Xin Yao

67.0k total citations · 24 hit papers
875 papers, 44.3k citations indexed

About

Xin Yao is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Xin Yao has authored 875 papers receiving a total of 44.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 495 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 219 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 85 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Xin Yao's work include Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (291 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (226 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (207 papers). Xin Yao is often cited by papers focused on Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (291 papers), Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (226 papers) and Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (207 papers). Xin Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Australia. Xin Yao's co-authors include Ke Tang, Yong Liu, Guangming Lin, Xiaodong Li, Leandro L. Minku, Thomas Philip Rúnarsson, Shuo Wang, Zhenyu Yang, Mohammad Nabi Omidvar and Yi Mei and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Clinical Oncology and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Xin Yao

834 papers receiving 42.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Evolutionary programming made faster

1999 2.9k citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Evolving artificial neural networks

1999 2.0k citations Xin Yao profile →
Stochastic ranking for constrained evolutionary optimization

2000 1.3k citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Survey on Evolutionary Computation Approaches to Feature Selection

2015 1.2k citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
MWMOTE--Majority Weighted Minority Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Data Set Learning

2012 828 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →
Large scale evolutionary optimization using cooperative coevolution

2008 753 citations Ke Tang, Xin Yao et al. profile →
Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

2015 620 citations Bingdong Li, Ke Tang et al. profile →
Diversity creation methods: a survey and categorisation

2004 616 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →
Cooperatively Coevolving Particle Swarms for Large Scale Optimization

2011 591 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A New Dominance Relation-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

2015 590 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A new evolutionary system for evolving artificial neural networks

1997 582 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →
Cooperative Co-Evolution With Differential Grouping for Large Scale Optimization

2013 559 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Constrained Multiobjective Optimization

2018 468 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Two_Arch2: An Improved Two-Archive Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

2014 451 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Using Class Imbalance Learning for Software Defect Prediction

2013 433 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →
Multiclass Imbalance Problems: Analysis and Potential Solutions

2012 417 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →
Diversity analysis on imbalanced data sets by using ensemble models

2009 391 citations Xin Yao et al. University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) profile →
A benchmark test suite for evolutionary many-objective optimization

2017 375 citations Miqing Li, Xin Yao et al. profile →
Balancing Convergence and Diversity in Decomposition-Based Many-Objective Optimizers

2015 326 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation

2019 237 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Survey of Automatic Parameter Tuning Methods for Metaheuristics

2019 236 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Evolutionary Generative Adversarial Networks

2019 235 citations Xin Yao et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Quality Evaluation of Solution Sets in Multiobjective Optimisation

2019 229 citations Miqing Li, Xin Yao profile →
An Overview of Artificial Intelligence Ethics

2022 170 citations Xin Yao et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Coping With a Severely Changing Number of Objectives in Dynamic Multiobjective Optimization 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation ·Gan Ruan, (unknown), Xin Yao	0
2	Characterization of cooked off-flavor volatile sulfur-containing compounds in green tea and their thermal inhibition via (−)-epigallocatechin gallate 2024 ·Food Chemistry ·Xin Yao, Yangyang Li, Jun Tang, (unknown), Yanyan Zhang, Xiaochun Wan, Guoyu Zhang, Xiaoting Zhai	3
3	Negatively correlated ensemble against transfer adversarial attacks 2024 ·Pattern Recognition ·(unknown), Wei Huang, (unknown), Xin Yao	0
4	Accelerating surrogate assisted evolutionary algorithms for expensive multi-objective optimization via explainable machine learning 2024 ·Swarm and Evolutionary Computation ·Bingdong Li, (unknown), Dacheng Liu, Yan Zhang, Aimin Zhou, Xin Yao	5
5	Optimal Dispatch Strategy of Wind-Hydrogen Coupling System Considering Stepped Carbon Trading Mechanism 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity ·(unknown), Xin Yao, Chong Li, (unknown), (unknown), Shaohua Ma	5
6	Twin Fuzzy Networks With Interpolation Consistency Regularization for Weakly Supervised Anomaly Detection 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems ·Zhi Cao, Ye Shi, Yu‐Cheng Chang, Xin Yao, Chin‐Teng Lin	1
7	Knowledge Transfer for Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization With a Changing Number of Objectives 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence ·Gan Ruan, Leandro L. Minku, Stefan Menzel, Bernhard Sendhoff, Xin Yao	2
8	An Iterative Machine Learning Approach to Informative Performance Reporting in Dynamic Multi-Objective Optimization 2023 ·(unknown), Michael Kirley, Xin Yao	1
9	How Good is Neural Combinatorial Optimization? A Systematic Evaluation on the Traveling Salesman Problem 2023 ·IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine ·Shengcai Liu, (unknown), Ke Tang, Xin Yao	24
10	Hydrogenolysis of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural by in situ produced hydrogen from water on an iron catalyst 2023 ·Catalysis Science & Technology ·Xin Li, Rui Peng, Tongqi Ye, Xin Yao, Rulong Zhou, Dongdong Li, Sheng Wang, James Carter, Graham J. Hutchings	6
11	New Reliability-Driven Bounds for Architecture-Based Multi-Objective Testing Resource Allocation 2022 ·IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering ·Guofu Zhang, (unknown), Zhaopin Su, (unknown), Miqing Li, Bin Li, Xin Yao	0
12	Damage assessment of aircraft wing subjected to blast wave with finite element method and artificial neural network tool 2022 ·Defence Technology ·(unknown), Yang Pei, Xin Yao, (unknown)	8
13	Quantifying The Generative Capabilities Of Variational Autoencoders For 3D Car Point Clouds 2020 ·University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) ·(unknown), Stefan Menzel, Leandro L. Minku, Xin Yao, Bernhard Sendhoff, Patricia Wollstadt	14
14	Consensus Learning for Distributed Fuzzy Neural Network in Big Data Environment 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence ·Ye Shi, Chin‐Teng Lin, Yu‐Cheng Chang, Weiping Ding, Yuhui Shi, Xin Yao	18
15	NGA-Inspired Nanorobots-Assisted Detection of Multifocal Cancer 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics ·(unknown), Yifan Chen, Xin Yao	17
16	Microrobots Based In Vivo Evolutionary Computation in Two-Dimensional Microchannel Network 2019 ·IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Teng Jiang, Guangzhi Zhu, Xin Yao, U Kei Cheang, Yifan Chen	9
17	Semisupervised Negative Correlation Learning 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems ·Huanhuan Chen, Bingbing Jiang, Xin Yao	17
18	A Cluster-Based Semisupervised Ensemble for Multiclass Classification 2017 ·IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence ·Rodrigo G. F. Soares, Huanhuan Chen, Xin Yao	23
19	A novel co-evolutionary approach to automatic software bug fixing 2008 ·University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) ·Andrea Arcuri, Xin Yao	163
20	Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VIII : 8th International Conference, Birmingham, UK, September 18-22, 2004. Proceedings 2004 ·Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) ·Xin Yao, Edmund Burke, José A. Lozano, James E. Smith, J. J. Merelo, John A. Bullinaria, Jonathan E. Rowe, Peter Tiňo, Ata Kabán, Hans–Paul Schwefel	19

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