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Multitask learning assumes that models capable of learning from multiple tasks can achieve better quality and efficiency via knowledge transfer, a key feature of human learning. Though, state of the art ML models rely on high customization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Andrea Gesmundo , Jeff Dean

Multitasking optimization is an incipient research area which is lately gaining a notable research momentum. Unlike traditional optimization paradigm that focuses on solving a single task at a time, multitasking addresses how multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Jesus L. Lobo , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

Studies have shown evolution strategies (ES) to be a promising approach for reinforcement learning (RL) with deep neural networks. However, the issue of high sample complexity persists in applications of ES to deep RL over long horizons.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nick Zhang , Abhishek Gupta , Zefeng Chen , Yew-Soon Ong

The emerging research paradigm coined as multitasking optimization aims to solve multiple optimization tasks concurrently by means of a single search process. For this purpose, the exploitation of complementarities among the tasks to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Akemi Galvez , Andres Iglesias , Javier Del Ser

Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) has emerged as a popular topic of evolutionary computation over the past decade. It aims to concurrently address multiple optimization tasks within limited computing resources, leveraging inter-task knowledge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yanchi Li , Wenyin Gong , Tingyu Zhang , Fei Ming , Shuijia Li , Qiong Gu , Yew-Soon Ong

In this work we consider multitasking in the context of solving multiple optimization problems simultaneously by conducting a single search process. The principal goal when dealing with this scenario is to dynamically exploit the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Javier Del Ser

In recent years, to improve the evolutionary algorithms used to solve optimization problems involving a large number of decision variables, many attempts have been made to simplify the problem solution space of a given problem for the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Liang Feng , Qingxia Shang , Yaqing Hou , Kay Chen Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Feature Transformation (FT) is a core data-centric AI task that improves feature space quality to advance downstream predictive performance. However, discovering effective transformations remains challenging due to the large space of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Xinyuan Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Yanjie Fu

The reasoning frontier of Large Language Models (LLMs) has advanced significantly through modern post-training paradigms (e.g., Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)). However, the efficacy of these methods remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Liqin Ye , Yanbin Yin , Michael Galarnyk , Yuzhao Heng , Sudheer Chava , Chao Zhang

In evolutionary multitasking, strategies such as crossover operators and skill factor assignment are critical for effective knowledge transfer. Existing improvements to crossover operators primarily focus on low-dimensional variable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ruilin Wang , Xiang Feng , Huiqun Yu , Edmund M-K Lai

Recent LLM-guided evolutionary search methods have shown that iterative program mutation can discover strong algorithms, but they typically optimize each task independently, even when related tasks share reusable structure. We introduce…

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Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural Architecture Search. These algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aitor Martínez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

In the domain of multi-objective optimization, evolutionary algorithms are distinguished by their capability to generate a diverse population of solutions that navigate the trade-offs inherent among competing objectives. This has catalyzed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yuxin Ma , Zherui Zhang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

Experienced users often have useful knowledge and intuition in solving real-world optimization problems. User knowledge can be formulated as inter-variable relationships to assist an optimization algorithm in finding good solutions faster.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Abhiroop Ghosh , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Ronald Averill

Feature Transformation is crucial for classic machine learning that aims to generate feature combinations to enhance the performance of downstream tasks from a data-centric perspective. Current methodologies, such as manual expert-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Tianqi He , Xiaohan Huang , Yi Du , Qingqing Long , Ziyue Qiao , Min Wu , Yanjie Fu , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao

Transfer optimization enables data-efficient optimization of a target task by leveraging experiential priors from related source tasks. This is especially useful in multiobjective optimization settings where a set of trade-off solutions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jiao Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

Feature Transformation (FT) crafts new features from original ones via mathematical operations to enhance dataset expressiveness for downstream models. However, existing FT methods exhibit critical limitations: discrete search struggles…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Nanxu Gong , Zijun Li , Sixun Dong , Haoyue Bai , Wangyang Ying , Xinyuan Wang , Yanjie Fu

Segmentation is one of the most important tasks in image processing. It consist in classify the pixels into two or more groups depending on their intensity levels and a threshold value. The quality of the segmentation depends on the method…

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