most citedOn the Easiest and Hardest Fitness Functions

45 citations · 56 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.NE2012

A Large Population Size Can Be Unhelpful in Evolutionary Algorithms

Tianshi Chen, Ke Tang, Guoliang Chen +1

The utilization of populations is one of the most important features of evolutionary algorithms (EAs). There have been many studies analyzing the impact of different population siz…

cs.NE2012★ 45 cited

On the Easiest and Hardest Fitness Functions

Jun He, Tianshi Chen, Xin Yao

The hardness of fitness functions is an important research topic in the field of evolutionary computation. In theory, the study can help understanding the ability of evolutionary a…

cs.NE2011★ 2 cited

Scaling Up Estimation of Distribution Algorithms For Continuous Optimization

Weishan Dong, Tianshi Chen, Peter Tino +1

Since Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) were proposed, many attempts have been made to improve EDAs' performance in the context of global optimization. So far, the studie…

cs.NE2011★ 4 cited

Novel Analysis of Population Scalability in Evolutionary Algorithms

Jun He, Tianshi Chen, Boris Mitavskiy

Population-based evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely applied to solve various optimization problems. The question of how the performance of a population-based EA depends…

cs.AI2011★ 5 cited

The Impact of Mutation Rate on the Computation Time of Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization

Tianshi Chen, Yunji Chen, Ke Tang +2

Mutation has traditionally been regarded as an important operator in evolutionary algorithms. In particular, there have been many experimental studies which showed the effectivenes…