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most citedSurrogate Model Assisted Cooperative Coevolution for Large Scale Optimization

2 citations · 8 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.NE2023

A Surrogate-Assisted Highly Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithm for Hyperparameter Optimization in Deep Convolutional Neural Network

An Chen, Zhigang Ren, Muyi Wang +3

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained remarkable success in recent years. However, their performance highly relies on the architecture hyperparameters, and finding prope…

cs.NE2021★ 1 cited

Enhancing hierarchical surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithm for high-dimensional expensive optimization via random projection

Xiaodong Ren, Daofu Guo, Zhigang Ren +2

By remarkably reducing real fitness evaluations, surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs), especially hierarchical SAEAs, have been shown to be effective in solving compu…

cs.NE2021

A Surrogate-Assisted Variable Grouping Algorithm for General Large Scale Global Optimization Problems

An Chen, Zhigang Ren, Muyi Wang +3

Problem decomposition plays a vital role when applying cooperative coevolution (CC) to large scale global optimization problems. However, most learning-based decomposition algorith…

cs.NE2020★ 1 cited

An Eigenspace Divide-and-Conquer Approach for Large-Scale Optimization

Zhigang Ren, Yongsheng Liang, Muyi Wang +2

Divide-and-conquer-based (DC-based) evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have achieved notable success in dealing with large-scale optimization problems (LSOPs). However, the appealing pe…

math.OC2019★ 2 cited

A Fast Differential Grouping Algorithm for Large Scale Black-Box Optimization

Zhigang Ren, An Chen, Yaochu Jin +3

Decomposition plays a significant role in cooperative co-evolution which shows great potential in large scale black-box optimization. However, current popular decomposition algorit…

cs.NE2018

Niching an Archive-based Gaussian Estimation of Distribution Algorithm via Adaptive Clustering

Yongsheng Liang, Zhigang Ren, Bei Pang +1

As a model-based evolutionary algorithm, estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) possesses unique characteristics and has been widely applied to global optimization. However, tr…