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Designing the structure of neural networks is considered one of the most challenging tasks in deep learning, especially when there is few prior knowledge about the task domain. In this paper, we propose an Ecologically-Inspired GENetic…

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Finding frequently occurring subgraph patterns or network motifs in neural architectures is crucial for optimizing efficiency, accelerating design, and uncovering structural insights. However, as the subgraph size increases,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yikang Yang , Zhengxin Yang , Minghao Luo , Luzhou Peng , Hongxiao Li , Wanling Gao , Lei Wang , Jianfeng Zhan

Retrieving gene functional networks from knowledge databases presents a challenge due to the mismatch between disease networks and subtype-specific variations. Current solutions, including statistical and deep learning methods, often fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ziwei Yang , Zheng Chen , Xin Liu , Rikuto Kotoge , Peng Chen , Yasuko Matsubara , Yasushi Sakurai , Jimeng Sun

This paper presents a novel graph-based deep learning model for tasks involving relations between two nodes (edge-centric tasks), where the focus lies on predicting relationships and interactions between pairs of nodes rather than node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Eugenio Borzone , Leandro Di Persia , Matias Gerard

Graph neural networks have shown remarkable success in exploiting the spatial and temporal patterns on dynamic graphs. However, existing GNNs exhibit poor generalization ability under distribution shifts, which is inevitable in dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qingyun Sun , Jiayi Luo , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Hao Peng , Jianxin Li , Philip S. Yu

Identifying vulnerable code is a precautionary measure to counter software security breaches. Tedious expert effort has been spent to build static analyzers, yet insecure patterns are barely fully enumerated. This work explores a deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yufan Zhuang , Sahil Suneja , Veronika Thost , Giacomo Domeniconi , Alessandro Morari , Jim Laredo

Genetic programming (GP) is one of the best approaches today to discover symbolic regression models. To find models that trade off accuracy and complexity, the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is widely used.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Dazhuang Liu , Marco Virgolin , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are gaining extensive attention for their application in graph data. However, the black-box nature of GNNs prevents users from understanding and trusting the models, thus hampering their applicability. Whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Qizhang Feng , Ninghao Liu , Fan Yang , Ruixiang Tang , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

There is a growing interest in designing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for seeded graph matching, which aims to match two unlabeled graphs using only topological information and a small set of seed nodes. However, most previous GNNs for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Liren Yu , Jiaming Xu , Xiaojun Lin

Graph Neural Networks share with Logic Programming several key relational inference mechanisms. The datasets on which they are trained and evaluated can be seen as database facts containing ground terms. This makes possible modeling their…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Paul Tarau

Combinatorial optimization is essential across numerous disciplines. Traditional metaheuristics excel at exploring complex solution spaces efficiently, yet they often struggle with scalability. Deep learning has become a viable alternative…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Aitor Morais , Eneko Osaba , Iker Pastor , Izaskun Oregui

Existing genetic programming (GP) methods are typically designed based on a certain representation, such as tree-based or linear representations. These representations show various pros and cons in different domains. However, due to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Zhixing Huang , Yi Mei , Fangfang Zhang , Mengjie Zhang , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Driven by the outstanding performance of neural networks in the structured Euclidean domain, recent years have seen a surge of interest in developing neural networks for graphs and data supported on graphs. The graph is leveraged at each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Elvin Isufi , Fernando Gama , Alejandro Ribeiro

Genetic algorithms, computer programs that simulate natural evolution, are increasingly applied across many disciplines. They have been used to solve various optimisation problems from neural network architecture search to strategic games,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Aymeric Vie , Alissa M. Kleinnijenhuis , Doyne J. Farmer

The automatic generation of computer programs is one of the main applications with practical relevance in the field of evolutionary computation. With program synthesis techniques not only software developers could be supported in their…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Dominik Sobania , Dirk Schweim , Franz Rothlauf

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) achieve great success in non-Euclidean structure data processing recently. In existing studies, deeper layers are used in CCNs to extract deeper features of Euclidean structure data. However, for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Junhua Ma , Jiajun Li , Xueming Li , Xu Li

Graphs neural networks (GNNs) learn node features by aggregating and combining neighbor information, which have achieved promising performance on many graph tasks. However, GNNs are mostly treated as black-boxes and lack human intelligible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Hao Yuan , Jiliang Tang , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji

While there exists a wide variety of graph neural networks (GNN) for node classification, only a minority of them adopt mechanisms that effectively target noise propagation during the message-passing procedure. Additionally, a very…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Steph-Yves Louis , Alireza Nasiri , Fatima J. Rolland , Cameron Mitro , Jianjun Hu

In the rapidly evolving field of Heterogeneous Multi-access Edge Computing (HMEC), efficient task offloading plays a pivotal role in optimizing system throughput and resource utilization. However, existing task offloading methods often fall…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Mulei Ma

Graph neural networks can be effectively applied to find solutions for many real-world problems across widely diverse fields. The success of graph neural networks is linked to the message-passing mechanism on the graph, however, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yan Pang , Chao Liu