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RAG systems consist of multiple modules to work together. However, these modules are usually separately trained. We argue that a system like RAG that incorporates multiple modules should be jointly optimized to achieve optimal performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jingsheng Gao , Linxu Li , Weiyuan Li , Yuzhuo Fu , Bin Dai

Challenges in natural sciences can often be phrased as optimization problems. Machine learning techniques have recently been applied to solve such problems. One example in chemistry is the design of tailor-made organic materials and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-17 AkshatKumar Nigam , Pascal Friederich , Mario Krenn , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Learning ensembles by bagging can substantially improve the generalization performance of low-bias, high-variance estimators, including those evolved by Genetic Programming (GP). To be efficient, modern GP algorithms for evolving (bagging)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Marco Virgolin

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Traditional Genetic Algorithms (GAs) mating schemes select individuals for crossover independently of their genotypic or phenotypic similarities. In Nature, this behaviour is known as random mating. However, non-random schemes - in which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-09-30 C. M. Fernandes , J. J. Merelo , A. C. Rosa

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a reliable external knowledge augmentation technique to mitigate hallucination issues and parameterized knowledge limitations in Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing adaptive RAG (ARAG)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Qingfei Zhao , Ruobing Wang , Yukuo Cen , Daren Zha , Shicheng Tan , Jie Tang

The performance of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms deteriorates appreciably in solving many-objective optimization problems which encompass more than three objectives. One of the known rationales is the loss of selection pressure…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Yanan Sun , Gary G. Yen , Zhang Yi

This paper addresses the path selection problem from a known sender to the receiver. The proposed work shows path selection using genetic algorithm(GA)and simulated annealing (SA) approaches. In genetic algorithm approach, the multi point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guy Bresler , Devavrat Shah , Luis F. Voloch

Adaptive filter in complex scenarios demands algorithms that integrate fast convergence, low complexity, and robust performance under diverse noise conditions. To address this challenge, we propose a online censoring robust total…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Yi Peng , Haiquan Zhao , Jinhui Hu

In this work, we show how a genetic algorithm (GA) can be used to find step-by-step solutions to introductory physics problems. Our perspective is that the underlying task for this is one of finding a sequence of equations that will lead to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Tom Bensky , Justin Kopcinski

We consider the setting of iterative learning control, or model-based policy learning in the presence of uncertain, time-varying dynamics. In this setting, we propose a new performance metric, planning regret, which replaces the standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Naman Agarwal , Elad Hazan , Anirudha Majumdar , Karan Singh

With the rapid development of large-scale language models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has been widely adopted. However, existing RAG paradigms are inevitably influenced by erroneous retrieval information, thereby reducing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ridong Wu , Shuhong Chen , Xiangbiao Su , Yuankai Zhu , Yifei Liao , Jianming Wu

he greatest weakness of evolutionary algorithms, widely used today, is the premature convergence due to the loss of population diversity over generations. To overcome this problem, several algorithms have been proposed, such as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Asmaa Ghoumari , Amir Nakib

Several mating restriction techniques have been implemented in Evolutionary Algorithms to promote diversity. From similarity-based selection to niche preservation, the general goal is to avoid premature convergence by not having fitness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 José Maria Simões , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Quantum algorithms are emerging tools in the design of functional materials due to their powerful solution space search capability. How to balance the high price of quantum computing resources and the growing computing needs has become an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-13 Zhihao Xu , Wenjie Shang , Seongmin Kim , Alexandria Bobbitt , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

The Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) is the most prominent multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for real-world applications. While it performs evidently well on bi-objective optimization problems, empirical studies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Simon Wietheger , Benjamin Doerr

Genetic algorithms constitute a family of black-box optimization algorithms, which take inspiration from the principles of biological evolution. While they provide a general-purpose tool for optimization, their particular instantiations can…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Robert Tjarko Lange , Tom Schaul , Yutian Chen , Chris Lu , Tom Zahavy , Valentin Dalibard , Sebastian Flennerhag

This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

In information retrieval research; Genetic Algorithms (GA) can be used to find global solutions in many difficult problems. This study used different similarity measures (Dice, Inner Product) in the VSM, for each similarity measure we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-03 Eman Al Mashagba , Feras Al Mashagba , Mohammad Othman Nassar