1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2023 • Lucas Correia, Jan-Christoph Goos, Philipp Klein, Thomas Bäck, Anna V. Kononova
A clear need for automatic anomaly detection applied to automotive testing has emerged as more and more attention is paid to the data recorded and manual evaluation by humans reaches its capacity.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2023 • Kirill Antonov, Anna V. Kononova, Thomas Bäck, Niki van Stein
Locality is a crucial property for efficiently optimising black-box problems with randomized search heuristics.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Diederick Vermetten, Manuel López-Ibáñez, Olaf Mersmann, Richard Allmendinger, Anna V. Kononova
Specifically, we want to understand the performance difference between BBOB and SBOX-COST as a function of two initialization methods and six constraint-handling strategies all tested with modular CMA-ES.
no code implementations • 24 May 2023 • Fu Xing Long, Diederick Vermetten, Anna V. Kononova, Roman Kalkreuth, Kaifeng Yang, Thomas Bäck, Niki van Stein
Within the optimization community, the question of how to generate new optimization problems has been gaining traction in recent years.
no code implementations • 20 May 2023 • Mădălina-Andreea Mitran, Anna V. Kononova, Fabio Caraffini, Daniela Zaharie
This study investigates the influence of several bound constraint handling methods (BCHMs) on the search process specific to Differential Evolution (DE), with a focus on identifying similarities between BCHMs and grouping patterns with respect to the number of cases when a BCHM is activated.
no code implementations • 25 Apr 2023 • André Thomaser, Jacob de Nobel, Diederick Vermetten, Furong Ye, Thomas Bäck, Anna V. Kononova
In this work, we use the notion of the resolution of continuous variables to discretize problems from the continuous domain.
no code implementations • 19 Apr 2023 • Diederick Vermetten, Fabio Caraffini, Anna V. Kononova, Thomas Bäck
Although these contributions are often compared to the base algorithm, it is challenging to make fair comparisons between larger sets of algorithm variants.
1 code implementation • 4 Apr 2023 • Bas van Stein, Diederick Vermetten, Fabio Caraffini, Anna V. Kononova
Recently, the BIAS toolbox was introduced as a behaviour benchmark to detect structural bias (SB) in search algorithms.
no code implementations • 13 Dec 2022 • Qi Huang, Roy de Winter, Bas van Stein, Thomas Bäck, Anna V. Kononova
Decades of progress in simulation-based surrogate-assisted optimization and unprecedented growth in computational power have enabled researchers and practitioners to optimize previously intractable complex engineering problems.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2022 • Fu Xing Long, Diederick Vermetten, Bas van Stein, Anna V. Kononova
Benchmarking is a key aspect of research into optimization algorithms, and as such the way in which the most popular benchmark suites are designed implicitly guides some parts of algorithm design.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2022 • Jacob de Nobel, Anna V. Kononova, Jeroen Briaire, Johan Frijns, Thomas Bäck
In the second part of this paper, the Convolutional Neural Network surrogate model was used by an Evolutionary Algorithm to optimize the shape of the stimulus waveform in terms energy efficiency.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2022 • Anna V. Kononova, Diederick Vermetten, Fabio Caraffini, Madalina-A. Mitran, Daniela Zaharie
Here, we demonstrate that, at least in algorithms based on Differential Evolution, this choice induces notably different behaviours - in terms of performance, disruptiveness and population diversity.
1 code implementation • 17 Jan 2022 • Koen Ponse, Anna V. Kononova, Maria Loleyt, Bas van Stein
We demonstrate and analyze the performance of the extended algorithm to detect localised symmetries and the machine learning model to classify rotational symmetries.
no code implementations • 29 Jun 2021 • Annie Wong, Thomas Bäck, Anna V. Kononova, Aske Plaat
This paper surveys the field of deep multiagent reinforcement learning.
no code implementations • 21 May 2021 • Anna V. Kononova, Ofer M. Shir, Teus Tukker, Pierluigi Frisco, Shutong Zeng, Thomas Bäck
Optimal Lens Design constitutes a fundamental, long-standing real-world optimization challenge.
no code implementations • 14 May 2021 • Rick Boks, Anna V. Kononova, Hao Wang
Constraint handling is one of the most influential aspects of applying metaheuristics to real-world applications, which can hamper the search progress if treated improperly.
no code implementations • 10 May 2021 • Bas van Stein, Fabio Caraffini, Anna V. Kononova
Heuristic optimisation algorithms are in high demand due to the overwhelming amount of complex optimisation problems that need to be solved.
no code implementations • 10 May 2021 • Diederick Vermetten, Anna V. Kononova, Fabio Caraffini, Hao Wang, Thomas Bäck
We find that anisotropy is very rare, and even in cases where it is present, there are clear tests for SB which do not rely on any assumptions of isotropy, so we can safely expand the suite of SB tests to encompass these kinds of deficiencies not found by the original tests.
no code implementations • 22 Apr 2020 • Anna V. Kononova, Fabio Caraffini, Thomas Bäck
A wide range of popular Differential Evolution configurations is considered in this study.
no code implementations • 18 Jan 2019 • Fabio Caraffini, Anna V. Kononova, David Corne
This paper thoroughly investigates a range of popular DE configurations to identify components responsible for the emergence of structural bias - recently identified tendency of the algorithm to prefer some regions of the search space for reasons directly unrelated to the objective function values.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2014 • Anna V. Kononova, David W. Corne, Philippe De Wilde, Vsevolod Shneer, Fabio Caraffini
Theory predicts that structural bias is exacerbated with increasing population size and problem difficulty.