'NRF FRC Report on AI', In the Research, Innovation, and Enterprise 2025 (RIE 2025) R&D funding tranche, the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore launched a series of Foundational Research Capability (FRC) studies on cornerstones of modern science and technology that deserve attention and investment. One of the identified focus areas for an FRC study was AI where the study team assesses global and local AI research trends to identify the New Foundations of AI that are deem as key to the future of AI and its impact to the world at large.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TOPICS IN COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, IEEE CIS,
Founding Editor-in-Chief: Yew-Soon Ong
Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multitask Evolutionary Computation, A. Gupta, Y.S. Ong, K. De Jong and M. Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 26, No. 2, pps. 202-205, 2022.
'Memetic Computation: The Mainspring of Knowledge Transfer in a Data-Driven Optimization Era', 2019, Authors: Abhishek, Gupta and Yew-Soon, Ong Abstract: This book bridges the widening gap between two crucial constituents of computational intelligence: the rapidly advancing technologies of machine learning in the digital information age, and the relatively slow-moving field of general-purpose search and optimization algorithms. With this in mind, the book serves to offer a data-driven view of optimization, through the framework of memetic computation (MC).
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Y. S. Ong and A. Gupta, "AIR5: Five Pillars of Artificial Intelligence Research", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2019. Available here: PDF file.
S. W. Tan and Y. S. Ong, "Singlish-speaking robots and otherways to make AI work for S'pore and beyond", Published in The Straits Times, 14 December 2019. Available here: Straits Times News.
Y. S. Ong and K. H. Lim, "Making Artificial Intelligence work for Sustainability
", Published in The Straits Times, 28th February 2022. Available here: Straits Times News, and
Technology Magazine.
Selected Refereed Publications
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - MACHINE LEARNING
J. Dong, P. Koniusz, J. Chen, J. Wang, and Y. S. Ong, “Robust Distillation via Untargeted and Targeted Intermediate Adversarial Samples”, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2024), , June 17-21, 2024, Seattle, USA.
H. X. Choong, Y. S. Ong, A. Gupta, C. Chen and R. Lim, “Jack and Masters of All Trades: One-pass Learning Sets of Model Sets from Large Pre-trained Models”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 18, No. 3, pps. 29-40, 2023. Available here as PDF file.
Q. Fu, Q. Xu, Y. S. Ong and W. Tao, “Geo-Neus: Geometry-Consistent Neural Implicit Surfaces Learning for Multi-view Reconstruction”, Thirty-Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022), Nov 28 - Dec 09, 2022. Available here as PDF file.
J. Xie, X. Zhan, Z. Liu, Y. S. Ong and C. C. Loy, “Unsupervised Object-Level Representation Learning from Scene Images
”, Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), 6 - 14 December, 2021. Available here as PDF file.
T. T. He, Y. S. Ong and L. Bai, “Learning Conjoint Attentions for Graph Neural Nets
”, Thirty-fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2021), 6 - 14 December, 2021. Available here as PDF file.
J. C. Wong, A. Gupta and Y. S. Ong, “Can Transfer Neuroevolution Tractably Solve Your Differential Equations?
”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In Press, 2021. Available here as PDF file. Source code available here tNES.
L. Bai, W. Lin, A. Gupta and Y. S. Ong, “From Multi-Task Gradient Descent to Gradient-Free Evolutionary Multitasking: A Proof of Faster Convergence”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 52, No. 8, pps. 8561-8573, 2022. Available here as PDF file.
A. Chan and Y. S. Ong, B. Pung, A. Zhang, J. Fu,CoCon: A Self-Supervised Approach for Controlled Text Generation
”, The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-2021), 4-8 May, 2021.
X. Qu, Y. S. Ong and A. Gupta, “Frame-Correlation Transfers Trigger Economical Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 52, No. 8, pps. 7577 - 7590, 2022.
A. Chan, Y. Tay and Y. S. Ong, “What it Thinks is Important is Important: Robustness Transfers through Input Gradients”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2020), 16-18 June, 2020, Seattle, Washington.
P. Wei, R. Sagarna, Y. Ke and Y. S. Ong, “Easy-but-effective Domain Sub-similarity Learning for Transfer Regression”, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, In Press, 2020.
X. Zhan, J. Xie, Z. Liu, Y. S. Ong and C. C. Loy, “Online Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Representation Learning”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-2020), 16-18 June, 2020, Seattle, Washington.
A. Chan, Y. Tay, Y. S. Ong and J. Fu, “Jacobian adversarially regularized networks for robustness”, The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR-2020), 26-30 April, 2020, Millennium Hall, Addis Ababa Ethiopia.
H. T. Liu, Y. S. Ong, X. Shen, and J. F. Cai, “When Gaussian Process Meets Big Data: A Review of Scalable GPs”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 31, No. 11, 2020. Available here as PDF file.
Y. S. Ong and A. Gupta, “AIR5: Five Pillars of Artificial Intelligence Research”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 5, pps. 411 - 415, 2019. Available here as PDF file
B. Da, A. Gupta, Y. S. Ong, “Curbing Negative Influences Online for Seamless Transfer Evolutionary Optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 49, No. 12, pps. 4365-4378, 2019. Paper available here as PDF file. Source code available at Github.
H. Liu, J. F. Cai, Y. Wang and Y. S. Ong, “Generalized Robust Bayesian Committee Machine for Large-scale Gaussian Process Regression”, 35th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2018), July 10-15, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
X. Shen, S. Pan, W. Liu, Y. S. Ong and Q. S. Sun, “Discrete Network Embedding
”, 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), July 13-19, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
X. Shen, W. Liu, Y. Luo, Y. S. Ong and I. W. Tsang, “Deep Binary Prototype Multi-label Learning
”, 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI 2018), July 13-19, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
W. M. Tan, Y. S. Ong, A. Gupta, et al., “Multi-Problem Surrogates: Transfer Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization of Computationally Expensive Problems”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In Press, 2018.
X. Shen, W. Liu, I. Tsang, Q.S. Sun and Y. S. Ong , “Compact Multi-label Learning”, Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2018), Feb 2-7, 2018, New Orleans, Lousiana, USA.
W. M. Tan, R. Sagarna, A. Gupta, Y. S. Ong, et al., “Knowledge Transfer through Machine Learning in Aircraft Design”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In Press, 2017.
P. Wei, R. Sagarna, Y. Ke, Y. S. Ong, , et al., “Source-Target Similarity Modelings for Multi-Source Transfer Gaussian Process Regression”, International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2017), August 6-11, 2017.
H. Yang, J. T. Zhou, J. Cai and Y. S. Ong, “MIML-FCN+: Multi-instance Multi-label Learning via Fully Convolutional Networks with Privileged Information”, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii, July 21-26, 2017.
Y. Zhai,
Y. S. Ong,
and I. W. Tsang, "Making Trillion Correlations Feasible in Feature Grouping and Selection", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 2472-2486, 2016. Available here as PDF file
Y. Zhai,
Y. S. Ong,
and I. W. Tsang, "The Emerging Big Dimensionality", IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 14-26, 2014. Available here as PDF file.
C. W. Seah, I. W. Tsang and
Y. S. Ong,
and I. W. Tsang, "Transfer Ordinal Label Learning", IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 24, No. 11, pps. 1863-1876, 2013. Available here as PDF file.
C. W. Seah,
Y. S. Ong,
and I. W. Tsang, "Combating Negative Transfer from Predictive Distribution Differences", IEEE Transactions On Cybernetics, No. 99, pps. 1-13, 2013. Available here
as PDF file
Y. Zhai, M. K. Tan, I. W. Tsang and,
Y. S. Ong,
"Discovering Support and Affiliated Features from Very High Dimensions", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012), June 2012.
EVOLUTIONARY & MEMETIC COMPUTATION (Theory, Algorithms, Survey & Applications)
L. Bai, W. Lin, A. Gupta and Y. S. Ong, “From Multi-Task Gradient Descent to Gradient-Free Evolutionary Multitasking: A Proof of Faster Convergence”, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Vol. 52, No. 8, pps. 8561-8573, 2022.
K. K. Bali,
A. Gupta, Y. S. Ong and P. S. Tan,
"Cognizant Multitasking in Multi-Objective Multifactorial Evolution: MO-MFEA-II", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, In Press, 2019. Available here: PDF file.
K. K. Bali,
Y. S. Ong, A. Gupta and P. S. Tan,
"Multifactorial Evolutionary Algorithm with Online Transfer Parameter Estimation: MFEA-II", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2020. Available here: PDF file.
*Bestowed the 2023 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Paper Award.
A. Gupta and
Y. S. Ong
"Back to the Roots: Multi-X Evolutionary Computation", Cognitive Computation, vol. 11, pps. 1-17, 2019. Available here: PDF file.
A. Gupta,
Y. S. Ong, and L. Feng
"Insights on Transfer Optimization: Because Experience is the Best Teacher", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Vol.2, No. 1, pps. 51 - 64, 2018. Available here: PDF file.
L. Feng,
Y. S. Ong,
S. Jiang and A. Gupta, "Autoencoding Evolutionary Search with Learning across Heterogeneous Problems", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 21, No. 5, pps. 760 - 772, 2017. Available here as PDF file.
Y. Zeng, X. Chen,
Y. S. Ong,
J. Tang and Y. Xiang, "Structured Memetic Automation for Online Human-like Social Behavior Learning", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 21, No. 1, pps. 102-115, 2017. Available here as PDF file.
Y. S. Ong,
and A. Gupta, "Evolutionary Multitasking: A Computer Science View of Cognitive Multitasking", Cognitive Computation, Vol. 8, No. 2, pps. 125-142, 2016. Available here as PDF file.
A. Gupta,
Y. S. Ong,
L. Feng and K. C. Tan, "Multi-Objective Multifactorial Optimization in Evolutionary Multitasking", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Accepted 2016. Available here as PDF file.
A. Gupta,
Y. S. Ong,
and L. Feng, "Multifactorial Evolution: Towards Evolutionary Multitasking", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 343 - 357, 2016. Available here as PDF file.
*Source code Download*. .
*Bestowed the 2019 IEEE CIS Outstanding Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Paper Award.
Y. S. Ong, L. Feng, A.K. Qin, A. Gupta, Z. Zhu, C. K. Ting, K. Tang, and X. Yao, "Evolutionary Multitasking for Single-objective
Continuous Optimization: Benchmark Problems, Performance Metric, and Baseline Results", Technical Report, 2016. Available here as PDF file
Y. Yuan, Y. S. Ong, L. Feng, A.K. Qin, A. Gupta., B. Da, Q. Zhang, K. C. Tan, Y. Jin, and H. Ishibuchi, "Evolutionary Multitasking for Multiobjective
Continuous Optimization: Benchmark Problems, Performance Metrics and Baseline Results", Technical Report, 2016. Available here as PDF file.
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L. Feng,
Y. S. Ong,
A. H. Tan and I. W. Tsang, "Memes as Building Blocks: A Case Study on Evolutionary Optimization + Transfer Learning for Routing Problems", Memetic Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 159-180, 2015. Available here as PDF file.
L. Feng,
Y. S. Ong,
M.-H. Lim, and I. W. Tsang, "Memetic Search with Inter-Domain Learning: A Realization between CVRP and CARP", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. Oct 2015. Available here as PDF file.
M. N. Le,
Y. S. Ong,
Y. Jin and B. Sendhoff, "A Unified Framework for Symbiosis of Evolutionary Mechanisms with Application to Water Clusters Potential Model Design", IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine,
Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 20 - 35, 2012.
*Bestowed the 2015 IEEE CIS Outstanding Computational Intelligence Magazine Paper Award.
Available here
as PDF file.
X. S. Chen,
Y. S. Ong,
M. H. Lim and K. C. Tan, "A Multi-Facet Survey on Memetic
Computation", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation,
Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 591 - 607, Oct 2011. Available here
as PDF file.
Y. S. Ong, M. H. Lim
and X. S. Chen, "Research Frontier: Memetic Computation -
Past, Present & Future", IEEE Computational Intelligence
Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 24 -36, 2010.
Available here as
PDF file.
Q. H. Nguyen, Y. S. Ong
and M. H. Lim, “A Probabilistic Memetic Framework”, IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.
604-623, June 2009.
*Bestowed the 2012 IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation Outstanding Paper Award
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PDF file
or at IEEE Xplore as
PDF
file. *Source code
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M. N. Le,
Y. S. Ong,
Y. Jin & B. Sendhoff, 'Lamarckian memetic algorithms: local
optimum and connectivity structure analysis', Memetic Computing
, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 175-190, 2009. Available here as
PDF file. *Source code
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Z. Zhu, Y. S. Ong and
M. Dash, “Wrapper-Filter Feature Selection Algorithm Using A
Memetic Framework”, IEEE Transactions On Systems, Man and
Cybernetics - Part B, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 70-76, Feb 2007.
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PDF
file. *Source code
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Y. S. Ong, M. H. Lim,
N. Zhu and K. W. Wong, “Classification of Adaptive Memetic
Algorithms: A Comparative Study”, IEEE Transactions On
Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp.
141-152, February 2006. Available here as
PDF file.
Y. S. Ong and A.J.
Keane, “Meta-Lamarckian Learning in Memetic Algorithm”,
IEEE Transactions On Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 8, No. 2,
pp. 99-110, April 2004.
*Featured by
Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators as one of the most
cited papers in August 2007.
Available here as
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EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION meets MACHINE LEARNING
A. Gupta, L. Zhou, Y. S. Ong, Z. Chen and Y. Hou, “Half a Dozen Real-World Applications of Evolutionary Multitasking”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In Press, 2022.
W. M. Tan, R. Sagarna, A. Gupta, Y. S. Ong, et al., “Knowledge Transfer through Machine Learning in Aircraft Design”, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, In Press, 2017, PDF file.
A. Kattan, A. Agapitos,Y. S. Ong, A. A. Alghamedi and M. O'Neill, “GP Made Faster with Semantic Surrogate Modelling”, Information Sciences, Vol. 355-356, pps. 169-185, 2016.
J. H. Zhong, Y. S. Ong and W. T. Cai, “Self-Learning Gene Expression Programming”, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 65-80, 2016.
L. Feng,
Y. S. Ong,
A. H. Tan and I. W. Tsang, "Memes as Building Blocks: A Case Study on Evolutionary Optimization + Transfer Learning for Routing Problems", Memetic Computing, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 159-180, 2015. Available here as PDF file.
L. Feng,
Y. S. Ong,
M.-H. Lim, and I. W. Tsang, "Memetic Search with Inter-Domain Learning: A Realization between CVRP and CARP", IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 19, no. 5, pp. Oct 2015. Available here as PDF file.
A. Kattan and Y. S. Ong, “Surrogate Genetic Programming: A Semantic Aware Evolutionary Search”, Information Science, Vol. 296, pps. 345-359, 2015.
M. N. Le, Y. S. Ong, S. Menzel, Y. Jin and B. Sendhoff, “Evolution by Adapting Surrogates”, Evolutionary Computation Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pps. 313-340, 2013. Available here as PDF file.
S.D. Handoko, C.K. Kwoh and Y. S. Ong,
"Feasibility Structure Modeling: An Effective Chaperon for
Constrained Memetic Algorithms", IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 740-758, Jun 2010. Available here as PDF file
D. Lim, Y. Jin, Y. S. Ong and B. Sendhoff, "Generalizing
Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Computation", IEEE
Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp.
329-355, Jun 2010. Available here as
PDF file. *Source code
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Z. Z. Zhou, Y. S. Ong,
P. B. Nair, A. J. Keane and K. Y. Lum, “Combining Global and
Local Surrogate Models to Accelerate Evolutionary Optimization”,
IEEE Transactions On Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C,
Vol. 37, No. 1, Jan. 2007, pp. 66-76. Available here as
PDF file.
Y. S. Ong, P. B. Nair
and K. Y. Lum, “Max-Min Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary
Algorithm for Robust Design”, IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 392-404, August
2006. Available here as
PDF
file.
Y.
S. Ong,
P.B. Nair and A.J. Keane, 'Evolutionary Optimization of
Computationally Expensive Problems via Surrogate Modeling',
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal,
2003, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 687-696. Available here as
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Springer-Verlag Book
Series:
'STUDIES IN ADAPTATION, LEARNING, AND OPTIMIZATION', Chief co-editor, Yew-Soon Ong.
MEMETIC COMPUTING, Science Citation Index Expanded, Springer-Verlag,
Founding Technical co-Editors-in-Chief: Yew-Soon Ong
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