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Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms form a class of surrogate-based heuristics, aimed at efficiently computing high-quality solutions for numerical black-box optimization problems. The BO pipeline is highly modular, with different design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Carolin Benjamins , Anja Jankovic , Elena Raponi , Koen van der Blom , Marius Lindauer , Carola Doerr

We propose a novel, flexible algorithm for combining together metaheuristicoptimizers for non-convex optimization problems. Our approach treatsthe constituent optimizers as a team of complex agents that communicateinformation amongst each…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Sujit Pramod Khanna , Alexander Ororbia

This work presents a novel variant of the Firefly Algorithm (FA) for data clustering, addressing limitations of traditional methods like K-Means that struggle with non-uniform cluster shapes, densities, and the need for pre-defining the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 MKA Ariyaratne , Azwirman Gusrialdi , Yury Nikulin , Jaakko Peltonen

The firefly algorithm has become an increasingly important tool of Swarm Intelligence that has been applied in almost all areas of optimization, as well as engineering practice. Many problems from various areas have been successfully solved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-24 Iztok Fister , Iztok Fister , Xin-She Yang , Janez Brest

In this paper, a novel bio-inspired optimization algorithm is proposed, called Bombardier Beetle Optimizer (BBO). This type of species is very intelligent, which has an ability to defense and escape from predators. The principles of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hisham A. Shehadeh , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Iqbal H. Jebril

Some popular functions used to test global optimization algorithms have multiple local optima, all with the same value, making them all global optima. It is easy to make them more challenging by fortifying them via adding a localized bump…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Charles F. Jekel , Raphael T. Haftka

'Hybrid meta-heuristics' is one of the most interesting recent trends in the field of optimization and feature selection (FS). In this paper, we have proposed a binary variant of Atom Search Optimization (ASO) and its hybrid with Simulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Kushal Kanti Ghosh , Ritam Guha , Soulib Ghosh , Suman Kumar Bera , Ram Sarkar

Automated hyperparameter optimization (HPO) has gained great popularity and is an important ingredient of most automated machine learning frameworks. The process of designing HPO algorithms, however, is still an unsystematic and manual…

Accurate parameter identification in photovoltaic (PV) models is crucial for performance evaluation but remains challenging due to their nonlinear, multimodal, and high-dimensional nature. Although the Dung Beetle Optimization (DBO)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiwei Li , Zhihua Allen-Zhao , Yuncheng Xu , Sanyang Liu

The unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in a disaster-prone environment plays important role in assisting the rescue services and providing the internet connectivity with the outside world. However, in such a complex environment the selection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Zakria Qadir , Muhammad Bilal , Guoqiang Liu , Xiaolong Xu

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

This paper presents a powerful swarm intelligence meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Dynamic Cat Swarm Optimization. The formulation is through modifying the existing Cat Swarm Optimization. The original Cat Swarm Optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Aram Ahmed , Tarik A. Rashid , Soran Saeed

Sea Horse Optimizer (SHO) is a noteworthy metaheuristic algorithm that emulates various intelligent behaviors exhibited by sea horses, encompassing feeding patterns, male reproductive strategies, and intricate movement patterns. To mimic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Fatma A. Hashim , Reham R. Mostafa , Ruba Abu Khurma , Raneem Qaddoura , P. A. Castillo

Metaheuristic algorithms have gained widespread application across various fields owing to their ability to generate diverse solutions. One such algorithm is the Snake Optimizer (SO), a progressive optimization approach. However, SO suffers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Genliang Li , Yaxin Cui , Jinyu Su

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on human preferences, typically through reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), has proven successful in enhancing their capabilities. However, ensuring the safety of LLMs during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Wenxuan Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Adel Bibi

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a solution to deal with the risk of privacy leaks in machine learning training. This approach allows a variety of mobile devices to collaboratively train a machine learning model without sharing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Young Geun Kim , Carole-Jean Wu

Metaheuristic algorithms are widely used for solving complex problems due to their ability to provide near-optimal solutions. But the execution time of these algorithms increases with the problem size and/or solution space. And, to get more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Henish Soliya , Anugrah Jain

Product reuse and recovery is an efficient tool that helps companies to simultaneously address economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. This paper presents a novel problem for stock management of reusable products in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Amir Hossein Sadeghi , Erfan Amani Bani , Ali Fallahi

Metaheuristic algorithms are currently widely used to solve a variety of optimization problems across various industries. This article discusses the application of a metaheuristic algorithm to optimize the hierarchical architecture of an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Ruslan Zakirzyanov

Most global optimization problems are nonlinear and thus difficult to solve, and they become even more challenging when uncertainties are present in objective functions and constraints. This paper provides a new two-stage hybrid search…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-29 Xin-She Yang , Suash Deb