| 2021 | Evolution of neural networks. | Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2021 | How to evolve a neuron. | W. Garrett Mitchener |
| 2021 | The influence of uncertainties on optimization of vaccinations on a network of animal movements. | Krzysztof Michalak, Mario Giacobini |
| 2021 | Generating hard inventory routing problem instances using evolutionary algorithms. | Krzysztof Michalak |
| 2021 | Evolving neuronal plasticity rules using cartesian genetic programming. | Henrik D. Mettler, Maximilian Schmidt, Walter Senn, Mihai A. Petrovici, Jakob Jordan |
| 2021 | A simple evolutionary algorithm guided by local mutations for an efficient RNA design. | Nono S. C. Merleau, Matteo Smerlak |
| 2021 | Stochastic local search for efficient hybrid feature selection. | Ole Jakob Mengshoel, Tong Yu, Jon Riege, Eirik Flogard |
| 2021 | Generating multi-objective bilevel optimization problems with multiple non-cooperative followers. | Jess-Adolfo Meja-de-Dios, Efrn Mezura-Montes |
| 2021 | Biodiversity in evolved voxel-based soft robots. | Eric Medvet, Alberto Bartoli, Federico Pigozzi, Marco Rochelli |
| 2021 | Evolved response thresholds generalize across problem instances for a deterministic-response multiagent system. | H. David Mathias, Annie S. Wu, Daniel Dang |
| 2021 | A selection hyperheuristic guided by Thompson sampling for numerical optimization. | Marcella Scoczynski Ribeiro Martins, Diego Oliva, Erick Rodrguez-Esparza, Myriam Regattieri Delgado, Ricardo Lders, Mohamed El Yafrani, Luiz Ledo, Mohamed E. Abd Elaziz, Marco Antonio Prez Cisneros |
| 2021 | A parallel genetic algorithm to speed up the resolution of the algorithm selection problem. | Alejandro Marrero, Eduardo Segredo, Coromoto Len |
| 2021 | Hypervolume in biobjective optimization cannot converge faster than Ω(1/ | Eugnie Marescaux, Nikolaus Hansen |
| 2021 | Continuously running genetic algorithm for real-time networking device optimization. | Amit Mandelbaum, Doron Haritan Kazakov, Natali Shechtman |
| 2021 | Recent advances in landscape analysis for optimisation and learning. | Katherine M. Malan, Gabriela Ochoa |
| 2021 | Evolving gaits for damage control in a hexapod robot. | Christopher Mailer, Geoff Nitschke, Leanne Raw |
| 2021 | Linear-dependent multi-interpretation neuro-encoded expression programming. | Jun Ma, Fenghui Gao, Shuangrong Liu, Lin Wang |
| 2021 | An efficient computational approach for automatic itinerary planning on web servers. | Zeyuan Ma, Hongshu Guo, Yinxuan Gui, Yue-Jiao Gong |
| 2021 | The bee-benders hybrid algorithm with application to transmission expansion planning. | Cameron A. G. MacRae, Melih Ozlen, Andreas T. Ernst |
| 2021 | Evolutionary art and design: representation, fitness and interaction. | Penousal Machado |
| 2021 | Fishing for interactions: a network science approach to modeling fish school search. | Mariana Macedo, Lydia Taw, Nishant Gurrapadi, Rodrigo C. Lira, Diego Pinheiro, Marcos A. C. Oliveira, Carmelo J. A. Bastos Filho, Ronaldo Menezes |
| 2021 | Designing fitness functions for odour source localisation. | Joo Macedo, Lino Marques, Ernesto Costa |
| 2021 | Neuroevolution of recurrent neural networks for time series forecasting of coal-fired power plant operating parameters. | Zimeng Lyu, Shuchita Patwardhan, David Stadem, James Langfeld, Steven A. Benson, Seth Thoelke, Travis Desell |
| 2021 | A signal-centric perspective on the evolution of symbolic communication. | Quintino Francesco Lotito, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |
| 2021 | Genetic improvement of routing in delay tolerant networks. | Michela Lorandi, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca |