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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are population-based metaheuristics, originally inspired by aspects of natural evolution. Modern varieties incorporate a broad mixture of search mechanisms, and tend to blend inspiration from nature with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-29 David W. Corne , Michael A. Lones

In this paper we present a novel genetic algorithm (GA) solution to a simple yet challenging commercial puzzle game known as the Zen Puzzle Garden (ZPG). We describe the game in detail, before presenting a suitable encoding scheme and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-05-26 Jack Coldridge , Martyn Amos

We present a Python package together with a practical guide for the implementation of a lightweight diversity-enhanced genetic algorithm (GA) approach for the exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces. Searching a parameter space…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jonas Wessén , Eliel Camargo-Molina

With neural networks having demonstrated their versatility and benefits, the need for their optimal performance is as prevalent as ever. A defining characteristic, hyperparameters, can greatly affect its performance. Thus engineers go…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Keshav Ganapathy

A quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that belongs to the class of NP-hard ones. So, it is difficult to solve in the polynomial time even for small instances. Research on the QAP has thus focused on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zohreh Raziei , Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam , Siavash Tabrizian

Genetic algorithm (GA) is a stochastic metaheuristic process consisting on the evolution of a population of candidate solutions for a given optimization problem. By extension, multipopulation genetic algorithm (MPGA) aims for efficiency by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-07 Bruno Messias , Bruno W. D. Morais

The goal of this project is to develop the Genetic Algorithms (GA) for solving the Schaffer F6 function in fewer than 4000 function evaluations on a total of 30 runs. Four types of Genetic Algorithms (GA) are presented - Generational GA…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Alison Jenkins , Vinika Gupta , Alexis Myrick , Mary Lenoir

The Genetic Algorithm is a heuristic that can be used to produce model independent solutions to an optimization problem, thus making it ideal for use in cosmology and more specifically in the analysis of type Ia supernovae data. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-18 Savvas Nesseris

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are used to solve search and optimization problems in which an optimal solution can be found using an iterative process with probabilistic and non-deterministic transitions. However, depending on the problem's…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Matheus F. Torquato , Marcelo A. C. Fernandes

When a Genetic Algorithm (GA), or a stochastic algorithm in general, is employed in a statistical problem, the obtained result is affected by both variability due to sampling, that refers to the fact that only a sample is observed, and…

Computation · Statistics 2019-03-07 Manuel Rizzo , Francesco Battaglia

Predicting the cheapest sample size for the optimal stratification in multivariate survey design is a problem in cases where the population frame is large. A solution exists that iteratively searches for the minimum sample size necessary to…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-18 Mervyn O'Luing , Steven Prestwich , S. Armagan Tarim

We introduce genetic algorithms as a means to analyze supernovae type Ia data and extract model-independent constraints on the evolution of the Dark Energy equation of state. Specifically, we will give a brief introduction to the genetic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 C. Bogdanos , Savvas Nesseris

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have gained a significant attraction in the recent years due to their increasing real-world applications. Their performance is highly dependent to the network structure and the selected optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Parsa Esfahanian , Mohammad Akhavan

The genetic algorithm (GA) is an optimization and search technique based on the principles of genetics and natural selection. A GA allows a population composed of many individuals to evolve under specified selection rules to a state that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Yılmaz Kaya , Murat Uyar , Ramazan Tek\D{j}n

We introduce Genetic AI, a novel method for multi-objective optimization without external parameters or predefined weights. The method can be applied to all problems that can be formulated in matrix form and allows for a data-less training…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Philipp Wissgott

In the past decade, significant research has been carried out for realizing intelligent network routing using advertisement, position and near-optimum node selection schemes. In this paper, a grade-based two-level node selection method…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-02 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , Kavitha Sooda

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are explored as a tool for probing new physics with high dimensionality. We study the 19-dimensional pMSSM, including experimental constraints from all sources and assessing the consistency of potential signals of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-14 Steven Abel , David G. Cerdeno , Sandra Robles

Solutions to differential equations are of significant scientific and engineering relevance. Recently, there has been a growing interest in solving differential equations with neural networks. This work develops a novel method for solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Dylan Randle , Pavlos Protopapas , David Sondak

Generative methods (Gen-AI) are reviewed with a particular goal of solving tasks in machine learning and Bayesian inference. Generative models require one to simulate a large training dataset and to use deep neural networks to solve a…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-20 Maria Nareklishvili , Nick Polson , Vadim Sokolov

The traditional approach of hand-crafting priors (such as sparsity) for solving inverse problems is slowly being replaced by the use of richer learned priors (such as those modeled by generative adversarial networks, or GANs). In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Chinmay Hegde