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Accurate prediction of crop states (e.g., phenology stages and cold hardiness) is essential for timely farm management decisions such as irrigation, fertilization, and canopy management to optimize crop yield and quality. While traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 William Solow , Paola Pesantez-Cabrera , Markus Keller , Lav Khot , Sandhya Saisubramanian , Alan Fern

In this study, we present the Graph Sub-Graph Network (GSN), a novel hybrid image classification model merging the strengths of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for feature extraction and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Aryan Singh , Pepijn Van de Ven , Ciarán Eising , Patrick Denny

We combine K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) with genetic algorithm (GA) for photometric redshift estimation of quasars, short for GeneticKNN, which is a weighted KNN approach supported by GA. This approach has two improvements compared to KNN: one…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-10 Bo Han , Li-Na Qiao , Jing-Lin Chen , Xian-Da Zhang , Yanxia Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

We describe in this paper Hydra, an ensemble of convolutional neural networks (CNN) for geospatial land classification. The idea behind Hydra is to create an initial CNN that is coarsely optimized but provides a good starting pointing for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Rodrigo Minetto , Mauricio Pamplona Segundo , Sudeep Sarkar

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have yielded the excellent performance in a variety of computer vision tasks, where CNNs typically adopt a similar structure consisting of convolution layers, pooling layers and fully connected layers.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Hengyue Pan , Hui Jiang

We develop a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm for function optimization that is particularly useful in the training of neural networks since it makes use of particular aspects of high-dimensional energy landscapes. Due to a recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Leonard Wossnig , Sebastian Tschiatschek , Stefan Zohren

In this paper we propose a crossover operator for evolutionary algorithms with real values that is based on the statistical theory of population distributions. The operator is based on the theoretical distribution of the values of the genes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-13 N. García-Pedrajas , C. Hervás-Martínez , D. Ortiz-Boyer

For various optimization methods, gradient descent-based algorithms can achieve outstanding performance and have been widely used in various tasks. Among those commonly used algorithms, ADAM owns many advantages such as fast convergence…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Jiyang Bai , Yuxiang Ren , Jiawei Zhang

In practical optimisation the dominant characteristics of the problem are often not known prior. Therefore, there is a need to develop general solvers as it is not always possible to tailor a specialised approach to each application. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 P. A. Grudniewski , A. J. Sobey

In this paper, we present a novel approach to accelerate the Bayesian inference process, focusing specifically on the nested sampling algorithms. Bayesian inference plays a crucial role in cosmological parameter estimation, providing a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-17 Isidro Gómez-Vargas , J. Alberto Vázquez

Classifying soil images contributes to better land management, increased agricultural output, and practical solutions for environmental issues. The development of various disciplines, particularly agriculture, civil engineering, and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yasir Nooruldeen Ibrahim , Fawziya Mahmood Ramo , Mahmood Siddeeq Qadir , Muna Jaffer Al-Shamdeen

This paper addresses the challenges faced by algorithms, such as the Firefly Algorithm (FA) and the Genetic Algorithm (GA), in constrained optimization problems. While both algorithms perform well for unconstrained problems, their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Aswathi Malanthara , Ishaan R Kale

The interpretation of the electrocardiogram (ECG) gives clinical information and helps in assessing heart function. There are distinct ECG patterns associated with a specific class of arrythmia. The convolutional neural network is currently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Zeineb Fki , Boudour Ammar , Mounir Ben Ayed

In recent years, the CNN architectures designed by evolution algorithms have proven to be competitive with handcrafted architectures designed by experts. However, these algorithms need a lot of computational power, which is beyond the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Ousmane Youme , Jean Marie Dembele , Eugene C. Ezin , Christophe Cambier

Designing optimisation algorithms that perform well in general requires experimentation on a range of diverse problems. Training neural networks is an optimisation task that has gained prominence with the recent successes of deep learning.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Katherine M. Malan , Christopher W. Cleghorn

Nearest neighbor search is known as a challenging issue that has been studied for several decades. Recently, this issue becomes more and more imminent in viewing that the big data problem arises from various fields. In this paper, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-06 Wan-Lei Zhao , Jie Yang , Cheng-Hao Deng

GA LLM is a hybrid framework that combines Genetic Algorithms with Large Language Models to handle structured generation tasks under strict constraints. Each output, such as a plan or report, is treated as a gene, and evolutionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 William Shum , Rachel Chan , Jonas Lin , Benny Feng , Patrick Lau

Computationally efficient and automated generation of convex hulls is desirable for high throughput materials discovery of thermodynamically stable multi-species crystal structures. A convex hull genetic algorithm is proposed that uses…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-23 Scott Donaldson , Robert A. Lawrence , Matt I. J. Probert

This paper constitutes the novel hypergraph convolutional neural networkbased clustering technique. This technique is employed to solve the clustering problem for the Citeseer dataset and the Cora dataset. Each dataset contains the feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Loc H. Tran , Nguyen Trinh , Linh H. Tran

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success in computer vision; however, training DNNs for satisfactory performance remains challenging and suffers from sensitivity to empirical selections of an optimization algorithm for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Lei Gao , Bing Wei , Xuesong Tang