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Previous partial permutation synchronization (PPS) algorithms, which are commonly used for multi-object matching, often involve computation-intensive and memory-demanding matrix operations. These operations become intractable for large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Shaohan Li , Yunpeng Shi , Gilad Lerman

Mechanistic models are essential tools across ecology, epidemiology, and the life sciences, but parameter inference remains challenging when likelihood functions are intractable. Approximate Bayesian Computation with Sequential Monte Carlo…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-27 Mario Castro

In this study, we consider simulation-based worst-case optimization problems with continuous design variables and a finite scenario set. To reduce the number of simulations required and increase the number of restarts for better local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Atsuhiro Miyagi , Kazuto Fukuchi , Jun Sakuma , Youhei Akimoto

The rapid evolution of software libraries poses a considerable hurdle for code generation, necessitating continuous adaptation to frequent version updates while preserving backward compatibility. While existing code evolution benchmarks…

Citation classification, which identifies the intention behind academic citations, is pivotal for scholarly analysis. Previous works suggest fine-tuning pretrained language models (PLMs) on citation classification datasets, reaping the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Tong Li , Jiachuan Wang , Yongqi Zhang , Shuangyin Li , Lei Chen

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have proven useful in disentangling the opaque activations of neural networks, primarily large language models, into sets of interpretable features. However, adapting them to domains beyond language, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Ege Erdogan , Ana Lucic

The Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) has been the most successful Evolution Strategy at exploiting covariance information; it uses a form of Principle Component Analysis which, under certain conditions, is suggested…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Ofer M. Shir , Jonathan Roslund , Darrell Whitley , Herschel Rabitz

In this work, we review the theory involved in the Bayesian calibration of complex computer models, with particular emphasis on their use for applications involving computationally expensive simulations and scarce experimental data. In the…

Computation · Statistics 2026-02-02 Christina Schenk , Ignacio Romero

Calibration is a vital step in the development of rigorous digital models of diverse physical and chemical processes, yet one which is highly time- and labour-intensive. In this paper, we introduce a novel tool, Autonomous Calibration and…

Large language models are transforming all areas of academia and industry, attracting the attention of researchers, professionals, and the general public. In the trek for more powerful architectures, Mixture-of-Experts, inspired by ensemble…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

Mahotas is a computer vision library for Python. It contains traditional image processing functionality such as filtering and morphological operations as well as more modern computer vision functions for feature computation, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Luis Pedro Coelho

Dynamically typed languages such as Python have become very popular. Among other strengths, Python's dynamic nature and its straightforward linking to native code have made it the de-facto language for many research areas such as Artificial…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Wenting Zhao , Ibrahim Abdelaziz , Julian Dolby , Kavitha Srinivas , Mossad Helali , Essam Mansour

Many modern programming languages are shifting toward a functional style for collection interfaces such as sets, maps, and sequences. Functional interfaces offer many advantages, including being safe for parallelism and providing simple and…

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This paper presents OpTaS, a task specification Python library for Trajectory Optimization (TO) and Model Predictive Control (MPC) in robotics. Both TO and MPC are increasingly receiving interest in optimal control and in particular…

This study targets the mixed-integer black-box optimization (MI-BBO) problem where continuous and integer variables should be optimized simultaneously. The CMA-ES, our focus in this study, is a population-based stochastic search method that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ryoki Hamano , Shota Saito , Masahiro Nomura , Shinichi Shirakawa

Theoretical analyses of evolution strategies are indispensable for gaining a deep understanding of their inner workings. For constrained problems, rather simple problems are of interest in the current research. This work presents a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Patrick Spettel , Hans-Georg Beyer

Black-box optimization problems often require simultaneously optimizing different types of variables, such as continuous, integer, and categorical variables. Unlike integer variables, categorical variables do not necessarily have a…

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An open source software package for performing dynamic RMS simulation of small to medium-sized power systems is presented, written entirely in the Python programming language. The main objective is to facilitate fast prototyping of new wide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-11 Hallvar Haugdal , Kjetil Uhlen

\texttt{Mixture-Models} is an open-source Python library for fitting Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) and their variants, such as Parsimonious GMMs, Mixture of Factor Analyzers, MClust models, Mixture of Student's t distributions, etc. It…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-19 Siva Rajesh Kasa , Hu Yijie , Santhosh Kumar Kasa , Vaibhav Rajan

dtaianomaly is an open-source Python library for time series anomaly detection, designed to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world applications. Our goal is to (1) accelerate the development of novel state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Louis Carpentier , Nick Seeuws , Wannes Meert , Mathias Verbeke