van Stein, Niki

1. LLaMEA: A Large Language Model Evolutionary Algorithm for Automatically Generating Metaheuristics
   2024/05/30 by Bas van Stein, Thomas Bäck, van Stein, Niki +1 · 21 citations
   Computer Science · #Software Engineering Techniques and Practices #Software Engineering Research #Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies
2. Multi-Step Reasoning with Large Language Models, a Survey
   2024/07/16 by Aske Plaat, Plaat, Aske, Annie Wong +9 · 18 citations
   Computer Science · #Natural Language Processing Techniques
3. In-the-loop Hyper-Parameter Optimization for LLM-Based Automated Design of Heuristics
   2024/10/07 by Niki van Stein, Diederick Vermetten, van Stein, Niki +3 · 7 citations
   Decision Sciences · Engineering · #Advanced Control Systems Optimization #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #Real-time simulation and control systems #Simulation Techniques and Applications
4. How does Chain of Thought Think? Mechanistic Interpretability of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning with Sparse Autoencoding
   2025/07/24 by X. Chen, Chen, Xi, Aske Plaat +3 · 6 citations
   Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Mental Health Research Topics
5. Diffusion and Flow Matching Models for Tabular Data: A Survey
   2025/02/24 by Zhong Li, Qi Huang, Li, Zhong +12 · 3 citations
   Computer Science · #Data Management and Algorithms #Advanced Database Systems and Queries
6. Shapelet-based Model-agnostic Counterfactual Local Explanations for Time Series Classification
   2024/02/02 by Huang, Qi, Chen, Wei, Bäck, Thomas +1 · 1 citation
   #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG)
7. A Functional Analysis Approach to Symbolic Regression
   2024/02/09 by Antonov, Kirill, Kalkreuth, Roman, Yang, Kaifeng +3 · 1 citation
   #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
8. Code Evolution Graphs: Understanding Large Language Model Driven Design of Algorithms
   2025/03/20 by Bas van Stein, Anna V. Kononova, van Stein, Niki +5 · 2 citations
   Computer Science · Materials Science · #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling #Machine Learning in Materials Science
9. Evolutionary Computation and Explainable AI: A Roadmap to Understandable Intelligent Systems
   2024/06/12 by Zhou, Ryan, Bacardit, Jaume, Brownlee, Alexander +7 · 1 citation
   #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
10. Landscape-Aware Automated Algorithm Configuration using Multi-output Mixed Regression and Classification
    2024/09/02 by Fu Xing Long, Long, Fu Xing, Moritz Frenzel +9 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · #Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning and Data Classification #Neural Networks and Applications #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
11. TX-Gen: Multi-Objective Optimization for Sparse Counterfactual Explanations for Time-Series Classification
    2024/09/14 by Huang, Qi, Kitharidis, Sofoklis, Bäck, Thomas +1 · 1 citation
    #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
12. Stalling in Space: Attractor Analysis for any Algorithm
    2024/12/20 by Sarah L. Thomson, Thomson, Sarah L., Quentin Renau +9 · 1 citation
    Computer Science · Engineering · #Robotic Path Planning Algorithms #Space Satellite Systems and Control #Spacecraft Dynamics and Control
13. BLADE: Benchmark suite for LLM-driven Automated Design and Evolution of iterative optimisation heuristics
    2025/04/28 by van Stein, Niki, Kononova, Anna V., Yin, Haoran +1 · 3 citations
    #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE) #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
14. CoComposer: LLM Multi-agent Collaborative Music Composition
    2025/08/29 by Xing, Peiwen, Plaat, Aske, van Stein, Niki · 1 citation
    #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Electrical engineering #Multimedia (cs.MM) #Sound (cs.SD) #electronic engineering #information engineering
15. Evolutionary Computation and Large Language Models: A Survey of Methods, Synergies, and Applications
    2025/05/21 by Chauhan, Dikshit, Dutta, Bapi, Bala, Indu +3 · 2 citations
    #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2.11 #I.2.7 #Multiagent Systems (cs.MA) #Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)