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An important challenge in reinforcement learning, including evolutionary robotics, is to solve multimodal problems, where agents have to act in qualitatively different ways depending on the circumstances. Because multimodal problems are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Joost Huizinga , Jeff Clune

In therapeutic design, balancing various physiochemical properties is crucial for molecule development, similar to how Multiparameter Optimization (MPO) evaluates multiple variables to meet a primary goal. While many molecular features can…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-03 Agustin Kruel , Andrew D. McNaughton , Neeraj Kumar

Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these progressively improved MOEAs have not necessarily been equipped with scalable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Songbai Liu , Qiuzhen Lin , Jianqiang Li , Kay Chen Tan

Proteins are made of atoms constantly fluctuating, but can occasionally undergo large-scale changes. Such transitions are of biological interest, linking the structure of a protein to its function with a cell. Atomic-level simulations, such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Amélie Chatelain , Elena Tommasone , Laurent Daudet , Iacopo Poli

Efficient materials discovery requires reducing costly first-principles calculations for training machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs). We develop an active learning (AL) framework that iteratively selects informative structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Mohammed Azeez Khan , Aaron D'Souza , Vijay Choyal

Optimizing complex systems, from discovering therapeutic drugs to designing high-performance materials, remains a fundamental challenge across science and engineering, as the underlying rules are often unknown and costly to evaluate.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tailin Zhou , Zhilin Chen , Wenlong Lyu , Zhitang Chen , Danny H. K. Tsang , Jun Zhang

Accurate classification of molecular chemical motifs from experimental measurement is an important problem in molecular physics, chemistry and biology. In this work, we present neural network ensemble classifiers for predicting the presence…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-29 Matthew R. Carbone , Phillip M. Maffettone , Xiaohui Qu , Shinjae Yoo , Deyu Lu

The performance of a Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm (MOEA) is crucially dependent on the parameter setting of the operators. The most desired control of such parameters presents the characteristic of adaptiveness, i.e., the capacity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-05-23 Arthur Carvalho , Aluizio F. R. Araujo

When creating training data for machine-learned interatomic potentials (MLIPs), it is common to create initial structures and evolve them using molecular dynamics to sample a larger configuration space. We benchmark two other modalities of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Michael J. Waters , James M. Rondinelli

Despite deep learning's success in chemistry, its impact is hindered by a lack of interpretability and an inability to resolve activity cliffs, where minor structural nuances trigger drastic property shifts. Current representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Xiangsen Chen , Ruilong Wu , Yanyan Lan , Ting Ma , Yang Liu

In this paper, we propose a variable grouping method based on cooperative coevolution for large-scale multi-objective problems (LSMOPs), named Linkage Measurement Minimization (LMM). And for the sub-problem optimization stage, a hybrid…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Rui Zhong , Masaharu Munetomo

Multi-objective optimization is fundamental in complex decision-making tasks. Traditional algorithms, while effective, often demand extensive problem-specific modeling and struggle to adapt to nonlinear structures. Recent advances in Large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Diego Forniés-Tabuenca , Alejandro Uribe , Urtzi Otamendi , Arkaitz Artetxe , Juan Carlos Rivera , Oier Lopez de Lacalle

Predicting protein secondary structure is essential for understanding protein function and advancing drug discovery. However, the intricate sequence-structure relationship poses significant challenges for accurate modeling. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yining Qian , Lijie Su , Meiling Xu , Xianpeng Wang

In the molecular domain, numerous studies have explored the use of multimodal large language models (LLMs) to construct a general-purpose, multi-task molecular model. However, these efforts are still far from achieving a truly universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Chengxin Hu , Hao Li , Yihe Yuan , Zezheng Song , Chenyang Zhao , Haixin Wang

We describe and analyze algorithms for shape-constrained symbolic regression, which allows the inclusion of prior knowledge about the shape of the regression function. This is relevant in many areas of engineering -- in particular whenever…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Christian Haider , Fabricio Olivetti de França , Bogdan Burlacu , Gabriel Kronberger

We propose an algorithm and a new method to tackle the classification problems. We propose a multi-output neural tree (MONT) algorithm, which is an evolutionary learning algorithm trained by the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Varun Ojha , Giuseppe Nicosia

Electric machine design optimization is a computationally expensive multi-objective optimization problem. While the objectives require time-consuming finite element analysis, optimization constraints can often be based on mathematical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Bhuvan Khoshoo , Julian Blank , Thang Q. Pham , Kalyanmoy Deb , Shanelle N. Foster

The discovery of molecules with tailored optoelectronic properties such as specific frequency and intensity of absorption or emission is a major challenge in creating next-generation organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) and photovoltaics.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 James David Green , Eric Gabriel Fuemmeler , Timothy J. H. Hele

Designing de-novo molecules with desired property profiles requires efficient exploration of the vast chemical space ranging from $10^{23}$ to $10^{60}$ possible synthesizable candidates. While various deep generative models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Kamran Chitsaz , Roshan Balaji , Quentin Fournier , Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt , Sarath Chandar

Feature selection is an expensive challenging task in machine learning and data mining aimed at removing irrelevant and redundant features. This contributes to an improvement in classification accuracy, as well as the budget and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli