Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group: Publications

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Our 20 most recent publications:

  • Yu, X., Pei, W., Xue, B., & Zhang, Q. (2027) "Federated Unlearning Model Recovery in Data with Skewed Label Distributions". In Unknown Book (Vol. 16756 LNCS, pp. 347-368). doi:10.1007/978-981-92-2497-5_20
  • Yu, K., An, W., Chen, K., & Zhang, F. (2027) "Multi-objective feature selection in high-dimensional classification: An importance-guided and historical information-assisted approach". Expert Systems with Applications, 332. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2026.133647
  • Yan, B., Wang, B., Yang, W., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2027) "DE-RAG: Differential Evolution Enhanced Offline Optimization for Knowledge Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation". In Unknown Book (Vol. 16666 LNCS, pp. 369-380). doi:10.1007/978-981-92-3444-8_31
  • Lin, Y., Xue, B., Zhang, M., Schofield, S., & Green, R. (2027) "UE5-Forest: Photorealistic Synthetic Stereo Pairs with Pixel-Exact Disparity for UAV Forestry Depth Estimation". In Unknown Book (Vol. 16754 LNCS, pp. 150-165). doi:10.1007/978-981-92-2487-6_10
  • Lin, Y., Xue, B., Zhang, M., Green, R., & Schofield, S. (2027) "Progressive Per-Branch Depth Optimization with DEFOM-Stereo and SAM3 for UAV Forestry". In Unknown Book (Vol. 16754 LNCS, pp. 166-183). doi:10.1007/978-981-92-2487-6_11
  • Lin, Y., Xue, B., Zhang, M., Green, R., & Schofield, S. (2027) "From Pseudo-Ground-Truth to Edge Deployment: Benchmarking Deep Stereo Matching Networks on Real Radiata Pine Tree Images for UAV Tree Pruning". In Unknown Book (Vol. 16754 LNCS, pp. 184-198). doi:10.1007/978-981-92-2487-6_12
  • Xue, B., Manzoni, L., Pillay, N., & Ekárt, A. (2026) "Introduction for the special issue on highlights of genetic programming 2024 & 2025 events". Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 27(2). doi:10.1007/s10710-026-09539-8
  • Sun, Y., Pfahringer, B., Gomes, H. M., & Bifet, A. (2026) "Adaptive approaches towards fully incremental prediction interval for data stream regression". Knowledge and Information Systems, 68(1). doi:10.1007/s10115-026-02845-8
  • Huang, J., Xue, B., Sun, Y., Zhang, M., & Yen, G. G. (2026) "Activation features empowered: An efficient gradient-free proxy for zero-shot neural architecture search". Pattern Recognition, 179. doi:10.1016/j.patcog.2026.113917
  • Alencar, B., Cassales, G., Gomes, H. M., Prazeres, C., Rios, T., Bifet, A., & Rios, R. (2026) "Concept drift detection in delayed and partially labeled data streams: An experimental survey". Digital Signal Processing A Review Journal, 182. doi:10.1016/j.dsp.2026.106325
  • Jia, X., Guo, T., Mei, Y., Zhang, M., Xiao, F., Gu, X., & Du, W. (2026) "A self-adapting memetic algorithm with reinforcement learning for multi-objective aircraft recovery problems". Applied Soft Computing, 201. doi:10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115550
  • Cerqueira, V., Gomes, H. M., Heyden, M., Pfahringer, B., & Bifet, A. (2026) "A Framework for Evaluating and Benchmarking Concept Drift Detection Methods". In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2 (pp. 8671-8682). ACM. doi:10.1145/3770855.3819070
  • Zhang, T., Bi, Y., Wang, H., Liang, J., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2026) "Learning features for data-efficient image classification via improved decomposition-based multi-objective genetic programming". Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 107. doi:10.1016/j.swevo.2026.102430
  • Zhai, R., Zhang, X., Mei, Y., Du, W., Guo, T., & Song, T. (2026) "Collaborative Truck-Drone Routing with Multivisit via Surrogate-Assisted Bi-Level Optimization". IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 7(8), 4376-4391. doi:10.1109/TAI.2026.3662657
  • Xu, M., Mei, Y., Zhang, F., Ong, Y. S., & Zhang, M. (2026) "Genetic programming with advanced diverse partner selection for dynamic scheduling". Expert Systems with Applications, 322. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2026.132158
  • Maddigan, P., Nguyen, B. H., Siew, P. Y. F., Xue, B., Golledge, N., & Zhang, M. (2026) "Modelling Future Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet With Explainable Machine Learning". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56(4). doi:10.1002/snz2.70067
  • Fan, Q., Zhang, Y., Yao, X., Bi, Y., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2026) "ES-GP: An Ensemble Surrogate-Assisted Genetic Programming Approach to Image Classification". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 30(4), 1520-1533. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2025.3569832
  • Wu, Z., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2026) "MEFL: A Two-Stage Evolutionary Feature Learning Approach to Skin Cancer Diagnosis from Multimodal Data". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 489-492). ACM. doi:10.1145/3795101.3805426
  • Li, D., Wang, B., Yang, W., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2026) "A Genetic Programming Multi-Agent Topology Optimization Method under Stability Constraints". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 201-204). ACM. doi:10.1145/3795101.3805328
  • Yuan, K., Gao, X., Ma, J., & Zhao, J. (2026) "A Boundary-Aware Multi-Objective Genetic Programming Classifier with Stacking-Based Integration". In Gecco 2026 Proceedings of the 2026 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 844-852). doi:10.1145/3795095.3805111