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Studies have shown that multi-objective optimization problems are hard problems. Such problems either require longer time to converge to an optimum solution, or may not converge at all. Recently some researchers have claimed that real…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-11 Shahab U. Ansari , Sameen Mansha

Machine learning has rapidly evolved during the last decade, achieving expert human performance on notoriously challenging problems such as image classification. This success is partly due to the re-emergence of bio-inspired modern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

The choice of crossover and mutation strategies plays a crucial role in the searchability, convergence efficiency and precision of genetic algorithms. In this paper, a novel improved genetic algorithm is proposed by improving the crossover…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Dingming Yang , Zeyu Yu , Hongqiang Yuan , Yanrong Cui

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

Neural architecture search (NAS), the study of automating the discovery of optimal deep neural network architectures for tasks in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing, has seen rapid growth in the machine learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Daniel Cummings , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Anthony Sarah , Maciej Szankin

The performance of deep learning algorithms such as neural networks (NNs) has increased tremendously recently, and they can achieve state-of-the-art performance in many domains. However, due to memory and computation resource constraints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Soyed Tuhin Ahmed , Mehdi Tahoori

The research community continues to seek increasingly more advanced synthetic data generators to reliably evaluate the strengths and limitations of machine learning methods. This work aims to increase the availability of datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Joanna Komorniczak

Unit testing is a critical part of software development process, ensuring the correctness of basic programming units in a program (e.g., a method). Search-based software testing (SBST) is an automated approach to generating test cases. SBST…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zhichao Zhou , Yuming Zhou , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Yutian Tang

NeuroEvolution is one of the most competitive evolutionary learning frameworks for designing novel neural networks for use in specific tasks, such as logic circuit design and digital gaming. However, the application of benchmark methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Haoling Zhang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Hector Zenil , Narsis A. Kiani , Yue Shen , Jesper N. Tegner

Fabricating neural models for a wide range of mobile devices demands for a specific design of networks due to highly constrained resources. Both evolution algorithms (EA) and reinforced learning methods (RL) have been dedicated to solve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Xiangxiang Chu , Bo Zhang , Ruijun Xu , Hailong Ma

Studies have shown evolution strategies (ES) to be a promising approach for reinforcement learning (RL) with deep neural networks. However, the issue of high sample complexity persists in applications of ES to deep RL over long horizons.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Nick Zhang , Abhishek Gupta , Zefeng Chen , Yew-Soon Ong

High-throughput gene perturbation experiments can test several genetic interventions in parallel, yet experimental budgets remain limited. A central goal is hit discovery: identifying as many perturbations as possible whose phenotypic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Andrea Rubbi , Arpit Merchant , Samuel Ogden , Amir Akbarnejad , Pietro Liò , Sattar Vakili , Mo Lotfollahi

Software Testing is a process to identify the quality and reliability of software, which can be achieved through the help of proper test data. However, doing this manually is a difficult task due to the presence of number of predicate nodes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Yeresime Suresh , Santanu Ku. Rath

The widespread adoption of the "Games as a Service" model necessitates frequent content updates, placing immense pressure on quality assurance. In response, automated game testing has been viewed as a promising solution to cope with this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Enhong Mu , Minami Yoda , Yan Zhang , Mingyue Zhang , Yutaka Matsuno , Jialong Li

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) was first proposed to achieve state-of-the-art performance through the discovery of new architecture patterns, without human intervention. An over-reliance on expert knowledge in the search space design has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Binxin Ru , Pedro Esperanca , Fabio Carlucci

This paper introduces NSGA-Net -- an evolutionary approach for neural architecture search (NAS). NSGA-Net is designed with three goals in mind: (1) a procedure considering multiple and conflicting objectives, (2) an efficient procedure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Vishnu Boddeti , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf

Two major goals in machine learning are the discovery and improvement of solutions to complex problems. In this paper, we argue that complexification, i.e. the incremental elaboration of solutions through adding new structure, achieves both…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 R. Miikkulainen , K. O. Stanley

Deep Learning (DL) compilers have been widely utilized to optimize DL models for efficient deployment across various hardware. Due to their vital role in the DL ecosystem, ensuring their reliability and security is critical. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qingchao Shen , Zan Wang , Haoyang Ma , Yongqiang Tian , Lili Huang , Zibo Xiao , Junjie Chen , Shing-Chi Cheung

Effective search methods are crucial for improving the performance of deep generative models at test time. In this paper, we introduce a novel test-time search method, Neural Genetic Search (NGS), which incorporates the evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Hyeonah Kim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jiwoo Son , Jinkyoo Park , Changhyun Kwon

Mobile and edge computing devices for always-on classification tasks require energy-efficient neural network architectures. In this paper we present several changes to neural architecture searches (NAS) that improve the chance of success in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Daniel T. Speckhard , Karolis Misiunas , Sagi Perel , Tenghui Zhu , Simon Carlile , Malcolm Slaney