Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XVII

Critical Node and Edge  Detection Problem. An Evolutionary Approach.- Attention-Based Genetic Algorithm for Adversarial Attack in Natural Language Processing.- Deep Reinforcement Learning with Two-Stage Training Strategy for Practical Electric Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows.- Evolving Through the Looking Glass: Learning Improved Search Spaces with Variational Autoencoders.- Generalization and Computation for Policy Classes of Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning.- Generative Models over Neural Controllers for Transfer Learning.- HVC-Net: Deep Learning based Hypervolume Contribution Approximation.- Multi-objective Evolutionary Ensemble Pruning Guided by Margin Distribution.- Revisiting Attention-based Graph Neural Networks for Graph Classification.- Robust Neural Network Pruning by Cooperative Coevolution.- SemiGraphFL: Semi-Supervised Graph Federated Learning.- Evolutionary Design of Reduced Precision Preprocessor for Levodopa-Induced Dyskinesia Classifier.- In-Materio Extreme Learning Machines.- On the impact of the duration of evaluation episodes on the evolution of adaptive robots.- Analysing the Fitness Landscape Rotation for Combinatorial Optimisation.- Analysis of Search Landscape Samplers for Solver Performance Prediction on a University Timetabling Problem.- Fractal Dimension and Perturbation Strength: A Local Optima Networks View.- HPO X ELA: Investigating Hyperparameter Optimization Landscapes by Means of Exploratory Landscape Analysis.- Increasing the Diversity of Benchmark Function Sets through Affine Recombination.- Neural Architecture Search: A Visual Analysis. - Digging into Semantics: Where do search-based software repair methods search?.- Gene-pool Optimal Mixing in Cartesian Genetic Programming.- Genetic programming for combining directional changes indicators in international stock markets.- Importance-Aware Genetic Programming for Automated Scheduling Heuristics Learning in Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling.- Towards Discrete Phenotypic Recombination in Cartesian Genetic Programming.- A general architecture for generating interactive decomposition-based MOEAs.- An Exact Inverted Generational Distance for Continuous Pareto Front.- Direction Vector Selection for R2-based Hypervolume Contribution Approximation.- Do We Really Need to Use Constraint Violation in Constrained Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization?.- Dynamic Multi-modal Multi-objective Optimization: A Preliminary Study.- Fair Feature Selection with a Lexicographic Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm.- Greedy Decremental Quick Hypervolume Subset Selection Algorithms.- Hybridizing Hypervolume-based Evolutionary Algorithms and Gradient Descent by Dynamic Resource Allocation.- Identifying Stochastically Non-dominated Solutions Using Evolutionary Computation.- Large-scale multi-objective influence maximisation with network downscaling.- Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm Based on the Linear Assignment Problem and the Hypervolume Approximation using Polar Coordinates (MOEA-LAPCO).- New Solution Creation Operator in MOEA/D for Faster Convergence.- Obtaining Smoothly Navigable Approximation Sets in Bi-Objective Multi-Modal Optimization.- T-DominO: Exploring Multiple Criteria with Quality-Diversity and the Tournament Dominance Objective.- Recombination Weight based Selection in the DTS-CMA-ES.- The (1+1)-ES Reliably Overcomes Saddle Points.- Collective Learning of Low-Memory Matrix Adaptation for Large-Scale Black-Box Optimization.- Evolutionary Time-Use Optimization for Improving Children's Health Outcomes.- Iterated Local Search for the eBuses Charging Location Problem.- Multi-view clustering of heterogeneous health data: Application to systemic sclerosis.- Specification-Driven Evolution of Floor Plan Design.- Surrogate-assisted Multi-objective Optimization for Compiler Optimization Sequence Selection.- A First Runtime Analysis of the NSGA-II on a Multimodal Problem.- Analysis of Quality Diversity Algorithms for the Knapsack Problem.- Better Running Time of the  Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) by Using Stochastic Tournament Selection.- Escaping Local Optima With Local Search: A Theory-Driven Discussion.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Cardinality-Constrained Ising Models.- General Univariate Estimation-of-Distribution Algorithms.- Population Diversity Leads to Short Running Times of Lexicase Selection.- Progress Rate Analysis of Evolution Strategies on the Rastrigin Function: First Results.- Running Time Analysis of the (1+1)-EA using Surrogate Models on OneMax and LeadingOnes.- Runtime Analysis of Simple Evolutionary Algorithms for the Chance-constrained Makespan Scheduling Problem.- Runtime Analysis of the (1+1) EA on Weighted Sums of Transformed Linear Functions.- Runtime Analysis of Unbalanced Block-Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms.- Self-adjusting Population Sizes for the (1, )-EA on Monotone Functions.- Theoretical Study of Optimizing Rugged Landscapes with the cGA.- Towards Fixed-Target Black-Box Complexity Analysis.- Two-Dimensional Drift Analysis: Optimizing Two Functions Simultaneously Can Be Hard.