The intersection of evolutionary computation and explainable AI

J Bacardit, AEI Brownlee, S Cagnoni, G Iacca… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In the past decade, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has attracted a great interest in
the research community, motivated by the need for explanations in critical AI applications …

Adaptive local landscape feature vector for problem classification and algorithm selection

Y Li, J Liang, K Yu, K Chen, Y Guo, C Yue… - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Fitness landscape analysis is a data-driven technique to study the relationship between
problem characteristics and algorithm performance by characterizing the landscape features …

Explainable benchmarking for iterative optimization heuristics

N van Stein, D Vermetten, AV Kononova… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Benchmarking heuristic algorithms is vital to understand under which conditions and on
what kind of problems certain algorithms perform well. In most current research into heuristic …

Using affine combinations of bbob problems for performance assessment

D Vermetten, F Ye, C Doerr - Proceedings of the Genetic and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Benchmarking plays a major role in the development and analysis of optimization
algorithms. As such, the way in which the used benchmark problems are defined …

Explainable landscape analysis in automated algorithm performance prediction

R Trajanov, S Dimeski, M Popovski, P Korošec… - … Conference on the …, 2022 - Springer
Predicting the performance of an optimization algorithm on a new problem instance is
crucial in order to select the most appropriate algorithm for solving that problem instance …

From fitness landscapes to explainable AI and back

SL Thomson, J Adair, AEI Brownlee… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We consider and discuss the ways in which search landscapes might contribute to the future
of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), and vice versa. Landscapes are typically used to …

The importance of landscape features for performance prediction of modular CMA-ES variants

A Kostovska, D Vermetten, S Džeroski… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Selecting the most suitable algorithm and determining its hyperparameters for a given
optimization problem is a challenging task. Accurately predicting how well a certain …

Identifying minimal set of exploratory landscape analysis features for reliable algorithm performance prediction

A Nikolikj, R Trajanov, G Cenikj… - 2022 IEEE Congress …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploratory Landscape Analysis (ELA) enables the characterization of black-box
optimization problem instances in the form of numerical features. Such features can be used …

Using LLM for automatic evolvement of metaheuristics from swarm algorithm SOMA

M Pluhacek, J Kovac, A Viktorin, P Janku… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
This study investigates the use of the GPT-4 Turbo, a large language model, to enhance the
Self-Organizing Migrating Algorithm (SOMA), specifically its All to All variant (SOMA-ATA) …

Algorithm Instance Footprint: Separating Easily Solvable and Challenging Problem Instances

A Nikolikj, S Džeroski, MA Muñoz, C Doerr… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In black-box optimization, it is essential to understand why an algorithm instance works on a
set of problem instances while failing on others and provide explanations of its behavior. We …