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Evolving software is challenging, even more when it exists in many different variants. Such software evolves not only in time, but also in space--another dimension of complexity. While evolution in space is supported by a variety of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Christoph Derks , Daniel Strüber , Thorsten Berger

Evolutionary algorithms are wildly used in unmanned aerial vehicle path planning for their flexibility and effectiveness. Nevertheless, they are so sensitive to the change of environment that can't adapt to all scenarios. Due to this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiabin Lou , Rong Ding , Wenjun Wu

Modern LLMs typically require multistage training pipelines to achieve strong downstream performance, with post-training serving as the main interface for adapting open-weight models. We introduce torchtune, a PyTorch-native library…

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

We introduce DeepDIVA: an infrastructure designed to enable quick and intuitive setup of reproducible experiments with a large range of useful analysis functionality. Reproducing scientific results can be a frustrating experience, not only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Michele Alberti , Vinaychandran Pondenkandath , Marcel Würsch , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

Deep learning has had remarkable success in robotic perception, but its data-centric nature suffers when it comes to generalizing to ever-changing environments. By contrast, physics-based optimization generalizes better, but it does not…

Solving differential equations is a critical challenge across a host of domains. While many software packages efficiently solve these equations using classical numerical approaches, there has been less effort in developing a library for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Shuheng Liu , Pavlos Protopapas , David Sondak , Feiyu Chen

During the training phase of machine learning (ML) models, it is usually necessary to configure several hyperparameters. This process is computationally intensive and requires an extensive search to infer the best hyperparameter set for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Angelos Chatzimparmpas , Rafael M. Martins , Kostiantyn Kucher , Andreas Kerren

We introduce an evolutionary stochastic-local-search (SLS) algorithm for addressing a generalized version of the so-called 1/V/D/R cutting-stock problem. Cutting-stock problems are encountered often in industrial environments and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Georgios C. Chasparis , Michael Rossbory , Verena Haunschmid

This paper presents EvoMaster, an open-source tool that is able to automatically generate system level test cases using evolutionary algorithms. Currently, EvoMaster targets RESTful web services running on JVM technology, and has been used…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Andrea Arcuri

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has emerged as a powerful field of Artificial Intelligence, inspired by nature's mechanisms of gradual development. However, EC approaches often face challenges such as stagnation, diversity loss, computational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Abdennour Boulesnane

Interventions on model-internal states are fundamental operations in many areas of AI, including model editing, steering, robustness, and interpretability. To facilitate such research, we introduce $\textbf{pyvene}$, an open-source Python…

SOL is an open-source library for scalable online learning algorithms, and is particularly suitable for learning with high-dimensional data. The library provides a family of regular and sparse online learning algorithms for large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Yue Wu , Steven C. H. Hoi , Chenghao Liu , Jing Lu , Doyen Sahoo , Nenghai Yu

Optimizing decision problems under uncertainty can be done using a variety of solution methods. Soft computing and heuristic approaches tend to be powerful for solving such problems. In this overview article, we survey Evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Ronald Hochreiter

Combinatorial optimization problems are prevalent across a wide variety of domains. These problems are often nuanced, their optimal solutions might not be efficiently obtainable, and they may require lots of time and compute resources to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Akshay Sathiya , Rohit Pandey

Recent work pairs LLMs with evolutionary search to iteratively generate, modify, and select code using task-specific feedback. These systems have produced strong results in mathematical discovery and algorithm design, yet a fundamental…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nico Pelleriti , Sree Harsha Nelaturu , Zhanke Zhou , Zongze Li , Max Zimmer , Bo Han , Sebastian Pokutta

Directed graphs are widely used to model data flow and execution dependencies in streaming applications. This enables the utilization of graph partitioning algorithms for the problem of parallelizing computation for multiprocessor…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Orlando Moreira , Merten Popp , Christian Schulz

PyG (PyTorch Geometric) has evolved significantly since its initial release, establishing itself as a leading framework for Graph Neural Networks. In this paper, we present Pyg 2.0 (and its subsequent minor versions), a comprehensive update…

Large Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance across many tasks. Most open-source libraries on scaling Transformers focus on improving training or inference with better parallelization. In this work, we present TorchScale,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Shuming Ma , Hongyu Wang , Shaohan Huang , Wenhui Wang , Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Alon Benhaim , Barun Patra , Vishrav Chaudhary , Xia Song , Furu Wei

Deep learning has enabled major advances in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, and multimedia among many others. Developing a deep learning system is arduous and complex, as it involves constructing neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Hao Dong , Akara Supratak , Luo Mai , Fangde Liu , Axel Oehmichen , Simiao Yu , Yike Guo