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16 November 2023

A significant number of sample points are often required for surrogate-based optimization when utilizing process simulations to cover the entire system space. This necessity is particularly pronounced in complex simulations or high-dimensional physic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Process System Engineering)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,246 Views
14 Pages

Anchor Chain Optimization Design of a Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring System Based on Adaptive Sampling

  • Qiang Sun,
  • Wenbo Li,
  • Rundong Li,
  • Dongsheng Peng and ,
  • Qiang Guo,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Qianjin Yue and
  • Wanxie Zhong
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

13 November 2022

A catenary anchor leg mooring system (CALM) is one of the main kinds of offshore transport terminals. Its buoyancy is connected by multiple anchor chains fixed on the seabed. Because a large deformation characterizes the anchor chain, it is prone to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory, Method and Engineering Application of Computational Mechanics in Offshore Structures)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,097 Views
21 Pages

13 December 2018

A centrifugal compressor is required to increase aerodynamic efficiency, ensure structural integrity, and reduce processing costs. This paper presents a dimension reduction technique based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) in combination with...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radial Turbomachinery Aerodynamics)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,343 Views
23 Pages

10 October 2025

Experimental optimization with surrogate models has received much attention for its efficiency recently in predicting the responses of the experimental optimum. However, with the development of multi-fidelity experiments with surrogate models such as...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,324 Views
23 Pages

Overall Parameters Design of Air-Launched Rockets Using Surrogate Based Optimization Method

  • Shenghui Cui,
  • Jiaxin Li,
  • Shifeng Zhang,
  • Xibin Bai and
  • Dongming Sui

28 December 2021

In this paper, the design and optimization method of rocket parameters based on the surrogate model and the trajectory simulation system of the 3-DOF air-launched rockets were established. The Gaussian kernel width determination method based on the r...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,609 Views
18 Pages

Optimization of Concrete Mixture Design Using Adaptive Surrogate Model

  • Xiaoqian Cen,
  • Qingyuan Wang,
  • Xiaoshuang Shi,
  • Yan Su and
  • Jingsi Qiu

3 April 2019

The increase in urban construction in China has been accompanied by increasing concrete output, which has reached 2250 million m3 in recent years, ranked as the highest in the world. Consequentially, its environmental burden is significant in terms o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Progresses and New Strategies on Recycled Materials and Reused Components for Sustainable Civil Infrastructures)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,916 Views
23 Pages

4 April 2022

Recently, deep-learning methods have yielded rapid progress for object detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. It is still a great challenge to detect ships in SAR imagery due to ships’ small size and confusable detail feature. Thi...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,003 Views
22 Pages

Marine adaptive sampling is a technique that makes full use of limited observation resources by selecting the optimal positions. Recently, the design of an adaptive sampling scheme based on a mobile platform has become a research hotspot. However, ad...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Sensors and Robotic Platform Technologies for the Exploration and Monitoring of Marine Ecosystems and Far Beyond)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,126 Views
17 Pages

Systematic Reliability-Based Multidisciplinary Optimization by Parallel Adaptive Importance Candidate Region

  • Mengchuang Zhang,
  • Shasha Xia,
  • Xiaochuan Li,
  • Qin Yao and ,
  • Yang Xu and
  • Zhiping Yin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Reliability-based design optimization (RBDO) has become a prevalent design for aeronautical and aerospace engineering. The main problem is that it is impractical in complex cases with multi-failure regions, especially in multi-objective optimization....

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,367 Views
27 Pages

26 September 2025

Traditional maritime target element resolution, relying on manual experience and uniform sampling, lacks accuracy and efficiency in non-uniform sampling, missing data, and noisy scenarios. While large language models (LLMs) offer a solution, their ge...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,468 Views
24 Pages

High Resolution Ranging with Small Sample Number under Low SNR Utilizing RIP-OMCS Strategy and AHRC l1 Minimization for Laser Radar

  • Min Xue,
  • Mengdao Xing,
  • Yuexin Gao,
  • Jixiang Fu and ,
  • Zhixin Wu and
  • Wangshuo Tang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 May 2024

This manuscript presents a novel scheme to achieve high-resolution laser-radar ranging with a small sample number under low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions. To reduce the sample number, the Restricted Isometry Property-based optimal multi-chan...

(This article belongs to the Topic Radar Signal and Data Processing with Applications)
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  • Open Access
544 Views
28 Pages

26 June 2026

Multi-target path planning for Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) in complex logistics environments requires balancing planning efficiency, obstacle avoidance capability, and trajectory smoothness. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a bi-le...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
952 Views
27 Pages

OptiNeRF: A Spatially Optimized Neural Rendering Framework for Complex Scene Reconstruction

  • Xinyuan Gu,
  • Yanbo Chang,
  • Junyue Xia,
  • Yue Yu and ,
  • Zhen Tian and
  • Junming Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

1 March 2026

Neural rendering techniques aim to generate photorealistic images and accurate 3D geometries from multi-view images but often struggle with efficiency and geometric consistency in complex or dynamic scenes. Optimized Neural Radiance Fields (OptiNeRF)...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Mathematics and Applications)
  • Proceeding Paper
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3,018 Views
9 Pages

This paper introduces an adaptive importance sampling scheme for the computation of group-based convolutions, a key step in the implementation of equivariant neural networks. By leveraging information geometry to define the parameters update rule for...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 41st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
460 Views
32 Pages

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms have become the mainstream approach for solving expensive constrained multi-objective optimization problems (ECMOPs). However, existing methods suffer from blind search issues, and their selection strategies...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,900 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Fidelity Adaptive Sampling for Surrogate-Based Optimization and Uncertainty Quantification

  • Andrea Garbo,
  • Jigar Parekh,
  • Tilo Rischmann and
  • Philipp Bekemeyer

Surrogate-based algorithms are indispensable in the aerospace engineering field for reducing the computational cost of optimization and uncertainty quantification analyses, particularly those involving computationally intensive solvers. This paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Aerodynamic Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,963 Views
23 Pages

3 May 2025

The cooperative localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has emerged as a pivotal application in Internet of Things (IoT) tasks. However, the frequent exchange of localization data among UAVs leads to significant energy consumption and escalat...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,360 Views
21 Pages

24 May 2022

Ensemble learning techniques are widely applied to classification tasks such as credit-risk evaluation. As for most credit-risk evaluation scenarios in the real world, only imbalanced data are available for model construction, and the performance of...

(This article belongs to the Topic Topology vs. Geometry in Data Analysis/Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
386 Views
34 Pages

A Novel Multi-Strategy Enhancement of Secretary Bird Optimization Algorithm for Engineering Optimization Problems

  • Kang Hu,
  • Ke Xi,
  • Jianyong Fan,
  • Tao Zhou and ,
  • Zhouheng Wu,
  • Zhigang Li and
  • Yongcai Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2026

To address the imbalance between global exploration and local exploitation in the secretary bird optimization algorithm (SBOA), this paper presents a multi-strategy improved version termed MSISBOA. The proposed approach incorporates optimal Latin hyp...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,064 Views
20 Pages

29 December 2023

The efficient design optimization of electric machines for electric power steering (EPS) applications poses challenges in meeting demanding performance criteria, including high power density, efficiency, and low vibration. Traditional optimization ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics and Actuators)
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6 Citations
1,798 Views
29 Pages

Selective Multistart Optimization Based on Adaptive Latin Hypercube Sampling and Interval Enclosures

  • Ioannis A. Nikas,
  • Vasileios P. Georgopoulos and
  • Vasileios C. Loukopoulos

24 May 2025

Solving global optimization problems is a significant challenge, particularly in high-dimensional spaces. This paper proposes a selective multistart optimization framework that employs a modified Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) technique to maintain a...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
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  • Open Access
69 Citations
6,958 Views
18 Pages

22 July 2021

The research on the optimization of a low-carbon multimodal transportation path under uncertainty can have an important theoretical and practical significance in the high-quality development situation. This paper investigates the low-carbon path opti...

(This article belongs to the Collection Transportation Planning and Public Transport)
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  • Open Access
1,207 Views
21 Pages

MSRLNet: A Multi-Source Fusion and Feedback Network for EEG Feature Recognition in ADHD

  • Qiulei Han,
  • Ze Song,
  • Hongbiao Ye,
  • Yan Sun and ,
  • Jian Zhao,
  • Lijuan Shi and
  • Zhejun Kuang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

22 October 2025

Background: Electroencephalography (EEG) has been widely used in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) recognition, but existing methods still suffer from limitations in dynamic modeling, small-sample adaptability, and training stability. T...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
824 Views
16 Pages

26 February 2026

This paper applies the reliability-based robust optimization (RBRO) technique to investigate the probabilistic structural design characteristics of the Fairlead Chain Stopper (FCS), a newly developed detachable mooring apparatus for installation on a...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
688 Views
36 Pages

11 June 2026

Many deterministic multi-objective optimization methods generate Pareto outcomes by repeatedly solving scalarized subproblems for different preference or reference vectors. When the number of objectives is m≥3, the resulting samples lie on an (m&m...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Objective and Multi-Level Optimization: Algorithms and Applications (3rd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,858 Views
30 Pages

The Sparrow Search Algorithm (SSA), proposed by Jiankai Xue in 2020, is a swarm intelligence optimization algorithm that has received extensive attention due to its powerful optimization-seeking ability and rapid convergence. However, similar to othe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,776 Views
33 Pages

28 December 2020

In reality, estimations for the unknown parameters of truncated distribution with censored data have wide utilization. Truncated normal distribution is more suitable to fit lifetime data compared with normal distribution. This article makes statistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
356 Views
22 Pages

Phase-Adaptive Constrained Active Sampling for Simulation-Verified Planning of Renewable Energy Bases

  • Jishuo Qin,
  • Yahan Dong,
  • Fan Li,
  • Jian Meng and ,
  • Jingyan Liu and
  • Taikun Tao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 August 2026

Planning renewable energy bases with chronological source-grid-storage simulation makes exhaustive capacity screening impractical. This study develops a phase-adaptive constrained active-sampling framework whose core mechanism is a simulator-verified...

(This article belongs to the Section F1: Electrical Power System)
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  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,538 Views
22 Pages

Analysis of Chlorophyll Concentration in Potato Crop by Coupling Continuous Wavelet Transform and Spectral Variable Optimization

  • Ning Liu,
  • Zizheng Xing,
  • Ruomei Zhao,
  • Lang Qiao and ,
  • Minzan Li,
  • Gang Liu and
  • Hong Sun
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2020

The analysis of chlorophyll concentration based on spectroscopy has great importance for monitoring the growth state and guiding the precision nitrogen management of potato crops in the field. A suitable data processing and modeling method could impr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for Precision Nitrogen Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,791 Views
20 Pages

23 January 2021

This paper deals with an enhanced robust design optimization (RDO) method and its application to the strength design problem of seat belt anchorage, related to the front crash safety of multi-purpose vehicles. In order to determine the rational desig...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
692 Views
20 Pages

In recent years, the research on source-free domain adaptation has received increasing attention and has achieved considerable progress. It can overcome the dependence on source domain data and obtain a target domain model with robust performance on...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wireless Sensor Networks in IoT)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
1,969 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2024

This paper introduces a novel formulation of the clustering problem, namely, the minimum sum-of-squares clustering of infinitely tall data (MSSC-ITD), and presents HPClust, an innovative set of hybrid parallel approaches for its effective solution. B...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,704 Views
37 Pages

Adaptive Path Planning for UAV-Based Pollution Sampling

  • Mateusz Kosior,
  • Piotr Przystałka and
  • Wawrzyniec Panfil

23 December 2024

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue to gain popularity in applications such as military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring in remote locations, and package delivery. High-Altitude Long-Endurance (HALE) UAVs can remain airborne for extended...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Manufacturing and Materials Ⅱ)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,484 Views
18 Pages

A Behavioral Robotics Approach to Radiation Mapping Using Adaptive Sampling

  • Joel Adams,
  • Brendon Cintas,
  • Nakwon Sung,
  • Anthony Abrahao and ,
  • Leonel Lagos and
  • Dwayne McDaniel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 February 2025

Radiation mapping is a desirable task to automate because of the inherent risks involved and its tedious nature. A novel system was designed to address this by combining various existing technologies, utilizing behavior-based robotics and Bayesian op...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics and Automation)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,509 Views
35 Pages

27 April 2025

The Laser Light Screen System faces critical technical challenges in high-speed, long-range target detection: when a target passes through the light screen, weak light flux variations lead to significantly degraded signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). Trad...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,026 Views
19 Pages

In this study, an optimization framework for turbomachinery blades using a hybrid surrogate model assisted by proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is introduced and then applied to the aero-structural multidisciplinary design optimization of a trans...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
974 Views
22 Pages

3 April 2026

This paper details the development of an autonomous robotic solution for the long-term surveillance of low-level radiation in nuclear facilities. Implementing such a system mitigates personnel health risks by minimizing radiation exposure and automat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Robotics and Autonomous Systems Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,580 Views
29 Pages

8 November 2025

Sampling-based algorithms are pivotal for high-dimensional UAV path planning, especially in 3D urban environments. The Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree (RRT) suffers from inadequate sampling methods and a single, fixed sampling policy, which lead to elo...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
651 Views
24 Pages

In this paper, we investigate a simulation-based optimization framework that implements discrete-event simulation with evolutionary search methods to optimize stochastic manufacturing systems efficiently. The proposed methodology couples a Tecnomatix...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Future of Manufacturing: Embracing Digitalization and Smart Technologies)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,925 Views
21 Pages

Data imbalance is a serious problem in machine learning that can be alleviated at the data level by balancing the class distribution with sampling. In the last decade, several sampling methods have been published to address the shortcomings of the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,817 Views
20 Pages

Regression Methods Based on Nearest Neighbors with Adaptive Distance Metrics Applied to a Polymerization Process

  • Silvia Curteanu,
  • Florin Leon,
  • Andra-Maria Mircea-Vicoveanu and
  • Doina Logofătu

5 March 2021

Empirical models based on sampled data can be useful for complex chemical engineering processes such as the free radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate achieved in a batch bulk process. In this case, the goal is to predict the monomer conversi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Models, Optimization, and Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,397 Views
21 Pages

14 October 2022

Given the complexity of the operating conditions of rolling bearings in the actual rolling process of a hot mill and the difficulty in collecting data pertinent to fault bearings comprehensively, this paper proposes an approach that diagnoses the fau...

(This article belongs to the Section Fault Diagnosis & Sensors)
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  • Open Access
304 Views
20 Pages

14 September 2026

As critical equipment in power systems, the reliable operation of power transformers is directly linked to the overall safety of the power grid. Traditional fault diagnosis methods based on dissolved gas analysis generally rely on a single gas featur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Diagnostic Analysis, Strategic Management, and Proactive Maintenance of Electrical Equipment—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,548 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2023

When using machine learning methods to make predictions, the problem of small sample sizes or highly noisy observation samples is common. Current mainstream sample expansion methods cannot handle the data noise problem well. We propose a multipath sa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Computational Statistics and Applications)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
503 Views
28 Pages

An Optimized Heterogeneous Ensemble Learning Algorithm for InSAR Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Based on the Adaptive Sampling Strategy

  • Lu Li,
  • Hongyan Cheng,
  • Yuhua Guo,
  • Shangqiang Liu and ,
  • Jianyong Yin and
  • Jili Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 June 2026

Landslide susceptibility algorithms demonstrate high reliability in quantifying the likelihood of landslide occurrence. However, traditional methods are often limited by computationally intensive sampling strategies and models with limited adaptabili...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landslide Detection Using Machine and Deep Learning)
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  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,528 Views
18 Pages

29 April 2020

This research presents a novel sample-based path planning algorithm for adaptive sampling. The goal is to find a near-optimal path for unmanned marine vehicles (UMVs) that maximizes information gathering over a scientific interest area, while satisfy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUV)—Advances, Applications & Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,590 Views
23 Pages

1 July 2018

Load forecasting techniques can be an essential method to save energy and shave peak loads in order to improve energy efficiency and maintain the stability of a power grid. To achieve this goal, machine learning-based approaches have been proposed re...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,611 Views
36 Pages

Hybrid Path Planning Algorithm for Autonomous Mobile Robots: A Comprehensive Review

  • Mithun Shanmugaraja,
  • Mohanraj Thangamuthu and
  • Sivasankar Ganesan

Path planning is a complex task in robotics, requiring an efficient and adaptive algorithm to find the shortest path in a dynamic environment. The traditional path planning methods, such as graph-based algorithms, sampling-based algorithms, reaction-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Assisted Machine-Environment Interaction)
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  • Open Access
3,191 Views
18 Pages

25 August 2025

The Centralized Teacher with Decentralized Student (CTDS) framework is a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) approach that utilizes knowledge distillation within the Centralized Training with Decentralized Execution (CTDE) paradigm. In this fra...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,526 Views
22 Pages

A Transferable Meta-Learning Phase Prediction Model for High-Entropy Alloys Based on Adaptive Migration Walrus Optimizer

  • Shuai Hou,
  • Minmin Zhou,
  • Meijuan Bai,
  • Weiwei Liu and ,
  • Hua Geng,
  • Bingkuan Yin and
  • Haotong Li
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 October 2024

The phases of high-entropy alloys (HEAs) are crucial to their material properties. Although meta-learning can recommend a desirable algorithm for materials designers, it does not utilize the optimal solution information of similar historical problems...

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