18th Annual Humies Awards — 2021 — ONLINE, scheduled for Lille, France

Outcome Authors Paper(s) Statement Presentation Media Algorithm Type
Michela Lorandi Leonardo Lucio Custode Giovanni Iacca First Entry: Genetic Improvement of Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks Entry Form GP, Genetic Improvement
Hyunho Mo Leonardo Lucio Custode Giovanni Iacca Second Entry: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Remaining Useful Life Prediction Entry Form GA
Maximilian Böther Leon Schiller Philipp Fischbeck Louise Molitor Martin S. Krejca Tobias Friedrich Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion Entry Form GA
BRONZE AWARD Daniel Blasco Jaime Font Mar Zamorano Carlos Cetina An Evolutionary Approach for Generating Software Models: The Case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering Entry Form Video Genetic Modeling
SILVER AWARD Marco Virgolin Ziyuan Wang Tanja Alderliesten Peter A. N. Bosman Brian Balgobind Irma W.E.M. van Dijk Jan Wirsma Petra Kroon Gert Janssens Marcel van Herk David Hodgson Lorna Zadravec Zalatel Coen Rasch Arjan Bel Paper A: Machine learning for the prediction of pseudorealistic pediatric abdominal phantoms for radiation dose reconstruction Paper B: Surrogate-free machine learning-based organ dose reconstruction for pediatric abdominal radiotherapy Entry Form Video GP
Claude Carlet Stjepan Picek Domagoj Jakobovic Evolutionary Algorithms Assisted Construction of Cryptographic Boolean Functions Entry Form GA, GP, and ES
Domagoj Jakobovic Luca Manzoni Luca Mariot Stjepan Picek CoinGP: Convolutional Inpainting with Genetic Programming Entry Form GP
Azam Asilian Bidgoli Steven Trumble Shahryar Rahnamayan Discovering Numerous Strassen's Equivalent Equations Using a Simple Micro Multimodal GA: Evolution in Action Entry Form GA
Gustavo Olague Gerardo Ibarra-Vazquez Mariana Chan-Ley Cesar Puente Carlos Soubervielle-Montalvo A deep genetic programming based methodology for art media classification robust to adversarial perturbations Automated Design of Accurate and Robust Image Classifiers with Brain Programming Entry Form GP
Pedro Carvalho Nuno Lourenço Filipe Assunção Penousal Machado AutoLR: an evolutionary approach to learning rate policies Evolving Learning Rate Optimizers for Deep Neural Networks Entry Form GP and Structured Grammatical Evolution (SGE)
Finalist Andrew Nader Danielle Azar Paper 1: Searching for activation functions using a self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm Paper 2: Evolution of Activation Functions: An Empirical Investigation Entry Form Video GP
GOLD AWARD Esteban Real Chen Liang David R. So Quoc V. Le AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch Entry Form Video Linear GP
Finalist Matthew Witten Owen Clancey Feasibility of Genetic Programming for the Optimization of Tissue-Type-Segmented Maps in the Generation of Synthetic CT in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Entry Form Video GP
Alexander Hvatov Mikhail Maslyaev Anna Kalyuzhnaya The data-driven physical-based equations discovery using evolutionary approach Partial differential equations discovery with EPDE framework: application for real and synthetic data Multi-Objective Discovery of PDE Systems Using Evolutionary Approach Entry Form GP
Aidan Murphy Muhammad Sarmad Ali Gra'inne Murphy Jorge L. M. Amaral Douglas Mota Dias Enrique Naredo Conor Ryan Towards Incorporating Human Knowledge in Fuzzy Pattern Tree Evolution Grammar-based Fuzzy Pattern Trees for Classification Problems Entry Form Grammatical Evolution
Luigi Penco Enrico Hoffman Valerio Modugno Waldez Azevedo-Gomes Junior Jean-Baptiste Mouret Serena Ivaldi Learning Robust Task Priorities and Gains for Control of Redundant Robots Entry Form Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
Adam Gaier Alexander Asteroth Jean-Baptiste Mouret Discovering Representations for Black-box Optimization Entry Form Quality Diversity (QD) algorithm followed by a machine learning algorithm followed by ES
Finalist Nikolay Nikitin Yana Polonskaia Pavel Vychuzhanin Irina Barabanova Revin Ilia Alexander Hvatov Alexander Boukhanovsky Anna Kalyuzhnaya Multi-Objective Evolutionary Design of Composite Data-Driven Models Structural Evolutionary Learning for Composite Classification Models Automatic evolutionary learning of composite models with knowledge enrichment Entry Form Video GP
Xingxing Hao Rong Qu Jing Liu A Unified Framework of Graph-based Evolutionary Multitasking Hyper-Heuristic Entry Form GA
Hajira Jabeen Jonas Weinz Jens Lehman AutoChef: Automated Generation of Cooking Recipes Entry Form GP
Authors
Michela Lorandi Leonardo Lucio Custode Giovanni Iacca
Algorithm Type
GP, Genetic Improvement
Paper(s)
First Entry: Genetic Improvement of Routing Protocols for Delay Tolerant Networks
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Hyunho Mo Leonardo Lucio Custode Giovanni Iacca
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Second Entry: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Remaining Useful Life Prediction
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Maximilian Böther Leon Schiller Philipp Fischbeck Louise Molitor Martin S. Krejca Tobias Friedrich
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Evolutionary Minimization of Traffic Congestion
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
BRONZE AWARD
Authors
Daniel Blasco Jaime Font Mar Zamorano Carlos Cetina
Algorithm Type
Genetic Modeling
Paper(s)
An Evolutionary Approach for Generating Software Models: The Case of Kromaia in Game Software Engineering
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Outcome
SILVER AWARD
Authors
Marco Virgolin Ziyuan Wang Tanja Alderliesten Peter A. N. Bosman Brian Balgobind Irma W.E.M. van Dijk Jan Wirsma Petra Kroon Gert Janssens Marcel van Herk David Hodgson Lorna Zadravec Zalatel Coen Rasch Arjan Bel
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Paper A: Machine learning for the prediction of pseudorealistic pediatric abdominal phantoms for radiation dose reconstruction Paper B: Surrogate-free machine learning-based organ dose reconstruction for pediatric abdominal radiotherapy
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Authors
Claude Carlet Stjepan Picek Domagoj Jakobovic
Algorithm Type
GA, GP, and ES
Paper(s)
Evolutionary Algorithms Assisted Construction of Cryptographic Boolean Functions
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Domagoj Jakobovic Luca Manzoni Luca Mariot Stjepan Picek
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
CoinGP: Convolutional Inpainting with Genetic Programming
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Azam Asilian Bidgoli Steven Trumble Shahryar Rahnamayan
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
Discovering Numerous Strassen's Equivalent Equations Using a Simple Micro Multimodal GA: Evolution in Action
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Gustavo Olague Gerardo Ibarra-Vazquez Mariana Chan-Ley Cesar Puente Carlos Soubervielle-Montalvo
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
A deep genetic programming based methodology for art media classification robust to adversarial perturbations Automated Design of Accurate and Robust Image Classifiers with Brain Programming
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Pedro Carvalho Nuno Lourenço Filipe Assunção Penousal Machado
Algorithm Type
GP and Structured Grammatical Evolution (SGE)
Paper(s)
AutoLR: an evolutionary approach to learning rate policies Evolving Learning Rate Optimizers for Deep Neural Networks
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
Finalist
Authors
Andrew Nader Danielle Azar
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Paper 1: Searching for activation functions using a self-adaptive evolutionary algorithm Paper 2: Evolution of Activation Functions: An Empirical Investigation
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Outcome
GOLD AWARD
Authors
Esteban Real Chen Liang David R. So Quoc V. Le
Algorithm Type
Linear GP
Paper(s)
AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Outcome
Finalist
Authors
Matthew Witten Owen Clancey
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Feasibility of Genetic Programming for the Optimization of Tissue-Type-Segmented Maps in the Generation of Synthetic CT in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Authors
Alexander Hvatov Mikhail Maslyaev Anna Kalyuzhnaya
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
The data-driven physical-based equations discovery using evolutionary approach Partial differential equations discovery with EPDE framework: application for real and synthetic data Multi-Objective Discovery of PDE Systems Using Evolutionary Approach
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Aidan Murphy Muhammad Sarmad Ali Gra'inne Murphy Jorge L. M. Amaral Douglas Mota Dias Enrique Naredo Conor Ryan
Algorithm Type
Grammatical Evolution
Paper(s)
Towards Incorporating Human Knowledge in Fuzzy Pattern Tree Evolution Grammar-based Fuzzy Pattern Trees for Classification Problems
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Luigi Penco Enrico Hoffman Valerio Modugno Waldez Azevedo-Gomes Junior Jean-Baptiste Mouret Serena Ivaldi
Algorithm Type
Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms
Paper(s)
Learning Robust Task Priorities and Gains for Control of Redundant Robots
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Adam Gaier Alexander Asteroth Jean-Baptiste Mouret
Algorithm Type
Quality Diversity (QD) algorithm followed by a machine learning algorithm followed by ES
Paper(s)
Discovering Representations for Black-box Optimization
Statement
Entry Form
Outcome
Finalist
Authors
Nikolay Nikitin Yana Polonskaia Pavel Vychuzhanin Irina Barabanova Revin Ilia Alexander Hvatov Alexander Boukhanovsky Anna Kalyuzhnaya
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
Multi-Objective Evolutionary Design of Composite Data-Driven Models Structural Evolutionary Learning for Composite Classification Models Automatic evolutionary learning of composite models with knowledge enrichment
Statement
Entry Form
Media
Video
Authors
Xingxing Hao Rong Qu Jing Liu
Algorithm Type
GA
Paper(s)
A Unified Framework of Graph-based Evolutionary Multitasking Hyper-Heuristic
Statement
Entry Form
Authors
Hajira Jabeen Jonas Weinz Jens Lehman
Algorithm Type
GP
Paper(s)
AutoChef: Automated Generation of Cooking Recipes
Statement
Entry Form