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Denoising diffusion models (DDMs) offer a promising generative approach for combinatorial optimization, yet they often lack the robust exploration capabilities of traditional metaheuristics like evolutionary algorithms (EAs). We propose a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Joan Salvà Soler , Günther R. Raidl

Under the condition of Karush-Kuhn-Tucker, the Pareto Set (PS) in the decision area of an m-objective optimization problem is a piecewise continuous (m-1)-D manifold. For illustrate the degree of convergence of the population, we employed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Abel Sa J. R Malano , Guanjun Du , Guoxiang Tong , Naixue Xiong

One of the most challenging types of ill-posedness in global optimization is the presence of insensitivity regions in design parameter space, so the identification of their shape will be crucial, if ill-posedness is irrecoverable. Such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Jakub Sawicki , Maciej Smołka , Marcin Łoś , Robert Schaefer

Deciding when to buy or sell a stock is not an easy task because the market is hard to predict, being influenced by political and economic factors. Thus, methodologies based on computational intelligence have been applied to this…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-06-15 Elivelto Ebermam , Helder Knidel , Renato A. Krohling

The linear ensemble based strategy, i.e., averaging ensemble, has been proposed to improve the performance in unsupervised domain adaptation tasks. However, a typical UDA task is usually challenged by dynamically changing factors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Weimin Wu , Jiayuan Fan , Tao Chen , Hancheng Ye , Bo Zhang , Baopu Li

The differential evolution (DE) algorithm suffers from high computational time due to slow nature of evaluation. In contrast, micro-DE (MDE) algorithms employ a very small population size, which can converge faster to a reasonable solution.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Hamid R. Tizhoosh

Existing multi-strategy adaptive differential evolution (DE) commonly involves trials of multiple strategies and then rewards better-performing ones with more resources. However, the trials of an exploitative or explorative strategy may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Kit Sang Tang , Shao Yong Zheng

Since Differential Evolution (DE) is sensitive to strategy choice, most existing variants pursue performance through adaptive mechanisms or intricate designs. While these approaches focus on adjusting strategies over time, the structural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chenchen Feng , Minyang Chen , Zhuozhao Li , Ran Cheng

Among many evolutionary algorithms, differential evolution (DE) has received much attention over the last two decades. DE is a simple yet powerful evolutionary algorithm that has been used successfully to optimize various real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Tae Jong Choi , Julian Togelius , Yun-Gyung Cheong

This paper addresses the development of a covariance matrix self-adaptation evolution strategy (CMSA-ES) for solving optimization problems with linear constraints. The proposed algorithm is referred to as Linear Constraint CMSA-ES…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Patrick Spettel , Hans-Georg Beyer , Michael Hellwig

Financial institutions and businesses face an ongoing challenge from fraudulent transactions, prompting the need for effective detection methods. Detecting credit card fraud is crucial for identifying and preventing unauthorized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Md. Alamin Talukder , Rakib Hossen , Md Ashraf Uddin , Mohammed Nasir Uddin , Uzzal Kumar Acharjee

This paper tackles the short-term hydro-power unit commitment problem in a multi-reservoir system - a cascade-based operation scenario. For this, we propose a new mathematical modelling in which the goal is to maximize the total energy…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 C. G. Marcelino , G. M. C. Leite , C. A. D. M Delgado , L. B. de Oliveira , E. F. Wanner , S. Jiménez-Fernández , S. Salcedo-Sanz

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful machine learning algorithm to handle classification tasks. However, the classical SVM is developed for binary problems with the assumption of balanced datasets. Obviously, the multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhong-Liang Zhang , Jie Yang , Jian-Ming Ru , Xiao-Xi Zhao , Xing-Gang Luo

Differential evolution (DE) is a population based evolutionary algorithm widely used for solving multidimensional global optimization problems over continuous spaces. However, the design of its operators makes it unsuitable for many…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-05-17 Ashish Ranjan Hota , Ankit Pat

Differential evolution (DE) algorithm is recognized as one of the most effective evolutionary algorithms, demonstrating remarkable efficacy in black-box optimization due to its derivative-free nature. Numerous enhancements to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xu Yang , Rui Wang , Kaiwen Li , Ling Wang

A hybrid evolutionary algorithm with importance sampling method is proposed for multi-dimensional optimization problems in this paper. In order to make use of the information provided in the search process, a set of visited solutions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Guanghui Huang , Zhifeng Pan

1. Bayesian inference is difficult because it often requires time consuming tuning of samplers. Differential evolution Monte-Carlo (DEMC) is a self-tuning multi-chain sampling approach which requires minimal input from the operator as…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-22 Willem Bonnaffé

In the context of Industry 4.0, Supply Chain Management (SCM) faces challenges in adopting advanced optimization techniques due to the "black-box" nature of most AI-based solutions, which causes reluctance among company stakeholders. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Stefano Genetti , Alberto Longobardi , Giovanni Iacca

Neural network classifiers trained with cross-entropy loss achieve strong predictive accuracy but lack the capability to provide inherent predictive uncertainty estimates, thus requiring external techniques to obtain these estimates. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Courtney Franzen , Farhad Pourkamali-Anaraki

Energy demand has increased considerably with the growth of world population, increasing the interest in the hydrocarbon reservoir management problem. Companies are concerned with maximizing oil recovery while minimizing capital investment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-28 Grazieli L. C. Carosio , Thomas D. Humphries , Ronald D. Haynes , Colin G. Farquharson