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In NeuroEvolution, the topologies of artificial neural networks are optimized with evolutionary algorithms to solve tasks in data regression, data classification, or reinforcement learning. One downside of NeuroEvolution is the large amount…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jörg Stork , Martin Zaefferer , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein

We automate soft robotic hand design iteration by co-optimizing design and control policy for dexterous manipulation skills in simulation. Our design iteration pipeline combines genetic algorithms and policy transfer to learn control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Pragna Mannam , Xingyu Liu , Ding Zhao , Jean Oh , Nancy Pollard

Optimization problem, nowadays, have more application in all major but they have problem in computation. Calculation of the optimum point in the spaces with the above dimensions is very time consuming. In this paper, there is presented a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Masoumeh Vali

We demonstrate how a genetic algorithm solves the problem of minimizing the resources used for network coding, subject to a throughput constraint, in a multicast scenario. A genetic algorithm avoids the computational complexity that makes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Minkyu Kim , Varun Aggarwal , Una-May O'Reilly , Muriel Medard , Wonsik Kim

The automatic design of robots has existed for 30 years but has been constricted by serial non-differentiable design evaluations, premature convergence to simple bodies or clumsy behaviors, and a lack of sim2real transfer to physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Luke Strgar , David Matthews , Tyler Hummer , Sam Kriegman

Genetic algorithms are a widely used method in chemometrics for extracting variable subsets with high prediction power. Most fitness measures used by these genetic algorithms are based on the ordinary least-squares fit of the resulting…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-21 David Kepplinger , Peter Filzmoser , Kurt Varmuza

We propose genetic algorithms, which are robust optimization techniques inspired by natural selection, to enhance the versatility of digital quantum simulations. In this sense, we show that genetic algorithms can be employed to increase the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 U. Las Heras , U. Alvarez-Rodriguez , E. Solano , M. Sanz

Particle storage rings are a rich application domain for online optimization algorithms. The Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) has hundreds of independently powered magnets, making it a high-dimensional test-problem for algorithmic…

Optimization for deep networks is currently a very active area of research. As neural networks become deeper, the ability in manually optimizing the network becomes harder. Mini-batch normalization, identification of effective respective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. U. B. Dias , D. D. N. De Silva , S. Fernando

The design of soft robots is still commonly driven by manual trial-and-error approaches, requiring the manufacturing of multiple physical prototypes, which in the end, is time-consuming and requires significant expertise. To reduce the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Leon Schindler , Kristin Miriam de Payrebrune

Magnetic soft robots embedded with hard magnetic particles enable untethered actuation via external magnetic fields, offering remote, rapid, and precise control, which is highly promising for biomedical applications. However, designing such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Liwei Wang

In the wake of the explosive growth in smartphones and cyberphysical systems, there has been an accelerating shift in how data is generated away from centralised data towards on-device generated data. In response, machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ross Drummond , Mathew C. Turner , Stephen R. Duncan

Miniature magnetic tools have the potential to enable minimally invasive surgical techniques to be applied to space-restricted surgical procedures in areas such as neurosurgery. However, typical magnetic navigation systems, which create the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Adam Schonewille , Changyan He , Cameron Forbrigger , Nancy Wu , James Drake , Thomas Looi , Eric Diller

Genetic algorithms are considered as one of the most efficient search techniques. Although they do not offer an optimal solution, their ability to reach a suitable solution in considerably short time gives them their respectable role in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Ayman M. Bahaa-Eldin , A. M. A. Wahdan , H. M. K. Mahdi

Motivation: Gene selection has become a common task in most gene expression studies. The objective of such research is often to identify the smallest possible set of genes that can still achieve good predictive performance. The problem of…

Neural networks and evolutionary computation have a rich intertwined history. They most commonly appear together when an evolutionary algorithm optimises the parameters and topology of a neural network for reinforcement learning problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-15 Alexander W. Churchill , Siddharth Sigtia , Chrisantha Fernando

Motivation: Microarray data has been recently been shown to be efficacious in distinguishing closely related cell types that often appear in the diagnosis of cancer. It is useful to determine the minimum number of genes needed to do such a…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Deutsch

Robotic assistance has significantly improved the outcomes of open microsurgery and rigid endoscopic surgery, however is yet to make an impact in flexible endoscopic neurosurgery. Some of the most common intracranial procedures for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Kieran Gilday , Irena Zubak , Andreas Raabe , Josie Hughes

This paper presents a genetic-based hybrid algorithm that combines the exploration power of Genetic Algorithm (GA) with the exploitation capacity of a phenotypical probabilistic local search algorithm. Though not limited to a certain class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Reza Najian Asl , Mohamad Aslani , Masoud Shariat Panahi

Exploration of task mappings plays a crucial role in achieving high performance in heterogeneous multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) platforms. The problem of optimally mapping a set of tasks onto a set of given heterogeneous processors…

Performance · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Wei Quan , Andy D. Pimentel