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Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress across various fields and have exhibited strong potential in evolutionary computation, such as generating new solutions and automating algorithm design. Surrogate-assisted…

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Very expensive problems are very common in practical system that one fitness evaluation costs several hours or even days. Surrogate assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been widely used to solve this crucial problem in the past…

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Population-based evolutionary algorithms are often considered when approaching computationally expensive black-box optimization problems. They employ a selection mechanism to choose the best solutions from a given population after comparing…

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In this paper, we propose a surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm (EA) for hyperparameter optimization of machine learning (ML) models. The proposed STEADE model initially estimates the objective function landscape using RadialBasis…

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Simulation-based optimization is a useful method for practical design problems. However, it is difficult for complicated problems due to expensive-computational costs. A popular way to overcome this issue is to use a surrogate model to save…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-11 Yu Li , Hu Wang , Ziming Wen , Xin Wang

Simulation models are widely used in practice to facilitate decision-making in a complex, dynamic and stochastic environment. But they are computationally expensive to execute and optimize, due to lack of analytical tractability. Simulation…

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Surrogate algorithms such as Bayesian optimisation are especially designed for black-box optimisation problems with expensive objectives, such as hyperparameter tuning or simulation-based optimisation. In the literature, these algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Laurens Bliek , Arthur Guijt , Rickard Karlsson , Sicco Verwer , Mathijs de Weerdt

Data-driven optimization has found many successful applications in the real world and received increased attention in the field of evolutionary optimization. Most existing algorithms assume that the data used for optimization is always…

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Existing work on data-driven optimization focuses on problems in static environments, but little attention has been paid to problems in dynamic environments. This paper proposes a data-driven optimization algorithm to deal with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Cuie Yang , Jinliang Ding , Yaochu Jin , Tianyou Chai

Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm (SAEA) is an essential method for solving expensive expensive problems. Utilizing surrogate models to substitute the optimization function can significantly reduce reliance on the function…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Bingdong Li , Aimin Zhou

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been proposed to solve expensive optimization problems. Although SAEAs use surrogate models that approximate the evaluations of solutions using machine learning techniques, prior…

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Dynamic environments pose great challenges for expensive optimization problems, as the objective functions of these problems change over time and thus require remarkable computational resources to track the optimal solutions. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Huan Zhang , Jinliang Ding , Liang Feng , Kay Chen Tan , Ke Li

Gradient-free optimization methods, such as surrogate based optimization (SBO) methods, and genetic (GAs), or evolutionary (EAs) algorithms have gained popularity in the field of constrained optimization of expensive black-box functions.…

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Chemical plant design and optimisation have proven challenging due to the complexity of these real-world systems. The resulting complexity translates into high computational costs for these systems' mathematical formulations and simulation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Liezl Stander , Matthew Woolway , Terence L. Van Zyl

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…

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Metaheuristic search algorithms look for solutions that either maximise or minimise a set of objectives, such as cost or performance. However most real-world optimisation problems consist of nonlinear problems with complex constraints and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Manjinder Singh , Alexander E. I. Brownlee , David Cairns

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms (SAEAs) are widely used for expensive Black-Box Optimization. However, their reliance on rigid, manually designed components such as infill criteria and evolutionary strategies during the search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yukun Du , Haiyue Yu , Xiaotong Xie , Yan Zheng , Lixin Zhan , Yudong Du , Chongshuang Hu , Boxuan Wang , Jiang Jiang

In this paper, we propose a novel approach (SAPEO) to support the survival selection process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with surrogate models - it dynamically chooses individuals to evaluate exactly based on the model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

In NeuroEvolution, the topologies of artificial neural networks are optimized with evolutionary algorithms to solve tasks in data regression, data classification, or reinforcement learning. One downside of NeuroEvolution is the large amount…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jörg Stork , Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

We present an algorithm for multi-objective optimization of computationally expensive problems. The proposed algorithm is based on solving a set of surrogate problems defined by models of the real one, so that only solutions estimated to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Santiago Cuervo , Miguel Melgarejo , Angie Blanco-Cañon , Laura Reyes-Fajardo , Sergio Rojas-Galeano