Enhancing shear strength predictions of UHPC beams through hybrid machine learning approaches by Sanjog Chhetri Sapkota, Ajad Shrestha, Moinul Haq, Satish Paudel, Waiching Tang, Hesam Kamyab, Daniele Rocchio

“…This study proposes hybrid ML models that integrate three nature inspired metaheuristic algorithms—Giant Armadillo Optimization (GOA), Spotted Hyena Optimization (SHO) and Leopard seal optimization (LSA)- Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB) to predict the shear strength of UHPC beams. …”
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A quasi affine transformation evolution algorithm with evolution matrix selection operation for parameter estimation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells by Mohammad Aljaidi, Pradeep Jangir, Sunilkumar P. Agrawal, Sundaram B. Pandya, Anil Parmar, Samar Hussni Anbarkhan, Laith Abualigah

“…It is challenging to find the best PEMFC parameters because the model is complex and the problem is nonlinear; not all optimization algorithms can solve this problem. …”
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Enhancing CO2 emissions prediction for electric vehicles using Greylag Goose Optimization and machine learning by Ahmed El-Sayed Saqr, Mohamed S. Saraya, El-Sayed M. El-Kenawy

“…Finally, the study does a comparative analysis with some established optimization algorithms in hyperparameter tuning regarding an improved accuracy model. …”
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Improved Iterative CD-Spline Approach for Building Boundary Regularization Using Airborne LiDAR Data by Renato Cesar dos Santos, Ayman F. Habib, Mauricio Galo

“…To overcome this limitation, we proposed the Improved Iterative Changeable Degree-Spline (IICDS) that consists of testing several CP configurations, resulting in multiple contour models for each building. …”
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Suicide Risk Screening in Jails: Protocol for a Pilot Study Leveraging the Mental Health Research Network Algorithm and Health Care Data by Erin B Comartin, Grant Victor, Athena Kheibari, Brian K Ahmedani, Bethany Hedden-Clayton, Richard N Jones, Ted R Miller, Jennifer E Johnson, Lauren M Weinstock, Sheryl Kubiak

“…This study will use administrative data and ML modeling to improve suicide risk detection at jail booking. …”
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Structural Vibration Detection Using the Optimized Optical Flow Technique and UAV After Removing UAV’s Motions by Xin Bai, Rongliang Xie, Ning Liu, Zi Zhang

“…Advances in computer vision technology have driven the research on vision-based structural vibration analysis and damage identification. In this study, an optimized Lucas–Kanade optical flow algorithm is proposed, and it integrates feature point trajectory analysis with an adaptive thresholding mechanism, and improves the accuracy of the measurements through an innovative error vector filtering strategy. …”
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Diversifying Multi-Head Attention in the Transformer Model by Nicholas Ampazis, Flora Sakketou

“…The diversification of the heads is achieved through a single-layer feed-forward neural network that is added to the Transformer architecture and is trained with the proposed algorithm. We utilize the algorithm in three different architectural variations of the baseline Transformer model. …”
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The Interconnection Between Pharmaceutical Development and Preclinical Research (Review) by I. N. Ampilogova, M. V. Karlina, V. G. Makarov, M. N. Makarova

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Carbon Emission Reduction in Traffic Control: A Signal Timing Optimization Method Based on Rainbow DQN by Juan Lv, Zhaowei Wang, Jianxiao Ma

“…To improve intersection traffic flow and reduce vehicle energy consumption and emissions at intersections, a signal optimization method based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is proposed. …”
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Double-layer stacking optimization for electricity theft detection considering data incompleteness and intra-class imbalance by Leijiao Ge, Jingjing Li, Tianshuo Du, Luyang Hou

“…This enables balanced synthesis of theft samples using these patterns as conditional supervisory terms for TimeGAN. To concurrently optimize the combination of the electricity theft detector (ETD) model and its hyperparameters, an integrated two-layer Stacking optimization framework is developed. …”
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RE-YOLOv5: Enhancing Occluded Road Object Detection via Visual Receptive Field Improvements by Tianyu Li, Xuanrui Xiong, Yuan Zhang, Xiaolin Fan, Yushu Zhang, Haihong Huang, Dan Hu, Mengting He, Zhanjun Liu

“…The proposed method achieves a mean average precision (mAP) of 82.04% on KITTI, representing an improvement of 2.34% over the baseline model. For heavily occluded objects on CityPersons, the Log Average Miss Rate (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>MR</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>) is reduced to 40.31%, which is a decrease of 9.65% compared to the baseline. …”
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Design and Analysis of an Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor for a Traction Drive Using Multiobjective Optimization by Yingying Xu, Yiguang Chen, Zhihua Fu, Mingxia Xu, Haiyu Liu, Li Cheng

“…Based on the genetic algorithm, a multiobjective optimization mechanism of the magnetic pole structure is established. …”
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Smart CAR-T Nanosymbionts: archetypes and proto-models by Juan C. Baena, Juan C. Baena, Juan Sebastián Victoria, Juan Sebastián Victoria, Alejandro Toro-Pedroza, Alejandro Toro-Pedroza, Cristian C. Aragón, Cristian C. Aragón, Joshua Ortiz-Guzman, Joshua Ortiz-Guzman, Joshua Ortiz-Guzman, Juan Esteban Garcia-Robledo, Juan Esteban Garcia-Robledo, David Torres, Lady J. Rios-Serna, Lady J. Rios-Serna, Ludwig Albornoz, Joaquin D. Rosales, Joaquin D. Rosales, Carlos A. Cañas, Carlos A. Cañas, Carlos A. Cañas, Gustavo Adolfo Cruz-Suarez, Gustavo Adolfo Cruz-Suarez, Gustavo Adolfo Cruz-Suarez, Gustavo Adolfo Cruz-Suarez, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Felipe Ocampo Osorio, Tania Fleitas, Ivan Laponogov, Alexandre Loukanov, Alexandre Loukanov, Alexandre Loukanov, Kirill Veselkov, Kirill Veselkov

“…However, despite this promise, translation into clinical settings remains difficult due to regulatory hurdles, scalability issues, and inconsistent reproducibility in human models. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI), with its powerful algorithms for data analysis and predictive modeling, is transforming how we design, evaluate, and monitor advanced therapies, including the optimization of manufacturing processes. …”
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A TD3-Based Reinforcement Learning Algorithm With Curriculum Learning for Adaptive Yaw Control in All-Wheel-Drive Electric Vehicles by Reza Jafari, Pouria Sarhadi, Amin Paykani, Shady S. Refaat, Pedram Asef

“…The proposed model-free torque vectoring algorithm performs based on the interaction of an agent with an environment to learn the optimal policy in a reward-driven manner and obtain the ability to dynamically adapt to varying conditions, such as different roads and vehicle speeds. …”
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Metaheuristic Optimization of Fractional Order Incremental Conductance (FO-INC) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) by Hossam Hassan Ammar, Ahmad Taher Azar, Raafat Shalaby, M. I. Mahmoud

“…This paper seeks to improve the photovoltaic (PV) system efficiency using metaheuristic, optimized fractional order incremental conductance (FO-INC) control. …”
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A multi-objective aerodynamic performance optimization of a centrifugal vacuum pump and the flow physics analysis by Zhanyuan Gu, Jiangtao Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yikun Wei

“…The backpropagation neural network was employed as the surrogate model, and the multi-objective optimization was performed using the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm. …”
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A Concise Review of Home Health Care Routing and Scheduling Problem by Soumen Atta, Vítor Basto-Fernandes, Michael Emmerich

“…The study examines various optimization approaches, including exact algorithms, heuristics, and metaheuristic techniques. …”
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Linear Active Disturbance Rejection Control System for the Travel Speed of an Electric Reel Sprinkling Irrigation Machine by Lingdi Tang, Wei Wang, Chenjun Zhang, Zanya Wang, Zeyu Ge, Shouqi Yuan

“…To enhance the robustness of the control system, it is necessary to investigate new disturbance rejection control algorithms and their effects. Therefore, a kinematic model of the reel sprinkling irrigation machine and a brushless DC (BLDC) motor model were established, and a linear active disturbance rejection control (LADRC) strategy based on improved particle swarm optimization (IPSO) was proposed. …”
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Alignment Optimization of Elastically Supported Submarine Propulsion Shafting Based on Dynamic Bearing Load Influence Numbers by Jinlin Liu, Zheng Gu, Junhui He, Shijie Cao

“…Taking the equivalent displacements of the bearings as variables, the alignment optimization of the shafting was achieved by combining the genetic algorithm and the response surfaces. …”
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Three-Dimensional Aerodynamic Optimization of Single-Layer Reticulated Cylindrical Roofs Subjected to Mean Wind Loads by Bingbing San, Chen Xu, Ye Qiu

“…This paper presents a procedure to optimize the rise-to-span ratio of single-layer reticulated cylindrical roofs to improve their aerodynamic performance, by coupling the optimization method with computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA). …”
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