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cs.NE2025

A Novel Population Initialization Method via Adaptive Experience Transfer for General-Purpose Binary Evolutionary Optimization

Zhiyuan Wang, Shengcai Liu, Shaofeng Zhang +1

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are widely used general-purpose optimization methods due to their domain independence. However, under a limited number of function evaluations (#FEs),…

cs.NE2025

Knowledge-Guided Memetic Algorithm for Capacitated Arc Routing Problems with Time-Dependent Service Costs

Qingya Li, Shengcai Liu, Wenjie Chen +3

The capacitated arc routing problem with time-dependent service costs (CARPTDSC) is a challenging combinatorial optimization problem that arises from winter gritting applications.…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Structure Learning of Bayesian Networks by Learning Algorithm Ensembles

Shengcai Liu, Hui Ou-yang, Zhiyuan Wang +4

Learning the structure of Bayesian networks (BNs) from data is challenging, especially for datasets involving a large number of variables. The recently proposed divide-and-conquer…

cs.NE2025

LLM-Driven Instance-Specific Heuristic Generation and Selection

Shaofeng Zhang, Shengcai Liu, Ning Lu +4

Combinatorial optimization problems are widely encountered in real-world applications. A critical research challenge lies in designing high-quality heuristic algorithms that effici…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Safe Delta: Consistently Preserving Safety when Fine-Tuning LLMs on Diverse Datasets

Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu, Jiahao Wu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential as general-purpose AI assistants across various domains. To fully leverage this potential in specific applications, many com…

cs.LG2025

SemDiff: Generating Natural Unrestricted Adversarial Examples via Semantic Attributes Optimization in Diffusion Models

Zeyu Dai, Shengcai Liu, Rui He +5

Unrestricted adversarial examples (UAEs), allow the attacker to create non-constrained adversarial examples without given clean samples, posing a severe threat to the safety of dee…

cs.NE2025

Memetic Search for Green Vehicle Routing Problem with Private Capacitated Refueling Stations

Rui Xu, Xing Fan, Shengcai Liu +2

The green vehicle routing problem with private capacitated alternative fuel stations (GrVRP-PCAFS) extends the traditional green vehicle routing problem by considering capacitated…

cs.NE2025

Cascaded Large-Scale TSP Solving with Unified Neural Guidance: Bridging Local and Population-based Search

Haoze Lv, Wenjie Chen, Zhiyuan Wang +1

The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a fundamental NP-hard optimization problem. Over the past decades, traditional heuristic methods have achieved substantial success in solvin…

cs.NE2025

Evolving Generalizable Parallel Algorithm Portfolios for Binary Optimization Problems via Domain-Agnostic Instance Generation

Zhiyuan Wang, Shengcai Liu, Peng Yang +1

Generalization is the core objective when training optimizers from data. However, limited training instances often constrain the generalization capability of the trained optimizers…