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Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Sheng Qi , Ling Wang

Diversification in a set of solutions has become a hot research topic in the evolutionary computation community. It has been proven beneficial for optimisation problems in several ways, such as computing a diverse set of high-quality…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Adel Nikfarjam , Amirhossein Moosavi , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In addition to their undisputed success in solving classical optimization problems, neuroevolutionary and population-based algorithms have become an alternative to standard reinforcement learning methods. However, evolutionary methods often…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Jörg Stork , Martin Zaefferer , Nils Eisler , Patrick Tichelmann , Thomas Bartz-Beielstein , A. E. Eiben

In recent years, the CNN architectures designed by evolution algorithms have proven to be competitive with handcrafted architectures designed by experts. However, these algorithms need a lot of computational power, which is beyond the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Ousmane Youme , Jean Marie Dembele , Eugene C. Ezin , Christophe Cambier

Complex single-objective bounded problems are often difficult to solve. In evolutionary computation methods, since the proposal of differential evolution algorithm in 1997, it has been widely studied and developed due to its simplicity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Sichen Tao , Ruihan Zhao , Kaiyu Wang , Shangce Gao

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

Evolutionary algorithms are wildly used in unmanned aerial vehicle path planning for their flexibility and effectiveness. Nevertheless, they are so sensitive to the change of environment that can't adapt to all scenarios. Due to this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Jiabin Lou , Rong Ding , Wenjun Wu

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) is an important solution concept in game theory which has been applied frequently to biological models. Informally an ESS is a strategy that if followed by the population cannot be taken over by a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Sam Ganzfried

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used for a range of stochastic optimization problems in order to address complex real-world optimization problems. We consider the knapsack problem where the profits involve uncertainties. Such a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Yue Xie , Frank Neumann

This work provides an efficient sampling method for the covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (CMA-ES) in large-scale settings. In contract to the Gaussian sampling in CMA-ES, the proposed method generates mutation vectors from a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Xiaoyu He , Zibin Zheng , Yuren Zhou

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

A fundamental question in the conjunction of information theory, biophysics, bioinformatics and thermodynamics relates to the principles and processes that guide the development of natural intelligence in natural environments where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Serge Dolgikh

The challenge of taking many variables into account in optimization problems may be overcome under the hypothesis of low effective dimensionality. Then, the search of solutions can be reduced to the random embedding of a low dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Mickaël Binois , David Ginsbourger , Olivier Roustant

3-SAT problem is of great importance to many technical and scientific applications. This paper presents a new hybrid evolutionary algorithm for solving this satisfiability problem. 3-SAT problem has the huge search space and hence it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-06-24 Nasser Lotfi , Jamshid Tamouk , Mina Farmanbar

Differential evolution is one of the most prestigious population-based stochastic optimization algorithm for black-box problems. The performance of a differential evolution algorithm depends highly on its mutation and crossover strategy and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Jianyong Sun , Xin Liu , Thomas Bäck , Zongben Xu

We describe a general-purpose method for finding high-quality solutions to hard optimization problems, inspired by self-organized critical models of co-evolution such as the Bak-Sneppen model. The method, called Extremal Optimization,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Boettcher , Allon G. Percus

Real world problems always have different multiple solutions. For instance, optical engineers need to tune the recording parameters to get as many optimal solutions as possible for multiple trials in the varied-line-spacing holographic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Ka-Chun Wong

Resource-intensive computations are a major factor that limits the effectiveness of automated machine learning solutions. In the paper, we propose a modular approach that can be used to increase the quality of evolutionary optimization for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Nikolay O. Nikitin , Sergey Teryoshkin , Valerii Pokrovskii , Sergey Pakulin , Denis Nasonov

Despite the success of metaheuristic algorithms in solving complex network optimization problems, they often struggle with adaptation, especially in dynamic or high-dimensional search spaces. Traditional approaches can become stuck in local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Boris Kriuk , Keti Sulamanidze , Fedor Kriuk

Optimum implementation of non-conventional wells allows us to increase considerably hydrocarbon recovery. By considering the high drilling cost and the potential improvement in well productivity, well placement decision is an important…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2010-11-25 Zyed Bouzarkouna , Didier Yu Ding , Anne Auger