Sarah L. Thomson π¦
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Lecturer in data science at Edinburgh Napier University. Research in evolutionary computation and explainable AI β€οΈβπ₯ Opinions/views expressed are my own.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined June 2022
The Bat Nebula, 500 light years away from Earth! π¦
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Didn't quite make the GECCO submission deadline? No worries: submit to our GECCO fitness landscape workshop (deadline in April)!! Pictured: a landscape navigation approach. @n_veerapen @aliefooghe
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We are in π§πͺ#Namur at #wivace2024 where @el_saliby just presented our work on "Factors Impacting ποΈLandscape Ruggedness in π€Control Problems" (ππΌ https://t.co/FeNlLUxpNx): brilliant presentation, bravissimo the speaker!
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Paper 2: "A Deep Dive into Effects of Structural Bias on CMA-ES Performance Along Affine Trajectories" w/ @NikivStein and Anna V. Kononova. @PPSN2024
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Both papers accepted to PPSN! I'm so happy I feel like I've been filled with lightening!!β‘οΈπ Paper 1: "Entropy, Trajectories, and Explainability for Frequency Fitness Assignment": w/ G. Ochoa, @kawarimasen, T. Liang, T. Weise. Paper 2 below. @PPSN2024
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We're so excited to announce the invited speaker for our landscape workshop at GECCO this year: Marcus Gallagher. [@marcus_marcusg] Marcus has been making substantial contributions to the field of landscape analysis for over 20 years. πͺπ¦πΊπ @n_veerapen
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@HartEmma @EdNapierSCEBE @GeccoConf 2. Temporal real and surrogate fitness landscape analysis for expensive bi-objective optimisation, w/ Cedric Rodriguez, Tanja Alderliesten, and @PeterANBosman β°οΈβ‘οΈ Preprint coming soon!
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I'm so happy! GECCO accepted two of our papers: 1. Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks, w/ Leni le Goff, @HartEmma, and Edgar Buchanan. π€π₯ Preprint here: https://t.co/8dUsG4Vq8w
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Morpho-evolution (ME) refers to the simultaneous optimisation of a robot's design and controller to maximise performance given a task and environment. Many genetic encodings have been proposed...
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Yay! Our paper "Information Flow and Laplacian Dynamics on Local Optima Networks" was accepted at IEEE CEC 2024. A very enjoyable collab w/ Hendrik Richter from HTWK Leipzig. π©πͺπ΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ€ @EdNapierSCEBE Preprint:
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Do you or your students have a nice piece of landscapey research? Consider submitting to our hybrid-format GECCO workshop ππ€ (deadline April 8th) @GeccoConf
Fitness landscapes!! Friends, our landscape-aware heuristic search workshop will be running again at GECCO 2024 (hybrid). Can't wait to see your submissions. Yay!β‘οΈπΎ @GeccoConf
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We're excited that our paper "Where the really hard quadratic assignment problems are: the QAP-SAT instances" was accepted for EvoCOP 2024!! With SΓ©bastien Verel and Omar Rifki. π«π· π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ @EvostarConf @EdNapierSCEBE
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Fitness landscapes!! Friends, our landscape-aware heuristic search workshop will be running again at GECCO 2024 (hybrid). Can't wait to see your submissions. Yay!β‘οΈπΎ @GeccoConf
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Having an inspiring research visit with the trailblazing evolutionary intelligence group at @CWInl Amsterdam led by @PeterANBosman πβ‘οΈ
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Great turnout and 9 fantastic speakers at the Workshop on Landscape-Aware Heuristic Search @GeccoConf on this first morning of #GECCO2023
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Will you be at @GeccoConf and are intrigued by fitness landscapes? Come see our workshop on Saturday morning, in Lisbon and online. We can't wait πΎβ°οΈ @n_veerapen @aliefooghe
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