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Interest in multimodal function optimization is expanding rapidly since real world optimization problems often demand locating multiple optima within a search space. This article presents a new multimodal optimization algorithm named as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-07-01 Erik Cuevas , Mauricio Gonzalez

In many high-throughput experimental design settings, such as those common in biochemical engineering, batched queries are more cost effective than one-by-one sequential queries. Furthermore, it is often not possible to directly choose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Kevin K. Yang , Yuxin Chen , Alycia Lee , Yisong Yue

We consider derivative-free black-box global optimization of expensive noisy functions, when most of the randomness in the objective is produced by a few influential scalar random inputs. We present a new Bayesian global optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Saul Toscano-Palmerin , Peter I. Frazier

In robotics, methods and softwares usually require optimizations of hyperparameters in order to be efficient for specific tasks, for instance industrial bin-picking from homogeneous heaps of different objects. We present a developmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Maxime Petit , Emmanuel Dellandrea , Liming Chen

Rapid performance recovery from unforeseen environmental perturbations remains a grand challenge in swarm robotics. To solve this challenge, we investigate a behaviour adaptation approach, where one searches an archive of controllers for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 David M. Bossens , Danesh Tarapore

Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms are important components of artificial intelligence, and are increasingly used across disciplines to tackle various types of challenging optimization problems. This paper demonstrates the usefulness…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Elvis Han Cui , Zizhao Zhang , Culsome Junwen Chen , Weng Kee Wong

Accurate parameter identification in photovoltaic (PV) models is crucial for performance evaluation but remains challenging due to their nonlinear, multimodal, and high-dimensional nature. Although the Dung Beetle Optimization (DBO)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yiwei Li , Zhihua Allen-Zhao , Yuncheng Xu , Sanyang Liu

Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is a metaheuristic global optimization paradigm that has gained prominence in the last two decades due to its ease of application in unsupervised, complex multidimensional problems which cannot be solved…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Saptarshi Sengupta , Sanchita Basak , Richard Alan Peters

Electromagnetismlike Optimization (EMO) is a global optimization algorithm, particularly well suited to solve problems featuring nonlinear and multimodal cost functions. EMO employs searcher agents that emulate a population of charged…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Erik Cuevas , Diego Oliva , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez , Gonzalo Pajares

Bayesian optimization (BO) algorithms try to optimize an unknown function that is expensive to evaluate using minimum number of evaluations/experiments. Most of the proposed algorithms in BO are sequential, where only one experiment is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Javad Azimi , Ali Jalali , Xiaoli Fern

Bayesian optimization (BO) with preference-based feedback has recently garnered significant attention due to its emerging applications. We refer to this problem as Bayesian Optimization from Human Feedback (BOHF), which differs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Aya Kayal , Sattar Vakili , Laura Toni , Da-shan Shiu , Alberto Bernacchia

Bio-inspired algorithms utilize natural processes such as evolution, swarm behavior, foraging, and plant growth to solve complex, nonlinear, high-dimensional optimization problems. However, a plethora of these algorithms require a more…

Bayesian optimization (BO) has emerged during the last few years as an effective approach to optimizing black-box functions where direct queries of the objective are expensive. In this paper we consider the case where direct access to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Javier Gonzalez , Zhenwen Dai , Andreas Damianou , Neil D. Lawrence

Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a well-known efficient algorithm for finding the global optimum of expensive, black-box functions. The current practical BO algorithms have regret bounds ranging from $\mathcal{O}(\frac{logN}{\sqrt{N}})$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hung Tran-The , Sunil Gupta , Santu Rana , Svetha Venkatesh

This paper presents an in-depth survey and performance evaluation of the Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) Algorithm. CSO is a robust and powerful metaheuristic swarm-based optimization approach that has received very positive feedback since its…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Aram M. Ahmed , Tarik A. Rashid , Soran Ab. M. Saeed

Large-scale problems are nonlinear problems that need metaheuristics, or global optimization algorithms. This paper reviews nature-inspired metaheuristics, then it introduces a framework named Competitive Ant Colony Optimization inspired by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-17 M. A. El-Dosuky

Traditional methods present a very restrictive range of applications, mainly limited by the features of the function to be optimized and of the constraint functions. In contrast, evolutionary algorithms present almost no restriction to the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Mauro S. Innocente , Johann Sienz

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is an effective method for optimizing expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions with a wide range of applications for example in robotics, system design and parameter optimization. However, scaling BO to problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-22 Lukas P. Fröhlich , Edgar D. Klenske , Christian G. Daniel , Melanie N. Zeilinger

The chimp optimization algorithm (ChOA) is a nature-inspired algorithm that imitates chimpanzees' individual intelligence and hunting behaviors. In this algorithm, the hunting process consists of four steps: driving, blocking, chasing, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Leren Qian , Mohammad Khishe , Yiqian Huang , Seyedali Mirjalili

Optimization techniques are frequently applied in science and engineering research and development. Evolutionary algorithms, as a kind of general-purpose metaheuristic, have been shown to be very effective in solving a wide range of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-02-03 James J. Q. Yu , Victor O. K. Li , Albert Y. S. Lam