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Simple Problems: The Simplicial Gluing Structure of Pareto Sets and Pareto Fronts

Optimization and Control 2017-10-02 v1 Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

Quite a few studies on real-world applications of multi-objective optimization reported that their Pareto sets and Pareto fronts form a topological simplex. Such a class of problems was recently named the simple problems, and their Pareto set and Pareto front were observed to have a gluing structure similar to the faces of a simplex. This paper gives a theoretical justification for that observation by proving the gluing structure of the Pareto sets/fronts of subproblems of a simple problem. The simplicity of standard benchmark problems is studied.

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@article{arxiv.1709.10377,
  title  = {Simple Problems: The Simplicial Gluing Structure of Pareto Sets and Pareto Fronts},
  author = {Naoki Hamada},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10377},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

10 pages, accepted at GECCO'17 as a poster paper (2 pages)