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Most of the real-world problems are multimodal in nature that consists of multiple optimum values. Multimodal optimization is defined as the process of finding multiple global and local optima (as opposed to a single solution) of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Shatendra Singh , Aruna Tiwari

Multiobjective feature selection seeks to determine the most discriminative feature subset by simultaneously optimizing two conflicting objectives: minimizing the number of selected features and the classification error rate. The goal is to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhenxing Zhang , Qianxiang An , Yilei Wang , Chenfeng Wu , Baoling Dong , Chunjie Zhou

Evolutionary Multitasking (EMT) paradigm, an emerging research topic in evolutionary computation, has been successfully applied in solving high-dimensional feature selection (FS) problems recently. However, existing EMT-based FS methods…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yinglan Feng , Liang Feng , Songbai Liu , Sam Kwong , Kay Chen Tan

Many real-world optimization problems can be stated in terms of submodular functions. Furthermore, these real-world problems often involve uncertainties which may lead to the violation of given constraints. A lot of evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Machine learning has rapidly evolved during the last decade, achieving expert human performance on notoriously challenging problems such as image classification. This success is partly due to the re-emergence of bio-inspired modern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

In this paper, we scale evolutionary algorithms to high-dimensional optimization problems that deceptively possess a low effective dimensionality (certain dimensions do not significantly affect the objective function). To this end, an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yaqing Hou , Mingyang Sun , Abhishek Gupta , Yaochu Jin , Haiyin Piao , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. While decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms have good performance for multi-objective optimization, they are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

We consider whether conditions exist under which block-coordinate descent is asymptotically efficient in evolutionary multi-objective optimization, addressing an open problem. Block-coordinate descent, where an optimization problem is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Benjamin Doerr , Joshua Knowles , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Data-driven evolutionary algorithms usually aim to exploit the information behind a limited amount of data to perform optimization, which have proved to be successful in solving many complex real-world optimization problems. However, most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Qiqi Liu , Yuping Yan , Peter Ligeti , Yaochu Jin

Most existing studies on evolutionary multi-objective optimization focus on approximating the whole Pareto-optimal front. Nevertheless, rather than the whole front, which demands for too many points (especially in a high-dimensional space),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ke Li , Kalyanmoy Deb , Xin Yao

Evolutionary algorithms are popular algorithms for multiobjective optimisation (also called Pareto optimisation) as they use a population to store trade-offs between different objectives. Despite their popularity, the theoretical foundation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duc-Cuong Dang , Andre Opris , Dirk Sudholt

In expensive multi-objective optimization, where the evaluation budget is strictly limited, selecting promising candidate solutions for expensive fitness evaluations is critical for accelerating convergence and improving algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Huixiang Zhen , Xiaotong Li , Wenyin Gong , Xiangyun Hu

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

Recent LLM-guided evolutionary search methods have shown that iterative program mutation can discover strong algorithms, but they typically optimize each task independently, even when related tasks share reusable structure. We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Halil Alperen Gozeten , Xuechen Zhang , Emrullah Ildiz , Ege Onur Taga , Tara Javidi , Samet Oymak

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Elitism, which constructs the new population by preserving best solutions out of the old population and newly-generated solutions, has been a default way for population update since its introduction into multi-objective evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Per Kristian Lehre

Multimodal multi-objective problems (MMOPs) commonly arise in real-world problems where distant solutions in decision space correspond to very similar objective values. To obtain all solutions for MMOPs, many multimodal multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Jing Liang

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, inspired by natural evolution. Recent theoretical studies have shown that EAs can achieve good approximation guarantees for solving the problem classes of submodular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Chao Qian , Dan-Xuan Liu , Chao Feng , Ke Tang

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, effectiveness refers to how an evolutionary algorithm performs in terms of converging its solutions into the Pareto front and also diversifying them over the front. This is not an easy job,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yani Xue , Miqing Li , Xiaohui Liu