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This paper investigates the optimal signal detection problem with a particular interest in large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The problem is NP-hard and can be solved optimally by searching the shortest path on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Le He , Ke He , Lisheng Fan , Xianfu Lei , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

Genetic algorithm (GA) is typically used to solve nonlinear model predictive control's optimization problem. However, the size of the search space in which the GA searches for the optimal control inputs is crucial for its applicability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Eslam Mostafa , Hussein A. Aly , Ahmed Elliethy

Competitive program generation aims to automatically produce correct and efficient solutions for programming-contest problems under strict time and memory constraints. Existing LLM-based approaches often fail to perform explicit algorithmic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Minnan Wei , Xiang Chen , Xiaoshuai Niu , Siyu Chen

Decision trees are a crucial class of models offering robust predictive performance and inherent interpretability across various domains, including healthcare, finance, and logistics. However, current tree induction methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tennison Liu , Nicolas Huynh , Mihaela van der Schaar

Automated algorithm discovery in scientific computing faces fundamental challenges: vast design spaces with expensive evaluations, domain-specific physical constraints requiring expert knowledge, and the necessity for interpretable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 He Wang , Liang Zeng

Linkage Tree Genetic Algorithm (LTGA) is an effective Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to solve complex problems using the linkage information between problem variables. LTGA performs well in various kinds of single-task optimization and yields…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Huynh Thi Thanh Binh , Pham Dinh Thanh , Tran Ba Trung , Le Cong Thanh , Le Minh Hai Phong , Ananthram Swami , Bui Thu Lam

Predicting the cheapest sample size for the optimal stratification in multivariate survey design is a problem in cases where the population frame is large. A solution exists that iteratively searches for the minimum sample size necessary to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-18 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are effective at solving difficult problems like visual recognition, speech recognition and natural language processing. However, performance gain comes at the cost of laborious trial-and-error in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Yiheng Zhu , Yichen Yao , Zili Wu , Yujie Chen , Guozheng Li , Haoyuan Hu , Yinghui Xu

We propose a method for learning the neural network architecture that based on Genetic Algorithm (GA). Our approach uses a genetic algorithm integrated with standard Stochastic Gradient Descent(SGD) which allows the sharing of weights…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Hai Victor Habi , Gil Rafalovich

Recent advances in bandit tools and techniques for sequential learning are steadily enabling new applications and are promising the resolution of a range of challenging related problems. We study the game tree search problem, where the goal…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Emilie Kaufmann , Wouter Koolen

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has emerged as one of the effective methods to design the optimal neural network architecture automatically. Although neural architectures have achieved human-level performances in several tasks, few of them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Caiyang Yu , Xianggen Liu , Yifan Wang , Yun Liu , Wentao Feng , Deng Xiong , Chenwei Tang , Jiancheng Lv

Despite its groundbreaking success in Go and computer games, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is computationally expensive as it requires a substantial number of rollouts to construct the search tree, which calls for effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Anji Liu , Yitao Liang , Ji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck , Jianshu Chen

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a sampling best-first method to search for optimal decisions. The success of MCTS depends heavily on how the tree is built and the selection process plays a fundamental role in this. One particular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Edgar Galván , Gavin Simpson , Fred Valdez Ameneyro

According to the Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis, every sufficiently large neural network with randomly initialized weights contains a sub-network which - still with its random weights - already performs as well for a given task as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Philipp Altmann , Julian Schönberger , Maximilian Zorn , Thomas Gabor

Solving Quadratic equation is one of the intrinsic interests as it is the simplest nonlinear equations. A novel approach for solving Quadratic Equation based on Genetic Algorithms (GAs) is presented. Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a technique…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Tanistha Nayak , Tirtharaj Dash

Optimal path planning involves finding a feasible state sequence between a start and a goal that optimizes an objective. This process relies on heuristic functions to guide the search direction. While a robust function can improve search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Liding Zhang , Kuanqi Cai , Zhenshan Bing , Chaoqun Wang , Alois Knoll

One-shot neural architecture search (NAS) methods significantly reduce the search cost by considering the whole search space as one network, which only needs to be trained once. However, current methods select each operation independently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Xiu Su , Tao Huang , Yanxi Li , Shan You , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Chang Xu

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is extremely popular in computer Go which determines each action by enormous simulations in a broad and deep search tree. However, human experts select most actions by pattern analysis and careful evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jinzhuo Wang , Wenmin Wang , Ronggang Wang , Wen Gao

In recent years, deep learning methods applying unsupervised learning to train deep layers of neural networks have achieved remarkable results in numerous fields. In the past, many genetic algorithms based methods have been successfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Eli David , Iddo Greental

In this paper, the author proposes optimal tree as a "gauge" for the generation of the initial population at random in the Genetic Algorithms (GA) to benchmark against the good and the bad parent tours. Thus, without having the so-called…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-04-12 Sing Liew