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1. Computer Science › Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research

   Farthest better or nearest worse optimizer: a novel metaheuristic algorithm

   Taheri, RahimiZadeh, Baumbach et al. · Artificial Intelligence Review · 2026

   The paper proposes the Farthest better or Nearest worse Optimizer (FNO), a new search algorithm, and tests it on 45 benchmarks and five engineering problems against other metaheuristics.

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   1. UncheckedThe new FNO optimisation algorithm performs competitively with other leading population-based metaheuristics on the problems the authors tested.“The findings indicate that the FNO algorithm performs competitively against other state-of-the-art population-based metaheuristic algorithms on the tested problems.”