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4 claims from 3 papers

  1. Materials Science › Machine Learning in Materials Science

    Accelerated search for materials with targeted properties by adaptive design

    Xue, Balachandran, Hogden, Theiler, Xue and Lookman · Nature Communications · 2016

    The authors used an adaptive design strategy, coupled with experiments, to find NiTi-based shape memory alloys with very low thermal hysteresis, testing 36 compositions from about 800,000 possible ones.

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    1. UncheckedOf 36 NiTi-based alloy compositions the method predicted and the authors made, 14 had lower thermal hysteresis than any of the 22 starting alloys.“Of these, 14 had smaller Δ T than any of the 22 in the original data set.”
  2. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Golden eagle optimizer: A nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm

    Mohammadi-Balani, Nayeri, Azar and Taghizadeh · Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2020

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    1. UncheckedThe paper says its multi-objective algorithm approximated true Pareto optimal solutions better than the two other multi-objective algorithms it was compared with.“Results were compared to that of two other multi-objective algorithms, which showed that it can approximate true Pareto optimal solutions better than the other two algorithms.”
  3. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

    Tornado optimizer with Coriolis force: a novel bio-inspired meta-heuristic algorithm for solving engineering problems

    Braik, Al-Hiary, Al-Zoubi, Hammouri, Al‐Betar and Awadallah · Artificial Intelligence Review · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“The TOC optimizer outperformed other comparative algorithms using the mean ranks of Friedman’s test by 20.75%, 27.248%, and 25.85% on the 10-, 30-, and 50-dimensional CEC 2017 test set, respectively.”
    2. Unchecked“The proposed optimizer divulged satisfactory performance over other competing optimizers regarding solution quality and global optimality as per statistical test methods.”

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