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Generative neural network is a new category of neural networks and it has been widely utilized in applications such as content generation, unsupervised learning, segmentation and pose estimation. It typically involves massive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Dawen Xu , Ying Wang , Kaijie Tu , Cheng Liu , Bingsheng He , Lei Zhang

This paper presents two different evolutionary systems - Evolutionary Programming Network (EPNet) and Novel Evolutions Strategy (NES) Algorithm. EPNet does both training and architecture evolution simultaneously, whereas NES does a fixed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-07 M. A. Khayer Azad , Md. Shafiqul Islam , M. M. A. Hashem

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

Ensuring that the outputs of neural networks satisfy specific constraints is crucial for applying neural networks to real-life decision-making problems. In this paper, we consider making a batch of neural network outputs satisfy bounded and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Hongtai Zeng , Chao Yang , Yanzhen Zhou , Cheng Yang , Qinglai Guo

An important goal for the machine learning (ML) community is to create approaches that can learn solutions with human-level capability. One domain where humans have held a significant advantage is visual processing. A significant approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Phillip Verbancsics , Josh Harguess

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown promise in Automated Heuristic Design (AHD), existing approaches typically formulate AHD around constructive priority rules or parameterized local search guidance, thereby restricting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Baoyun Zhao , He Wang , Liang Zeng

Most of the dynamic graph representation learning methods involve dividing a dynamic graph into discrete snapshots to capture the evolving behavior of nodes over time. Existing methods primarily capture only local or global structures of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bizhan Alipour Pijan , Serdar Bozdag

Compact neural networks are inclined to exploit "sparsely-connected" convolutions such as depthwise convolution and group convolution for employment in mobile applications. Compared with standard "fully-connected" convolutions, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Zheng Qin , Zhaoning Zhang , Shiqing Zhang , Hao Yu , Yuxing Peng

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

In this paper, we present a study of the recent advancements which have helped bring Transfer Learning to NLP through the use of semi-supervised training. We discuss cutting-edge methods and architectures such as BERT, GPT, ELMo, ULMFit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Aditya Malte , Pratik Ratadiya

We develop the "generalized consistent weighted sampling" (GCWS) for hashing the "powered-GMM" (pGMM) kernel (with a tuning parameter $p$). It turns out that GCWS provides a numerically stable scheme for applying power transformation on the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-01-10 Ping Li , Weijie Zhao

In this paper, we are interested in boosting the representation capability of convolution neural networks which utilizing the inverted residual structure. Based on the success of Inverted Residual structure[Sandler et al. 2018] and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Jintao Zhang

In this work, we highlight our novel evolutionary sparse time-series forecasting algorithm also known as EvoSTS. The algorithm attempts to evolutionary prioritize weights of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Network that best minimize the…

Conventional deep network training generally optimizes all samples under a largely uniform learning paradigm, without explicitly modeling the heterogeneous competition among them. Such an oversimplified treatment can lead to several…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Ying Zheng , Yiyi Zhang , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

In this work, we propose a novel evolutionary algorithm for neural architecture search, applicable to global search spaces. The algorithm's architectural representation organizes the topology in multiple hierarchical modules, while the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Aristeidis Christoforidis , George Kyriakides , Konstantinos Margaritis

Neuroevolution is a process of training neural networks (NN) through an evolutionary algorithm, usually to serve as a state-to-action mapping model in control or reinforcement learning-type problems. This paper builds on the Neuro Evolution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Amir Behjat , Sharat Chidambaran , Souma Chowdhury

NeuroEvolution (NE) methods are known for applying Evolutionary Computation to the optimisation of Artificial Neural Networks(ANNs). Despite aiding non-expert users to design and train ANNs, the vast majority of NE approaches disregard the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Filipe Assunção , Nuno Lourenço , Bernardete Ribeiro , Penousal Machado

Recurrent neural networks are good at solving prediction problems. However, finding a network that suits a problem is quite hard because their performance is strongly affected by their architecture configuration. Automatic architecture…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Andrés Camero , Jamal Toutouh , Enrique Alba

Grammar-Guided Genetic Programming (GGGP) employs a variety of insights from evolutionary theory to autonomously design solutions for a given task. Recent insights from evolutionary biology can lead to further improvements in GGGP…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Stefano Tiso , Pedro Carvalho , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

This paper presents a new algorithm, Evolutionary eXploration of Augmenting Memory Models (EXAMM), which is capable of evolving recurrent neural networks (RNNs) using a wide variety of memory structures, such as Delta-RNN, GRU, LSTM, MGU…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Alexander Ororbia , Ahmed Ahmed Elsaid , Travis Desell