploration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Akifumi Wachi , Wataru Hashimoto , Xun Shen , Kazumune Hashimoto

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms have been demonstrated to be effective in solving multi-criteria decision-making problems. In real-world applications, analysts often employ several algorithms concurrently and…

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A common assumption in evolutionary thought is that adaptation drives an increase in biological complexity. However, the rules governing evolution of complexity appear more nuanced. Evolution is deeply connected to learning, where…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-06 Hagai Rappeport , Mor Nitzan

Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

We propose a method for evolving solutions that are robust with respect to variations of the environmental conditions (i.e. that can operate effectively in new conditions immediately, without the need to adapt to variations). The obtained…

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In evolutionary algorithms, a preselection operator aims to select the promising offspring solutions from a candidate offspring set. It is usually based on the estimated or real objective values of the candidate offspring solutions. In a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jinyuan Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Ke Tang , Guixu Zhang

Meta-learning models, or models that learn to learn, have been a long-desired target for their ability to quickly solve new tasks. Traditional meta-learning methods can require expensive inner and outer loops, thus there is demand for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Kevin Frans , Olaf Witkowski