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The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

A fundamental question in the conjunction of information theory, biophysics, bioinformatics and thermodynamics relates to the principles and processes that guide the development of natural intelligence in natural environments where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Serge Dolgikh

Solving complex real problems often demands advanced algorithms, and then continuous improvements in the internal operations of a search technique are needed. Hybrid algorithms, parallel techniques, theoretical advances, and much more are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

This paper proposes a new numerical optimization algorithm inspired by the strawberry plant for solving complicated engineering problems. Plants like strawberry develop both runners and roots for propagation and search for water resources…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-29 F. Merrikh-Bayat

One of the main challenges in the field of deep learning is obtaining the optimal model hyperparameters. The search for optimal hyperparameters usually hinders the progress of solutions to real-world problems such as healthcare. Previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mai A. Shaaban , Mariam Kashkash , Maryam Alghfeli , Adham Ibrahim

The investigation of input-output systems often requires a sophisticated choice of test inputs to make best use of limited experimental time. Here we present an iterative algorithm that continuously adjusts an ensemble of test inputs…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian K. Machens

This study aims to optimize Deep Feedforward Neural Networks (DFNNs) training using nature-inspired optimization algorithms, such as PSO, MTO, and its variant called MTOCL. We show how these algorithms efficiently update the weights of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Wael Korani , Malek Mouhoub , Samira Sadaoui

Many real-world optimization problems occur in environments that change dynamically or involve stochastic components. Evolutionary algorithms and other bio-inspired algorithms have been widely applied to dynamic and stochastic problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Vahid Roostapour , Mojgan Pourhassan , Frank Neumann

Recent advances in Large Language Models have led to remarkable achievements across a variety of Natural Language Processing tasks, making prompt engineering increasingly central to guiding model outputs. While manual methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wendi Cui , Zhuohang Li , Hao Sun , Damien Lopez , Kamalika Das , Bradley A. Malin , Sricharan Kumar , Jiaxin Zhang

This paper presents a method for choosing a Particle Swarm Optimization based optimizer for the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem on the basis of the initially available data of a given problem instance. The optimization algorithm is chosen…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Michał Okulewicz , Jacek Mańdziuk

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

Numerous meta-heuristic algorithms have been influenced by nature. Over the past couple of decades, their quantity has been significantly escalating. The majority of these algorithms attempt to emulate natural biological and physical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tahsin Aziz , Tashreef Muhammad , Md. Rashedul Karim Chowdhury , Mohammad Shafiul Alam

Metaheuristics are popularly used in various fields, and they have attracted much attention in the scientific and industrial communities. In recent years, the number of new metaheuristic names has been continuously growing. Generally, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zhongqiang Ma , Guohua Wu , Ponnuthurai N. Suganthan , Aijuan Song , Qizhang Luo

Research on new optimization algorithms is often funded based on the motivation that such algorithms might improve the capabilities to deal with real-world and industrially relevant optimization challenges. Besides a huge variety of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Ramses Sala , Ralf Müller

Evolutionary strategies have recently been shown to achieve competing levels of performance for complex optimization problems in reinforcement learning. In such problems, one often needs to optimize an objective function subject to a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Youssef Diouane , Aurelien Lucchi , Vihang Patil

We present a genetic algorithm framework for automatically discovering deep learning optimization algorithms. Our approach encodes optimizers as genomes that specify combinations of primitive update terms (gradient, momentum, RMS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mitchell Marfinetz

The field of numerical optimization has recently seen a surge in the development of "novel" metaheuristic algorithms, inspired by metaphors derived from natural or human-made processes, which have been widely criticized for obscuring…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Gjorgjina Cenikj , Gašper Petelin , Tome Eftimov

With this paper, we contribute to the growing research area of feature-based analysis of bio-inspired computing. In this research area, problem instances are classified according to different features of the underlying problem in terms of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

Bayesian optimal experimental design has immense potential to inform the collection of data so as to subsequently enhance our understanding of a variety of processes. However, a major impediment is the difficulty in evaluating optimal…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-14 David J. Price , Nigel G. Bean , Joshua V. Ross , Jonathan Tuke

This article concerns the review of a special class of swarm intelligence based algorithms for solving optimization problems and these algorithms can be referred to as social algorithms. Social algorithms use multiple agents and the social…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xin-She Yang