Joint Light-Sensitive Balanced Butterfly Optimizer for Solving the NLO and NCO Problems of WSN for Environmental Monitoring.

Existing swarm intelligence (SI) optimization algorithms applied to node localization optimization (NLO) and node coverage optimization (NCO) problems have low accuracy. In this study, a novel balanced butterfly optimizer (BBO) is proposed which comprehensively considers that butterflies in nature have both smell-sensitive and light-sensitive characteristics. These smell-sensitive and light-sensitive characteristics are used for the global and local search strategies of the proposed algorithm, respectively. Notably, the value of individuals' smell-sensitive characteristic is generally positive, which is a point that cannot be ignored. The performance of the proposed BBO is verified by twenty-three benchmark functions and compared to other state-of-the-art (SOTA) SI algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), differential evolution (DE), grey wolf optimizer (GWO), artificial butterfly optimization (ABO), butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA), Harris hawk optimization (HHO), and aquila optimizer (AO). The results demonstrate that the proposed BBO has better performance with the global search ability and strong stability. In addition, the BBO algorithm is used to address NLO and NCO problems in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) used in environmental monitoring, obtaining good results.

MLP-Like Model With Convolution Complex Transformation for Auxiliary Diagnosis Through Medical Images.

Medical images such as facial and tongue images have been widely used for intelligence-assisted diagnosis, which can be regarded as the multi-label classification task for disease location (DL) and disease nature (DN) of biomedical images. Compared with complicated convolutional neural networks and Transformers for this task, recent MLP-like architectures are not only simple and less computationally expensive, but also have stronger generalization capabilities. However, MLP-like models require better input features from the image. Thus, this study proposes a novel convolution complex transformation MLP-like (CCT-MLP) model for the multi-label DL and DN recognition task for facial and tongue images. Notably, the convolutional Tokenizer and multiple convolutional layers are first used to extract the better shallow features from input biomedical images to make up for the loss of spatial information obtained by the simple MLP structure. Subsequently, the Channel-MLP architecture with complex transformations is used to extract deep-level contextual features. In this way, multi-channel features are extracted and mixed to perform the multi-label classification of the input biomedical images. Experimental results on our constructed multi-label facial and tongue image datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing methods in terms of both accuracy (Acc) and mean average precision (mAP).

Hybrid-Flash Butterfly Optimization Algorithm with Logistic Mapping for Solving the Engineering Constrained Optimization Problems.

Only the smell perception rule is considered in the butterfly optimization algorithm (BOA), which is prone to falling into a local optimum. Compared with the original BOA, an extra operator, i.e., color perception rule, is incorporated into the proposed hybrid-flash butterfly optimization algorithm (HFBOA), which makes it more in line with the actual foraging characteristics of butterflies in nature. Besides, updating the strategy of the control parameters by the logistic mapping is used in the HFBOA for enhancing the global optimal ability. The performance of the proposed method was verified by twelve benchmark functions, where the comparison experiment results show that the HFBOA converges quicker and has better stability for numerical optimization problems, which are compared with six state-of-the-art optimization methods. Additionally, the proposed HFBOA is successfully applied to six engineering constrained optimization problems (i.e., tubular column design, tension/compression spring design, cantilever beam design, etc.). The simulation results reveal that the proposed approach demonstrates superior performance in solving complex real-world engineering constrained tasks.