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Evolutionary and bioinspired computation are crucial for efficiently addressing complex optimization problems across diverse application domains. By mimicking processes observed in nature, like evolution itself, these algorithms offer…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daniel Molina , Javier Del Ser , Javier Poyatos , Francisco Herrera

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

In this extended abstract, we report on ongoing work towards an approximate multimodal optimization algorithm with asymptotic guarantees. Multimodal optimization is the problem of finding all local optimal solutions (modes) to a path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Andreas Orthey , Florian T. Pokorny , Marc Toussaint

Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these progressively improved MOEAs have not necessarily been equipped with scalable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Songbai Liu , Qiuzhen Lin , Jianqiang Li , Kay Chen Tan

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen

We present a homotopic approach to solving challenging, optimization-based motion planning problems. The approach uses Homotopy Optimization, which, unlike standard continuation methods for solving homotopy problems, solves a sequence of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Shayan Pardis , Matthew Chignoli , Sangbae Kim

Chance constrained optimization problems allow to model problems where constraints involving stochastic components should only be violated with a small probability. Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to this scenario and shown to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. Some evolutionary algorithms for multi-modal multi-objective optimization have been proposed in the literature. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have been proved efficient to deal with Multi-objective Optimization Problems (MOPs). Until now tens of MOEAs have been proposed. The unified mode would provide a more systematic approach to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-02-01 Bojin Zheng , Yuanxiang Li

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

Evolutionary processes proved very useful for solving optimization problems. In this work, we build a formalization of the notion of cooperation and competition of multiple systems working toward a common optimization goal of the population…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Burgin , Eugene Eberbach

This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

Real-world optimization often demands diverse, high-quality solutions. Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization is a multifaceted approach in evolutionary algorithms that aims to generate a set of solutions that are both high-performing and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Meng Xu , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Yew Soon Ong

Evolutionary algorithms are metaheuristic techniques that derive inspiration from the natural process of evolution. They can efficiently solve (generate acceptable quality of solution in reasonable time) complex optimization (NP-Hard)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Anupriya Gogna , Akash Tayal

Evolutionary algorithms have been successful in solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). However, as a class of population-based search methodology, evolutionary algorithms require a large number of evaluations of the objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

Many real-world optimization problems occur in environments that change dynamically or involve stochastic components. Evolutionary algorithms and other bio-inspired algorithms have been widely applied to dynamic and stochastic problems.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Vahid Roostapour , Mojgan Pourhassan , Frank Neumann

Motion planning is a key aspect of robotics. A common approach to address motion planning problems is trajectory optimization. Trajectory optimization can represent the high-level behaviors of robots through mathematical formulations.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Fatemeh Rastgar

For many linear and nonlinear systems that arise from the discretization of partial differential equations the construction of an efficient multigrid solver is a challenging task. Here we present a novel approach for the optimization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Jonas Schmitt , Sebastian Kuckuk , Harald Köstler

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann

We design a class of variable metric evolution strategies well suited for high-dimensional problems. We target problems with many variables, not (necessarily) with many objectives. The construction combines two independent developments:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Tobias Glasmachers