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Purpose: Optimization challenges in science, engineering, and real-world applications often involve complex, high-dimensional, and multimodal search spaces. Traditional optimization methods frequently struggle with local optima entrapment,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sreeja Singh , Tamal Ghosh

Firefly algorithm is a swarm based metaheuristic algorithm inspired by the flashing behavior of fireflies. It is an effective and an easy to implement algorithm. It has been tested on different problems from different disciplines and found…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Surafel Luleseged Tilahun , Jean Medard T Ngnotchouye

Generating human motion that satisfies customized zero-shot goal functions, enabling applications such as controllable character animation and behavior synthesis for virtual agents, is a critical capability. While current approaches handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Hanchao Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Shining Zhang , Tai-Jiang Mu , Shi-Min Hu

Continuous Descent Operations (CDO) involve smooth, idle-thrust descents that avoid level-offs, reducing fuel burn, emissions, and noise while improving efficiency and passenger comfort. Despite its operational and environmental benefits,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Amin Noroozi , Sandaruwan K. Sethunge , Elham Norouzi , Phat T. Phan , Kavinda U. Waduge , Md. Arafatur Rahman

This paper introduces the BOW Planner, a scalable motion planning algorithm designed to navigate robots through complex environments using constrained Bayesian optimization (CBO). Unlike traditional methods, which often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sourav Raxit , Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz , Paulo Padrao , Jose Fuentes , Leonardo Bobadilla

Humanoid robots that autonomously interact with physical environments over extended horizons represent a central goal of embodied intelligence. Existing approaches rely on reference motions or task-specific rewards, tightly coupling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yutang Lin , Jieming Cui , Yixuan Li , Baoxiong Jia , Yixin Zhu , Siyuan Huang

In order to solve the limited buffer scheduling problems in flexible flow shops with setup times, this paper proposes an improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) as a global optimization algorithm. Firstly, this paper presents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Zhonghua Han , Quan Zhang , Haibo Shi , Yuanwei Qi , Liangliang Sun

Feature selection is an important preprocessing step for classification problems. It deals with selecting near optimal features in the original dataset. Feature selection is an NP-hard problem, so meta-heuristics can be more efficient than…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Majdi Mafarja , Seyedali Mirjalili

Evolutionary algorithms are good general problem solver but suffer from a lack of domain specific knowledge. However, the problem specific knowledge can be added to evolutionary algorithms by hybridizing. Interestingly, all the elements of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Iztok Fister , Marjan Mernik , Janez Brest

Though effective in the segmentation, conventional multilevel thresholding methods are computationally expensive as exhaustive search are used for optimal thresholds to optimize the objective functions. To overcome this problem,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xiaotao Huang , Liang Shen , Chongyi Fan , Jiahua zhu , Sixian Chen

This study presents a novel training algorithm depending upon the recently proposed Fitness Dependent Optimizer (FDO). The stability of this algorithm has been verified and performance-proofed in both the exploration and exploitation stages…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Dosti Kh. Abbas , Tarik A. Rashid , Karmand H. Abdallaand Nebojsa Bacanin , Abeer Alsadoon

The performance of the meta-heuristic algorithms often depends on their parameter settings. Appropriate tuning of the underlying parameters can drastically improve the performance of a meta-heuristic. The Ant Colony Optimization (ACO), a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Varun Kumar Ojha , Ajith Abraham , Vaclav Snasel

Many real world problems are NP-Hard problems are a very large part of them can be represented as graph based problems. This makes graph theory a very important and prevalent field of study. In this work a new bio-inspired meta-heuristics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Chiranjib Sur , Anupam Shukla

In recent years, a plethora of new metaheuristic algorithms have explored different sources of inspiration within the biological and natural worlds. This nature-inspired approach to algorithm design has been widely criticised. A notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Michael Adam Lones

Feature selection and attribute reduction are crucial problems, and widely used techniques in the field of machine learning, data mining and pattern recognition to overcome the well-known phenomenon of the Curse of Dimensionality, by either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Javad Rahimipour Anaraki , Saeed Samet , Mahdi Eftekhari , Chang Wook Ahn

Metaheuristic algorithms are powerful tools for global optimization, particularly for non-convex and non-differentiable problems where exact methods are often impractical. Particle-based optimization methods, inspired by swarm intelligence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Giacomo Borghi , Hyesung Im , Lorenzo Pareschi

Low-light image enhancement remains an open problem, and the new wave of artificial intelligence is at the center of this problem. This work describes the use of genetic algorithms for optimizing analytical models that can improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Axel Martinez , Emilio Hernandez , Matthieu Olague , Gustavo Olague

Mobility impairments, particularly those caused by stroke-induced hemiparesis, significantly impact independence and quality of life. Current smart walker controllers operate by using input forces from the user to control linear motion and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Mahdi Chalaki , Amir Zakerimanesh , Abed Soleymani , Vivian Mushahwar , Mahdi Tavakoli

L\'evy walks are continuous time random walks with spatio-temporal coupling of jump lengths and waiting times, often used to model superdiffusive spreading processes such as animals searching for food, tracer motion in weakly chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Bartłomiej Dybiec , Karol Capała , Aleksei Chechkin , Ralf Metzler

All swarm-intelligence-based optimization algorithms use some stochastic components to increase the diversity of solutions during the search process. Such randomization is often represented in terms of random walks. However, it is not yet…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Xin-She Yang , M. Karamanoglu , T. O. Ting , Y. X. Zhao