21st Annual Humies Awards — Melbourne, Australia

Outcome Authors Paper(s) Statement Presentation Media Algorithm Type
Shulei Liu Wen Yao Handing Wang Wei Peng Rapidly Evolving Soft Robots via Action Inheritance Entry Form Slides GA
Irina Maliukov Achiya Elyasaf Oded Margalit Gera Weiss Evolving Assembly Code in an Adversarial Environment Entry Form GP
Junru Song Yang Yang Wei Peng Weien Azhou Feifei Wang Wen Yao MorphVAE: Advancing Morphological Design of Voxel-Based Soft Robots with Variational Autoencoders Entry Form ES
Jia Guo Yuji Sato Guoyuan Zhou Jiacheng Li Binghua Shi Yi Di Yan Zhou Ke Yan A Gated Recurrent Unit Model with Fibonacci Attenuation Particle Swarm Optimization for Carbon Emission Prediction Pair barracuda swarm optimization algorithm: a natural-inspired metaheuristic method for high dimensional optimization A novel hermit crab optimization algorithm Entry Form ES
BRONZE Gerald Pereira David Howard Paulus Lahur Michael Breedon Phil Kilby Christian Hornung Freeform generative design of complex functional structures Entry Form Video GA -- NSGA-II
BRONZE Yunqi Shi Ke Xue Lei Song Chao Qian Macro Placement by Wire-Mask-Guided Black-Box Optimization Entry Form Slides Video GA
Ping Guo Fei Liu Xi Lin Qingchuan Zhao Qingfu Zhang L-AutoDA: Large Language Models for Automatically Evolving Decision-based Adversarial Attacks Entry Form ES with LLM-driven operators
Yanan Wang Yan Pei Zerui Ma Jianqiang Li A User-Guided Generation Framework for Personalized Music Synthesis Using Interactive Evolutionary Computation Entry Form GA -- Interactive EC
FINALIST Roy de Winter Bas Milatz Julian Blank Niki van Stein Thomas Bäck Kalyanmoy Deb Parallel multi-objective optimization for expensive and inexpensive objectives and constraints Entry Form Slides Video Surrogate-Assisted Optimization
FINALIST Xiao-Cheng Liao Yi Mei Mengjie Zhang Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming Entry Form Slides Video GP
FINALIST Francisco Javier Ruiz Ortega Eddie Clemente Alicia Martínez Rebollar José Jassón Flores Prieto An evolutionary parsimonious approach to estimate daily reference evapotranspiration Entry Form Video GP
GOLD Kévin Cortacero Brienne McKenzie Sabina Müller Roxana Khazen Fanny Lafouresse Gaëlle Corsaut Nathalie Van Acker François-Xavier Frenois Laurence Lamant Nicolas Meyer Béatrice Vergier Dennis G. Wilson Hervé Luga Oskar Staufer Michael L. Dustin Salvatore Valitutti Sylvain Cussat-Blanc Evolutionary design of explainable algorithms for biomedical image segmentation Entry Form Slides Video GP
Xiang-Ling Chen Xiao-Cheng Liao Wei-Neng Chen Heuristic Navigation Model based on Genetic Programming for Multi-UAV Power Inspection Problem with Charging Stations Entry Form GEP
FINALIST Fei Liu Xialiang Tong Mingxuan Yuan Xi Lin Fu Luo Zhenkun Wang Zhichao Lu Qingfu Zhang Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model Entry Form Slides Video GA
Ahmed Kheiri Yaroslav Pylyayskyy Peter Jacko Efficient Scheduling of GECCO Conferences using Hyper-heuristic Algorithms Entry Form ECOM
SILVER Penousal Machado Tiago Martins João Correia Luis Espirito Santo Nuno Lourenço João Miguel Cunha Sérgio Rebelo From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art Entry Form Video GP, GE
Authors
Shulei Liu Wen Yao Handing Wang Wei Peng
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Rapidly Evolving Soft Robots via Action Inheritance
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Authors
Irina Maliukov Achiya Elyasaf Oded Margalit Gera Weiss
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Evolving Assembly Code in an Adversarial Environment
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Junru Song Yang Yang Wei Peng Weien Azhou Feifei Wang Wen Yao
Algorithm Type
ES
Paper(s)
MorphVAE: Advancing Morphological Design of Voxel-Based Soft Robots with Variational Autoencoders
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Jia Guo Yuji Sato Guoyuan Zhou Jiacheng Li Binghua Shi Yi Di Yan Zhou Ke Yan
Algorithm Type
ES
Paper(s)
A Gated Recurrent Unit Model with Fibonacci Attenuation Particle Swarm Optimization for Carbon Emission Prediction Pair barracuda swarm optimization algorithm: a natural-inspired metaheuristic method for high dimensional optimization A novel hermit crab optimization algorithm
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
BRONZE
Authors
Gerald Pereira David Howard Paulus Lahur Michael Breedon Phil Kilby Christian Hornung
Algorithm Type
GA -- NSGA-II
Paper(s)
Freeform generative design of complex functional structures
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Outcome
BRONZE
Authors
Yunqi Shi Ke Xue Lei Song Chao Qian
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Macro Placement by Wire-Mask-Guided Black-Box Optimization
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Media
Video
Authors
Ping Guo Fei Liu Xi Lin Qingchuan Zhao Qingfu Zhang
Algorithm Type
ES with LLM-driven operators
Paper(s)
L-AutoDA: Large Language Models for Automatically Evolving Decision-based Adversarial Attacks
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Yanan Wang Yan Pei Zerui Ma Jianqiang Li
Algorithm Type
GA -- Interactive EC
Paper(s)
A User-Guided Generation Framework for Personalized Music Synthesis Using Interactive Evolutionary Computation
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
FINALIST
Authors
Roy de Winter Bas Milatz Julian Blank Niki van Stein Thomas Bäck Kalyanmoy Deb
Algorithm Type
Surrogate-Assisted Optimization
Paper(s)
Parallel multi-objective optimization for expensive and inexpensive objectives and constraints
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Media
Video
Outcome
FINALIST
Authors
Xiao-Cheng Liao Yi Mei Mengjie Zhang
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Learning Traffic Signal Control via Genetic Programming
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Media
Video
Outcome
FINALIST
Authors
Francisco Javier Ruiz Ortega Eddie Clemente Alicia Martínez Rebollar José Jassón Flores Prieto
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
An evolutionary parsimonious approach to estimate daily reference evapotranspiration
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Outcome
GOLD
Authors
Kévin Cortacero Brienne McKenzie Sabina Müller Roxana Khazen Fanny Lafouresse Gaëlle Corsaut Nathalie Van Acker François-Xavier Frenois Laurence Lamant Nicolas Meyer Béatrice Vergier Dennis G. Wilson Hervé Luga Oskar Staufer Michael L. Dustin Salvatore Valitutti Sylvain Cussat-Blanc
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Evolutionary design of explainable algorithms for biomedical image segmentation
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Media
Video
Authors
Xiang-Ling Chen Xiao-Cheng Liao Wei-Neng Chen
Algorithm Type
GEP
Paper(s)
Heuristic Navigation Model based on Genetic Programming for Multi-UAV Power Inspection Problem with Charging Stations
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
FINALIST
Authors
Fei Liu Xialiang Tong Mingxuan Yuan Xi Lin Fu Luo Zhenkun Wang Zhichao Lu Qingfu Zhang
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Evolution of Heuristics: Towards Efficient Automatic Algorithm Design Using Large Language Model
Statement
Entry Form
Presentation
Slides
Media
Video
Authors
Ahmed Kheiri Yaroslav Pylyayskyy Peter Jacko
Algorithm Type
ECOM
Paper(s)
Efficient Scheduling of GECCO Conferences using Hyper-heuristic Algorithms
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
SILVER
Authors
Penousal Machado Tiago Martins João Correia Luis Espirito Santo Nuno Lourenço João Miguel Cunha Sérgio Rebelo
Algorithm Type
GP, GE
Paper(s)
From Pixels to Metal: AI-Empowered Numismatic Art
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video