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Multi-swarm particle optimisation algorithms are gaining popularity due to their ability to locate multiple optimum points concurrently. In this family of algorithms, clustering-based multi-swarm algorithms are among the most effective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yves Matanga , Yanxia Sun , Zenghui Wang

This paper develops a spectral fitting technology based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, which is applied to a calibration-free wavelength modulation spectroscopy system to achieve concentration retrieval. As compared…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-13 Tingting Zhang , Yongjie Sun , Pengpeng Wang , Cunguang Zhu

Parameter updating is an important stage in parallelism-based distributed deep learning. Synchronous methods are widely used in distributed training the Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). To reduce the communication and synchronization overhead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Qing Ye , Yuxuan Han , Yanan sun , JIancheng Lv

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a popular nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. Although this technique is widely used, the understanding of the mechanisms that make swarms so successful is still…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Vanessa Lange , Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

Selection of perefect parameters for low-pass filters can sometimes be an expensive problem with no analytical solution or differentiability of cost function. In this paper, we introduce a new PSO-inspired algorithm, that incorporates the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 Dmytro Shchyrba , Izabela Paniczek

We dramatically improve convergence speed and global exploration capabilities of particle swarm optimization (PSO) through a targeted position-mutated elitism (PSO-TPME). The three key innovations address particle classification, elitism,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Tamir Shaqarin , Bernd R. Noack

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) frequently suffers from premature convergence. This paper introduces a family of problem-informed diversity-enhancing strategies that manipulate the swarm's social and cognitive components. These include…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Piotr Urbańczyk , Aleksandra Urbańczyk

PSO is a widely recognized optimization algorithm inspired by social swarm. In this brief we present a heterogeneous strategy particle swarm optimization (HSPSO), in which a proportion of particles adopt a fully informed strategy to enhance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Wen-Bo Du , Wen Ying , Gang Yan , Yan-Bo Zhu , Xian-Bin Cao

We introduce the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Particle Swarm Optimizer (HMC-PSO), an optimization algorithm that reaps the benefits of both Exponentially Averaged Momentum PSO and HMC sampling. The coupling of the position and velocity of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Omatharv Bharat Vaidya , Rithvik Terence DSouza , Snehanshu Saha , Soma Dhavala , Swagatam Das

Large sample size brings the computation bottleneck for modern data analysis. Subsampling is one of efficient strategies to handle this problem. In previous studies, researchers make more fo- cus on subsampling with replacement (SSR) than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-24 Rong Zhu

The aim of paper is to apply two types of particle swarm optimization, global best andlocal best PSO to a constrained maximum likelihood estimation problem in pseudotime anal-ysis, a sub-field in bioinformatics. The results have shown that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Elvis Cui , Dongyuan Song , Weng Kee Wong

Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) makes use of a dynamical system for solving a search task. Instead of adding search biases in order to improve performance in certain problems, we aim to remove algorithm-induced scales by controlling the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-28 Adam Erskine , J Michael Herrmann

This short paper presents a work on the design of low noise microwave amplifiers using particle swarm optimization (PSO) technique. Particle Swarm Optimization is used as a method that is applied to a single stage amplifier circuit to meet…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-08-31 Sadik Ulker

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a widely used nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. However, when running the PSO algorithm, one encounters the phenomenon of so-called stagnation, that means in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-09 Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

For unstructured experimental units, the minimum aberration due to Fries and Hunter (1980) is a popular criterion for choosing regular fractional factorial designs. Following which, many related studies have focused on multi-stratum…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-11-14 Xie-Yu Li , Wei-Yang Yu , Ming-Chung Chang

Numerical optimization techniques are widely used in a broad area of science and technology, from finding the minimal energy of systems in Physics or Chemistry to finding optimal routes in logistics or optimal strategies for high speed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yury Chernyak , Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Nikolas Masnicak , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown remarkable performance in high-resolution image synthesis, but their sampling efficiency is still to be desired due to the typically large number of sampling steps. Recent advancements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Shuchen Xue , Zhaoqiang Liu , Fei Chen , Shifeng Zhang , Tianyang Hu , Enze Xie , Zhenguo Li

Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic global optimization paradigm that has gained prominence in the last two decades due to its ease of application in unsupervised, complex multidimensional problems which cannot be solved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Saptarshi Sengupta , Sanchita Basak , Richard Alan Peters

A great deal of research has been conducted in the consideration of meta-heuristic optimisation methods that are able to find global optima in settings that gradient based optimisers have traditionally struggled. Of these, so-called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Max D. Champneys , Timothy J. Rogers