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Abstract: This paper proposes a multi-UAV path planning method based on an improved Hummingbird Algorithm (AHA). To address the original AHA’s tendency to become trapped in local optima and its slow ...

Abstract: Nonconvex finite-sum optimization finds wide applications in various signal processing and machine learning tasks. The well-known stochastic gradient algorithms generate unbiased stochastic ...