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Achieving better exploitation and exploration capabilities (EEC) have always been an important yet challenging issue in the design of evolutionary optimization algorithm (EOA). The difficulties lie in obtaining a good balance in EEC, which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Zi Kang Peng , Shao Yong Zheng , Kit Sang Tang

This paper proposes an improved epsilon constraint-handling mechanism, and combines it with a decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) to solve constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Han Huang , Yi Fang , Yugen You , Jiajie Mo , Caimin Wei , Erik Goodman

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are being routinely applied for a variety of optimization tasks, and real-parameter optimization in the presence of constraints is one such important area. During constrained optimization EAs often create…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-20 Nikhil Padhye , Pulkit Mittal , Kalyanmoy Deb

Recent research in Cooperative Coevolution~(CC) have achieved promising progress in solving large-scale global optimization problems. However, existing CC paradigms have a primary limitation in that they require deep expertise for selecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hongshu Guo , Wenjie Qiu , Zeyuan Ma , Xinglin Zhang , Jun Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong

In this paper, we design a set of multi-objective constrained optimization problems (MCOPs) and propose a new repair operator to address them. The proposed repair operator is used to fix the solutions that violate the box constraints. More…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-04-02 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Huibiao Lin , Shuxiang Xie , Erik Goodman

Robustness across heterogeneous optimization regimes remains a central challenge in bound-constrained continuous optimization. In practice, users often prefer optimizers that remain reliable across different dimensionalities, landscape…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Khoirul Faiq Muzakka , Ahsani Hafizhu Shali , Haris Suhendar , Sören Möller , Martin Finsterbusch

The present paper introduces a new representation-driven approach to per-instance algorithm selection, applied to black-box optimization, for automatically choosing the most promising solver from a fixed portfolio. Prior work in continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yiliang Yuan , Xiang Shi , Mustafa Misir

In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Tapabrata Ray , Mohammad Mohiuddin Mamun , Hemant Kumar Singh

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are major methods for solving multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). Many MOEAs have been proposed in the past decades, of which the search operators need a carefully handcrafted design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Shunyu Yao , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Qingfu Zhang

Optimisation problems, particularly combinatorial optimisation problems, are difficult to solve due to their complexity and hardness. Such problems have been successfully solved by evolutionary and swarm intelligence algorithms, especially…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Mehmet Emin Aydin , Rafet Durgut , Abdur Rakib

In this paper we propose new probabilistic and dynamic (adaptive) strategies to create multi-method ensembles based on the Coral Reefs Optimization with Substrate Layers (CRO-SL) algorithm. The CRO-SL is an evolutionary-based ensemble…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jorge Pérez-Aracil , Carlos Camacho-Gómez , Eugenio Lorente-Ramos , Cosmin M. Marina , Sancho Salcedo-Sanz

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that can be used on top of a wide variety of self-supervised (SSL) approaches to take advantage of hierarchical structures that emerge during training. SSL approaches typically work through some…

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Self-evolution methods enhance code generation through iterative "generate-verify-refine" cycles, yet existing approaches suffer from low exploration efficiency, failing to discover solutions with superior complexity within limited budgets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Tu Hu , Ronghao Chen , Shuo Zhang , Jianghao Yin , Mou Xiao Feng , Jingping Liu , Shaolei Zhang , Wenqi Jiang , Yuqi Fang , Sen Hu , Huacan Wang , Yi Xu

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann

The Clustered Shortest-Path Tree Problem (CluSPT) plays an important role in various types of optimization problems in real-life. Recently, some Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm (MFEA) have been introduced to deal with the CluSPT,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Huynh Thi Thanh Binh , Ta Bao Thang , Nguyen Duc Thai , Pham Dinh Thanh

Evolutionary algorithms are bio-inspired algorithms that can easily adapt to changing environments. Recent results in the area of runtime analysis have pointed out that algorithms such as the (1+1)~EA and Global SEMO can efficiently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Vahid Roostapour , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The recovery of magnetic resonance (MR) images from undersampled measurements is a key problem that has seen extensive research in recent years. Unrolled approaches, which rely on end-to-end training of convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Maneesh John , Jyothi Rikhab Chand , Mathews Jacob

Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yingyu Zhang , Yuanzhen Li , Quan-Ke Panb , P. N. Suganthan

Differential evolution (DE) is an effective population-based metaheuristic algorithm for solving complex optimisation problems. However, the performance of DE is sensitive to the mutation operator. In this paper, we propose a novel DE…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad , Gerald Schaefer , Iakov Korovin , Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Mehrdad Saadatmand , Mahdi Pedram

Constrained submodular optimization problems play a key role in the area of combinatorial optimization as they capture many NP-hard optimization problems. So far, Pareto optimization approaches using multi-objective formulations have been…

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