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The integration of advanced technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), into manufacturing processes is attracting significant attention, paving the way for the development of intelligent systems that enhance efficiency and…

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Genetic algorithms are heuristic optimization techniques inspired by Darwinian evolution, which are characterized by successfully finding robust solutions for optimization problems. Here, we propose a subroutine-based quantum genetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Rubén Ibarrondo , Giancarlo Gatti , Mikel Sanz

The performance of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuri Lavinas , Marcelo Ladeira , Gabriela Ochoa , Claus Aranha

Diversity is an important factor in evolutionary algorithms to prevent premature convergence towards a single local optimum. In order to maintain diversity throughout the process of evolution, various means exist in literature. We analyze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Thomas Gabor , Lenz Belzner , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Mathematical formulations of real world optimization studies frequently present characteristics such as non-linearity, discontinuity and high complexity. This class of problems may also exhibit a high number of global minimum/maximum…

Fabricating neural models for a wide range of mobile devices demands for a specific design of networks due to highly constrained resources. Both evolution algorithms (EA) and reinforced learning methods (RL) have been dedicated to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Ruijun Xu , Hailong Ma

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have been widely shown to be successful when utilized for a variety of stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. Chance constrained optimization plays an important role in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Kokila Perera , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Feature generation (FG) aims to enhance the prediction potential of original data by constructing high-order feature combinations and removing redundant features. It is a key preprocessing step for tabular scientific data to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Meng Xiao , Junfeng Zhou , Yuanchun Zhou

Exploration is a key problem in reinforcement learning, since agents can only learn from data they acquire in the environment. With that in mind, maintaining a population of agents is an attractive method, as it allows data be collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Jack Parker-Holder , Aldo Pacchiano , Krzysztof Choromanski , Stephen Roberts

Dynamic multimodal multiobjective optimization presents the dual challenge of simultaneously tracking multiple equivalent pareto optimal sets and maintaining population diversity in time-varying environments. However, existing dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Li Yan , Bolun Liu , Chao Li , Jing Liang , Kunjie Yu , Caitong Yue , Xuzhao Chai , Boyang Qu

Diversity represents an important aspect of genetic programming, being directly correlated with search performance. When considered at the genotype level, diversity often requires expensive tree distance measures which have a negative…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Bogdan Burlacu , Michael Affenzeller , Gabriel Kronberger , Michael Kommenda

It has been widely recognized that the performance of a multi-agent system is highly affected by its organization. A large scale system may have billions of possible ways of organization, which makes it impractical to find an optimal choice…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Zhiqi Shen , Ling Yu , Han Yu

The challenge in biomarker discovery using machine learning from omics data lies in the abundance of molecular features but scarcity of samples. Most feature selection methods in machine learning require evaluating various sets of features…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-03 Luca Cattelani , Vittorio Fortino

Quality Diversity (QD) has emerged as a powerful alternative optimization paradigm that aims at generating large and diverse collections of solutions, notably with its flagship algorithm MAP-ELITES (ME) which evolves solutions through…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Thomas Pierrot , Arthur Flajolet

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely and successfully applied to solve multi-objective optimization problems, due to their nature of population-based search. Population update, a key component in multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chao Bian , Yawen Zhou , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Software systems continuously evolve due to new functionalities, requirements, or maintenance activities. In the context of software evolution, software refactoring has gained a strategic relevance. The space of possible software…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Vittorio Cortellessa , Daniele Di Pompeo , Michele Tucci

Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems with evolutionary algorithms has attracted considerable attention. Various constrained multi-objective optimization evolutionary algorithms (CMOEAs) have been developed with the use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Fei Ming , Wenyin Gong , Ling Wang , Yaochu Jin

In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, effectiveness refers to how an evolutionary algorithm performs in terms of converging its solutions into the Pareto front and also diversifying them over the front. This is not an easy job,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yani Xue , Miqing Li , Xiaohui Liu

Multi-objective optimisation is regarded as one of the most promising ways for dealing with constrained optimisation problems in evolutionary optimisation. This paper presents a theoretical investigation of a multi-objective optimisation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-13 Jun He , Yong Wang , Yuren Zhou

In this work, we consider the problem of Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization with multiple objectives. QD algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Thomas Pierrot , Guillaume Richard , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully