Biography

Recent Projects

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Selected Publications

I'm interested in using advanced Estimation of Distribution for many types of optimization (e.g. Combinatorial, Continuous, Multi-Objective, and Constraint problems).

Journal Papers:

1. Multi-Objective IoT Service Composition with Replication Using Memetic NSGA-II with Bottleneck-Driven Local Search
   Fengyang Sun, Gang Chen, Hui Ma, Sven Hartmann
   Future Generation Computer Systems 2025, 175:108039 | paper |

2. NEEP-ADF: Neuro-Encoded Expression Programming with Automatically Defined Functions
   Jun Ma, Haoran Shan, Fengyang Sun, Lin Wang, Shuangrong Liu, Houguan Zhu, Fenghui Gao, Junteng Zheng, Bo Yang, Qinfei Li
   Information Sciences 2025, 704:121957 | paper |

3. Factorization of broad expansion for broad learning system
   Jun Ma, Jiawei Fan, Lin Wang, CL Philip Chen, Bo Yang, Fengyang Sun, Jin Zhou, Xiaojing Zhang, Fenghui Gao, Na Zhang
   Information Sciences 2023, 630:271-285 | paper |

4. Nearest vertex attraction for actively reducing loss
   Fengyang Sun, Shuo Kong, Xiaojing Zhang, Lin Wang, Bo Yang, Shuangrong Liu, Qidong Wang
   Cognitive Systems Research 2021, 70:18-28 | paper |

5. A Neuro-diversified Benchmark Generator for Black Box Optimization
   Fengyang Sun, Lin Wang, Bo Yang
   Information Sciences 2021, 573:475-492 | paper | code

Conference Papers:

1. NEEP-RLAO: Neural Encoded Expression Programming with Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Optimization
   Haoran Shan, Liangliang Zhang, Fengyang Sun, Yingqi Li, Lin Wang, Pan Zhang, Wenwei Wang, Bo Yang
   International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2019), 375-387 | paper |

2. Improving Controllability of Chaotic Landscape Generators by Property Evolution
   Bo Zhang, Fengyang Sun, Lin Wang, Bo Yang
   IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2025), 1-8 | paper |

3. Population-Based Incremental Learning for Effective IoT Service Composition with Replication
   Fengyang Sun, Gang Chen, Hui Ma, Sven Hartmann
   IEEE International Conference on Software Services Engineering (SSE 2025), 74-76 | paper |

4. IoT Service Composition—An Estimation of Distribution Algorithm with Adaptive Bias
   Fengyang Sun, Hui Ma, Gang Chen, Sven Hartmann
   IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2023), 1-8 | paper |

5. OPT-GAN: a broad-spectrum global optimizer for black-box problems by learning distribution
   Minfang Lu, Shuai Ning, Shuangrong Liu, Fengyang Sun, Bo Zhang, Bo Yang, Lin Wang
   Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2023), 37(10):12462-12472 | paper |

6. A novel graphic bending transformation on benchmark
   Chunxiuzi Liu, Fengyang Sun, Qingrui Ni, Lin Wang, Bo Yang
   IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2020), 1538-1543 | paper |

7. A Novel Velocity Reinforced Mechanism on Improving Particle Swarm optimization for Ill-conditioned Problems
   Fengyang Sun, Chunxiuzi Liu, Linping Wu, Lin Wang, Shuangrong Liu, Bo Yang
   IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2020), 1-8 | paper |

8. A Novel Neural Network-based Symbolic Regression Method: Neuro-Encoded Expression Programming
   Aftab Anjum#, Fengyang Sun#, Lin Wang, Jeff Orchard
   International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2019) (# equal contribution) | paper | code

9. Chinese herbal medicine classification using convolutional neural network with multiscale images and data augmentation
   Tianhao Li, Fengyang Sun, Runyuan Sun, Lin Wang, Meihui Li, Huawei Yang
   International Conference on Security, Pattern Analysis, and Cybernetics (SPAC 2018), 109-113 | paper |

10. A Novel Multi-population Particle Swarm Optimization with Learning Patterns Evolved by Genetic Algorithm
    Chunxiuzi Liu, Fengyang Sun, Qingbei Guo, Lin Wang, Bo Yang
    International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2018), 70-80 | paper |

11. Edge Detection for Cement Images Based on Interactive Genetic Algorithm
    Guangyue Gao, Lin Wang, Bo Yang, Liangliang Zhang, Fengyang Sun, Ajith Abraham, Shuangrong Liu
    International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2017), 41-50 | paper |

12. A Novel Method for Generating Benchmark Functions Using Recurrent Neural Network
    Fengyang Sun, Lin Wang, Bo Yang, Jin Zhou, Zhenxiang Chen
    International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2017), 768-773 | paper |

13. Improving Multi-layer Particle Swarm Optimization Using Powell Methodk
    Fengyang Sun, Lin Wang, Bo Yang, Zhenxiang Chen, Jin Zhou, Kun Tang, Jinyan Wu
    International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2017), 166-173 | paper |

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