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Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is susceptible to premature convergence when the swarm collapses around the global best, particularly on multimodal landscapes in higher dimensions. We propose Divergence-guided PSO (DPSO), which augments…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Kleyton da Costa , Bernardo Modenesi , Ivan F. M. Menezes , Hélio Lopes

This study addresses a critical gap in the literature regarding the use of Swarm Intelligence Optimization (SI) algorithms for client selection in Federated Learning (FL), with a focus on cybersecurity applications. Existing research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Koffka Khan , Wayne Goodridge

This article introduces an enhanced particle swarm optimizer (PSO), termed Orthogonal PSO with Mutation (OPSO-m). Initially, it proposes an orthogonal array-based learning approach to cultivate an improved initial swarm for PSO,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Lewis Mitchell

The dynamic of real-world optimization problems raises new challenges to the traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO). Responding to these challenges, the dynamic optimization has received considerable attention over the past decade.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Ahlem Aboud , Raja Fdhila , Adel M. Alimi

Swarm Intelligence is a metaheuristic optimization approach that has become very predominant over the last few decades. These algorithms are inspired by animals' physical behaviors and their evolutionary perceptions. The simplicity of these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Ahmed S. Shamsaldin , Tarik A. Rashid , Rawan A. Al-Rashid Agha , Nawzad K. Al-Salihi , Mokhtar Mohammadi

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is very difficult for expensive functions because most current MOO methods rely on a large number of function evaluations to get an accurate solution. We address this problem with surrogate approximation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Taimoor Akhtar , Christine A. Shoemaker

Nature has long inspired the development of swarm intelligence (SI), a key branch of artificial intelligence that models collective behaviors observed in biological systems for solving complex optimization problems. Particle swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , P. N. Suganthan

Deep Optimisation (DO) combines evolutionary search with Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in a novel way - not for optimising a learning algorithm, but for finding a solution to an optimisation problem. Deep learning has been successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-05 J. R. Caldwell , R. A. Watson , C. Thies , J. D. Knowles

Automatic programming (AP) is an important area of Machine Learning (ML) where computer programs are generated automatically. Swarm Programming (SP), a newly emerging research area in AP, automatically generates the computer programs using…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Tapas Si

Software fault localization remains challenging due to limited feature diversity and low precision in traditional methods. This paper proposes a novel approach that integrates multi-objective optimization with deep learning models to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiaolei Hu , Dongcheng Li , W. Eric Wong , Ya Zou

Diffusion models have recently demonstrated notable success in solving inverse problems. However, current diffusion model-based solutions typically require a large number of function evaluations (NFEs) to generate high-quality images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Tianyu Chen , Zhendong Wang , Mingyuan Zhou

The chimp optimization algorithm (ChOA) is a nature-inspired algorithm that imitates chimpanzees' individual intelligence and hunting behaviors. In this algorithm, the hunting process consists of four steps: driving, blocking, chasing, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Leren Qian , Mohammad Khishe , Yiqian Huang , Seyedali Mirjalili

Built upon the decision tree (DT) classification and regression idea, the subspace learning machine (SLM) has been recently proposed to offer higher performance in general classification and regression tasks. Its performance improvement is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Hongyu Fu , Yijing Yang , Yuhuai Liu , Joseph Lin , Ethan Harrison , Vinod K. Mishra , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Drones are effective for reducing human activity and interactions by performing tasks such as exploring and inspecting new environments, monitoring resources and delivering packages. Drones need a controller to maintain stability and to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 Azin Shamshirgaran , Hamed Javidi , Dan Simon

This paper proposes Drone Squadron Optimization, a new self-adaptive metaheuristic for global numerical optimization which is updated online by a hyper-heuristic. DSO is an artifact-inspired technique, as opposed to many algorithms used…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-16 Vinícius Veloso de Melo , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Nowadays, metaheuristic optimization algorithms are used to find the global optima in difficult search spaces. Pontogammarus Maeoticus Swarm Optimization (PMSO) is a metaheuristic algorithm imitating aquatic nature and foraging behavior.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Saeed Sharifian

Image pattern recognition is an important area in digital image processing. An efficient pattern recognition algorithm should be able to provide correct recognition at a reduced computational time. Off late amongst the machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Lei Shi , Rui Guo , Yuchen Ma

This paper presents an evolutionary metaheuristic called Multiple Search Neuroevolution (MSN) to optimize deep neural networks. The algorithm attempts to search multiple promising regions in the search space simultaneously, maintaining…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Ahmed Aly , David Weikersdorfer , Claire Delaunay

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have become deeper in order to achieve better classification accuracy in image classification. However, it is difficult to deploy the state-of-the-art deep CNNs for industrial use due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Bin Wang , Yanan Sun , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai