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It may seem very intuitive that for the maximization of the OneMax problem $\OM(x):=\sum_{i=1}^n{x_i}$ the best that an elitist unary unbiased search algorithm can do is to store a best so far solution, and to modify it with the operator…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Nathan Buskulic , Carola Doerr

Context. Mathematical optimization can be used as a computational tool to obtain the optimal solution to a given problem in a systematic and efficient way. For example, in twice-differentiable functions and problems with no constraints, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-25 J. Canto , S. Curiel , E. Martinez-Gomez

This paper introduces a reinforcement learning (RL) approach to address the challenges associated with configuring and optimizing genetic algorithms (GAs) for solving difficult combinatorial or non-linear problems. The proposed RL+GA method…

We show that, for any c>0, the (1+1) evolutionary algorithm using an arbitrary mutation rate p_n = c/n finds the optimum of a linear objective function over bit strings of length n in expected time Theta(n log n). Previously, this was only…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Benjamin Doerr , Leslie Ann Goldberg

The $(1+(\lambda,\lambda))$ genetic algorithm is a bright example of an evolutionary algorithm which was developed based on the insights from theoretical findings. This algorithm uses crossover, and it was shown to asymptotically outperform…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Anton Bassin , Maxim Buzdalov

Estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs) are optimization algorithms that learn a distribution on the search space from which good solutions can be sampled easily. A key parameter of most EDAs is the sample size (population size). If…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

We study the simple genetic algorithm with a ranking selection mechanism (linear ranking or tournament). We denote by $\ell$ the length of the chromosomes, by $m$ the population size, by $p_C$ the crossover probability and by $p_M$ the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-03-24 Raphaël Cerf

This paper addresses the path selection problem from a known sender to the receiver. The proposed work shows path selection using genetic algorithm(GA)and simulated annealing (SA) approaches. In genetic algorithm approach, the multi point…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-08 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

This paper proposes Genetic Algorithm with Border Trades (GAB), a novel modification of the standard genetic algorithm that enhances exploration by incorporating new chromosome patterns in the breeding process. This approach significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Qingchuan Lyu

The one-fifth rule and its generalizations are a classical parameter control mechanism in discrete domains. They have also been transferred to control the offspring population size of the $(1, \lambda)$-EA. This has been shown to work very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Johannes Lengler , Konstantin Sturm

Due to the more complicated population dynamics of the NSGA-II, none of the existing runtime guarantees for this algorithm is accompanied by a non-trivial lower bound. Via a first mathematical understanding of the population dynamics of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Benjamin Doerr , Zhongdi Qu

Reversible Cellular Automata (RCA) are a particular kind of shift-invariant transformations characterized by a dynamics composed only of disjoint cycles. They have many applications in the simulation of physical systems, cryptography and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Luca Mariot , Stjepan Picek , Domagoj Jakobovic , Alberto Leporati

Genetic algorithm (GA) is a stochastic metaheuristic process consisting on the evolution of a population of candidate solutions for a given optimization problem. By extension, multipopulation genetic algorithm (MPGA) aims for efficiency by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Bruno Messias , Bruno W. D. Morais

A formalism for describing the dynamics of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) using methods from statistical mechanics is applied to the problem of generalization in a perceptron with binary weights. The dynamics are solved for the case where a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Magnus Rattray , Jonathan Shapiro

This paper implements a new way of solving a problem called the traveling salesman problem (TSP) using quantum genetic algorithm (QGA). We compared how well this new approach works to the traditional method known as a classical genetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Yijiang Ma , Tan Chye Cheah

Genetic Algorithm is an evolutionary algorithm and a metaheuristic that was introduced to overcome the failure of gradient based method in solving the optimization and search problems. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Waleed Bin Owais , Iyad W. J. Alkhazendar , Dr. Mohammad Saleh

We propose a gate-based Quantum Genetic Algorithm (QGA) for real-valued global optimization. In this model, individuals are represented by quantum circuits whose measurement outcomes are decoded into real-valued vectors through binary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Leandro C. Souza , Laurent E. Dardenne , Renato Portugal

Optimal control of turbulent mixed-convection flows has attracted considerable attention from researchers. Numerical algorithms such as Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are powerful tools that allow to perform global optimization. These algorithms…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-09-25 M. Oulghelou , C. Beghein , C. Allery

Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs) provide a distribution - based approach for optimization which adapts its probability distribution during the run of the algorithm. We contribute to the theoretical understanding of EDAs and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Tobias Friedrich , Timo Kötzing , Frank Neumann , Aishwarya Radhakrishnan

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are known for their efficiency in solving combinatorial optimization problems, thanks to their ability to explore diverse solution spaces, handle various representations, exploit parallelism, preserve good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Majid Sohrabi , Amir M. Fathollahi-Fard , Vasilii A. Gromov