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Recent advances in the visualization of continuous multimodal multi-objective optimization (MMMOO) landscapes brought a new perspective to their search dynamics. Locally efficient (LE) sets, often considered as traps for local search, are…

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Iterative optimization is central to modern artificial intelligence (AI) and provides a crucial framework for understanding adaptive systems. This review provides a unified perspective on this subject, bridging classic theory with neural…

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Stochastic multi-objective optimization (SMOO) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for addressing machine learning problems with multiple objectives. The bias introduced by the nonlinearity of the subproblem solution mapping…

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The quest for accurate prediction of drug molecule properties poses a fundamental challenge in the realm of Artificial Intelligence Drug Discovery (AIDD). An effective representation of drug molecules emerges as a pivotal component in this…

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De novo molecule generation allows the search for more drug-like hits across a vast chemical space. However, lead optimization is still required, and the process of optimizing molecular structures faces the challenge of balancing structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiebin Fang , Churu Mao , Yuchen Zhu , Xiaoming Chen , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Zhongjun Ma

Small-molecule identification from tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) remains a bottleneck in untargeted settings where spectral libraries are incomplete. While deep learning offers a solution, current approaches typically fall into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Yinkai Wang , Yan Zhou Chen , Xiaohui Chen , Li-Ping Liu , Soha Hassoun

Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multi-task evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems by simultaneously optimizing multiple tasks. While this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jie Zhao , Kang Hao Cheong , Yaochu Jin

Multi-Objective Bi-Level Optimization (MOBLO) addresses nested multi-objective optimization problems common in a range of applications. However, its multi-objective and hierarchical bilevel nature makes it notably complex. Gradient-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-11 Xinmin Yang , Wei Yao , Haian Yin , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang

Many crucial scientific problems involve designing novel molecules with desired properties, which can be formulated as a black-box optimization problem over the discrete chemical space. In practice, multiple conflicting objectives and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yiheng Zhu , Jialu Wu , Chaowen Hu , Jiahuan Yan , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou , Jian Wu

Traditional approaches to portfolio optimization, often rooted in Modern Portfolio Theory and solved via quadratic programming or evolutionary algorithms, struggle with scalability or flexibility, especially in scenarios involving complex…

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Directed evolution is a versatile technique in protein engineering that mimics the process of natural selection by iteratively alternating between mutagenesis and screening in order to search for sequences that optimize a given property of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-02 Lixue Cheng , Ziyi Yang , Changyu Hsieh , Benben Liao , Shengyu Zhang

In this paper, we study the Multi-Objective Bi-Level Optimization (MOBLO) problem, where the upper-level subproblem is a multi-objective optimization problem and the lower-level subproblem is for scalar optimization. Existing gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Feiyang Ye , Baijiong Lin , Xiaofeng Cao , Yu Zhang , Ivor Tsang

Resolution Enhancement Techniques (RETs) are critical to meet the demands of advanced technology nodes. Among RETs, Source Mask Optimization (SMO) is pivotal, concurrently optimizing both the source and the mask to expand the process…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-17 Guojin Chen , Hongquan He , Peng Xu , Hao Geng , Bei Yu

A body of recent work has focused on constructing a variational family of filtered distributions using Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC). Inspired by this work, we introduce Particle Smoothing Variational Objectives (SVO), a novel backward…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-24 Antonio Khalil Moretti , Zizhao Wang , Luhuan Wu , Iddo Drori , Itsik Pe'er

Existing works based on molecular knowledge neglect the 3D geometric structure of molecules and fail to learn the high-dimensional information of medications, leading to structural confusion. Additionally, it does not extract key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Shi Mu , Chen Li , Xiang Li , Shunpan Liang

Molecule optimization is an important problem in chemical discovery and has been approached using many techniques, including generative modeling, reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms, and much more. Recent work has also applied…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-31 Elvin Lo , Pin-Yu Chen

Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Enhong Chen

In applications such as molecule design or drug discovery, it is desirable to have an algorithm which recommends new candidate molecules based on the results of past tests. These molecules first need to be synthesized and then tested for…

Molecular docking (MD) is a crucial task in drug design, which predicts the position, orientation, and conformation of the ligand when bound to a target protein. It can be interpreted as a combinatorial optimization problem, where quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 Yunting Li , Xiaopeng Cui , Zhaoping Xiong , Bowen Liu , Bi-Ying Wang , Runqiu Shu , Nan Qiao , Man-Hong Yung

Many-objective optimisation, a subset of multi-objective optimisation, involves optimisation problems with more than three objectives. As the number of objectives increases, the number of solutions needed to adequately represent the entire…

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