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In this work, we deal with the problem of computing a comprehensive front of efficient solutions in multi-objective portfolio optimization problems in presence of sparsity constraints. We start the discussion pointing out some weaknesses of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Arturo Annunziata , Matteo Lapucci , Pieluigi Mansueto , Davide Pucci

Numerous meta-heuristic algorithms have been influenced by nature. Over the past couple of decades, their quantity has been significantly escalating. The majority of these algorithms attempt to emulate natural biological and physical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tahsin Aziz , Tashreef Muhammad , Md. Rashedul Karim Chowdhury , Mohammad Shafiul Alam

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms have been proposed as a new paradigm for evolutionary optimization. This paper focuses on the parallelization of Estimation of Distribution Algorithms. More specifically, the paper discusses how to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jiri Ocenasek , Martin Pelikan

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

Effective pollination is a key challenge for indoor farming, since bees struggle to navigate without the sun. While a variety of robotic system solutions have been proposed, it remains difficult to autonomously check that a flower has been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Chuizheng Kong , Alex Qiu , Idris Wibowo , Marvin Ren , Aishik Dhori , Kai-Shu Ling , Ai-Ping Hu , Shreyas Kousik

A multi-condition multi-objective optimization method that can find Pareto front over a defined condition space is developed for the first time using deep reinforcement learning. Unlike the conventional methods which perform optimization at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sejin Kim , Innyoung Kim , Donghyun You

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang

Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multiobjective optimization problems. However, there lacks an up-to-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ye Tian , Ran Cheng , Xingyi Zhang , Yaochu Jin

In order to design broadband extreme ultraviolet multilayers with many objectives, the multiobjective genetic algorithm and the multiobjective genetics algorithm with reference direction have been improved and combined used. The certain…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-17 Shang-qi Kuang , Xiao-wei Song , Jing-quan Lin

Understanding how multiple features are associated and contribute to a specific objective is as important as understanding how each feature contributes to a particular outcome. Interpretability of a single feature in a prediction may be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Nisha Pillai , Ganga Gireesan , Michael J. Rothrock , Bindu Nanduri , Zhiqian Chen , Mahalingam Ramkumar

Optimization has found numerous applications in engineering, particularly since 1960s. Many optimization applications in engineering have more than one objective (or performance criterion). Such applications require multi-objective (or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan Wang , Seyed Reza Nabavi , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

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

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world engineering optimization scenarios. A key issue in constrained multi-objective optimization is to strike a balance among convergence, diversity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xinyu Shan , Ke Li

Population-based evolutionary algorithms have great potential to handle multiobjective optimisation problems. However, these algorithms depends largely on problem characteristics, and there is a need to improve their performance for a wider…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Shouyong Jiang , Hongru Li , Jinglei Guo , Mingjun Zhong , Shengxiang Yang , Marcus Kaiser , Natalio Krasnogor

The fitting of physical models is often done only using a single target observable. However, when multiple targets are considered, the fitting procedure becomes cumbersome, there being no easy way to quantify the robustness of the model for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández , Chern Chuang , Paul Brumer

Bayesian optimization is an advanced tool to perform ecient global optimization It consists on enriching iteratively surrogate Kriging models of the objective and the constraints both supposed to be computationally expensive of the targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Robin Grapin , Youssef Diouane , Joseph Morlier , Nathalie Bartoli , Thierry Lefebvre , Paul Saves , Jasper Bussemaker

Multi-task learning is a powerful method for solving multiple correlated tasks simultaneously. However, it is often impossible to find one single solution to optimize all the tasks, since different tasks might conflict with each other.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xi Lin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zhenhua Li , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

This note proposes an effective pruning-based Pareto front generation method in mixed-discrete bi-objective optimization. The mixed-discrete problem is decomposed into multiple continuous subproblems; two-phase pruning steps identify and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-10 SeungBum Hong , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

In multi-objective optimization, a single decision vector must balance the trade-offs between many objectives. Solutions achieving an optimal trade-off are said to be Pareto optimal: these are decision vectors for which improving any one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Abhishek Roy , Geelon So , Yi-An Ma

This paper investigates a new hybridization of multi-objective particle swarm optimization (MOPSO) and cooperative agents (MOPSO-CA) to handle the problem of stagnation encounters in MOPSO, which leads solutions to trap in local optima. The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Najwa Kouka , Raja Fdhila , Adel M. Alimi