| 2026 | Genesis: An Empirical Platform for Studying Open-Ended Evolution Without Fitness Functions. | Anushka Sharma |
| 2026 | CV-PORTAL: A Benchmark Generator for Constrained Optimization with Fully Controllable Feasible Regions. | Mengli Shan, Changhe Li, Mai Peng, Danial Yazdani, Delaram Yazdani, Xiaobo Liu, Miqing Li |
| 2026 | Evolution With Purpose: Hierarchy-Informed Optimization of Whole-Brain Models. | Hormoz Shahrzad, Niharika Gajawelli, Kaitlin Maile, Manish Saggar, Risto Miikkulainen |
| 2026 | Optimizing for Difference: LLM-Driven Benchmark Design for Maximum Solver Discriminability. | Ananta Shahane, Niki van Stein |
| 2026 | TAPE-JB: Trait-Aligned Prompt Evolution for Jailbreaking Large Language Models. | Karolina Seweryn, Anna Wrblewska, Szymon Lukasik |
| 2026 | Large Language Models for Metaheuristic Design: Exploring Challenges, Limitations, Tools, Benchmarking and Future Opportunities. | Roman Senkerik, Niki van Stein, Adam Viktorin, Michal Pluhacek, Thomas Bck |
| 2026 | Harnessing Symbolic Regression and Nonlinear Programming for Computationally Expensive Multi-Objective Optimization. | Kannan Sekar, Hemant K. Singh, Tapabrata Ray |
| 2026 | LLM-Driven Configuration of Genetic Algorithms for Constraint-Rich Optimization Problems. | Harishjitu Seesandrn, Manbir Sodhi, Resit Sendag |
| 2026 | On the Use of the "Mutate Large, But Inherit Small Principle" in Global and Noisy Optimization. | Lisa Schnenberger, Hans-Georg Beyer |
| 2026 | Recent Advances in Evolutionary Rule-Based Machine Learning (2024 to 2026). | Connor Schnberner, Hiroki Shiraishi, Fumito Uwano, Michael Heider |
| 2026 | Hot off the Press: BONO-Bench: A Comprehensive Test Suite for Bi-objective Numerical Optimization with Traceable Pareto Sets. | Lennart Schpermeier, Pascal Kerschke |
| 2026 | Database-Aware Monolith Decomposition via Multi-Objective Optimization. | Ana C. Martnez Saucedo, Delfina Milagros Ferreri, Virginia Yannibelli, Guillermo Rodrguez |
| 2026 | Visualizing the Semantic Space Exploration of Ensemble Methods. | Frederico J. J. B. Santos, Jose Manuel Muoz Contreras, Berfin Sakallioglu, Damaris Hualinga, Alberto Tonda, Leonardo Trujillo |
| 2026 | Addressing Combinatorial Optimization with Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Based on Diffusion Models. | Roberto Santana, Jos Antonio Lozano |
| 2026 | Evolving Multi-Channel Confidence-Aware Activation Functions for Missing Data with Channel Propagation. | Naeem Shahabi Sani, Ferial Najiantabriz, Shayan Shafaei, Dean Hougen |
| 2026 | Fairness and Symbolic Regression. | Michel El Saliby, David Ibehej, Nicole Vergara, Anik Ekrt |
| 2026 | GNBG-III: A Property-Aware Benchmark Suite for Diagnosing Continuous Black-Box Optimizers. | Rohit Salgotra, Kalyanmoy Deb, Amir H. Gandomi |
| 2026 | A GNBG-Inspired Multi-Component Benchmark Suite with Controlled Difficulty Axes for the IOH BenchDesign Challenge. | Rohit Salgotra, Kalyanmoy Deb, Amir H. Gandomi |
| 2026 | Beyond Final Fitness: Lagged Behavioural Diagnostics for Analysing Optimisation Heuristics: Revealing Behavioural Signatures Through Future-Gain Conversion Index and Escape Recovery Index. | Rohit Salgotra |
| 2026 | Interactive LLM-Assisted Curriculum Learning for Multi-Task Evolutionary Policy Search. | Berfin Sakallioglu, Giorgia Nadizar, Eric Medvet |
| 2026 | LLMigrate: Large Language Models as Migration Controllers in Island-Based Evolutionary Design of Soft Robots. | Emir Bugra Sahin, Ege Demir, Bilgehan Altintas, Yusuf Huseyin Sahin |
| 2026 | EvoPlaSNN: Evolving Reward-modulated ANN-based Plasticity Rule for Spiking Neural Networks. | Napat Sahapat, Srgio F. Chevtchenko, Yeshwanth Bethi, Saeed Afshar |
| 2026 | Evolving Dispatching Rules for the Unrelated Parallel Machines Scheduling Problem with Precedence and Resource Constraints with Genetic Programming. | Josipa Sabljo, Mateja Dumic, Marko Durasevic |
| 2026 | Assessing Reproducibility in Evolutionary Computation: A Case Study using Human- and LLM-based Assessment. | Francesca Da Ros, Tarik Zaciragic, Aske Plaat, Thomas Bck, Niki van Stein |
| 2026 | From Six to Two: SLIM-DUO, a Simplified Extension of SLIM-GSGP. | Liah Rosenfeld, Leonardo Vanneschi |