A Growing Paper List of Evolutionary Computation (EC) and Swarm Intelligence (SI) on Top-Tier Publications (e.g., Nature, Science, etc.)

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This is an actively updated paper list for evolutionary computation (EC) and Swarm Intelligence (SI) to keep growing from Jan 26, 2021. Owing to the abundance of literature, however, we believe that many interesting works are still missed here. If you find them missed here, welcome to contact with us via Issues or Pull requests to kindly add. Recently (2023), we have noticed that some other research group(s) also starts to adopt a very similar way to collect the related literature regarding EC, which is really a good news.

NOTE: Although our initial goal was to cover only parallel and distributed EC, now our focus is switched to Evolutionary Computation (EC) researches and applications for (>30) chosen journals and conferences (such as Nature, Science, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), PRL (Physical Review Letters), JACS, PIEEE, Nature Physics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Materials, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Geoscience, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Sustainability, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Communications, Science Robotics, JACM (Journal of the ACM), CACM (Communications of the ACM), FOCS (IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science), JMLR (Journal of Machine Learning Research), AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal), NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems), ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning), etc.) besides EC-specific publications (e.g., ECJ/IEEE-TEVC/ACM-TELO/ACM-FOGA/PPSN/ACM-GECCO/[IEEE-CEC]()/...). For EC-focused publications, currently still only Parallel/Distributed EC are covered. The total number of journals and conferences chosen in this repository are still considered to increase in the future given that now only a subset is added here (sorry for this).

Summary Scope

WARNING: In this paper repository, we do NOT judge the scientific(theoretical)/engineering(practical) value of each paper, since such a value judgement is often a non-trival task. Instead, we ONLY provide a widely-accessible platform to collect papers regarding EC on some (rather all) top-tier and also related EC-focused journals as much as possible. Since only PDEC are covered for EC-focused publications, this paper collection may be somewhat biased, which should be noticed.

| Publication Type | Publication Name | Search Range | Collection | | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | | Multidiscipline | Nature | EC | www | Multidiscipline | Science | EC | www | Physics | PRL (Physical Review Letters) | EC | www | Multidiscipline | PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) | EC | www.md) | Multidiscipline | PIEEE (Proceedings of the IEEE) | EC | www | Multidiscipline | Nature Communications | EC | www | Multidiscipline | Nature Machine Intelligence | EC | www | CS | JACM (Journal of the ACM) | EC | www | CS | CACM (Communications of the ACM) | EC | www | CS | TIT (IEEE Transactions on Information Theory) | EC | www | CS | SICOMP (SIAM Journal on Computing) | EC | www | CS | FOCS (IEEE Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science) | EC | www | Artificial Intelligence (AI) - CCF-A | JMLR (Journal of Machine Learning Research) | EC | www.md) | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | AIJ (Artificial Intelligence Journal) | EC | www | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | TPAMI (IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence) | EC | www | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | JAIR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research) | EC | www | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | ICLR (International Conference on Learning Representations) | EC | www | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) | EC | www.md) | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) | EC | www-International-Conference-on-Machine-Learning.md) | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | COLT (Conference on Learning Theory) | EC | www | Neural Networks | NECO (Neural Computation) | EC | www | Neural Networks | Neural Networks | EC | www | Neural Networks | TNNLS (IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems) | EC | www | Parallel/Distributed Systems | TPDS (IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems) | PDEC | www | Parallel/Distributed Systems | OSDI (USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | Science Robotics | EC | www | Control/Robotics | TAC (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | IJRR (International Journal of Robotics Research) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | TRO (IEEE Transactions on Robotics) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | TMRB (IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | RSS (Robotics: Science and Systems) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | ICRA (IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation) | EC | www | Control/Robotics | Biological Cybernetics | EC | www | Software | TOMS (ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software) | EC | www | Optimization | MP (Mathematical Programming) | EC | www.md) | Optimization | SIOPT (SIAM Journal on Optimization) | EC | www | Optimization | OR (Operations Research) | EC | www | Optimization | MOOR (Mathematics of Operations Research) | EC | www | Optimization | JOTA (Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications) | EC | www | Optimization | JGO (Journal of Global Optimization) | EC | www | Computer Vision | IJCV (International Journal of Computer Vision) | EC | www | Computer Vision | CVPR (IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) | EC | www | Computer Vision | ICCV (IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision) | EC | www | Computer Graphics | TOG (ACM Transactions on Graphics) | EC | www | Computer Graphics | TVCG (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics) | EC | www | Theoretical CS | TCS (Theoretical Computer Science) | EC | www | Physics | Physical Review A (PRA) | EC | www | Physics | npjqi (npj Quantum Information) | EC | www | Chemistry | JACS (Journal of the American Chemical Society) | EC | www | Chemistry | Nature Chemistry | EC | www | Chemistry | Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP) | EC | www | Materials | Nature Materials | EC | www | Astronautics&Aeronautics | AIAA Journal | EC | www | Biology | Nature Genetics | EC | www | Biology | Nature Ecology & Evolution | EC | www | Computer Systems | [Design Automation Conference (DAC)]() | EC | [www]() | Computer Systems | [International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)]() | EC | www.md) | Computer Systems | [Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE)]() | EC | www.md) | Astronomy | Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) | EC/SI | www.md) | Astronomy | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) | EC/SI | www.md) | Astronomy | The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) | EC/SI | www.md) | EC | ECJ (Evolutionary Computation Journal) | PDEC | www | EC | TELO (ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization) | PDEC | www | EC | TEVC (IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation) | PDEC | www | EC | PPSN (Parallel Problem Solving from Nature) | PDEC | www

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs)

"Responsible for adaptation, optimization, and innovation in the living world, evolution executes a simple algorithm of diversifcation and natural selection, an algorithm that works at all levels of complexity from single protein molecules to whole ecosystems."---Nobel Lecture, by Frances H. Arnold, California Institute of Technology

Here, we consider a family of evolutionary algorithms (and also several closely-related techniques, e.g. random search and simulated annealing). Since initially we focused primarily on their parallel/distributed versions and variants, we provide a reference list for their original / seminal / landmark / survey / review / opinion papers, in order to help better understand them (especially for newcomers). We strongly suggest to see e.g. 2015's Review paper in Nature or 1993's Review paper in Science.

Four Conventional EAs

* Genetic Algorithms (GA) * Evolution Strategies (ES) [applications ] * Covariance Matrix Adaptation ES (CMA-ES) * Evolutionary Programming (EP) * Genetic Programming (GP)

Two Swarm Intelligence (SI) Siblings

* Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) * Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) / Consensus-based Optimization (CBO)

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization (EMO) Frameworks

* Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) * Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D)

Several Relatively New Extensions/Improvements/Variants

* Co-Evolutionary Algorithms (CEA) * CoOperative co-Evolutionary Algorithms (COEA) * CoMpetitive co-Evolutionary Algorithms (CMEA) * Differential Evolution (DE) * Memetic Algorithms (MA) * Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDA) * Natural Evolution Strategies (NES) * Quality-Diversity (QD) * Multidimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (MAP-Elites)

* Open-Ended Evolution Common Individual-based Counterparts/Baselines/Competitors (especially for their stochastic* versions) * Random Search (RS) * Local Search (LS) / Hill Climbers (HC) * Simulated Annealing (SA) * Tabu Search (TS)

"Frequently nonadditive interaction (i.e., "epistasis" or "nonlinearity") makes it impossible to determine the performance of a structure from a study of its isolated parts. While these difficulties pose a real problem for the analyst, we know that they are routinely handled by biological adaptive processes, qua processes."---[[John H. Holland, Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis with Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligence, 1992]](https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262581110/adaptation-in-natural-and-artificial-systems/)

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