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2 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    African vultures optimization algorithm: A new nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization problems

    Abdollahzadeh, Gharehchopogh and Mirjalili · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2021

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    1. UncheckedThe paper reports that a Wilcoxon rank-sum test shows the African vultures optimisation algorithm performing significantly better, at a 95% confidence level.“Wilcoxon rank-sum test has been used for statistical evaluation and indicates the significant superiority of the AVOA algorithm at a 95% confidence interval.”
  2. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    LLaMEA: A Large Language Model Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatically Generating Metaheuristics

    van Stein and Bäck · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2024

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    1. Unchecked“The algorithms also show competitive performance on the 10- and 20-dimensional instances of the test functions, although they have not seen such instances during the automated generation process.”

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