Below you can see the schedule for winter semester 2023/24. The linked lecture materials come from previous runs of the course, and they can (and probably will) be updated during the actual semester. The order of lectures can change.
Lecturer:
Competencies you should get after each lecture.
The order and contents of the lectures can change, including the competencies!
date | week | Contents | Materials | Reading |
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25.09. | 1. | Optimization. Local search and evolutionary algorithms. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20220919.) | Chapters 1, 2, intro of 3 and 3.2 from [Luke2009] |
Lecture in the exercise time slot: Successful applications of EAs. | applications_of_eas_2022.pptx (WARNING: BIG FILE), applications_of_eas_2022.pdf | |||
02.10. | 2. | Discrete EAa. Binary representation, permutations. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20210929.) MTSP video | Chapters 3.2, 3.3, 4.1 from [Luke2009]. |
09.10. | 3. | EAs with real representation. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20221003.) | Chapters 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 4.1, 9.2.3 from [Luke2009]. |
16.10. | 4. | EA with real representation (part 2). Other types of metaheuristics: PSO. ACO. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20221010.) | Chapters 3.4, 3.5 and 8 (esp. 8.3) from [Luke2009]. |
23.10. | 5. | No Free Lunch. Comparing performance of EAs. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20221017.) | Chapter 11 from [Luke2009], esp. 11.1 - 11.2. |
30.10. | 6. | Multiobjective optimization. Dominance, Pareto optimality. NSGAII, SPEA2. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20231119.) Examples of real applications | Chapter 7 from [Luke2009]. |
06.11. | 7. | Lecture cancelled due to lecturer illness. | ||
13.11. | 8. | Constraints. Penalization, stochastic ranking, multiobjective approach. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20231113.) a0m33eoa_constrainthandling.pdf | |
20.11. | 9. | Dean's day. No lecture. No lab. | ||
27.11. | 8. | Genetic programming. Basic principles and applications. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20231127.) | Chapters 3.3.3, 4.3 from [Luke2009]. |
04.12. | 11. | Grammatical evolution, Cartesian GP. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20211115.) | |
11.12. | 12. | Parallel EAs, coevolution. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20211129) | Chapters 5 and 6 from [Luke2009]. |
18.12. | 13. | Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. | Slides. Handouts. (Updated 20211122.) | Chapter 9 from [Luke2009]. |
08.01. | 14. | Presentations of semestral tasks. |
Bonus for the interested ones:
Quality-Diversity Optimization (watch online) | GECCO 2021 QD Tutorial + slides (access from FEL or via FEL VPN). Alternative: ICML 2019 Tutorial |
Neither lectures nor the labs are streamed/recorded this year. Below you can find recordings of online lectures in BigBlueButton from 2020/21 with Jiří Kubalík and Petr Pošík as the lecturers.