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In a variety of domains, from robotics to finance, Quality-Diversity algorithms have been used to generate collections of both diverse and high-performing solutions. Multi-Objective Quality-Diversity algorithms have emerged as a promising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hannah Janmohamed , Maxence Faldor , Thomas Pierrot , Antoine Cully

Dynamic optimization, for which the objective functions change over time, has attracted intensive investigations due to the inherent uncertainty associated with many real-world problems. For its robustness with respect to noise,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiaofen Lu , Ke Tang , Stefan Menzel , Xin Yao

In the context of the 2018 IEEE Congress of Evolutionary Computation, the Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy for constrained optimization turned out to be notably successful in the competition on constrained single objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Michael Hellwig , Hans-Georg Beyer

This study modifies the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm for multi-modal optimization problems. The enhancements focus on addressing the challenges of multiple global minima, improving the algorithm's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wathsala Karunarathne , Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Matthew Roughan , Lewis Mitchell

Choosing an appropriate optimization algorithm is essential to achieving success in optimization challenges. Here we present a new evolutionary algorithm structure that utilizes a reinforcement learning-based agent aimed at addressing these…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Farajollah Tahernezhad-Javazm , Debbie Rankin , Naomi Du Bois , Alice E. Smith , Damien Coyle

An important challenge in reinforcement learning, including evolutionary robotics, is to solve multimodal problems, where agents have to act in qualitatively different ways depending on the circumstances. Because multimodal problems are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Joost Huizinga , Jeff Clune

In single-objective optimization, it is well known that evolutionary algorithms also without further adjustments can tolerate a certain amount of noise in the evaluation of the objective function. In contrast, this question is not at all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Matthieu Dinot , Benjamin Doerr , Ulysse Hennebelle , Sebastian Will

Evolutionary algorithms often struggle to find well converged (e.g small inverted generational distance on test problems) solutions to multi-objective optimization problems on a limited budget of function evaluations (here, a few hundred).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Christopher M. Pierce , Young-Kee Kim , Ivan Bazarov

In this paper, an enhanced unified differential evolution algorithm, named UDE-III, is presented for real parameter-constrained optimization problems (COPs). The proposed UDE-III is a significantly enhanced version of the Improved UDE…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Anupam Trivedi , Dikshit Chauhan

Existing Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) methods focus on how to search when controlling optimizers, but largely overlook where to search. We propose MetaSG-SAEA, a bi-level MetaBBO framework for expensive constrained multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yukun Du , Haiyue Yu , Jiang Jiang , Shuaiwen Tang , Xiaotong Xie , Haobo Liu , Chongshuang Hu , Shengkun Chang

Unsupervised feature selection is commonly formulated as a multiobjective optimisation problem that jointly optimises subset quality and subset size. Yet the behaviour of this formulation depends critically on the choice of evaluation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mathieu Cherpitel , Thomas Bäck , Martijn R. Tannemaat , Anna V. Kononova

Transport processes are universal in real-world complex networks, such as communication and transportation networks. As the increase of the traffic in these complex networks, problems like traffic congestion and transport delay are becoming…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Jiexin Wu , Cunlai Pu , Shuxin Ding , Guo Cao , Panos M. Pardalos

Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is prevalent in numerous applications, in which a Pareto front (PF) is constructed to display optima under various preferences. Previous methods commonly utilize the set of Pareto objectives (particles on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Yichi Zhang , Yifan Chen , Qingfu Zhang

Constrained submodular optimization problems play a key role in the area of combinatorial optimization as they capture many NP-hard optimization problems. So far, Pareto optimization approaches using multi-objective formulations have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Frank Neumann , Günter Rudolph

Most real-world Planning problems are multi-objective, trying to minimize both the makespan of the solution plan, and some cost of the actions involved in the plan. But most, if not all existing approaches are based on single-objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Mostepha Redouane Khouadjia , Marc Schoenauer , Vincent Vidal , Johann Dréo , Pierre Savéant

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

Given a point in $m$-dimensional objective space, any $\varepsilon$-ball of a point can be partitioned into the incomparable, the dominated and dominating region. The ratio between the size of the incomparable region, and the dominated (and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Yali Wang , André Deutz , Thomas Bäck , Michael Emmerich

Differential evolution (DE) has competitive performance on constrained optimization problems (COPs), which targets at searching for global optimal solution without violating the constraints. Generally, researchers pay more attention on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yuan Fu , Hu Wang , Meng-Zhu Yang

Parameter control has succeeded in accelerating the convergence process of evolutionary algorithms. While empirical and theoretical studies have shed light on the behavior of algorithms for single-objective optimization, little is known…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Furong Ye , Frank Neumann , Jacob de Nobel , Aneta Neumann , Thomas Bäck

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi