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Ensemble learning is a powerful paradigm that has been usedin the top state-of-the-art machine learning methods like Random Forestsand XGBoost. Inspired by the success of such methods, we have devel-oped a new Genetic Programming method…

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Genomic language models (gLMs) have shown mostly modest success in identifying evolutionarily constrained elements in mammalian genomes. To address this issue, we introduce a novel framework for training gLMs that explicitly models…

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This paper introduces Multi-population Ensemble Genetic Programming (MEGP), a computational intelligence framework that integrates cooperative coevolution and the multiview learning paradigm to address classification challenges in…

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Natural selection explains how life has evolved over millions of years from more primitive forms. The speed at which this happens, however, has sometimes defied formal explanations when based on random (uniformly distributed) mutations.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Santiago Hernández-Orozco , Narsis A. Kiani , Hector Zenil

Genetic Programming yields interpretable programs, but small syntactic mutations can induce large, unpredictable behavioral shifts, degrading locality and sample efficiency. We frame this as an operator-design problem: learn a continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Matthew Siper , Muhammad Umair Nasir , Ahmed Khalifa , Lisa Soros , Jay Azhang , Julian Togelius

The success of style-based generators largely benefits from style modulation, which helps take care of the cross-instance variation within data. However, the instance-wise stochasticity is typically introduced via regular convolution, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Ceyuan Yang , Qihang Zhang , Yinghao Xu , Jiapeng Zhu , Yujun Shen , Bo Dai

Feature transformation plays a critical role in enhancing machine learning model performance by optimizing data representations. Recent state-of-the-art approaches address this task as a continuous embedding optimization problem, converting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yang Gao , Dongjie Wang , Scott Piersall , Ye Zhang , Liqiang Wang

Genetic Programming (GP), an evolutionary learning technique, has multiple applications in machine learning such as curve fitting, data modelling, feature selection, classification etc. GP has several inherent parallel steps, making it an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Vimarsh Sathia , Venkataramana Ganesh , Shankara Rao Thejaswi Nanditale

In this study, we use Genetic Programming (GP) to compose new optimization benchmark functions. Optimization benchmarks have the important role of showing the differences between evolutionary algorithms, making it possible for further…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yifan He , Claus Aranha

We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Evolutionary algorithms, inspired by natural evolution, aim to optimize difficult objective functions without computing derivatives. Here we detail the relationship between population genetics and evolutionary optimization and formulate a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-19 Jakub Otwinowski , Colin LaMont

Evolutionary algorithms are sensitive to the mutation rate (MR); no single value of this parameter works well across domains. Self-adaptive MR approaches have been proposed but they tend to be brittle: Sometimes they decay the MR to zero,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Akarsh Kumar , Bo Liu , Risto Miikkulainen , Peter Stone

Multi-model inference covers a wide range of modern statistical applications such as variable selection, model confidence set, model averaging and variable importance. The performance of multi-model inference depends on the availability of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-07 Ching-Wei Cheng , Guang Cheng

Background: Continuous traits evolution of a group of taxa that are correlated through a phylogenetic tree is commonly modelled using parametric stochastic differential equations to represent deterministic change of trait through time,…

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Genetic algorithm (GA) is an efficient tool for solving optimization problems by evolving solutions, as it mimics the Darwinian theory of natural evolution. The mutation operator is one of the key success factors in GA, as it is considered…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Esra'a Alkafaween , Ahmad B. A. Hassanat

Grammars provide a convenient and powerful mechanism to define the space of possible solutions for a range of problems. However, when used in grammatical evolution (GE), great care must be taken in the design of a grammar to ensure that the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Grant Dick , Peter A. Whigham

Quantum Support Vector Machines (QSVM) is one of the most promising frameworks in quantum machine learning, yet their performance depends on the design of the feature map. Conventional approaches rely on fixed quantum circuits, which often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Nguyen Minh Duc , Vu Tuan Hai , Le Bin Ho , Tran Nguyen Lan

Vectorial Genetic Programming (Vec-GP) extends GP by allowing vectors as input features along regular, scalar features, using them by applying arithmetic operations component-wise or aggregating vectors into scalars by some aggregation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Philipp Fleck , Stephan Winkler , Michael Kommenda , Michael Affenzeller

It is generally accepted that populations are useful for the global exploration of multi-modal optimisation problems. Indeed, several theoretical results are available showing such advantages over single-trajectory search heuristics. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Dogan Corus , Pietro S. Oliveto

This work discusses single-objective constrained genetic algorithm with floating-point, integer, binary and permutation representation. Floating-point genetic algorithm tuning with use of test functions is done and leads to a…

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