English
Related papers

Related papers: Multiplicative Approximations, Optimal Hypervolume…

200 papers

Parent selection in evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimisation is usually performed by dominance mechanisms or indicator functions that prefer non-dominated points. We propose to refine the parent selection on evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Edgar Covantes Osuna , Wanru Gao , Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt

Rapid development of evolutionary algorithms in handling many-objective optimization problems requires viable methods of visualizing a high-dimensional solution set. Parallel coordinates which scale well to high-dimensional data are such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Miqing Li , Liangli Zhen , Xin Yao

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

The evolution of gene regulatory networks in variable environments poses Multi-objective Optimization Problem (MOP), where the expression levels of genes must be tuned to meet the demands of each environment. When formalized in the context…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Philippe Nghe , Bela M. Mulder , Sander J. Tans

Dynamic multimodal multiobjective optimization presents the dual challenge of simultaneously tracking multiple equivalent pareto optimal sets and maintaining population diversity in time-varying environments. However, existing dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Li Yan , Bolun Liu , Chao Li , Jing Liang , Kunjie Yu , Caitong Yue , Xuzhao Chai , Boyang Qu

In recent years, to improve the evolutionary algorithms used to solve optimization problems involving a large number of decision variables, many attempts have been made to simplify the problem solution space of a given problem for the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Liang Feng , Qingxia Shang , Yaqing Hou , Kay Chen Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

Many machine learning tasks aim to find models that work well not for a single, but for a group of criteria, often opposing ones. One such example is imbalanced data classification, where, on the one hand, we want to achieve the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Szymon Wojciechowski , Michał Woźniak

Hypervolume improvement (HVI) is commonly employed in multi-objective Bayesian optimization algorithms to define acquisition functions due to its Pareto-compliant property. Rather than focusing on specific statistical moments of HVI, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hao Wang , Kaifeng Yang , Michael Affenzeller

Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective for optimisation problems with dynamic and stochastic components. We propose multi-objective evolutionary approaches for the knapsack problem with stochastic profits under static and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Kokila Kasuni Perera , Aneta Neumann

In the field of evolutionary multiobjective optimization, the decision maker (DM) concerns conflicting objectives. In the real-world applications, there usually exist more than one DM and each DM concerns parts of these objectives.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Zeneng She , Wenjian Luo , Xin Lin , Yatong Chang , Yuhui Shi

Evolutionary algorithms excel in solving complex optimization problems, especially those with multiple objectives. However, their stochastic nature can sometimes hinder rapid convergence to the global optima, particularly in scenarios…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeyi Wang , Songbai Liu , Jianyong Chen , Kay Chen Tan

Many real-world problems require trading off multiple competing objectives. However, these objectives are often in different units and/or scales, which can make it challenging for practitioners to express numerical preferences over…

Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

The aim of global optimization is to find the global optimum of arbitrary classes of functions, possibly highly multimodal ones. In this paper we focus on the subproblem of global optimization for differentiable functions and we propose an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Louis Faury , Flavian Vasile , Clément Calauzènes , Olivier Fercoq

Design problems in industrial engineering often involve a large number of design variables with multiple objectives, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms for multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Xin-She Yang

Computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for a given optimization problem has become an important topic in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a coevolutionary Pareto Diversity Optimization approach which builds on the success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Denis Antipov , Frank Neumann

Given a dataset of points in a metric space and an integer $k$, a diversity maximization problem requires determining a subset of $k$ points maximizing some diversity objective measure, e.g., the minimum or the average distance between two…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matteo Ceccarello , Andrea Pietracaprina , Geppino Pucci , Eli Upfal

The objective of this paper is to provide a convergent numerical approximation of the Pareto optimal set for finite-horizon multiobjective optimal control problems for which the objective space is not necessarily convex. Our approach is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-03-02 A. Guigue

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

Many systems require optimisation over multiple objectives, where objectives are characteristics of the system such as energy consumed or increase in time to perform the work. Optimisation is performed by selecting the `best' set of input…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Alexander J. M. Kell , Matthew Forshaw , A. Stephen McGough