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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

Continuum robots, known for their high flexibility and adaptability, offer immense potential for applications such as medical surgery, confined-space inspections, and wearable devices. However, their non-linear elastic nature and complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Po-Yu Hsieh , June-Hao Hou

Neighborhood search operators are critical to the performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and rely heavily on expert design. Although recent LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) methods have made notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junhao Qiu , Xin Chen , Liang Ge , Liyong Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

This paper explores the enhancement of solution diversity in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) for the maximum matching problem, concentrating on complete bipartite graphs and paths. We adopt binary string encoding for matchings and use Hamming…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Jonathan Gadea Harder , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

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

Evolutionary algorithms, such as Differential Evolution, excel in solving real-parameter optimization challenges. However, the effectiveness of a single algorithm varies across different problem instances, necessitating considerable efforts…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Hongshu Guo , Yining Ma , Zeyuan Ma , Jiacheng Chen , Xinglin Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Jun Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong

As a typical model-based evolutionary algorithm (EA), estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) possesses unique characteristics and has been widely applied to global optimization. However, the common-used Gaussian EDA (GEDA) usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yongsheng Liang , Zhigang Ren , Xianghua Yao , Zuren Feng , An Chen

Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yingyu Zhang , Yuanzhen Li , Quan-Ke Panb , P. N. Suganthan

The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

This paper proposes a selection strategy for enhancing population diversity in data-driven topology design (DDTD), a topology optimization framework based on evolutionary algorithms (EAs) using a deep generative model. While population…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Taisei Kii , Kentaro Yaji , Hiroshi Teramoto , Kikuo Fujita

In the procedure of surface defects detection for large-aperture aspherical optical elements, it is of vital significance to adjust the optical axis of the element to be coaxial with the mechanical spin axis accurately. Therefore, a machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Fanyi Wang , Pin Cao , Yihui Zhang , Haotian Hu , Yongying Yang

Pre-trained large language models (LLMs) exhibit powerful capabilities for generating natural text. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) can discover diverse solutions to complex real-world problems. Motivated by the common collective and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Licheng Jiao , Lingling Li , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Finding the optimal parameter setting (i.e. the optimal population size, the optimal mutation probability, the optimal evolutionary model etc) for an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is a difficult task. Instead of evolving only the parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mihai Oltean , Crina Groşan

Prototyping robotic systems is a time consuming process. Computer aided design, however, might speed up the process significantly. Quality-diversity evolutionary approaches optimise for novelty as well as performance, and can be used to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Emma Stensby Norstein , Kai Olav Ellefsen , Frank Veenstra , Tønnes Nygaard , Kyrre Glette

Bilevel optimization problems are characterized by an interactive hierarchical structure, where the upper level seeks to optimize its strategy while simultaneously considering the response of the lower level. Evolutionary algorithms are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Dejun Xu , Kai Ye , Zimo Zheng , Tao Zhou , Gary G. Yen , Min Jiang

The remarkable success of pretrain-then-finetune paradigm has led to a proliferation of available pre-trained models for vision tasks. This surge presents a significant challenge in efficiently choosing the most suitable pre-trained models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zixuan Hu , Xiaotong Li , Shixiang Tang , Jun Liu , Yichun Hu , Ling-Yu Duan

Discovering the governing equations of dynamical systems is a central problem across many scientific disciplines. As experimental data become increasingly available, automated equation discovery methods offer a promising data-driven…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Amirmohammad Ziaei Bideh , Jonathan Gryak

Combining large language models with evolutionary computation algorithms represents a promising research direction leveraging the remarkable generative and in-context learning capabilities of LLMs with the strengths of evolutionary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tobias Preintner , Weixuan Yuan , Adrian König , Thomas Bäck , Elena Raponi , Niki van Stein

The main goal of diversity optimization is to find a diverse set of solutions which satisfy some lower bound on their fitness. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often used for such tasks, since they are naturally designed to optimize…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

The performance of deep neural networks, such as Deep Belief Networks formed by Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), strongly depends on their training, which is the process of adjusting their parameters. This process can be posed as an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 S. Ivvan Valdez , Alfonso Rojas-Domínguez