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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

Evolutionary optimization algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been successfully applied in oil industry for production planning and control. Such optimization studies are quite challenging due to large number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ajitabh Kumar

The combining of a General-Purpose Particle Swarm Optimizer (GP-PSO) with Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) algorithm for constrained optimization problems has been shown to be highly beneficial to the refinement, and in some cases,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Carwyn Pelley , Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

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 presents a k-means-based multi-subpopulation particle swarm optimization, denoted as KMPSO, for training the neural network ensemble. In the proposed KMPSO, particles are dynamically partitioned into clusters via the k-means…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Hui Yu

This paper preliminarily investigates the duality between flow matching in generative models and particle swarm optimization (PSO) in evolutionary computation. Through theoretical analysis, we reveal the intrinsic connections between these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Kaichen Ouyang

Swarm based optimization algorithms have demonstrated remarkable success in solving complex optimization problems. However, their widespread adoption remains sceptical due to limited transparency in how different algorithmic components…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Nitin Gupta , Bapi Dutta , Anupam Yadav

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is attracting an ever-growing attention and more than ever it has found many application areas for many challenging optimization problems. It is, however, a known fact that PSO has a severe drawback in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Bertrand Ngansop , Stefan Götz , Martin Eckl

Particle swarm optimization algorithm is a stochastic meta-heuristic solving global optimization problems appreciated for its efficacity and simplicity. It consists in a swarm of particles interacting among themselves and searching the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Vianney Bruned , André Mas , Sylvain Wlodarczyk

Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) is a powerful optimisation algorithm that can be used to locate global maxima in a search space. Recent interest in swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) begs the question as to whether PSO can be used as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Lauren Parker , James Butterworth , Shan Luo

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

In recent years, several swarm intelligence optimization algorithms have been proposed to be applied for solving a variety of optimization problems. However, the values of several hyperparameters should be determined. For instance, although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Abel C. H. Chen

Particle swarm optimisation is a metaheuristic algorithm which finds reasonable solutions in a wide range of applied problems if suitable parameters are used. We study the properties of the algorithm in the framework of random dynamical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-20 J. Michael Herrmann , Adam Erskine , Thomas Joyce

Identifying optimal designs for generalized linear models with a binary response can be a challenging task, especially when there are both continuous and discrete independent factors in the model. Theoretical results rarely exist for such…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-09 Joshua Lukemire , Abhyuday Mandal , Weng Kee Wong

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a nature-inspired meta-heuristic for solving continuous optimization problems. In the literature, the potential of the particles of swarm has been used to show that slightly modified PSO guarantees…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-01 Alexander Raß , Manuel Schmitt , Rolf Wanka

A particle swarm optimizer (PSO) loosely based on the phenomena of crystallization and a chaos factor which follows the complimentary error function is described. The method features three phases: diffusion, directed motion, and nucleation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Casey Kneale , Karl S. Booksh

The advantages of evolutionary algorithms with respect to traditional methods have been greatly discussed in the literature. While particle swarm optimizers share such advantages, they outperform evolutionary algorithms in that they require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Johann Sienz , Mauro S. Innocente

Evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms, such as discrete and multi-objective versions of particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been applied to solve the Feature selection (FS) problem, tackling the combinatorial explosion of search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Hassen Dhrif , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Miroslav Kubat , Stefan Wuchty

We apply two evolutionary search algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithms (GAs) to the design of Cellular Automata (CA) that can perform computational tasks requiring global coordination. In particular, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Anthony D. Rhodes

The Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization aims to discover a collection of high-performing solutions that simultaneously exhibit diverse behaviors within a user-defined behavior space. This paradigm has stimulated significant research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xi Lin , Ping Guo , Yilu Liu , Qingfu Zhang , Jianyong Sun