Particle Swarm Optimization

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Particle Swarm Optimization studies how a population of candidate solutions can search for good answers by updating each candidate using its own experience and information shared by other particles. Common approaches change the swarm’s interaction topology or diversity, combine PSO with gradients or local search, and use surrogate models or learned guidance to reduce costly evaluations. Researchers apply these methods to continuous and discrete benchmarks, engineering design, neural architecture search, and tracking changing optima. A central challenge is balancing exploration with convergence: methods that help on one landscape may fail on another, making robust performance and fair comparisons under equal evaluation budgets ongoing concerns.

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  1. Freezing Mechanism and Topology Dependence of Information Flow Structure in Small-Scale Particle Swarm Optimization

    Oct 24, 2026Zhenglong Xiang, Hongrun Wu, Yu Xue +2Particle Swarm Optimization

    School of Computer Science, School of Software, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China · Key Lab of Intelligent Optimization and Information Processing, Minnan Normal University, Zhangzhou 363000, China · State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China +1

  2. Simplified Swarm Optimization for Surrogate-Assisted Reliability Design of Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor Power Modules Using an Open-Source Process Finite-Element Model

    Oct 5, 2026Wei-Chang YehSurrogate-Assisted OptimizationSemiconductor Manufacturing

    Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan

  3. Machine learning-assisted calibration of Agent-based Models: surrogate-based optimization with Genetic Algorithm and Particle Swarm Optimization

    Sep 4, 2026Duguma Yeshitla Habtemariam, Jihwan LeeSurrogate-Assisted OptimizationAgent-Based Modeling

    Department of Industrial and Data Engineering Major in Industrial Data Science and Engineering Pukyong National University, Busan, Republic of Korea

  4. Chameleon: An Adaptive AI-Driven Honeypot Architecture Using Threat-Calibrated Particle Swarm Optimization and Semantic Deception Rapidly-Exploring Random Trees

    Aug 15, 2026Rohit Swami, Tushar Singh, Akash Warde +1Metaheuristic OptimizationCybersecurity

    Dept. of AI and Data Science, SIES Graduate School of Technology, Mumbai, India

  5. Adaptive Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization with Gradient Descent

    Aug 7, 2026Aryan GurudeoBlack-Box OptimizationGradient Descent

  6. HPSO: Particle Swarm Optimization with Hypergraph-Based Topology

    Aug 5, 2026Wenbin Pei, Xi Luo, Bing Xue +2Evolutionary OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, China · Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, China · Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence & School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, 6140, New Zealand +1

  7. AutoPSO: A Meta-framework for Automated Particle Swarm Optimization

    Jul 29, 2026Xinmeng Yu, Jiaxin Gao, Jianguo Zhang +2Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutomated Heuristic Design

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China · Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China +2

  8. Constraint-aware Optimization in Auto-Tuning

    Jun 17, 2026Floris-Jan Willemsen, Stijn Heldens, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort +1Differential EvolutionEvolutionary Optimization

    LIACS, Leiden University, the Netherlands · Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  9. p-PSO: A Penalized Particle Swarm Optimization Technique for Finding D-Optimal Designs with Mixed Factors in Generalized Linear Models

    Jun 14, 2026Shrabanti Chowdhury, Abhyuday MandalConstrained OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY 10029-5674 · University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7952

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. AgentPSO: Evolving Agent Reasoning Skill via Multi-agent Particle Swarm Optimization

    May 9, 2026Hyunmin Hwang, Jaemin Kim, Choonghan Kim +2LLM Agent Skill LearningMulti-Agent Reasoning

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, South Korea.

  14. Frenetic Cat-inspired Particle Optimization: a Markov state-switching hybrid swarm optimizer with application to cardiac digital twinning

    Apr 17, 2026Jorge Sánchez, Guadalupe García-Isla, Sandra Perez-Herrero +2Black-Box OptimizationMetaheuristic Optimization

    Centro de Investigación e Innovación en Bioingeniería (Ci2B), Universitat Politécnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain

  15. Enhancing Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Hypergraph-Modeled Influence Maximization

    Apr 17, 2026Qianshi Wang, Xilong Qu, Wenbin Pei +2Metaheuristic OptimizationParticle Swarm Optimization

    International School of Information Science & Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China; Key Laboratory of Social Computing and Cognitive Intelligence (Dalian University of Technology), Ministry of Education, Dalian 116024, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 237016, China +1

  16. An Intelligent Robotic and Bio-Digestor Framework for Smart Waste Management

    Apr 16, 2026Radhika Khatri, Adit Tewari, Nikhil Sharma +1RoboticsParticle Swarm Optimization

    BITS Pilani Dubai Campus

  17. Deep Neural Network-guided PSO for Tracking a Global Optimal Position in Complex Dynamic Environment

    Apr 15, 2026Stephen Raharja, Toshiharu SugawaraParticle Swarm Optimization

    Waseda University Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan

  18. G-ICSO-NAS: Shifting Gears between Gradient and Swarm for Robust Neural Architecture Search

    Apr 1, 2026Xingbang Du, Enzhi Zhang, Rui Zhong +2Neural Architecture SearchParticle Swarm Optimization

    Information Systems Design Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan · Information Initiative Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

  19. Associative Constructive Evolution: Enhancing Metaheuristics through Hebbian-Learned Generative Guidance

    Mar 31, 2026Shanxian Lin, Yuichi Nagata, Haichuan YangMolecule DesignMetaheuristic Optimization

    Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima, Japan

  20. Quadratic Surrogate Attractor for Particle Swarm Optimization

    Mar 17, 2026Maurizio Clemente, Marcello CanovaParticle Swarm OptimizationSurrogate-Assisted Optimization

    Center for Automotive Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212 USA

  21. Explainable Information Processing in Particle Swarm Optimization through Landscape and Search Behavior Analysis

    Sep 8, 2025Nitin Gupta, Bapi Dutta, Anupam YadavMetaheuristic OptimizationExplainability Evaluation

    Department of Mathematics and Computing Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Jalandhar - 144008, INDIA · Department of Computer Science University of Jaén, Jaén, SPAIN