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We study a fundamental problem in structure-based drug design -- generating molecules that bind to specific protein binding sites. While we have witnessed the great success of deep generative models in drug design, the existing methods are…

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Advances in data collecting technologies in genomics have significantly increased the need for tools designed to study the genetic basis of many diseases. Effective statistical methods should excel in both prediction accuracy and biomarker…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-13 Anthony-Alexander Christidis , Stefan Van Aelst , Ruben Zamar

We propose a genetic algorithm (GA) for hyperparameter optimization of artificial neural networks which includes chromosomal crossover as well as a decoupling of parameters (i.e., weights and biases) from hyperparameters (e.g., learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Aaron Vose , Jacob Balma , Alex Heye , Alessandro Rigazzi , Charles Siegel , Diana Moise , Benjamin Robbins , Rangan Sukumar

Gaussian process (GP) based Bayesian optimization (BO) is a powerful method for optimizing black-box functions efficiently. The practical performance and theoretical guarantees of this approach depend on having the correct GP hyperparameter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-07 Huong Ha , Vu Nguyen , Hung Tran-The , Hongyu Zhang , Xiuzhen Zhang , Anton van den Hengel

This paper presents an evaluation framework for assessing Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities in combinatorial optimization, specifically addressing the 2D bin-packing problem. We introduce a systematic methodology that combines LLMs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Syed Mahbubul Huq , Daniel Brito , Daniel Sikar , Chris Child , Tillman Weyde , Rajesh Mojumder

Grain Boundaries govern many properties of polycrystalline materials, including the vast majority of engineering materials. Evolutionary algorithm can be applied to predict the grain boundary structures in different systems. However, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-10-04 Bingxi Li

Many real-world optimization problems are not naturally homogeneous vectors but composite design objects with heterogeneous parameters: integers, real values, Booleans, categoricals, complex-valued descriptors, and embedding vectors.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alex Bogdan

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have greatly improved 3D reconstruction. However, its substantial data size poses a significant challenge for transmission and storage. While many compression techniques have been proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shuzhao Xie , Jiahang Liu , Weixiang Zhang , Shijia Ge , Sicheng Pan , Chen Tang , Yunpeng Bai , Cong Zhang , Xiaoyi Fan , Zhi Wang

We propose a novel approach to improve the reproducibility of neuroimaging results by converting statistic maps across different functional MRI pipelines. We make the assumption that pipelines used to compute fMRI statistic maps can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Elodie Germani , Camille Maumet , Elisa Fromont

This paper addresses the Quadratic Multiple Constraints Variable-Sized Bin Packing Problem (QMC-VSBPP), a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that generalizes the classical bin packing problem by incorporating multiple capacity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Natalia A. Santos , Marlon Jeske , Antonio A. Chaves

This work explores a spatial printing method to fabricate continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTPCs), which can achieve exceptional mechanical performance. For models giving complex 3D stress distribution under loads,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Guoxin Fang , Tianyu Zhang , Yuming Huang , Zhizhou Zhang , Kunal Masania , Charlie C. L. Wang

In this paper, we present a toolbox for a specific optimization problem that frequently arises in bioinformatics or genomics. In this specific optimisation problem, the state space is a set of words of specified length over a finite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Régis Garnier , Christophe Guyeux , Stéphane Chrétien

Arc-routing problems underpin numerous critical field operations, including power-line inspection, urban police patrolling, and traffic monitoring. In this domain, the Rural Postman Problem (RPP) is a fundamental variant in which a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Abhay Sobhanan , Hadi Charkhgard , Changhyun Kwon

Feature selection, as a critical pre-processing step for machine learning, aims at determining representative predictors from a high-dimensional feature space dataset to improve the prediction accuracy. However, the increase in feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-16 Fatemeh Amini , Guiping Hu

Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are powerful metaheuristic techniques mostly used in many real-world applications. The sequential execution of GAs requires considerable computational power both in time and resources. Nevertheless, GAs are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Filomena Ferrucci , M-Tahar Kechadi , Pasquale Salza , Federica Sarro

Estimating the rigid transformation with 6 degrees of freedom based on a putative 3D correspondence set is a crucial procedure in point cloud registration. Existing correspondence identification methods usually lead to large outlier ratios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Tianyu Huang , Haoang Li , Liangzu Peng , Yinlong Liu , Yun-Hui Liu

We propose a feature-based guidance mechanism to enhance metaheuristic algorithms for solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP). This mechanism leverages an Explainable AI (XAI) model to identify features that correlate with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bachtiar Herdianto , Romain Billot , Flavien Lucas , Marc Sevaux

Packing cost accounts for a large part of the e-commerce logistics cost. Mining the patterns of customer orders and designing suitable packing bins help to reduce operating cost. In the classical bin packing problem, a given set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Xinhang Zhang , Haoyuan Hu , Longfei Wang , Zhijun Sun , Ying Zhang , Kunpeng Han , Yinghui Xu

This paper introduces and approximately solves a multi-component problem where small rectangular items are produced from large rectangular bins via guillotine cuts. An item is characterized by its width, height, due date, and earliness and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-07-28 S. Polyakovskiy , A. Makarowsky , R. M'Hallah

Automated bin-picking is a prerequisite for fully automated manufacturing and warehouses. To successfully pick an item from an unstructured bin the robot needs to first detect possible grasps for the objects, decide on the object to remove…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ilyes Toumi , Andreas Orthey , Alexander von Rohr , Ngo Anh Vien