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Training a single model for multilingual, multi-task speech processing (MSP) is severely hampered by conflicting objectives between tasks like speech recognition and translation. While multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to align…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 A F M Saif , Lisha Chen , Xiaodong Cui , Songtao Lu , Brian Kingsbury , Tianyi Chen

This article introduces an enhanced particle swarm optimizer (PSO), termed Orthogonal PSO with Mutation (OPSO-m). Initially, it proposes an orthogonal array-based learning approach to cultivate an improved initial swarm for PSO,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Lewis Mitchell

Multi-task optimization is a powerful approach for solving a large number of tasks in parallel. However, existing algorithms face distinct limitations: Population-based methods scale poorly and remain underexplored for large task sets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Julian Hatzky , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , A. E. Eiben , Anil Yaman

Recent advances in learnable evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated the importance of leveraging population distribution information and historical evolutionary trajectories. While significant progress has been made in continuous…

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This paper proposes MOON (Multi-Objective Optimization-driven Object-goal Navigation), a novel framework designed for efficient navigation in large-scale, complex indoor environments. While existing methods often rely on local heuristics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Daigo Nakajima , Kanji Tanaka , Daiki Iwata , Kouki Terashima

The open-pit mine scheduling problem (OPMSP) is a complex, computationally expensive process in long-term mine planning, constrained by operational and geological dependencies. Traditional deterministic approaches often ignore geological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess substantial reasoning capabilities and are increasingly applied to optimization tasks, particularly in synergy with evolutionary computation. However, while recent surveys have explored specific aspects…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yisong Zhang , Ran Cheng , Guoxing Yi , Kay Chen Tan

We build a Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model from scratch to solve sequential decision making tasks arising in contexts of operations research and management science which we call OMGPT. We first propose a general sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hanzhao Wang , Guanting Chen , Kalyan Talluri , Xiaocheng Li

The performance of different mutation operators is usually evaluated in conjunc-tion with specific parameter settings of genetic algorithms and target problems. Most studies focus on the classical genetic algorithm with different parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-03 Chun Liu , Andreas Kroll

Evolutionary Robotics offers the possibility to design robots to solve a specific task automatically by optimizing their morphology and control together. However, this co-optimization of body and control is challenging, because controllers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 K. Ege de Bruin , Kyrre Glette , Kai Olav Ellefsen

Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bing Wang , Hemant K. Singh , Tapabrata Ray

This paper looks in detail at how an evolutionary algorithm attempts to solve instances from the multimodal problem generator. The paper shows that in order to consistently reach the global optimum, an evolutionary algorithm requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fernando G. Lobo , Claudio F. Lima

We define very large-scale multiobjective optimization problems as optimizing multiple objectives (VLSMOPs) with more than 100,000 decision variables. These problems hold substantial significance, given the ubiquity of real-world scenarios…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Haokai Hong , Min Jiang , Qiuzhen Lin , Kay Chen Tan

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization problems (MMMOPs) have multiple subsets within the Pareto-optimal Set, each independently mapping to the same Pareto-Front. Prevalent multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are not purely designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Monalisa Pal , Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

As models continue to grow in size, the development of memory optimization methods (MOMs) has emerged as a solution to address the memory bottleneck encountered when training large models. To comprehensively examine the practical value of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaoxuan Liu , Siddharth Jha , Alvin Cheung

This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

This paper intends to understand and to improve the working principle of decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. We review the design of the well-established Moea/d framework to support the smooth integration of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Geoffrey Pruvost , Bilel Derbel , Arnaud Liefooghe , Ke Li , Qingfu Zhang

Accurately predicting the performance of different optimization algorithms for previously unseen problem instances is crucial for high-performing algorithm selection and configuration techniques. In the context of numerical optimization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Tome Eftimov , Anja Jankovic , Gorjan Popovski , Carola Doerr , Peter Korošec

Foundation models have been transformational in machine learning fields such as natural language processing and computer vision. Similar success in atomic property prediction has been limited due to the challenges of training effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Nima Shoghi , Adeesh Kolluru , John R. Kitchin , Zachary W. Ulissi , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Brandon M. Wood

Feature transformation aims to reconstruct the feature space of raw features to enhance the performance of downstream models. However, the exponential growth in the combinations of features and operations poses a challenge, making it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Chandan K. Reddy , Wangyang Ying , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu