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Distributed optimization is fundamental to modern machine learning applications like federated learning, but existing methods often struggle with ill-conditioned problems and face stability-versus-speed tradeoffs. We introduce fractional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Andrei Lixandru , Marcel van Gerven , Sergio Pequito

Numerical optimization techniques are widely used in a broad area of science and technology, from finding the minimal energy of systems in Physics or Chemistry to finding optimal routes in logistics or optimal strategies for high speed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yury Chernyak , Ijaz Ahamed Mohammad , Nikolas Masnicak , Matej Pivoluska , Martin Plesch

We present Evo-Sparrow, a deep learning-based agent for AI decision-making in Sparrow Mahjong, trained by optimizing Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks using Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES). Our model evaluates…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jim O'Connor , Derin Gezgin , Gary B. Parker

The challenge of finding a global optimum in a solution search space with limited resources and higher accuracy has given rise to several optimization algorithms. Generally, the gradient-based optimizers converge to the global solution very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Subhrangshu Adhikary

The reliability redundancy allocation problem (RRAP) is a well-known tool in system design, development, and management. The RRAP is always modeled as a nonlinear mixed-integer non-deterministic polynomial-time hardness (NP-hard) problem.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Wei-Chang Yeh

This paper proposes a novel nature-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm called the Golden Tortoise Beetle Optimizer (GTBO) to solve optimization problems. It mimics golden tortoise beetle's behavior of changing colors to attract opposite sex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Omid Tarkhaneh , Neda Alipour , Amirahmad Chapnevis , Haifeng Shen

Bio-inspired optimization algorithms have been gaining more popularity recently. One of the most important of these algorithms is particle swarm optimization (PSO). PSO is based on the collective intelligence of a swam of particles. Each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

Nowadays, metaheuristic optimization algorithms are used to find the global optima in difficult search spaces. Pontogammarus Maeoticus Swarm Optimization (PMSO) is a metaheuristic algorithm imitating aquatic nature and foraging behavior.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Benyamin Ghojogh , Saeed Sharifian

We consider the problem of understanding the coordinated movements of biological or artificial swarms. In this regard, we propose a learning scheme to estimate the coordination laws of the interacting agents from observations of the swarm's…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-26 Christos Mavridis , Amoolya Tirumalai , John Baras

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) frequently suffers from premature convergence. This paper introduces a family of problem-informed diversity-enhancing strategies that manipulate the swarm's social and cognitive components. These include…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Piotr Urbańczyk , Aleksandra Urbańczyk

A great deal of research has been conducted in the consideration of meta-heuristic optimisation methods that are able to find global optima in settings that gradient based optimisers have traditionally struggled. Of these, so-called…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Max D. Champneys , Timothy J. Rogers

Evolutionary computation (EC) algorithms, such as discrete and multi-objective versions of particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been applied to solve the Feature selection (FS) problem, tackling the combinatorial explosion of search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Hassen Dhrif , Luis G. Sanchez Giraldo , Miroslav Kubat , Stefan Wuchty

Robotic shepherding is a bio-inspired approach to autonomously guiding a swarm of agents towards a desired location. The research area has earned increasing research interest recently due to the efficacy of controlling a large number of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jing Liu , Hemant Singh , Saber Elsayed , Robert Hunjet , Hussein Abbass

The balance between exploration (Er) and exploitation (Ei) determines the generalization performance of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm on different problems. Although the insufficient balance caused by global best being…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhenxing Zhang , Tianxian Zhang

Conventional tracking solutions are not feasible in handling abrupt motion as they are based on smooth motion assumption or an accurate motion model. Abrupt motion is not subject to motion continuity and smoothness. To assuage this, we deem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-15 Mei Kuan Lim , Chee Seng Chan , Dorothy Monekosso , Paolo Remagnino

This discusses a case study on Fitness Dependent Optimizer or so-called FDO and adapting its parameters to the Internet of Things (IoT) healthcare. The reproductive way is sparked by the bee swarm and the collaborative decision-making of…

This paper presents an algorithm based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), adapted for multi-objective optimization problems: the Elitist PSO (MO-ETPSO). The proposed algorithm integrates core strategies from the well-established NSGA-II…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ricardo Fitas

The fitness-dependent optimizer (FDO) algorithm was recently introduced in 2019. An improved FDO (IFDO) algorithm is presented in this work, and this algorithm contributes considerably to refining the ability of the original FDO to address…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Danial A. Muhammed , Soran AM. Saeed , Tarik A. Rashid

Bio-inspired algorithms utilize natural processes such as evolution, swarm behavior, foraging, and plant growth to solve complex, nonlinear, high-dimensional optimization problems. However, a plethora of these algorithms require a more…

Hand-crafting effective and efficient structures for recurrent neural networks (RNNs) is a difficult, expensive, and time-consuming process. To address this challenge, we propose a novel neuro-evolution algorithm based on ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 AbdElRahman A. ElSaid , Alexander G. Ororbia , Travis J. Desell