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Tyler Millhouse, Melanie Moses, Melanie Mitchell
In July of 2021, the Santa Fe Institute hosted a workshop on evolutionary computation as part of its Foundations of Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems project. This project seeks to advance the field of artificial intelligence by promoting interdisciplinary research on the nature of intelligence. The…
Alexander V. Spirov, Ekaterina M. Myasnikova, Josh Bongard
Evolutionary computing (EC) is an area of computer sciences and applied mathematics covering heuristic optimization algorithms inspired by evolution in Nature. EC extensively study all the variety of methods which were originally based on the principles of selectionism. As a result, many new algorithms and approaches…
Eugene Eberbach
Evolution by natural selection, which is one of the most compelling themes of modern science, brought forth evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation, applying mechanisms of evolution in nature to various problems solved by computers. In this paper we concentrate on evolutionary automata that constitute an…
Vincent Cicirello
When it was first introduced, the Chips-n-Salsa Java library provided stochastic local search and related algorithms, with a focus on self-adaptation and parallel execution. For the past four years, we expanded its scope to include evolutionary computation. This paper concerns the evolutionary algorithms that…
Sizhe Yuen, Thomas H. G. Ezard, Adam J. Sobey
Evolutionary computation is a group of biologically inspired algorithms used to solve complex optimization problems. It can be split into evolutionary algorithms, which take inspiration from genetic inheritance, and swarm intelligence algorithms, that take inspiration from cultural inheritance. However, much of the…
Licheng Jiao, Jiaxuan Zhao, Chao Wang, Xu Liu + 6 more
'Lingling Li' 'Ronghua Shang' 'Yangyang Li' 'Wenping Ma' 'Shuyuan Yang'] Nature, with its numerous surprising rules, serves as a rich source of creativity for the development of artificial intelligence, inspiring researchers to create several nature-inspired intelligent computing paradigms based on natural mechanisms.…
Alexander Lalejini, Emily Dolson, Anya E. Vostinar, Luis Zaman
Directed microbial evolution harnesses evolutionary processes in the laboratory to construct microorganisms with enhanced or novel functional traits. Attempting to direct evolutionary processes for applied goals is fundamental to evolutionary computation, which harnesses the principles of Darwinian evolution as a…
Bowen Zhao, Wei‐Neng Chen, Xiaoguo Li, Ximeng Liu + 2 more
'Jun Zhang'] Abstract—Recently, evolutionary computation (EC) has been promoted by machine learning, distributed computing, and big data technologies, resulting in new research directions of EC like distributed EC and surrogate-assisted EC. These advances have significantly improved the performance and the application…
Alexander Lalejini, Emily Dolson, Anya E Vostinar, Luis Zaman + 2 more
'C Brandon Ogbunugafor' 'Christian R Landry'] Directed microbial evolution harnesses evolutionary processes in the laboratory to construct microorganisms with enhanced or novel functional traits. Attempting to direct evolutionary processes for applied goals is fundamental to evolutionary computation, which harnesses…
Olga Speck, Thomas Speck, Sabine Baur, Michael Herdy + 3 more
'Laith Abualigah' 'Xuewen Xia'] With a focus on education and teaching, we provide general background information on bioinspired optimization methods by comparing the concept of optimization and the search for an optimum in engineering and biology. We introduce both the principles of Darwinian evolution and the basic…
Lillian T. Tatka, Lucian P. Smith, Herbert M. Sauro
Evolutionary algorithms, a class of optimization techniques inspired by biological evolution, have emerged as powerful tools for the optimization of complex systems, including the evolution of mass-action chemical reaction networks. This work explores the application of evolutionary algorithms in this domain…
Innocent Sibanda, Geoff Nitschke
The goal of bioengineering in synthetic biology is to redesign, reprogram, and rewire biological systems for specific applications using standardized parts such as promoters and ribosomes. For example, bioengineered micro-organisms capable of cleaning up environmental pollution or producing antibodies de novo to defend…
Paolo Pagliuca
The mutual relationship between evolution and learning is a controversial argument among the artificial intelligence and neuro-evolution communities. After more than three decades, there is still no common agreement on the matter. In this paper the author investigates whether combining learning and evolution permits to…
Zachary Jones, Mohammad A. Alsaad, Ankush Vavishta
QWOP is a browser-based, 2-dimensional flash game in which the player controls an Olympic sprinter competing in a simulated 100-meter race. The goal of the game is to advance the runner to the end of the 100-meter race as quickly as possible using the 'Q', 'W', 'O', and 'P' keys, which control the muscles in the…
Brianna Greenstein, Danielle Elsey, Geoffrey Hutchison
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are a powerful tool to search large chemical spaces for inverse molecular design. However, GAs have multiple hyperparameters that have not been thoroughly investigated for chemical space searches. In this work, we examine the general effects of a number of hyperparameters, such as population…
Y. Ma, Tan Chye Cheah
problem Authors: ['Y. Ma' 'Tan Chye Cheah'] This paper implements a new way of solving a problem called the traveling salesman problem (TSP) using quantum genetic algorithm (QGA). We compared how well this new approach works to the traditional method known as a classical genetic algorithm (CGA). The TSP is a…
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Designing molecules with specific target properties remains a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry. While existing approaches show promise, most rely on simplified representations like SMILES strings or 2D graphs that lack essential three-dimensional geometric information. We present EvoDiffMol, a…
Jonas Verhellen
Computer-assisted design of small molecules has experienced a resurgence in academic and indus- trial interest due to the widespread use of data-driven techniques such as deep generative models. While the ability to generate molecules that fulfill required chemical properties is encouraging, the use of deep learning…
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Genetic Algorithms are a powerful method to solve optimization problems with complex cost functions over vast search spaces that rely in particular on recombining parts of previous solutions. Crossover operators play a crucial role in this context. Here, we describe a large class of these operators designed for…
Stefano Nolfi, Paolo Pagliuca
We investigate the use of competitive co-evolution for synthesizing progressively better solutions. Specifically, we introduce a set of methods to measure historical and global progress. We discuss the factors that facilitate genuine progress. Finally, we compare the efficacy of four qualitatively different algorithms.…
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Quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) simulations are crucial for understanding enzymatic reactions, but their accuracy depends heavily on the quantum-mechanical method used. Semiempirical methods offer computational efficiency but often struggle with accuracy in complex systems. This work presents a novel…
Haoxiao Cai, Lei Wei, Xiaoran Zhang, Rong Qiao + 1 more
Most biomolecular systems exhibit computation abilities, which are often achieved through complex networks such as signal transduction networks. Particularly, molecular competition in these networks can introduce crosstalk and serve as a hidden layer for cellular information processing. Despite the increasing evidence…
Boya Wang, Cameron Chalk, David Doty, David Soloveichik
Synthetic molecular information processing is typically designed through programming kinetic pathways, so that molecules bind, unbind, or incur conformational changes in some desired order. In DNA nanotechnology, this paradigm is exemplified by strand displacement cascades that control signal transmission through…