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Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming (GGGP) employs a variety of insights from evolutionary theory to autonomously design solutions for a given task. Recent insights from evolutionary biology can lead to further improvements in GGGP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Stefano Tiso , Pedro Carvalho , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

In this paper, a nonlinear symbolic regression technique using an evolutionary algorithm known as multi-gene genetic programming (MGGP) is applied for a data-driven modelling between the dependent and the independent variables. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Indranil Pan , Daya Shankar Pandey , Saptarshi Das

Volatility is a key variable in option pricing, trading and hedging strategies. The purpose of this paper is to improve the accuracy of forecasting implied volatility using an extension of genetic programming (GP) by means of dynamic…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2020-07-15 Sana Ben Hamida , Wafa Abdelmalek , Fathi Abid

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have gained great success in many artificial intelligence tasks. However, finding a good set of hyperparameters for a CNN remains a challenging task. It usually takes an expert with deep knowledge, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Xueli Xiao , Ming Yan , Sunitha Basodi , Chunyan Ji , Yi Pan

This work proposes a novel approach to evaluate and analyze the behavior of multi-population parallel genetic algorithms (PGAs) when running on a cluster of multi-core processors. In particular, we deeply study their numerical and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tomohiro Harada , Enrique Alba , Gabriel Luque

Here we propose an evolutionary algorithm that self modifies its operators at the same time that candidate solutions are evolved. This tackles convergence and lack of diversity issues, leading to better solutions. Operators are represented…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Andres Felipe Cruz Salinas , Jonatan Gomez Perdomo

The computational complexity analysis of genetic programming (GP) has been started recently by analyzing simple (1+1) GP algorithms for the problems ORDER and MAJORITY. In this paper, we study how taking the complexity as an additional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Frank Neumann

In this paper we propose a novel application of Gaussian processes (GPs) to financial asset allocation. Our approach is deeply rooted in Stochastic Portfolio Theory (SPT), a stochastic analysis framework introduced by Robert Fernholz that…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2016-07-06 Yves-Laurent Kom Samo , Alexander Vervuurt

In this research, we investigate the possibility of applying a search strategy to genetic algorithms to explore the entire genetic tree structure. Several methods aid in performing tree searches; however, simpler algorithms such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Akshay Hebbar

Application of Genetic Algorithm (GA) for determination of parameters of an analytical representation of diatomic molecule potential is presented. GA can be used for finding potential characteristics of an electronic energy state which can…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 Tomasz Urbanczyk , Jaroslaw Koperski

Kernel methods are an important class of techniques in machine learning. To be effective, good feature maps are crucial for mapping non-linearly separable input data into a higher dimensional (feature) space, thus allowing the data to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Rowan Pellow-Jarman , Anban Pillay , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

Reinforcement learning (RL) enables agents to take decision based on a reward function. However, in the process of learning, the choice of values for learning algorithm parameters can significantly impact the overall learning process. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Adarsh Sehgal , Hung Manh La , Sushil J. Louis , Hai Nguyen

Personalisation in smart phones requires adaptability to dynamic context based on user mobility, application usage and sensor inputs. Current personalisation approaches, which rely on static logic that is developed a priori, do not provide…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Philip Valencia , Aiden Haak , Alban Cotillon , Raja Jurdak

Decision trees are a crucial class of models offering robust predictive performance and inherent interpretability across various domains, including healthcare, finance, and logistics. However, current tree induction methods often face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Tennison Liu , Nicolas Huynh , Mihaela van der Schaar

Feature selection has always been a critical step in pattern recognition, in which evolutionary algorithms, such as the genetic algorithm (GA), are most commonly used. However, the individual encoding scheme used in various GAs would either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Benteng Ma , Yong Xia

The Zoetrope Genetic Programming (ZGP) algorithm is based on an original representation for mathematical expressions, targeting evolutionary symbolic regression.The zoetropic representation uses repeated fusion operations between partial…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-26 Aurélie Boisbunon , Carlo Fanara , Ingrid Grenet , Jonathan Daeden , Alexis Vighi , Marc Schoenauer

In this paper, we explore the application of Gaussian Processes (GPs) for predicting mean-reverting time series with an underlying structure, using relatively unexplored functional and augmented data structures. While many conventional…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Narayan Tondapu

Factor investing is ultimately grounded in market logic - the latent mechanism behind observed alpha factors that explains why they should persist across assets and regimes. However, recent factor mining prioritizes factor discovery over…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-03-24 Zhangyuhua Weng , Shengli Zhang , Taotao Wang , Yihan Xia

Generalized belief propagation (GBP) has proven to be a promising technique for approximate inference tasks in AI and machine learning. However, the choice of a good set of clusters to be used in GBP has remained more of an art then a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Max Welling

This paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) from leading providers (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and xAI) can be applied to quantitative sector-based portfolio construction. We use LLMs to identify investable universes…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-01-01 Alina Voronina , Oleksandr Romanko , Ruiwen Cao , Roy H. Kwon , Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga