- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ECOM | On the Use of Quality Diversity Algorithms for The Traveling Thief Problem | Adel Nikfarjam (The Univeristy of Adelaide), Aneta Neumann (The Univeristy of Adelaide), Frank Neumann (The Univeristy of Adelaide) |
| NE | Evolutionary Neural Cascade Search across Supernetworks | Alexander Chebykin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)), Tanja Alderliesten (Leiden University Medical Center), Peter Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Delft University of Technology) |
| GECH | Theory-inspired Parameter Control Benchmarks for Dynamic Algorithm Configuration | André Biedenkapp (University of Freiburg), Nguyen Dang (University of St Andrews), Martin Krejca (Sorbonne Université), Frank Hutter (University of Freiburg, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence), Carola Doerr (CNRS, Sorbonne Université) |
| GECH | Black-Box Min--Max Continuous Optimization Using CMA-ES with Worst-case Ranking Approximation | Atsuhiro Miyagi (Taisei Corporation, University of Tsukuba), Kazuto Fukuchi (University of Tsukuba), Jun Sakuma (University of Tsukuba), Youhei Akimoto (University of Tsukuba) |
| EMO | The $(1+(lambda,lambda))$ Global SEMO Algorithm | Benjamin Doerr (Ecole Polytechnique, Laboratoire d'Informatique (LIX)), Omar El Hadri (Ecole Polytechnique), Adrien Pinard (Ecole Polytechnique) |
| RWA | High-performance Evolutionary Algorithms For Online Neuronal Control | Binxu Wang (Harvard Medical School, Washington University in St Louis), Carlos Ponce (Harvard Medical School) |
| GA | The Influence of Noise on Multi-Parent Crossover for an Island Model GA | Brahim Aboutaib (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, Mohammed V University), Andrew Sutton (University of Minnesota Duluth) |
| GP | Evolvability Degeneration in Multi-Objective Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression | Dazhuang Liu (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Delft University of Technology), Marco Virgolin (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)), Tanja Alderliesten (Leiden University Medical Center), Peter Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Delft University of Technology) |
| GA | Simple Genetic Operators are Universal Approximators of Probability Distributions (and other Advantages of Expressive Encodings) | Elliot Meyerson (Cognizant AI Labs), Xin Qiu (Cognizant AI Labs), Risto Miikkulainen (The University of Texas at Austin, Cognizant AI Labs) |
| GP | Transformation-Interaction-Rational Representation for Symbolic Regression | Fabricio de França (UFABC) |
| CS | Evolving Modular Soft Robots without Explicit Inter-Module Communication using Local Self-Attention | Federico Pigozzi (DIA, University of Trieste, Italy), Yujin Tang (Google Brain), Eric Medvet (DIA, University of Trieste, Italy), David Ha (Google Brain) |
| RWA | Learning the Characteristics of Engineering Optimization Problems with Applications in Automotive Crash | Fu Xing Long (BMW Group), Bas van Stein (Leiden University), Moritz Frenzel (BMW Group), Peter Krause (divis intelligent solutions GmbH), Markus Gitterle (Munich University of Applied Sciences), Thomas Bäck (Leiden University) |
| EML | Diversifying behaviors for learning in Asymmetric Multiagent Systems | Gaurav Dixit (Oregon State University), Everardo Gonzalez (Oregon State University), Kagan Tumer (Oregon State University) |
| EML | Absumption based on Overgenerality and Condition-Clustering based Specialization for XCS with Continuous-Valued Inputs | Hiroki Shiraishi (The University of Electro-Communications), Yohei Hayamizu (The State University of New York at Binghamton), Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Electro-Communications), Keiki Takadama (The University of Electro-Communications) |
| GA | Local Optima Organize into Lattices Under Recombination; An example using the Traveling Salesman Problem | L. Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University), Gabriela Ochoa (Stirling University) |
| RWA | Adaptive Objective Configuration in Bi-Objective Evolutionary Optimization for Cervical Cancer Brachytherapy Treatment Planning | Leah Dickhoff (Leiden University Medical Center), Ellen Kerkhof (Leiden University Medical Center), Heloisa Deuzeman (Leiden University Medical Center), Carien Creutzberg (Leiden University Medical Center), Tanja Alderliesten (Leiden University Medical Center), Peter Bosman (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)) |
| CS | Hierarchical Quality-Diversity for Online Damage Recovery | Maxime Allard (Imperial College), Simón Smith (Imperial College), Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis (University of Patras), Antoine Cully (Imperial College) |
| EMO | Multi-objective NK Landscapes with Heterogeneous Objectives | Raphael Cosson (Université de Lille), Roberto Santana (University of the Basque Country), Bilel Derbel (Université de Lille, Inria Lille - Nord Europe), Arnaud Liefooghe (Université de Lille, Inria Lille - Nord Europe) |
| ECOM | Iterated Local Search with Perturbation based on Variables Interaction for Pseudo-Boolean Optimization | Renato Tinós (University of São Paulo), Michal Przewozniczek (Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), Darrell Whitley (Colorado State University) |
| ENUM | CMA-ES with Margin: Lower-Bounding Marginal Probability for Mixed-Integer Black-Box Optimization | Ryoki Hamano (Yokohama National University), Shota Saito (Yokohama National University; SkillUp AI Co., Ltd.), Masahiro Nomura (CyberAgent, Inc.), Shinichi Shirakawa (Yokohama National University) |
| EML | Multi-objective Framework for Quantile Forecasting in Financial Time Series Using Transformers | Samuel López-Ruiz (IIMAS-UNAM), Katya Rodríguez-Vázquez (IIMAS-UNAM), Carlos Ignacio Hernández Castellanos (IIMAS-UNAM) |
| ECOM | Local Ranking Explanation for Genetic Programming Evolved Routing Policies for Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problems | Shaolin Wang (Victoria University of Wellington), Yi Mei (Victoria University of Wellington), Mengjie Zhang (Victoria University of Wellington) |
| Theory | Crossover for Cardinality Constrained Optimization | Tobias Friedrich (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Timo Kötzing (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Aishwarya Radhakrishnan (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Leon Schiller (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Martin Schirneck (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Georg Tennigkeit (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam), Simon Wietheger (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) |
| SBSE | Mutation-Based Test Generation for Quantum Programs with Multi-Objective Search | Xinyi Wang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Tongxuan Yu (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Paolo Arcaini (National Institute of Informatics), Tao Yue (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Simula Research Laboratory), Shaukat Ali (Simula Research Laboratory) |
| EMO | Component-wise Analysis of Automatically Designed Multiobjective Algorithms on Constrained Problems | Yuri Lavinas (University of Tsukuba), Marcelo Ladeira (University of Brasilia), Gabriela Ochoa (University of Stirling), Claus Aranha (University of Tsukuba) |