Daily Program Overview
July 24, 2026 · Afternoon Sessions
| Time | Session | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:40 | Invited Talk Role of LLM in Data-Driven Evolutionary Optimization Speaker: Prof. Handing Wang | Chair: Yu Xue |
| 14:40-15:20 | Invited Talk: Evolutionary Computation for Automated Speaker: Prof. Shinichi Shirakawa | Chair: Zhixing Huang |
| 15:20-15:40 | Tea Break | |
| 15:40-16:20 | Invited Talk: Recent Advances in LLM-based Evolutionary Program Search and Its Application to Neural Architecture Search Speaker: Prof. Zhichao Lu | Chair: Dujuan Wang |
| 16:20-17:00 | Invited Talk: Feature Reduction for Complex Data: From Streaming Scenarios to Long-Tail Distributions Speaker: Prof. Ruwang Jiao | Chair: Junhao Huang |
| 17:00-17:40 | Invited Talk: From Single Rules to Adaptive Heuristic Families: Ensemble, Task-Aware, Preference-Aware, and Transformer-Guided Genetic Programming Speaker: Prof. Meng Xu | Chair: Yahui Jia |
July 25, 2026 · Morning Sessions
| Time | Session | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:40 | Opening Ceremony | Chair: Yanan Sun |
| 9:40-10:20 | Invited Talk: From Distributive Fairness to Procedural Fairness in Machine Learning Speaker: Prof. Xin Yao | Chair: Mengjie Zhang |
| 10:20-10:40 | Tea Break | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Invited Talk: The AI Research Revolution: How Language Models Are Changing the Way We Conduct Research Speaker: Prof. Yew-Soon Ong | Chair: Bing Xue |
| 11:20-12:00 | Panel Discussion: The Synergy Triangle – How Evolution, Learning, and Foundation Models Complete Each Other Panelists: Xin Yao, Risto Miikkulainen, Bing Xue, Ke Tang, Ting Hu | Chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf |
July 25, 2026 · Afternoon Sessions
| Time | Session | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00-14:40 | Invited Talk: Neuroevolution 3.0: Fine-tuning LLMs with evolution strategie Speaker: Prof. Risto Miikkulainen | Chair: Yanan Sun |
| 14:40-15:20 | Invited Talk: Program Trace Optimization: Theory and Practice Speaker: Prof. Alberto Moraglio | Chair: Ying Bi |
| 15:20-15:40 | Tea Break | |
| 15:40-16:20 | Invited Talk: Why Evolution Favors Simplicity: The Role of Neutral Networks Speaker: Prof. Ting Hu | Chair: Cuie Yang |
| 16:20-17:00 | Invited Talk: Automated Algorithms – Where Evolutionary Computation, GP and Learning Meet Speaker: Prof. Rong Qu | Chair: Jinghui Zhong |
| 17:00-17:40 | Panel Discussion: The Adoption Gap – Why Isn't GP/EML Everywhere, and What Will It Take to Get There? Panelists: Wolfgang Banzhaf, Rong Qu, Shinichi Shirakawa, Alberto Moraglio, Yuan Yuan | Chair: Mengjie Zhang |
July 26, 2025 · Morning Sessions
| Time | Session | Chair |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:40 | Invited Talk: Data-Driven Optimization of Complex Systems Assisted by Small Surrogates and Large Language Models Speaker: Prof. Yaochu Jin | Chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf |
| 9:40-10:20 | Invited Talk: Algorithm Space Distillation - A perspective on data-driven automated algorithm design Speaker: Prof. Ke Tang | Chair: Liang Feng |
| 10:20-10:40 | Tea Break | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Invited Talk: From LLM Reasoning to Continually Evolving Scheduling Intelligence Speaker: Prof. Yuan Yuan | Chair: Ye Tian |
| 11:20-12:00 | Invited Talk: Causal Learning and its Applications Speaker: Prof. Huanhuan Chen | Chair: Mengjie Zhang |
| 12:00-12:20 | Closing Ceremony| Chair: Yanan Sun | |