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Rapid performance recovery from unforeseen environmental perturbations remains a grand challenge in swarm robotics. To solve this challenge, we investigate a behaviour adaptation approach, where one searches an archive of controllers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David M. Bossens , Danesh Tarapore

A local Bundle Adjustment (BA) on a sliding window of keyframes has been widely used in visual SLAM and proved to be very effective in lowering the drift. But in lidar SLAM, BA method is hardly used because the sparse feature points (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Zheng Liu , Fu Zhang

Various networks are broadly and deeply applied in real-life applications. Reliability is the most important index for measuring the performance of all network types. Among the various algorithms, only implicit enumeration algorithms, such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Wei-Chang Yeh

We study the batched best arm identification (BBAI) problem, where the learner's goal is to identify the best arm while switching the policy as less as possible. In particular, we aim to find the best arm with probability $1-\delta$ for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Tianyuan Jin , Yu Yang , Jing Tang , Xiaokui Xiao , Pan Xu

Memory-based meta-learning is a powerful technique to build agents that adapt fast to any task within a target distribution. A previous theoretical study has argued that this remarkable performance is because the meta-training protocol…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Vladimir Mikulik , Grégoire Delétang , Tom McGrath , Tim Genewein , Miljan Martic , Shane Legg , Pedro A. Ortega

Nowadays genetic algorithm (GA) is greatly used in engineering pedagogy as an adaptive technique to learn and solve complex problems and issues. It is a meta-heuristic approach that is used to solve hybrid computation challenges. GA…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tanweer Alam , Shamimul Qamar , Amit Dixit , Mohamed Benaida

We consider problems in which a mobile robot samples an unknown function defined over its operating space, so as to find a global optimum of this function. The path traveled by the robot matters, since it influences energy and time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Tudor Santejudean , Lucian Busoniu

The Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm (AFSA) is inspired by the ecological behaviors of fish schooling in nature, viz., the preying, swarming and following behaviors. Owing to a number of salient properties, which include flexibility, fast…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Farhad Pourpanah , Ran Wang , Chee Peng Lim , Xi-Zhao Wang , Danial Yazdani

Dynamic resource allocation (DRA) problems are an important class of dynamic stochastic optimization problems that arise in a variety of important real-world applications. DRA problems are notoriously difficult to solve to optimality since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , J. Daniel Griffith , Vishal Gupta , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Velibor V. Mišić , Robert Moss

This letter addresses a multivariate optimization problem for linear movable antenna arrays (MAAs). Particularly, the position and beamforming vectors of the under-investigated MAA are optimized simultaneously to maximize the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Manh Kha Hoang , Tuan Anh Le , Kieu-Xuan Thuc , Tong Van Luyen , Xin-She Yang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Global optimization solves real-world problems numerically or analytically by minimizing their objective functions. Most of the analytical algorithms are greedy and computationally intractable. Metaheuristics are nature-inspired…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Farouq Zitouni , Saad Harous , Abdelghani Belkeram , Lokman Elhakim Baba Hammou

This work introduces MAYA, a sequential imitation learning model based on multi-armed bandits, designed to reproduce and predict individual bees' decisions in contextualized foraging tasks. The model accounts for bees' limited memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Emmanuelle Claeys , Elena Kerjean , Jean-Michel Loubes

This paper introduces the BOW Planner, a scalable motion planning algorithm designed to navigate robots through complex environments using constrained Bayesian optimization (CBO). Unlike traditional methods, which often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sourav Raxit , Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz , Paulo Padrao , Jose Fuentes , Leonardo Bobadilla

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) offers a resource-efficient way to personalize or specialize. However, LoRA is highly sensitive to hyperparameter choices, and exhaustive hyperparameter search is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Baek Seong-Eun , Lee Jung-Mok , Kim Sung-Bin , Tae-Hyun Oh

A boundary evolution Algorithm (BEA) is proposed by simultaneously taking into account the bottom and the high-level crossover and mutation, ie., the boundary of the hierarchical genetic algorithm. Operators and optimal individuals based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhaoyang Ai , Chaodong Fan , Yingjie Zhang , Huigui Rong , Ze'an Tian , Haibing Fu

We propose a new model to assess the mastery level of a given skill efficiently. The model, called Bayesian Adaptive Mastery Assessment (BAMA), uses information on the accuracy and the response time of the answers given and infers the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Anni Sapountzi , Sandjai Bhulai , Ilja Cornelisz , Chris van Klaveren

In recent years, the integration of communication and control systems has gained significant traction in various domains, ranging from autonomous vehicles to industrial automation and beyond. Multi-armed bandit (MAB) algorithms have proven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-16 Hiba Dakdouk , Mohamed Sana , Mattia Merluzzi

Block matching (BM) motion estimation plays a very important role in video coding. In a BM approach, image frames in a video sequence are divided into blocks. For each block in the current frame, the best matching block is identified inside…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Erik Cuevas , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez , Humberto Sossa , Valentin Osuna

In this paper, a new meta-heuristic algorithm, called beetle swarm optimization algorithm, is proposed by enhancing the performance of swarm optimization through beetle foraging principles. The performance of 23 benchmark functions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Tiantian Wang , Long Yang

This paper proposes a new numerical optimization algorithm inspired by the strawberry plant for solving complicated engineering problems. Plants like strawberry develop both runners and roots for propagation and search for water resources…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-29 F. Merrikh-Bayat