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Solving constrained optimization problems by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms has scored tremendous achievements in the last decade. Standard multi-objective schemes usually aim at minimizing the objective function and also the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Tao Xu , Jun He

An original approach, termed Divide-and-Evolve is proposed to hybridize Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) with Operational Research (OR) methods in the domain of Temporal Planning Problems (TPPs). Whereas standard Memetic Algorithms use local…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Marc Schoenauer , Pierre Savéant , Vincent Vidal

In this paper we define a discrete dynamical system that governs the evolution of a population of agents. From the dynamical system, a variant of Differential Evolution is derived. It is then demonstrated that, under some assumptions on the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Massimiliano Vasile , Edmondo Minisci , Marco Locatelli

A hybrid evolutionary algorithm with importance sampling method is proposed for multi-dimensional optimization problems in this paper. In order to make use of the information provided in the search process, a set of visited solutions is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-26 Guanghui Huang , Zhifeng Pan

Algorithm selection is crucial in the field of optimization, as no single algorithm performs perfectly across all types of optimization problems. Finding the best algorithm among a given set of algorithms for a given problem requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Saba Sadeghi Ahouei , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

A variety of methods have been applied to the architectural configuration and learning or training of artificial deep neural networks (DNN). These methods play a crucial role in the success or failure of the DNN for most problems and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Edgar Galván , Peter Mooney

Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms based on Decomposition (MOEA/D) represent a widely used class of population-based metaheuristics for the solution of multicriteria optimization problems. We introduce the MOEADr package, which offers…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Felipe Campelo , Lucas S. Batista , Claus Aranha

Existing multi-strategy adaptive differential evolution (DE) commonly involves trials of multiple strategies and then rewards better-performing ones with more resources. However, the trials of an exploitative or explorative strategy may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Sheng Xin Zhang , Wing Shing Chan , Kit Sang Tang , Shao Yong Zheng

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been well acknowledged as a promising paradigm for solving optimisation problems with multiple conflicting objectives in the sense that they are able to locate a set of diverse approximations of Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jianyong Sun , Hu Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Qingfu Zhang

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai

This paper introduces a novel class of model-driven evolutionary frameworks for near-field multi-source localization, addressing the major limitations of grid-based subspace methods such as MUSIC and data-dependent deep learning approaches.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad , Parisa Ramezani , Mattias O'Nils , Emil Björnson

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-08 A. Maesani , G. Iacca , D. Floreano

Motion prediction is a crucial task in autonomous driving, and one of its major challenges lands in the multimodality of future behaviors. Many successful works have utilized mixture models which require identification of positive mixture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Longzhong Lin , Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Finding a large set of optima in a multimodal optimization landscape is a challenging task. Classical population-based evolutionary algorithms typically converge only to a single solution. While this can be counteracted by applying niching…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca

In the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the approximation of the Pareto front (PF) is achieved by utilizing a collection of representative candidate solutions that exhibit desirable convergence and diversity. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peng Chen , Jing Liang , Kangjia Qiao , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan , Xuanxuan Ban

Multi-modal learning is a fast growing area in artificial intelligence. It tries to help machines understand complex things by combining information from different sources, like images, text, and audio. By using the strengths of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Qihang Jin , Enze Ge , Yuhang Xie , Hongying Luo , Junhao Song , Ziqian Bi , Chia Xin Liang , Jibin Guan , Joe Yeong , Xinyuan Song , Junfeng Hao

Diversity is an important factor in evolutionary algorithms to prevent premature convergence towards a single local optimum. In order to maintain diversity throughout the process of evolution, various means exist in literature. We analyze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Thomas Gabor , Lenz Belzner , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

This paper introduces a circle detection method based on Differential Evolution (DE) optimization. Just as circle detection has been lately considered as a fundamental component for many computer vision algorithms, DE has evolved as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Erik Cuevas , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez , Marte Ramirez

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) addresses the challenge of simultaneously optimizing multiple, often conflicting, rewards, moving beyond the single-reward focus of conventional reinforcement learning (RL). This approach is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Carlos Hernández , Roberto Santana

Evolutionary differential equation discovery proved to be a tool to obtain equations with less a priori assumptions than conventional approaches, such as sparse symbolic regression over the complete possible terms library. The equation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Mikhail Maslyaev , Alexander Hvatov