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A reinforcement learning-enhanced genetic algorithm (RLGA) is proposed for wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) problems. While genetic algorithms (GAs) are among the most effective and accessible methods for WFLO, their performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Guodan Dong , Jianhua Qin , Chutian Wu , Chang Xu , Xiaolei Yang

Structure-based drug design (SBDD) aims to discover drug candidates by finding molecules (ligands) that bind tightly to a disease-related protein (targets), which is the primary approach to computer-aided drug discovery. Recently, applying…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Tianfan Fu , Wenhao Gao , Connor W. Coley , Jimeng Sun

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) quality depends on many interacting choices across retrieval, ranking, augmentation, prompting, and generation, so optimizing modules in isolation is brittle. We introduce RAGSmith, a modular framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Muhammed Yusuf Kartal , Suha Kagan Kose , Korhan Sevinç , Burak Aktas

It is increasingly common to solve combinatorial optimisation problems that are partially-specified. We survey the case where the objective function or the relations between variables are not known or are only partially specified. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Stefano Teso , Laurens Bliek , Andrea Borghesi , Michele Lombardi , Neil Yorke-Smith , Tias Guns , Andrea Passerini

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

Molecular discovery has brought great benefits to the chemical industry. Various molecule design techniques are developed to identify molecules with desirable properties. Traditional optimization methods, such as genetic algorithms,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-05 Chris Zhuang , Debadyuti Mukherjee , Yingzhou Lu , Tianfan Fu , Ruqi Zhang

Many traditional signal recovery approaches can behave well basing on the penalized likelihood. However, they have to meet with the difficulty in the selection of hyperparameters or tuning parameters in the penalties. In this article, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-17 Bin Wang , Xiaofei Wang , Jianhua Guo

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) replaces hard-to-specify rewards with pairwise trajectory preferences, yet regret-oriented theory often assumes that preference labels are generated consistently from a single ground-truth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ming Shi , Yingbin Liang , Ness B. Shroff , Ananthram Swami

The emergence of Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has alleviated the issues of outdated and hallucinatory content in the generation of large language models (LLMs), yet it still reveals numerous limitations. When a general-purpose LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jiayi Wu , Hengyi Cai , Lingyong Yan , Hao Sun , Xiang Li , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Ming Gao

The need for fast and robust optimization algorithms are of critical importance in all areas of machine learning. This paper treats the task of designing optimization algorithms as an optimal control problem. Using regret as a metric for an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Philippe Casgrain , Anastasis Kratsios

Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA) has established itself as a benchmark algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization. The determination of pareto-optimal solutions is the key to its success. However the basic algorithm suffers…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Rio G. L. D'Souza , K. Chandra Sekaran , A. Kandasamy

Online learning constitutes a mathematical and compelling framework to analyze sequential decision making problems in adversarial environments. The learner repeatedly chooses an action, the environment responds with an outcome, and then the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-05 Mehrdad Mahdavi , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin

The von-Neumann architecture has a bottleneck which limits the speed at which data can be made available for computation. To combat this problem, novel paradigms for computing are being developed. One such paradigm, known as in-memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Andey Robins , Mike Borowczak

One of the problems in applying Genetic Algorithm is that there is some situation where the evolutionary process converges too fast to a solution which causes it to be trapped in local optima. To overcome this problem, a proper diversity in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-02 Chaiwat Jassadapakorn , Prabhas Chongstitvatana

The rapid advances in the field of optimization methods in many pure and applied science pose the difficulty of keeping track of the developments as well as selecting an appropriate technique that best suits the problem in-hand. From a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Loris Serafino

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems expose numerous design choices spanning query rewriting, chunking, retrieval depth, reranking, and context compression. In practice, these choices are often configured through heuristics,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhen Chen , Yibing Liu , Weihao Xie , Yu Liang , Peilin Chen , Shiqi Wang

In this paper we prove the efficacy of a simple greedy algorithm for a finite horizon online resource allocation/matching problem, when the corresponding static planning linear program (SPP) exhibits a non-degeneracy condition called the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Varun Gupta

The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and sub-optimal schedules. Meta-scheduling in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-03-10 Saurabh Garg , Pramod Konugurthi , Rajkumar Buyya

Recently, program autotuning has become very popular especially in embedded systems, when we have limited resources such as computing power and memory where these systems run generally time-critical applications. Compiler optimization space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Burak Tağtekin , Berkan Höke , Mert Kutay Sezer , Mahiye Uluyağmur Öztürk

A genetic algorithm is suitable for exploring large search spaces as it finds an approximate solution. Because of this advantage, genetic algorithm is effective in exploring vast and unknown space such as molecular search space. Though the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Yurim Lee , Gydam Choi , Minsung Yoon , Cheongwon Kim