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| 2026 | Automated PSO Configuration Framework via Deep Neural Networks and Function Landscape Descriptors. | Yutong Zou, Peter Bentley |
| 2026 | LLM-NAS: LLM-driven Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search. | Hengyi Zhu, Grace Li Zhang, Shaoyi Huang |
| 2026 | Vibroseis Vehicle Routing Problem with Spatio-Temporal Coupled Constraints. | Kexin Zhu, Jialong Shi, Jianyong Sun, Mingen Kuang, Ye Fan |
| 2026 | P-MOEBC: A Pairwise Evolutionary Framework for Balanced Clustering. | Jianhao Zhu, Yunhui Liang, Yan Chen, Peng Wu, Chao Wen, Tao Yan, Peng Zhou, Liang Du |
| 2026 | Deep Reinforcement Learning Driven Strategy Design for Distributed Consensus Black-Box Evolutionary Optimization. | Duomao Zhuang, Wei-Neng Chen, Tai-You Chen |
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| 2026 | A Distance-based GP Classifier Construction Method for Imbalanced Data Using Dual-Tree Represention. | Jia Zhao, Xiaoying Gao, Jianbin Ma, Kaiwei Yuan |
| 2026 | Evolutionary Identification of Scientific Equations Using Language-Model-Guided Symbolic Regression. | Juncheng Zhao, Kei Sen Fong, Mehul Motani |
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| 2026 | Are NSGA-III Implementations Really Stable? A Cross-Platform Analysis of Anomalous Behaviors of NSGA-III. | Kenneth Zhang, Lie Meng Pang, Hisao Ishibuchi |
| 2026 | When Frequency Fitness Assignment Fails: Trapped States in Frequency-Guided Local Search. | Jiazheng Zeng, Thomas Weise, Zhize Wu, Markus Wagner |
| 2026 | RASF-LCS: Ranked Attribute Selection and Distance-Based Rule Filtering for Interpretable Credit Scoring. | Ahamed Zahvie, Abubakar Siddique, Trung Nguyen, Muhammad Iqbal, Will Browne |
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| 2026 | Ensemble Surrogate-Assisted Optimization with Dynamic Dimensional Splitting for High-Dimensional Expensive Mixed-Variable Problems. | Junfeng Yi, Shuwei Zhu, Meiji Cui, Kalyanmoy Deb |
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| 2026 | Landscape-aware Automated Algorithm Design: An Efficient Framework for Real-world Optimization. | Haoran Yin, Shuaiqun Pan, Zhao Wei, Jian Cheng Wong, Yew-Soon Ong, Anna Kononova, Thomas Bck, Niki van Stein |
| 2026 | Block-Bench: A Framework for Controllable and Transparent Discrete Optimization Benchmarking. | Furong Ye, Frank Neumann, Thomas Bck, Niki van Stein |
| 2026 | EvoHeRoBic: An Evolutionary Heterogeneous Robust Biclustering Framework for Noisy Data. | Shuaihao Yang, Shuwei Zhu, Meiji Cui |
| 2026 | Personalized Federated Multi-Task Optimization via Learning-assisted Search Path Reconstruction. | Zhenhai Yang, Binhong Xie, Lihu Pan, Jie Tian, Hui Liu, Xiaoxu Zhang, Chen Wu |
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