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In the evolutionary computation research community, the performance of most evolutionary algorithms (EAs) depends strongly on their implemented coordinate system. However, the commonly used coordinate system is fixed and not well suited for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Zhi-Zhong Liu , Yong Wang , Shengxiang Yang , Ke Tang

The problem of chemotherapy treatment optimization can be defined in order to minimize the size of the tumor without endangering the patient's health; therefore, chemotherapy requires to achieve a number of objectives, simultaneously. For…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Mina Jafari , Behnam Ghavami , Vahid Sattari Naeini

Now-a-days, it is important to find out solutions of Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOPs). Evolutionary Strategy helps to solve such real world problems efficiently and quickly. But sequential Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Md. Asadul Islam , G. M. Mashrur-E-Elahi , M. M. A. Hashem

We introduce a novel approach for discriminative classification using evolutionary algorithms. We first propose an algorithm to optimize the total loss value using a modified 0-1 loss function in a one-dimensional space for classification.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi , David C. Reutens

The U.S. Child Welfare System (CWS) is charged with improving outcomes for foster youth; yet, they are overburdened and underfunded. To overcome this limitation, several states have turned towards algorithmic decision-making systems to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Devansh Saxena , Karla Badillo-Urquiola , Pamela J. Wisniewski , Shion Guha

Feature selection is a crucial step in machine learning, especially for high-dimensional datasets, where irrelevant and redundant features can degrade model performance and increase computational costs. This paper proposes a novel…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan

Evolutionary and bioinspired computation are crucial for efficiently addressing complex optimization problems across diverse application domains. By mimicking processes observed in nature, like evolution itself, these algorithms offer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniel Molina , Javier Del Ser , Javier Poyatos , Francisco Herrera

Optimization for deep networks is currently a very active area of research. As neural networks become deeper, the ability in manually optimizing the network becomes harder. Mini-batch normalization, identification of effective respective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-07 M. U. B. Dias , D. D. N. De Silva , S. Fernando

Robust ranking and selection (R&S) is an important and challenging variation of conventional R&S that seeks to select the best alternative among a finite set of alternatives. It captures the common input uncertainty in the simulation model…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-23 Yuchen Wan , Zaile Li , L. Jeff Hong

This work presents a machine learning approach to optimize the energy efficiency (EE) in a multi-cell wireless network. This optimization problem is non-convex and its global optimum is difficult to find. In the literature, either simple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-18 Bile Peng , Karl-Ludwig Besser , Ramprasad Raghunath , Eduard A. Jorswieck

The effect of training data size on machine learning methods has been well investigated over the past two decades. The predictive performance of tree based machine learning methods, in general, improves with a decreasing rate as the size of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-01 Zardad Khan , Naz Gul , Nosheen Faiz , Asma Gul , Werner Adler , Berthold Lausen

Bayesian optimal experimental design has immense potential to inform the collection of data so as to subsequently enhance our understanding of a variety of processes. However, a major impediment is the difficulty in evaluating optimal…

Computation · Statistics 2018-03-14 David J. Price , Nigel G. Bean , Joshua V. Ross , Jonathan Tuke

Recently two search algorithms, A* and breadth-first branch and bound (BFBnB), were developed based on a simple admissible heuristic for learning Bayesian network structures that optimize a scoring function. The heuristic represents a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Changhe Yuan , Brandon Malone

This paper examines the use of a hierarchical coevolutionary genetic algorithm under different partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from the bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising larger…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin , Larry Bull

In computational biology, gene expression datasets are characterized by very few individual samples compared to a large number of measurements per sample. Thus, it is appealing to merge these datasets in order to increase the number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-08-18 Meili Baragatti

Ethylene is a crucial chemical in manufacturing numerous consumer products. In recent years, the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODHE) technique has garnered significant interest as a means for ethylene production due to its high…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Seyed Reza Nabavi , Zhiyuan Wang , María Laura Rodríguez

Multiple-objective optimization is common in biological systems. In the mammalian olfactory system, each sensory neuron stochastically expresses only one out of up to thousands of olfactory receptor (OR) gene alleles; at organism level the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-05-11 Xiao-Jun Tian , Hang Zhang , Jens Sannerud , Jianhua Xing

In 2015 the Open Science Collaboration (OSC) (Nosek et al 2015) published a highly influential paper which claimed that a large fraction of published results in the psychological sciences were not reproducible. In this article we review…

Applications · Statistics 2026-02-18 Anthony Almudevar , Jacob Almudevar

Selecting the best code solution from multiple generated ones is an essential task in code generation, which can be achieved by using some reliable validators (e.g., developer-written test cases) for assistance. Since reliable test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Mouxiang Chen , Zhongxin Liu , He Tao , Yusu Hong , David Lo , Xin Xia , Jianling Sun

The orienteering problem (OP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that seeks a path visiting a subset of locations to maximize collected rewards under a limited resource budget. This article presents a systematic PRISMA-based review of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Songhao Shen , Yufeng Zhou , Qin Lei , Zhibin Wu