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We introduce a novel approach for discriminative classification using evolutionary algorithms. We first propose an algorithm to optimize the total loss value using a modified 0-1 loss function in a one-dimensional space for classification.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi , David C. Reutens

Representations for black-box optimisation methods (such as evolutionary algorithms) are traditionally constructed using a delicate manual process. This is in contrast to the representation that maps DNAs to phenotypes in biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Milton L. Montero , Erwan Plantec , Eleni Nisioti , Joachim W. Pedersen , Sebastian Risi

We present MPAX (Mathematical Programming in JAX), an open-source first-order solver for large-scale linear programming (LP) and convex quadratic programming (QP) built natively in JAX. The primary goal of MPAX is to exploit modern machine…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Haihao Lu , Zedong Peng , Jinwen Yang

Molecular discovery, when formulated as an optimization problem, presents significant computational challenges because optimization objectives can be non-differentiable. Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs), often used to optimize black-box…

Reinforcement learning algorithms are defined by their learning update rules, which are typically hand-designed and fixed. We present an evolutionary framework for discovering reinforcement learning algorithms by searching directly over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Alkis Sygkounas , Amy Loutfi , Andreas Persson

Evolutionary computing (EC) is an exciting development in Computer Science. It amounts to building, applying and studying algorithms based on the Darwinian principles of natural selection. In this paper we briefly introduce the main…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aguston E. Eiben , Marc Schoenauer

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Evolutionary computing (EC) has proven to be effective in solving complex optimization and robotics problems. Unfortunately, typical Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are constrained by the computational capacity available to researchers. More…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Rustam Eynaliyev , Houcen Liu

This paper introduces JaxPruner, an open-source JAX-based pruning and sparse training library for machine learning research. JaxPruner aims to accelerate research on sparse neural networks by providing concise implementations of popular…

Solving an optimization task in any domain is a very challenging problem, especially when dealing with nonlinear problems and non-convex functions. Many meta-heuristic algorithms are very efficient when solving nonlinear functions. A…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mona Nasr , Omar Farouk , Ahmed Mohamedeen , Ali Elrafie , Marwan Bedeir , Ali Khaled

We introduce Atomistic learned potentials in JAX (apax), a flexible and efficient open source software package for training and inference of machine-learned interatomic potentials. Built on the JAX framework, apax supports GPU acceleration…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Moritz René Schäfer , Nico Segreto , Fabian Zills , Christian Holm , Johannes Kästner

We present SEvoBench, a modern C++ framework for evolutionary computation (EC), specifically designed to systematically benchmark evolutionary single-objective optimization algorithms. The framework features modular implementations of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yongkang Yang , Jian Zhao , Tengfei Yang

With the widespread adoption of 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, the low latency provided by edge computing has great importance for real-time processing. However, managing numerous simultaneous service requests poses a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wang Yatong , Pei Yuchen , Zhao Yuqi

When employing an evolutionary algorithm to optimize a neural networks architecture, developers face the added challenge of tuning the evolutionary algorithm's own hyperparameters - population size, mutation rate, cloning rate, and number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Benjamin David Winter , William J. Teahan

Evolutionary transfer multiobjective optimization (ETMO) has been becoming a hot research topic in the field of evolutionary computation, which is based on the fact that knowledge learning and transfer across the related optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Songbai Liu , Qiuzhen Lin , Kay Chen Tan , Qing Li

A while ago, the ideas of evolutionary biology inspired computer scientists to develop a thriving nowadays field of evolutionary computation (EC), in general, and genetic algorithms (GA), in particular. At the same time, the directed…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-09 Alexander Spirov , Ekaterina Myasnikova

Evolutionary processes proved very useful for solving optimization problems. In this work, we build a formalization of the notion of cooperation and competition of multiple systems working toward a common optimization goal of the population…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Burgin , Eugene Eberbach

Hyperparameter optimisation is a crucial process in searching the optimal machine learning model. The efficiency of finding the optimal hyperparameter settings has been a big concern in recent researches since the optimisation process could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuxi Huan , Fan Wu , Michail Basios , Leslie Kanthan , Lingbo Li , Baowen Xu

This article reviews recent advances in convex optimization algorithms for Big Data, which aim to reduce the computational, storage, and communications bottlenecks. We provide an overview of this emerging field, describe contemporary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-05 Volkan Cevher , Stephen Becker , Mark Schmidt

We combine two popular optimization approaches to derive learning algorithms for generative models: variational optimization and evolutionary algorithms. The combination is realized for generative models with discrete latents by using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-07 Jakob Drefs , Enrico Guiraud , Jörg Lücke