Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Research Group: Publications

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Our 20 most recent publications:

  • 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
  • Fan, Q., Bi, Y., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "A Multi-Tree Genetic Programming-Based Ensemble Approach to Image Classification With Limited Training Data [Research Frontier]". IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 19(4), 47-62. doi:10.1109/mci.2024.3446148
  • 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 The 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses Vol. 33 (pp. 97-113). ACM. doi:10.1145/3678890.3678893
  • Yu, K., Lian, J., Bi, Y., Liang, J., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "A genetic programming approach with adaptive region detection to skin cancer image classification". Journal of Automation and Intelligence. doi:10.1016/j.jai.2024.08.003
  • 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
  • Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Xue, B., Banzhaf, W., & Zhang, M. (2024) "Bias-Variance Decomposition: An Effective Tool to Improve Generalization of Genetic Programming-based Evolutionary Feature Construction for Regression". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 998-1006). ACM. doi:10.1145/3638529.3654075
  • Zhang, H., Chen, Q., Xue, B., Banzhaf, W., & Zhang, M. (2024) "A Semantic-based Hoist Mutation Operator for Evolutionary Feature Construction in Regression [Hot off the Press]". In GECCO 2024 Companion - Proceedings of the 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 65-66). doi:10.1145/3638530.3664071
  • Yan, L. F., Ma, H., & Chen, G. (2024) "Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Genetic Programming Hyper Heuristic Approach to Location-Aware Dynamic Online Application Deployment in Clouds". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Vol. 34 (pp. 988-997). ACM. doi:10.1145/3638529.3654058
  • Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "Evolutionary Computation for Feature Selection and Feature Construction". In GECCO 2024 Companion - Proceedings of the 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 1158-1186). doi:10.1145/3638530.3648411
  • Wei, J., Xue, B., & Zhang, M. (2024) "EZUAS: Evolutionary Zero-shot U-shape Architecture Search for Medical Image Segmentation". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Vol. 34 (pp. 422-430). ACM. doi:10.1145/3638529.3654041
  • Wang, S., Mei, Y., & Zhang, M. (2024) "A Preliminary Counterfactual Explanation Method for Genetic Programming-Evolved Rules: A Case Study on Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem". In GECCO 2024 Companion - Proceedings of the 2024 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (pp. 547-550). doi:10.1145/3638530.3654192