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Many science and engineering applications require finding solutions to planning and optimization problems by satisfying a set of constraints. These constraint problems (CPs) are typically NP-complete and can be formalized as constraint…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Anuraganand Sharma

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) require the simultaneous optimization of conflicting objectives. Real-world MOPs often exhibit complex characteristics, including high-dimensional decision spaces, many objectives, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Haokai Hong , Liang Feng , Min Jiang , Kay Chen Tan

The multi-gradient descent algorithm (MGDA) finds a common descent direction that can improve all objectives by identifying the minimum-norm point in the convex hull of the objective gradients. This method has become a foundational tool in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuan-Zheng Lei , Yaobang Gong , Xianfeng Terry Yang

In the past few decades, many multiobjective evolutionary optimization algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed to find a finite set of approximate Pareto solutions for a given problem in a single run, each with its own structure. However, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xi Lin , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Classical evolutionary approaches for multiobjective optimization are quite accurate but incur a lot of queries to the objectives; this can be prohibitive when objectives are expensive oracles. A sample-efficient approach to solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Ashwin Renganathan , Kade E. Carlson

A global optimization framework, acronymed COMBEO (Change OfMeasure Based Evolutionary Optimization), is proposed. An important aspect in the development is a set of derivative-free additive directional terms obtainable through a change of…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-10 Saikat Sarkar , Debasish Roy

The main feature of the Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Problems (DMOPs) is that optimization objective functions will change with times or environments. One of the promising approaches for solving the DMOPs is reusing the obtained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Weizhen Hu , Min Jiang , Xing Gao , Kay Chen Tan , Yiu-ming Cheung

Over the past two decades, research in evolutionary multi-objective optimization has predominantly focused on continuous domains, with comparatively limited attention given to multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xuepeng Ren , Maocai Wang , Guangming Dai , Zimin Liang , Qianrong Liu , Shengxiang Yang , Miqing Li

The major difficulty in Multi-objective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) is how to find an appropriate solution that is able to converge towards the true Pareto Front with high diversity. Most existing methodologies, which have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Jeisson Prieto , Jonatan Gomez

Evolutionary optimization algorithms, including particle swarm optimization (PSO), have been successfully applied in oil industry for production planning and control. Such optimization studies are quite challenging due to large number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ajitabh Kumar

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are widely used for searching optimal solutions in complex multi-component applications. Traditional MOEAs for multi-component deep learning (MCDL) systems face challenges in enhancing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haoxiang Tian , Xingshuo Han , Guoquan Wu , An Guo , Yuan Zhou. Jie Zhang , Shuo Li , Jun Wei , Tianwei Zhang

Several real-world applications could be modeled as Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems, and some prominent examples include portfolio optimization, remote sensing technology, and so on. Most of the models for these…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yi Chen , Aimin Zhou , Swagatam Das

This paper introduces the inverse modeling constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (IM-C-MOEA/D) for addressing constrained real-world optimization problems. Our research builds upon the advancements made…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lucas R. C. Farias , Aluizio F. R. Araújo

This work presents PESMOC, Predictive Entropy Search for Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization with Constraints, an information-based strategy for the simultaneous optimization of multiple expensive-to-evaluate black-box functions under the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-15 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Problems (DMOPs) refer to optimization problems that objective functions will change with time. Solving DMOPs implies that the Pareto Optimal Set (POS) at different moments can be accurately found, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Min Jiang , Weizhen Hu , Liming Qiu , Minghui Shi , Kay Chen Tan

Evolutionary algorithms based on modeling the statistical dependencies (interactions) between the variables have been proposed to solve a wide range of complex problems. These algorithms learn and sample probabilistic graphical models able…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Murilo Zangari de Souza , Roberto Santana , Aurora Trinidad Ramirez Pozo , Alexander Mendiburu

Scalability of evolutionary algorithms refers to assessing how their performance changes as problem size increases. In the area of multi-objective optimisation, research on the scalability of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Menghao Tang , Zimin Liang , Miqing Li

This work proposes the integration of two new constraint-handling approaches into the blackbox constrained multiobjective optimization algorithm DMulti-MADS, an extension of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search (MADS) algorithm for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Jean Bigeon , Sébastien Le Digabel , Ludovic Salomon

In this paper, we formulate the new multi-objective coverage (MOC) problem where our goal is to identify a small set of representative samples whose predicted outcomes broadly cover the feasible multi-objective space. This problem is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zakaria Shams Siam , Xuefeng Liu , Chong Liu

The partially observable constrained optimization problems (POCOPs) impede data-driven optimization techniques since an infeasible solution of POCOPs can provide little information about the objective as well as the constraints. We endeavor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Shengbo Wang , Ke Li