Landscape-aware performance prediction for evolutionary multiobjective optimization

A Liefooghe, F Daolio, S Verel, B Derbel… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We expose and contrast the impact of landscape characteristics on the performance of
search heuristics for black-box multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems. A sound …

Automated algorithm selection: Survey and perspectives

P Kerschke, HH Hoos, F Neumann… - Evolutionary …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It has long been observed that for practically any computational problem that has been
intensely studied, different instances are best solved using different algorithms. This is …

Automated algorithm selection on continuous black-box problems by combining exploratory landscape analysis and machine learning

P Kerschke, H Trautmann - Evolutionary computation, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
In this article, we build upon previous work on designing informative and efficient
Exploratory Landscape Analysis features for characterizing problems' landscapes and show …

Comprehensive feature-based landscape analysis of continuous and constrained optimization problems using the R-package flacco

P Kerschke, H Trautmann - … in Statistical Computing: From Music Data …, 2019 - Springer
Choosing the best-performing optimizer (s) out of a portfolio of optimization algorithms is
usually a difficult and complex task. It gets even worse, if the underlying functions are …

Searching the landscape of flux vacua with genetic algorithms

A Cole, A Schachner, G Shiu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract In this paper, we employ genetic algorithms to explore the landscape of type IIB flux
vacua. We show that genetic algorithms can efficiently scan the landscape for viable …

Evolutionary black-box topology optimization: Challenges and promises

D Guirguis, N Aulig, R Picelli, B Zhu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Black-box topology optimization (BBTO) uses evolutionary algorithms and other soft
computing techniques to generate near-optimal topologies of mechanical structures …

Adaptive recommendation model using meta-learning for population-based algorithms

X Chu, F Cai, C Cui, M Hu, L Li, Q Qin - Information Sciences, 2019 - Elsevier
To efficiently solve complex optimization problems, numerous population-based meta-
heuristics and extensions have been developed. However, the performances of the …

A survey of genetic improvement search spaces

J Petke, B Alexander, ET Barr, AEI Brownlee… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Genetic Improvement (GI) uses automated search to improve existing software. Most GI work
has focused on empirical studies that successfully apply GI to improve software's running …

Kernelized evolutionary distance metric learning for semi-supervised clustering

W Kalintha, S Ono, M Numao… - Intelligent data analysis, 2019 - content.iospress.com
This study proposes a novel distance metric learning method called evolutionary distance
metric learning (EDML) to improve clustering quality that simultaneously evaluates inter-and …

Classification of permutation distance metrics for fitness landscape analysis

VA Cicirello - … Technologies: 11th EAI International Conference, BICT …, 2019 - Springer
Commonly used computational and analytical tools for fitness landscape analysis of
optimization problems require identifying a distance metric that characterizes the similarity of …