Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group: Publications

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Our 20 most recent publications:

  • Zhang, F., Zhang, Y., Casanovas, P., Schattschneider, J., Walker, S. P., Xue, B., . . . Symonds, J. E. (2025) "Health prediction for king salmon via evolutionary machine learning with genetic programming". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 55(1), 166-191. doi:10.1080/03036758.2024.2329228
  • Wang, C., Behrens, E., Ma, H., Chen, G., & Huang, V. (2025) "Climate Downscaling Monthly Coastal Sea Surface Temperature Using Convolutional Neural Network and Composite Loss". In Unknown Book (Vol. 15442 LNAI, pp. 303-315). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-0348-0_22
  • Sun, Y., Gomes, H. M., Pfahringer, B., & Bifet, A. (2025) "Real-Time Energy Pricing in New Zealand: An Evolving Stream Analysis". In Unknown Book (Vol. 15285 LNAI, pp. 91-97). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-0128-8_8
  • Rimas, M., Chen, Q., & Zhang, M. (2025) "Importance-Based Pruning for Genetic Programming Based Symbolic Regression". In Unknown Book (Vol. 15443 LNAI, pp. 188-201). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-0351-0_14
  • Rezayat, S., Burmester, G., Ma, H., & Hartmann, S. (2025) "Conceptual Framework for Designing Hippocratic APIs". In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 15238 LNCS (pp. 355-376). doi:10.1007/978-3-031-75872-0_19
  • Fang, Z., Ma, H., Chen, G., Hartmann, S., & Wang, C. (2025) "Leveraging LLM in Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Dynamic Microservice Deployment". In Unknown Book (Vol. 15442 LNAI, pp. 86-97). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-0348-0_7
  • Chen, R., Mei, Y., Zhang, F., & Zhang, M. (2025) "Neural Network Surrogate Based on Binary Classification for Assisting Genetic Programming in Searching Scheduling Heuristic". In Unknown Book (Vol. 15281 LNAI, pp. 309-321). doi:10.1007/978-981-96-0116-5_25
  • Botacin, M., & Gomes, H. (2025) "Towards more realistic evaluations: The impact of label delays in malware detection pipelines". Computers and Security, 148. doi:10.1016/j.cose.2024.104122
  • Santolin, J., Larsen, O. C., Fritze, A., Xue, B., Yang, Z., & Rotter, V. S. (2024) "Reaching China’s fertilizer reduction goals through nitrogen and phosphorus recovery: a substance flow analysis case study". Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management, 26(6), 3650-3664. doi:10.1007/s10163-024-02067-6
  • Wan, X., Zuo, X., Lu, T., & Chen, G. (2024) "A hybrid niching memetic algorithm for multi-modal optimization of double row layout problem". International Journal of Production Research.
  • Yu, W., Yang, J., Sun, D., Ren, J., Xue, B., Sun, W., . . . Li, X. (2024) "How urban heat island magnifies hot day exposure: Global unevenness derived from differences in built landscape". Science of the Total Environment, 945. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.174043
  • Botacin, M., & Gomes, H. (2024) "Cross-Regional Malware Detection via Model Distilling and Federated Learning". In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 97-113). doi:10.1145/3678890.3678893
  • Yang, Y., Chen, G., Ma, H., Hartmann, S., & Zhang, M. (2024) "Enhancing generalization in genetic programming hyper-heuristics through mini-batch sampling strategies for dynamic workflow scheduling". Information Sciences, 678. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2024.120975
  • Qu, H., Wang, G. G., Li, Y., Qi, X., & Zhang, M. (2024) "ConvFishNet: An efficient backbone for fish classification from composited underwater images". Information Sciences, 679. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2024.121078
  • Peng, Y., Chen, G., Zhang, M., & Xue, B. (2024) "Proximal evolutionary strategy: improving deep reinforcement learning through evolutionary policy optimization". Memetic Computing, 16(3), 445-466. doi:10.1007/s12293-024-00419-1
  • Sun, Y., Gomes, H. M., Pfahringer, B., & Bifet, A. (2024) "Real-Time Energy Pricing in New Zealand: An Evolving Stream Analysis". __. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2408.16187
  • Gomes, H. M., & Bifet, A. (2024) "Practical Machine Learning for Streaming Data". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (pp. 6418-6419). doi:10.1145/3637528.3671442
  • Zhao, J., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "SGformer: Boosting transformers for indoor lighting estimation from a single image". Computational Visual Media, 10(4), 671-686. doi:10.1007/s41095-024-0447-8
  • Pham, D., Tran, B., Nguyen, S., Alahakoon, D., & Zhang, M. (2024) "Fairness optimisation with multi-objective swarms for explainable classifiers on data streams". Complex and Intelligent Systems, 10(4), 4741-4754. doi:10.1007/s40747-024-01347-w
  • Zhang, T., Bi, Y., Liang, J., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "Decomposition-based Multi-objective Genetic Programming for Feature Learning in Image Classification". In GECCO 2024 Companion - Proceedings of the 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 555-558). doi:10.1145/3638530.3654306