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In the real world, there exist a class of optimization problems that multiple (local) optimal solutions in the solution space correspond to a single point in the objective space. In this paper, we theoretically show that for such multimodal…

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A variety of optimization algorithms have been developed to solve engineering design problems in which the solution space is too large to manually determine the optimal solution. The Modular Optimization Framework (MOF) was developed to…

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Movable antenna (MA) systems have recently attracted significant attention in the field of wireless communications owing to their exceptional capability to proactively reconfigure wireless channels via flexible antenna movements. In this…

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An integrated optimization method based on the constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) and non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is proposed, which solves robust multi-objective optimization problems under…

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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…

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The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

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Bat Algorithm (BA) is a nature-inspired metaheuristic search algorithm designed to efficiently explore complex problem spaces and find near-optimal solutions. The algorithm is inspired by the echolocation behavior of bats, which acts as a…

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Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural Architecture Search. These algorithms have…

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3-SAT problem is of great importance to many technical and scientific applications. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving this satisfiability problem. 3-SAT problem has the huge search space and hence it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Nasser Lotfi , Jamshid Tamouk , Mina Farmanbar

The evolution of gene regulatory networks in variable environments poses Multi-objective Optimization Problem (MOP), where the expression levels of genes must be tuned to meet the demands of each environment. When formalized in the context…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Philippe Nghe , Bela M. Mulder , Sander J. Tans

In this paper we consider multi-objective optimization problems over a box. The problem is very relevant and several computational approaches have been proposed in the literature. They broadly fall into two main classes: evolutionary…

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Biological network alignment is currently in a state of disarray, with more than two dozen network alignment tools having been introduced in the past decade, with no clear winner, and other new tools being published almost quarterly. Part…

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Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions with multiple objectives. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability with respect to the…

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Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) are of great significance in the context of practical applications, ranging from scientific to engineering domains. Most existing constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithms…

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Multi-objective optimization problems whose objectives have different evaluation costs are commonly seen in the real world. Such problems are now known as multi-objective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives (HE-MOPs). So…

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Multiple object tracking has been a challenging field, mainly due to noisy detection sets and identity switch caused by occlusion and similar appearance among nearby targets. Previous works rely on appearance models built on individual or…

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Network alignment (NA) aims to find a node mapping between molecular networks of different species that identifies topologically or functionally similar network regions. Analogous to genomic sequence alignment, NA can be used to transfer…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-07 Vipin Vijayan , Tijana Milenkovic

Mixed-precision quantization is a powerful tool to enable memory and compute savings of neural network workloads by deploying different sets of bit-width precisions on separate compute operations. In this work, we present a flexible and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Santiago Miret , Vui Seng Chua , Mattias Marder , Mariano Phielipp , Nilesh Jain , Somdeb Majumdar

Evolutionary Multitasking (EMT) paradigm, an emerging research topic in evolutionary computation, has been successfully applied in solving high-dimensional feature selection (FS) problems recently. However, existing EMT-based FS methods…

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Recent theoretical research has shown that self-adjusting and self-adaptive mechanisms can provably outperform static settings in evolutionary algorithms for binary search spaces. However, the vast majority of these studies focuses on…

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