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  1. Hybridizing a Grouping Metaheuristic with Reinforcement Learning for the One-Dimensional Bin Packing Problem

    Jul 2, 2026Zitouni Rania, Mostefai Mounir Sofiane, Tati Youcef +3Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Square Two Team – Optimization Module, École Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria

  2. Mechanism and Stability Analysis of Metabolic Closed-Loop Metaheuristics

    Jul 2, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationAlgorithmic Stability

    independent researcher in Beijing, China

  3. MMAO-Dyn: A Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer for Dynamic Optimization

    Jul 1, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationBlack-Box Optimization

    Jinliang Xu is an independent researcher in Beijing, China · Liping Ma is with the Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  4. A Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of MMAO Under Fair-Budget Continuous and Discrete Benchmarks

    Jun 30, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Jinliang Xu is with the current study team · Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  5. Minimal MMAO: A Resource-Closed-Loop Framework for Adaptive Metaheuristic Search

    Jun 29, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  6. Analysis of Parameter Settings for the Bat Algorithm Using Variance Evolution

    Jun 26, 2026Xin-She Yang, Mehmet KaramanogluExploration-Exploitation TradeoffEvolutionary Optimization

    Faculty of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, London NW4 4BT, United Kingdom.

  7. MMAO: A Metabolic Multi-Agent Optimizer with Endogenous Resource Allocation for Continuous and Discrete Optimization

    Jun 26, 2026Jinliang Xu, Liping MaMulti-Agent System OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Department of Disease Control and Prevention, The Seventh Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China

  8. Random Walk on Bézier Curves for Global Optimization

    Jun 25, 2026Jinpeng Wang, Xingguo Xu, Yujing Sun +3Stochastic OptimizationEvolutionary Optimization

    aSchool of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710129, China · bSchool of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · cSchool of Mathematics, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230601, China +3

  9. \chisao{}: A GPU-Native Parallel Optimizer for Multimodal Black-Box Functions via Convergence-Anticonvergence Oscillation

    Jun 24, 2026Ira WolfsonGPU AccelerationBlack-Box Optimization

    Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering Braude College of Engineering, Karmiel, Israel

  10. RACL: Reasoning-Agent Control Layers for Continuous Metaheuristic Learning

    Jun 18, 2026Antón Asla ManzárragaMetaheuristic OptimizationAlgorithmic Reasoning

    Independent Researcher

  11. A Tool for the Synthesis of Adaptive Probabilistic Processors Based on the Ising Model

    Jun 17, 2026Jonathan Juracy Carneiro da Silva, Leonardo R. Gobatto, Jose Rodrigo AzambujaAlgorithm SelectionMetaheuristic Optimization

    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) – Institute of Informatics – PGMicro, Porto Alegre, Brazil · Center for Embedded Devices and Research in Digital Agriculture (CEDRA), S˜ao Leopoldo, Brazil

  12. Large Language Model-Driven Cooperative Operator Ensemble Evolution for Permutation Flow Shop Scheduling

    Jun 13, 2026Rui Xu, Yufan Liao, Haoze Lv +3Evolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    School of Business, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China · Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-inspired Intelligent Computation, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6140, New Zealand

  13. ZIVARI-TLBO: A Zero-Cost Inter-Group Evaluated-Elite Relay Mechanism for Teaching-Learning-Based Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Pezhman ZivariEvolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Türkiye

  14. Operator Calculus for Population-Based Optimization: Modular Convergence and Finite-Population Guarantees

    Jun 12, 2026Pekka Malo, Lauri Viitasaari, Patrik Nummi +3Evolutionary OptimizationOptimization Convergence Analysis

    Aalto University, Department of Information and Service Management, Finland. · Aalto University, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Finland. · Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Operations and Decision Sciences, India. +1

  15. Hybrid Metaheuristic Combining the Dragonfly Algorithm and Tabu Search for the Traveling Salesman Problem

    Jun 8, 2026Ammar BoukettaTraveling Salesperson ProblemMetaheuristic Optimization

    Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Informatique (ESI), Algiers, Algeria

  16. Trajectory Optimization in Single and Dual-UAV Bearing-Only Target Localization

    Jun 8, 2026Zhijian Xiao, Huayu Huang, Bin Li +2Trajectory OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hunan Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Visual Navigation, Changsha 410073, China

  17. Gray-Box Optimization and the Vertex Coloring Problem

    Jun 6, 2026Johanna Gasse, Antonia Heinen, Hendrik Higl +1Evolutionary OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Hasso Plattner Institute University of Potsdam Potsdam, Germany

  18. The Whale That Outswam Evolution: Swarm Intelligence Maximises Memory in Connectome Reservoirs

    Jun 5, 2026Anmol Guragain, Savvas Kakalis, Juan Ignacio Godino-LlorenteMetaheuristic OptimizationReservoir Computing

    ETSI de Telecomunicación, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

  19. A Study of Parallel Continuous Local Search

    Jun 4, 2026Cody J Christopher, Charles GrettonMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    School of Computing, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

  20. Hub-Aware Hybrid Search: Accelerating the Locally Aligned Ant Technique

    Jun 4, 2026Simone Vilardi, Reynier Peletier, Felipe Contreras +1Metaheuristic OptimizationPoint Cloud Understanding

    University of Groningen - Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence · University of Groningen - Kapteyn Astronomical Institute · Instituto de F´ısica y Astronom´ıa, Universidad de Valpara´ıso

  21. Multi-Column RBF Neural Network Using Adaptive and Non-Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization

    Jun 3, 2026Ammar Hoori, Yuichi MotaiMetaheuristic OptimizationNeural Network Optimization

    Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA

  22. Beyond Static Priors: Dynamic Neural Guidance for Large-Scale Ant Colony Optimization

    Jun 2, 2026Dat Thanh Tran, Van Khu Vu, Yining MaTraveling Salesperson ProblemMetaheuristic Optimization

    Center for AI Research VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam · College of Engineering and Computer Science VinUniversity Hanoi, Vietnam · Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

  23. Regularized Large Neighborhood Search

    Jun 1, 2026Germain Vivier-Ardisson, Laurent Demonet, Axel Parmentier +1Markov Chain Monte CarloMetaheuristic Optimization

    Google DeepMind & CERMICS · Google Research · CERMICS, ENPC, CNRS, IPP +1

  24. LLM-Driven Co-Evolutionary Automated Heuristic Design for Bi-Component Coupled Combinatorial Optimization

    May 30, 2026Mingen Kuang, Xudong Deng, Xi Lin +3Automated Heuristic DesignEvolutionary Optimization

    Xi’an Jiao Tong University · Northwestern Polytechnical University

  25. Developing a novel Comorbidities Index for predicting 10-year mortality in Prostate Cancer patients: A computational data-driven approach

    May 29, 2026Davide Farinati, Francesco Barletta, Paolo Zaurito +6Cancer Survival PredictionMetaheuristic Optimization

    Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy Comprehensive Cancer Center/Unit of Urology; URI; IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy · School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, UK · Department of Urology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

  26. Selection Hyper-heuristics Can Automatically Adjust the Learning Period to Optimally Solve Pseudo-Boolean Problems

    May 28, 2026Benjamin Doerr, Pietro S. Oliveto, John Alasdair WarwickerMetaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Laboratoire d’Informatique (LIX), CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris,2026 Palaiseau, 91120, France · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, China · School of Computing & Communications, Lancaster University Leipzig, Leipzig, 04109, Germany

  27. Designing Active Tether-Net Systems for Space Debris Capture with Graph-Learning-Aided Mixed-Combinatorial Optimization

    May 27, 2026Feng Liu, Achira Boonrath, Gishnu Madhu +2Metaheuristic OptimizationNonconvex Optimization

    University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York, 14260

  28. An Enhanced Large Neighborhood Search Approach for the Capacitated Facility Location Problem with Incompatible Customers

    May 27, 2026Ida Gjergji, Lucas Kletzander, Nysret Musliu +1Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    DBAI, TU Wien, Austria · University of Udine, Italy

  29. Anarchy in the swarm: Testing informed and uninformed diversity-enhancing mechanisms within PSO framework

    May 24, 2026Piotr Urbańczyk, Aleksandra UrbańczykMetaheuristic OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    AGH University of Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland · Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

  30. Accelerating ground state search of spatial photonic Ising machines with genetic-simulated annealing hybrid algorithm

    May 22, 2026Ze Zheng, Ruhui Ni, Jingyi Zhao +6Metaheuristic OptimizationCombinatorial Optimization

    Institute for Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · 4Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, Anhui, China · Global College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China +2