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The popularity of Bayesian Optimization (BO) to automate or support the commissioning of engineering systems is rising. Conventional BO, however, relies on the availability of a scalar objective function. The latter is often difficult to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Sander De Witte , Jeroen Taets , Andras Retzler , Guillaume Crevecoeur , Tom Lefebvre

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing expensive black-box objective functions. While extensive research has been conducted on the single-objective optimization problem, the multi-objective optimization problem remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lam Ngo , Huong Ha , Jeffrey Chan , Hongyu Zhang

Nature-inspired algorithms are commonly used for solving the various optimization problems. In past few decades, various researchers have proposed a large number of nature-inspired algorithms. Some of these algorithms have proved to be very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Sachan Rohit Kumar , Kushwaha Dharmender Singh

Binary Spiking Neural Networks (BSNNs) offer promising efficiency advantages for resource-constrained computing. However, their training algorithms often require substantial memory overhead due to latent weights storage and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yu Liang , Yu Yang , Wenjie Wei , Ammar Belatreche , Shuai Wang , Malu Zhang , Yang Yang

Bayesian optimization (BO) has contributed greatly to improving model performance by suggesting promising hyperparameter configurations iteratively based on observations from multiple training trials. However, only partial knowledge (i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 HyunJae Lee , Heon Song , Hyeonsoo Lee , Gi-hyeon Lee , Suyeong Park , Donggeun Yoo

According to the no-free-lunch theorem, there is no single meta-heuristic algorithm that can optimally solve all optimization problems. This motivates many researchers to continuously develop new optimization algorithms. In this paper, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Zhixi Li , Vincent Tam

Nature has long inspired the development of swarm intelligence (SI), a key branch of artificial intelligence that models collective behaviors observed in biological systems for solving complex optimization problems. Particle swarm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , P. N. Suganthan

Bio-inspired algorithms such as neural network algorithms and genetic algorithms have received a significant amount of attention in both academic and engineering societies. In this paper, based on the observation of two major survival rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yinyan Zhang , Pei Zhang , Shuai Li

A global optimization framework, acronymed COMBEO (Change OfMeasure Based Evolutionary Optimization), is proposed. An important aspect in the development is a set of derivative-free additive directional terms obtainable through a change of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-10 Saikat Sarkar , Debasish Roy

Automated experimentation has the potential to revolutionize scientific discovery, but its effectiveness depends on well-defined optimization targets, which are often uncertain or probabilistic in real-world settings. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Liu , Sergei V. Kalinin

A novel meta-heuristic algorithm, Egret Swarm Optimization Algorithm (ESOA), is proposed in this paper, which is inspired by two egret species' (Great Egret and Snowy Egret) hunting behavior. ESOA consists of three primary components:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zuyan Chen , Adam Francis , Shuai Li , Bolin Liao , Dunhui Xiao

We propose a variant of consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithms, controlled-CBO, which introduces a feedback control term to improve convergence towards global minimizers of non-convex functions in multiple dimensions. The feedback…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Yuyang Huang , Michael Herty , Dante Kalise , Nikolas Kantas

Although real-coded differential evolution (DE) algorithms can perform well on continuous optimization problems (CoOPs), it is still a challenging task to design an efficient binary-coded DE algorithm. Inspired by the learning mechanism of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-13 Yu Chen , Weicheng Xie , Xiufen Zou

The recently introduced Intelligent Trial-and-Error (IT&E) algorithm showed that robots can adapt to damage in a matter of a few trials. The success of this algorithm relies on two components: prior knowledge acquired through simulation…

Planning is an extraordinary ability in which the brain imagines and then enacts evaluated possible futures. Using traditional planning models, computer scientists have attempted to replicate this capacity with some level of success but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-10 German Espinosa , Gabrielle E. Wink , Alexander T. Lai , Daniel A. Dombeck , Malcolm A. MacIver

Computational design problems arise in a number of settings, from synthetic biology to computer architectures. In this paper, we aim to solve data-driven model-based optimization (MBO) problems, where the goal is to find a design input that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Brandon Trabucco , Aviral Kumar , Xinyang Geng , Sergey Levine

Optimization techniques, used to get the optimal solution in search spaces, have not solved the time-consuming problem. The objective of this study is to tackle the sequential processing problem in Monkey Algorithm and simulating the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Moustafa Zein , Aboul Ella Hassanien , Ammar Adl , Adam Slowik

While reinforcement learning algorithms have made significant progress in solving multi-armed bandit problems, they often lack biological plausibility in architecture and dynamics. Here, we propose a bio-inspired neural model based on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-29 Krubeal Danieli , Mikkel Elle Lepperød

Optimizing modern production plants using the job-shop principle is a known hard problem. For very large plants, like semiconductor fabs, the problem becomes unsolvable on a plant-wide scale in a reasonable amount of time using classical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-28 M. Umlauft , M. Schranz

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are capable of spending long periods of time for carrying out various underwater missions and marine tasks. In this paper, a novel conflict-free motion planning framework is introduced to enhance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Somaiyeh Mahmoud Zadeh , David MW Powers , Amirmehdi Yazdani , Karl Sammut