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most citedHow the Move Acceptance Hyper-Heuristic Copes With Local Optima: Drastic Differences Between Jumps and Cliffs

11 citations · 11 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.NE2026

A Fresh Look at Lamarckian Evolution and the Baldwin Effect

Inès Benito, Johannes F. Lutzeyer, Benjamin Doerr

Baldwinian and Lamarckian evolution have existed for a long time in evolutionary algorithms (EAs) without ever dominating the academic literature or practical applications. In this…

cs.CV2026

GASS: Geometry-Aware Spherical Sampling for Disentangled Diversity Enhancement in Text-to-Image Generation

Ye Zhu, Kaleb S. Newman, Johannes F. Lutzeyer +3

Despite high semantic alignment, modern text-to-image (T2I) generative models still struggle to synthesize diverse images from a given prompt. In this work, we enhance the T2I dive…

stat.ML2026

Position: Don't be Afraid of Over-Smoothing And Over-Squashing

Niklas Kormann, Benjamin Doerr, Johannes F. Lutzeyer

Over-smoothing and over-squashing have been extensively studied in the literature on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) over the past years. We challenge this prevailing focus in GNN res…

cs.LG2025

HIEGNet: A Heterogenous Graph Neural Network Including the Immune Environment in Glomeruli Classification

Niklas Kormann, Masoud Ramuz, Zeeshan Nisar +6

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been found to excel in histopathology. However, an important histopathological task, where GNNs have not been extensively explored, is th…

cs.NE2025

Speeding Up Hyper-Heuristics With Markov-Chain Operator Selection and the Only-Worsening Acceptance Operator

Abderrahim Bendahi, Benjamin Doerr, Adrien Fradin +1

The move-acceptance hyper-heuristic was recently shown to be able to leave local optima with astonishing efficiency (Lissovoi et al., Artificial Intelligence (2023)). In this work,…

cs.NE2024

Hyper-Heuristics Can Profit From Global Variation Operators

Benjamin Doerr, Johannes F. Lutzeyer

In recent work, Lissovoi, Oliveto, and Warwicker (Artificial Intelligence (2023)) proved that the Move Acceptance Hyper-Heuristic (MAHH) leaves the local optimum of the multimodal…