arXiv paper applies surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms to agent-based model calibration
A new arXiv preprint addresses the difficulty of calibrating agent-based models, whose objective landscapes are stochastic, rugged, and expensive to evaluate through simulation. The authors adapt inner-loop surrogate-assisted evolutionary computation, combining genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization to reduce the number of costly black-box evaluations. The work sits at the intersection of machine learning and simulation-based modeling.