Table 1 Overview of acronyms and definitions employed in the study.

From: Reinforcement learning-driven feature selection enhanced by an evolutionary approach tuning for criminal suspect identification

Acronym

Definition

CNN

Convolutional neural network

FS

Feature selection

RL

Reinforcement learning

Off-policy PPO

Off-policy proximal policy optimization

DE

Differential evolution

CelebA

CelebFaces Attributes

LFW

Labeled Faces in the Wild

CASIA-WebFace

Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Automation WebFace

VGGFace2

Visual Geometry Group Face 2

DL

DL

HO

Hyperparameter optimization

GBM

Gradient boosting machines

RF

Random forest

DT

Decision tree

LASSO

Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator

CFS

Correlation-based FS

SMOTE

Synthetic minority oversampling technique

DRL

Deep reinforcement learning

MLP

Multi-layer perceptrons

HMS

Human mental search

NLP

Natural language processing

ML

Machine learning

EU SPIRIT

Scalable Privacy-preserving Intelligence analysis for Resolving Identities in real-time

MATLAB

Matrix laboratory

FAHP

Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process

CCTV

Closed-circuit television

PCA

Principal component analysis

DenseNet-169

Dense convolutional network with 169 layers

ReLU

Rectified linear unit

MTCNN

Multi-task cascade neural network

DNVPT

Deep neural vision processing techniques

WNN

Wavelet neural network

LSTM

Long short-term memory

DNN

Deep neural network

AE

Autoencoder

YOLOv8

You Only Look Once version 8

FaceNet

Facial Recognition Network

VGGFace

Visual Geometry Group Face

GhostFaceNets

A lightweight architecture designed for efficient edge-device deployment

GJO-ANN

Golden Jackal optimized artificial neural network

GAN

Generative adversarial network

DS-AEAN

Dual-scale adaptive efficient attention network

EAOA

Enhanced addax optimization algorithm

TRPO

Trust region policy optimization

KL

Kullback–Leibler

GPBA

Generic population-based algorithm

G-means

Geometric mean

AUC

Area under the curve

TP

True positive

TN

True negative

FP

False positive

FN

False negative

GB

Gigabyte

RAM

Random-access memory

CUDA

Compute unified device architecture

cuDNN

Compute unified device architecture DNN library

GPU

Graphics processing unit

RTX

Ray tracing Texel extreme

Ti

Titanium

MISSL

Multi-input spatio-structural learning

CNBA

Criminal network-based architecture

DL-ACO

DL with ant colony optimization

DCNN

Deep CNN

FECNN

Facial expression-based CNN

CLSTM

CNN-LSTM hybrid model

QN-FR

Quantum networking face recognition

YOLOv8-FI

YOLOv8-based forensic identification

FVG-FR

FaceNet-VGG-GhostFaceNet recognition

QWE-DNN

Quality-weighted embedding with DNN

FacialCueNet

Facial cues network

GAN-DSAEAN

GAN with dual-scale adaptive efficient attention network

FLOP

Floating-point operations

ITPS

Inference time per sample

RTB

Real-time bidding

FGSM

Fast gradient sign method

mRMR

Minimum redundancy maximum relevance

MI

Mutual information

TSFS

Teacher‑student FS (TSFS)

A‑SFS

Batch‑attention‑based self‑supervision FS (A‑SFS)

ROC

Receiver operating characteristic

PR

Precision-recall

SHAP

Shapley additive explanations

BO

Bayesian optimization

SSA

Salp swarm algorithm

COA

Cuckoo optimization algorithm

FA

Firefly algorithm

BA

Bat algorithm

ABC

Artificial bee colony