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This work tackles two critical challenges related to the development of metaheuristics for Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOOPs): the exponential growth of non-dominated solutions and the tendency of metaheuristics to…

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Recent advances in learnable evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated the importance of leveraging population distribution information and historical evolutionary trajectories. While significant progress has been made in continuous…

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Multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems are prevalent in various real-world applications. Most existing neural MOCO methods rely on problem decomposition to transform an MOCO problem into a series of singe-objective…

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Local Optima Networks (LONs) have been recently proposed as an alternative model of combinatorial fitness landscapes. The model compresses the information given by the whole search space into a smaller mathematical object that is the graph…

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Recent developments in fitness landscape analysis include the study of Local Optima Networks (LON) and applications of the Elementary Landscapes theory. This paper represents a first step at combining these two tools to explore their…

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In evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the indicator-based subset selection problem involves finding a subset of points that maximizes a given quality indicator. Local search is an effective approach for obtaining a high-quality…

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In engineering optimization problems, multiple objectives with a large number of variables under highly nonlinear constraints are usually required to be simultaneously optimized. Significant computing effort are required to find the Pareto…

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Many real-world applications require decision-makers to assess the quality of solutions while considering multiple conflicting objectives. Obtaining good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems is often a difficult…

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We consider the following problem : we have a high-resolution street network of a given city, and low-resolution measurements of traffic within this city. We want to associate to each measurement the set of streets corresponding to the…

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Multivariate regression models are widely used in various fields such as biology and finance. In this paper, we focus on two key challenges: (a) When should we favor a multivariate model over a series of univariate models; (b) If the…

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Optimizing the performance of many objectives (instantiated by tasks or clients) jointly with a few Pareto stationary solutions (models) is critical in machine learning. However, previous multi-objective optimization methods often focus on…

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We present an analysis of landscape features for predicting the performance of multi-objective combinatorial optimization algorithms. We consider features from the recently proposed compressed Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks…

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Overparameterization and overfitting are common concerns when designing and training deep neural networks, that are often counteracted by pruning and regularization strategies. However, these strategies remain secondary to most learning…

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In the last decade, a plethora of algorithms for single-objective Boolean optimization has been proposed that rely on the iterative usage of a highly effective Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) solver. But the use of SAT solvers in…

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The local optima network model has proved useful in the past in connection with combinatorial optimization problems. Here we examine its extension to the real continuous function domain. Through a sampling process, the model builds a…

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