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20202025
most citedEvolutionary learning of interpretable decision trees

65 citations · 150 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CL2025

Grammar-Guided Evolutionary Search for Discrete Prompt Optimisation

Muzhaffar Hazman, Minh-Khoi Pham, Shweta Soundararajan +10

Prompt engineering has proven to be a crucial step in leveraging pretrained large language models (LLMs) in solving various real-world tasks. Numerous solutions have been proposed…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

SMOSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks

Mátyás Vincze, Laura Ferrarotti, Leonardo Lucio Custode +2

Continuous control tasks often involve high-dimensional, dynamic, and non-linear environments. State-of-the-art performance in these tasks is achieved through complex closed-box po…

cs.LG2024

Zeroth-Order Adaptive Neuron Alignment Based Pruning without Re-Training

Elia Cunegatti, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Network pruning focuses on algorithms that aim to reduce a given model's computational cost by removing a subset of its parameters while having minimal impact on performance. Throu…

cs.NE2024★ 19 cited

An investigation on the use of Large Language Models for hyperparameter tuning in Evolutionary Algorithms

Leonardo Lucio Custode, Fabio Caraffini, Anil Yaman +1

Hyperparameter optimization is a crucial problem in Evolutionary Computation. In fact, the values of the hyperparameters directly impact the trajectory taken by the optimization pr…

cs.NE2024★ 6 cited

Many-Objective Evolutionary Influence Maximization: Balancing Spread, Budget, Fairness, and Time

Elia Cunegatti, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem seeks to discover the set of nodes in a graph that can spread the information propagation at most. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and…

cs.LG2024

Social Interpretable Reinforcement Learning

Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Reinforcement Learning (RL) bears the promise of being a game-changer in many applications. However, since most of the literature in the field is currently focused on opaque models…

cs.NE2022★ 2 cited

Quality Diversity Evolutionary Learning of Decision Trees

Andrea Ferigo, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Addressing the need for explainable Machine Learning has emerged as one of the most important research directions in modern Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the current dominant…

cs.LG2022★ 10 cited

Interpretable AI for policy-making in pandemics

Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Since the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have applied restrictions in order to slow down its spreading. However, creating such policies is hard, especially becaus…

cs.LG2022★ 18 cited

Interpretable pipelines with evolutionarily optimized modules for RL tasks with visual inputs

Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

The importance of explainability in AI has become a pressing concern, for which several explainable AI (XAI) approaches have been recently proposed. However, most of the available…

cs.CV2021★ 21 cited

Black-box adversarial attacks using Evolution Strategies

Hao Qiu, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

In the last decade, deep neural networks have proven to be very powerful in computer vision tasks, starting a revolution in the computer vision and machine learning fields. However…

cs.NE2021★ 1 cited

A Signal-Centric Perspective on the Evolution of Symbolic Communication

Quintino Francesco Lotito, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

The evolution of symbolic communication is a longstanding open research question in biology. While some theories suggest that it originated from sub-symbolic communication (i.e., i…

cs.NI2021★ 5 cited

Genetic Improvement of Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks

Michela Lorandi, Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Routing plays a fundamental role in network applications, but it is especially challenging in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). These are a kind of mobile ad hoc networks made of e.g…

cs.LG2020★ 65 cited

Evolutionary learning of interpretable decision trees

Leonardo Lucio Custode, Giovanni Iacca

Reinforcement learning techniques achieved human-level performance in several tasks in the last decade. However, in recent years, the need for interpretability emerged: we want to…