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Federated Learning (FL) is a recent development in distributed machine learning that collaboratively trains models without training data leaving client devices, preserving data privacy. In real-world FL, the training set is distributed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Jed Mills , Jia Hu , Geyong Min , Rui Jin , Siwei Zheng , Jin Wang

This work considers a Motion Planning Problem with Dynamic Obstacles (MPDO) in 2D that requires finding a minimum-arrival-time collision-free trajectory for a point robot between its start and goal locations amid dynamic obstacles moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

Diversity optimization is the class of optimization problems in which we aim to find a diverse set of good solutions. One of the frequently-used approaches to solve such problems is to use evolutionary algorithms that evolve a desired…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Andrew M. Sutton

Hyperparameter optimisation is a crucial process in searching the optimal machine learning model. The efficiency of finding the optimal hyperparameter settings has been a big concern in recent researches since the optimisation process could…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yuxi Huan , Fan Wu , Michail Basios , Leslie Kanthan , Lingbo Li , Baowen Xu

Existing evolutionary algorithms for Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Problems (CMOPs) typically treat all constraints uniformly, overlooking their distinct geometric relationships with the true Constrained Pareto Front (CPF). In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ruiqing Sun , Dawei Feng , Sheng Qi , Xing Zhou , Lianghao Li , Bo Ding , Yijie Wang , Rui Wang , Huaimin Wang

The educational competition optimizer is a recently introduced metaheuristic algorithm inspired by human behavior, originating from the dynamics of educational competition within society. Nonetheless, ECO faces constraints due to an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Baoqi Zhao , Xiong Yang , Hoileong Lee , Bowen Dong

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

This paper presents an Improved Bayesian Optimization (IBO) algorithm to solve complex high-dimensional epidemic models' optimal control solution. Evaluating the total objective function value for disease control models with hundreds of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-03 Yuyang Chen , Kaiming Bi , Chih-Hang J. Wu , David Ben-Arieh , Ashesh Sinha

Recent research has proposed a series of specialized optimization algorithms for deep multi-task models. It is often claimed that these multi-task optimization (MTO) methods yield solutions that are superior to the ones found by simply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Derrick Xin , Behrooz Ghorbani , Ankush Garg , Orhan Firat , Justin Gilmer

Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large number of conflicting objectives. Unlike traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ke Shang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Zexuan Zhu , Qingfu Zhang

A fitness assignment process transforms the features (such as the objective value) of a candidate solution to a scalar fitness, which then is the basis for selection. Under Frequency Fitness Assignment (FFA), the fitness corresponding to an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Thomas Weise , Zhize Wu , Xinlu Li , Yan Chen , Jörg Lässig

Nowadays, we are immersed in tens of newly-proposed evolutionary and swam-intelligence metaheuristics, which makes it very difficult to choose a proper one to be applied on a specific optimization problem at hand. On the other hand, most of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Hamid Reza Boveiri , Raouf Khayami

In this report, we suggest nine test problems for multi-task multi-objective optimization (MTMOO), each of which consists of two multiobjective optimization tasks that need to be solved simultaneously. The relationship between tasks varies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Yuan Yuan , Yew-Soon Ong , Liang Feng , A. K. Qin , Abhishek Gupta , Bingshui Da , Qingfu Zhang , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin , Hisao Ishibuchi

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) often faces GPU memory bottlenecks: the backward pass of first-order optimizers like Adam increases memory usage to more than 10 times the inference level (e.g., 633 GB for OPT-30B). Zeroth-order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sizhe Dang , Yangyang Guo , Yanjun Zhao , Haishan Ye , Xiaodong Zheng , Guang Dai , Ivor Tsang

Derivative-Free Optimization (DFO) involves methods that rely solely on evaluations of the objective function. One of the earliest strategies for designing DFO methods is to adapt first-order methods by replacing gradients with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-12 Timothé Taminiau , Estelle Massart , Geovani Nunes Grapiglia

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong generalization and reasoning abilities, making them well-suited for complex decision-making tasks such as medical consultation (MC). However, existing LLM-based methods often fail to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhihao Jia , Mingyi Jia , Junwen Duan , Jianxin Wang

In this report, we suggest nine test problems for multi-task single-objective optimization (MTSOO), each of which consists of two single-objective optimization tasks that need to be solved simultaneously. The relationship between tasks…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Bingshui Da , Yew-Soon Ong , Liang Feng , A. K. Qin , Abhishek Gupta , Zexuan Zhu , Chuan-Kang Ting , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Reinforcement Learning's high sensitivity to hyperparameters is a source of instability and inefficiency, creating significant challenges for practitioners. Hyperparameter Optimization (HPO) algorithms have been developed to address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Waël Doulazmi , Auguste Lehuger , Marin Toromanoff , Valentin Charraut , Thibault Buhet , Fabien Moutarde

The experiments conducted in previous studies demonstrated the successful performance of BSA and its non-sensitivity toward the several types of optimisation problems. This success of BSA motivated researchers to work on expanding it, e.g.,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Bryar A. Hassan , Tarik A. Rashid

Bat Algorithm (BA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic search algorithm designed to efficiently explore complex problem spaces and find near-optimal solutions. The algorithm is inspired by the echolocation behavior of bats, which acts as a…

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