- The following papers have been nominated for a Best Paper Award.
- For each Best Paper (one per track, or group of small tracks), the final choice will be made by GECCO attendees.
List of Best Paper Nominations
| Track | Title | Authors |
|---|---|---|
| SI | Markov Chain-based Optimization Time Analysis of Bivalent Ant Colony Optimization for Sorting and LeadingOnes | Matthias Kergaßner (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Oliver Keszocze (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Rolf Wanka (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) |
| ECOM | Letting a Large Neighborhood Search for an Electric Dial-A-Ride Problem Fly: On-The-Fly Charging Station Insertion | Maria Bresich (Vienna University of Technology), Günther Raidl (Vienna University of Technology), Steffen Limmer (Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH) |
| ECOM | Efficient Multi-Fidelity Neural Architecture Search with Zero-Cost Proxy-Guided Local Search | Quan Minh Phan (University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM)), Ngoc Hoang Luong (University of Information Technology (UIT), VNU-HCM, Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM)) |
| ECOM | Superior Genetic Algorithms for the Target Set Selection Problem Based on Power-Law Parameter Choices and Simple Greedy Heuristics | Benjamin Doerr (Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX)), Martin S. Krejca (École Polytechnique, Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX)), Nguyen Vu (École Polytechnique) |
| EML | Survival-LCS: A Rule-Based Machine Learning Approach to Survival Analysis | Alexa A. Woodward (Optum Life Sciences), Harsh Bandhey (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Jason H. Moore (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center), Ryan J. Urbanowicz (Cedars-SiCnai Medical Center) |
| EML | NEvoFed: A Decentralized Approach to Federated NeuroEvolution of Heterogeneous Neural Networks | Leonardo Lucio Custode (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento), Ivanoe De Falco (Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council of Italy), Antonio Della Cioppa (Natural Computation Lab - DIEM, University of Salerno, Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council of Italy), Giovanni Iacca (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento), Umberto Scafuri (Institute for High-Performance Computing and Networking, National Research Council of Italy) |
| EML | Informed Diversity Search for Learning in Asymmetric Multiagent Systems | Gaurav Dixit (Oregon State University), Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University) |
| EMO | Analysis of Real-World Constrained Multi-Objective Problems and Performance Comparison of Multi-Objective Algorithms | Yang Nan (Southern University of Science and Technology), Hisao Ishibuchi (Southern University of Science and Technology), Tianye Shu (Southern University of Science and Technology), Ke Shang (Southern University of Science and Technology) |
| EMO | Enhancing the Convergence Ability of Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization Algorithms with Momentum | Longcan Chen (City University of Hong Kong, Southern University of Science and Technology), Lie Meng Pang (Southern University of Science and Technology), Qingfu Zhang (City University of Hong Kong), Hisao Ishibuchi (Southern University of Science and Technology) |
| ENUM | Direct Augmented Lagrangian Evolution Strategies | Jeremy Porter (Dalhousie University), Dirk V. Arnold (Dalhousie University) |
| GA | Reinforcing Inter-Class Dependencies in the Asymmetric Island Model | Andrew Festa (Oregon State University), Guarav Dixit (Oregon State University), Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University) |
| GECH | Lamarckian Co-design of Soft Robots via Transfer Learning | Kazuaki Harada (The University of Tokyo), Hitoshi Iba (The University of Tokyo) |
| GP | Large Language Model-based Test Case Generation for GP Agents | Steven Jorgensen (MIT), Giorgia Nadizar (University of Trieste), Gloria Pietropolli (University of Trieste), Luca Manzoni (University of Trieste), Eric Medvet (University of Trieste), Una-May O'Reilly (MIT), Erik Hemberg (MIT) |
| GP | Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming | Xiao-Cheng Liao (Victoria University Wellington), Yi Mei (Victoria University Wellington), Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University Wellington) |
| NE | Tensorized NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for GPU Acceleration | Lishuang Wang (Southern University of Science and Technology), Mengfei Zhao (Southern University of Science and Technology), Enyu Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology), Kebin Sun (Southern University of Science and Technology), Ran Cheng (Southern University of Science and Technology) |
| RWA | Multi-Objective Optimization for Large-scale Allocation of Soybean Crops | Mathilde Chen (UMR 518 MIA-PS, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay), David Makowski (UMR 518 MIA-PS, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay), Alberto Tonda (UMR 518 MIA-PS, INRAE, Université Paris-Saclay) |
| RWA | Quality Diversity Approaches for Time-Use Optimisation to Improve Health Outcomes | Adel Nikfarjam (The University of Adelaide), Ty Stanford (The University of South Australia), Aneta Neumann (The University of Adelaide), Dorothea Dumuid (The University of South Australia), Frank Neumann (The University of Adelaide) |
| L4EC | Learning from Offline and Online Experiences: A Hybrid Adaptive Operator Selection Framework | Jiyuan Pei (Southern University of Science and Technology), Jialin Liu (Southern University of Science and Technology), Yi Mei (Victoria University of Wellington) |
| THEORY | Evolutionary Computation Meets Graph Drawing: Runtime Analysis for Crossing Minimisation on Layered Graph Drawings | Jakob Baumann (University of Passau), Ignaz Rutter (University of Passau), Dirk Sudholt (University of Passau) |
| EMO | Illustrating the Efficiency of Popular Evolutionary Multi-Objective Algorithms Using Runtime Analysis | Duc-Cuong Dang (University of Passau), Andre Opris (University of Passau), Dirk Sudholt (University of Passau) |
| CS | Quality with Just Enough Diversity in Evolutionary Policy Search | Paul Templier (University of Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO), Luca Grillotti (Imperial College London), Emmanuel Rachelson (University of Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO), Dennis George Wilson (University of Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO), Antoine Cully (Imperial College London) |