Publications

[GECCO'25] Random Gradient Hyper-heuristics Can Learn to Escape Local Optima in Multimodal Optimisation  [link]

Yuxuan Ma, Pietro S. Oliveto, John Alasdair Warwicker

[AAAI'26] Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Lehmer Codes to Search Permutation Spaces with Evolutionary Algorithms  [Arxiv][link]

Yuxuan Ma, Valentino Santucci, Carsten Witt

On the Effectiveness of Random Gradient Hyper-heuristics for Multimodal Optimisation  [pdf]

Yuxuan Ma, Pietro S. Oliveto, John Alasdair Warwicker

Extended version of the conference paper

Artificial Intelligence journal, Under Review