Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group: Publications
Our publications are organised by year, or you can see the full list
here.
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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 347-368). Springer Nature Singapore. 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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 369-380). Springer Nature Singapore. 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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 150-165). Springer Nature Singapore. 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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 166-183). Springer Nature Singapore. 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 Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 184-198). Springer Nature Singapore. 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
- 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
- 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
- Yuan, K., Gao, X., Ma, J., & Zhao, J. (2026) "A Boundary-Aware Multi-Objective Genetic Programming Classifier with Stacking-Based Integration". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 844-852). ACM. doi:10.1145/3795095.3805111
- Chen, X., Mei, Y., & Zhang, M. (2026) "MODE: Manifold Operator Decoding Embeddings for Neural Neighborhood Search for Vehicle Routing Problems". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 861-869). ACM. doi:10.1145/3795095.3805099
- Fang, Z., Ma, H., Chen, G., & Chen, S. (2026) "STAR: Spatial-temporal autoscaling for cloud applications with deep reinforcement learning". Expert Systems with Applications, 319. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2026.132105
- Jiao, R., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2026) "Simultaneous Feature and Instance Selection via Evolutionary Auxiliary Optimization". IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems, 56(7), 4398-4411. doi:10.1109/TSMC.2026.3677086
- Cerqueira, V., Gomes, H. M., Heyden, M., Pfahringer, B., & Bifet, A. (2026) "A Framework for Evaluating and Benchmarking Concept Drift Detection Methods". __. doi:10.48550/arxiv.2606.07789
- Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Xue, B., Banzhaf, W., & Zhang, M. (2026) "Enhancing Generalization in Evolutionary Feature Construction for Symbolic Regression Through Vicinal Jensen Gap Minimization". IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 30(3), 1009-1023. doi:10.1109/TEVC.2025.3581739
- Zeng, D., Bi, Y., Liu, I., Xue, B., Vennell, R., & Zhang, M. (2026) "A Genetic Programming-Based Method for Multi-Object Detection in Mussel Farm Images". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 56(3). doi:10.1002/snz2.70060