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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…

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Optimization problems with the objective function in the form of weighted sum and linear equality constraints are considered. Given that the number of local cost functions can be large as well as the number of constraints, a stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Sanja Rapajić , Luka Rutešić

This paper studies binary quadratic programs in which the objective is defined by a Euclidean distance matrix, subject to a general polyhedral constraint set. This class of nonconcave maximisation problems includes the capacitated,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Hoa T. Bui , Sandy Spiers , Ryan Loxton

In this paper we consider convex optimization problems with stochastic composite objective function subject to (possibly) infinite intersection of constraints. The objective function is expressed in terms of expectation operator over a sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Ion Necoara , Nitesh Kumar Singh

In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Tapabrata Ray , Mohammad Mohiuddin Mamun , Hemant Kumar Singh

The balance between convergence and diversity is a key issue of evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The recently proposed stable matching-based selection provides a new perspective to handle this balance under the framework of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Mengyuan Wu , Ke Li , Sam Kwong , Yu Zhou , Qingfu Zhang

In dealing with constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs), a key issue of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) is to balance the convergence and diversity of working populations.

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhun Fan , Zhaojun Wang , Wenji Li , Yutong Yuan , Yugen You , Zhi Yang , Fuzan Sun , Jie Ruan , Zhaocheng Li

Many real-world applications require decision-makers to assess the quality of solutions while considering multiple conflicting objectives. Obtaining good approximation sets for highly constrained many-objective problems is often a difficult…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Rodrigo Lankaites Pinheiro , Dario Landa-Silva , Wasakorn Laesanklang , Ademir Aparecido Constantino

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

Practical optimization problems may contain different kinds of difficulties that are often not tractable if one relies on a particular optimization method. Different optimization approaches offer different strengths that are good at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ankur Sinha , Dhaval Pujara , Hemant Kumar Singh

Consider convex optimization problems subject to a large number of constraints. We focus on stochastic problems in which the objective takes the form of expected values and the feasible set is the intersection of a large number of convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-13 Mengdi Wang , Yichen Chen , Jialin Liu , Yuantao Gu

This paper studies distributed algorithms for the extended monotropic optimization problem, which is a general convex optimization problem with a certain separable structure. The considered objective function is the sum of local convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Xianlin Zeng , Peng Yi , Yiguang Hong , Lihua Xie

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 0-1 knapsack problem is a well-known combinatorial optimisation problem. Approximation algorithms have been designed for solving it and they return provably good solutions within polynomial time. On the other hand, genetic algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Jun He , Feidun He , Hongbin Dong

Constrained optimization problems appear in a wide variety of challenging real-world problems, where constraints often capture the physics of the underlying system. Classic methods for solving these problems rely on iterative algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Meiyi Li , Soheil Kolouri , Javad Mohammadi

In this paper, we consider the problem of stochastic optimization, where the objective function is in terms of the expectation of a (possibly non-convex) cost function that is parametrized by a random variable. While the convergence speed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Naeimeh Omidvar , An Liu , Vincent Lau , Danny H. K. Tsang , Mohammad Reza Pakravan

In multi-objective optimization problems, there might exist hidden objectives that are important to the decision-maker but are not being optimized. On the other hand, there might also exist irrelevant objectives that are being optimized but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Seyed Mahdi Shavarani , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Richard Allmendinger

Convex approximation sets for multiobjective optimization problems are a well-studied relaxation of the common notion of approximation sets. Instead of approximating each image of a feasible solution by the image of some solution in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

The time parallel solution of optimality systems arising in PDE constraint optimization could be achieved by simply applying any time parallel algorithm, such as Parareal, to solve the forward and backward evolution problems arising in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-27 Martin Gander , Félix Kwok , Julien Salomon

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…

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