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Constrained multiobjective optimization has gained much interest in the past few years. However, constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are still unsatisfactorily understood. Consequently, the choice of adequate CMOPs for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Aljoša Vodopija , Tea Tušar , Bogdan Filipič

Many real-world applications require solving families of expensive multi-objective optimization problems~(EMOPs) under varying operational conditions. This can be formulated as parametric expensive multi-objective optimization problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Tingyang Wei , Jiao Liu , Abhishek Gupta , Chin Chun Ooi , Puay Siew Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

This paper addresses the development of a covariance matrix self-adaptation evolution strategy (CMSA-ES) for solving optimization problems with linear constraints. The proposed algorithm is referred to as Linear Constraint CMSA-ES…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Patrick Spettel , Hans-Georg Beyer , Michael Hellwig

Balancing competing objectives is omnipresent across disciplines, from drug design to autonomous systems. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization is a promising solution for such expensive, black-box problems: it fits probabilistic surrogates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xinyu Zhang , Conor Hassan , Julien Martinelli , Daolang Huang , Samuel Kaski

Optimizing multiple competing objectives is a common problem across science and industry. The inherent inextricable trade-off between those objectives leads one to the task of exploring their Pareto front. A meaningful quantity for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jim Boelrijk , Bernd Ensing , Patrick Forré

This article addresses the problem of derivative-free (single- or multi-objective) optimization subject to multiple inequality constraints. Both the objective and constraint functions are assumed to be smooth, non-linear and expensive to…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-28 Paul Feliot , Julien Bect , Emmanuel Vazquez

This paper introduces a high-performance hybrid algorithm, called Hybrid Hypervolume Maximization Algorithm (H2MA), for multi-objective optimization that alternates between exploring the decision space and exploiting the already obtained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Conrado Silva Miranda , Fernando José Von Zuben

Real-world problems often involve the optimization of several objectives under multiple constraints. An example is the hyper-parameter tuning problem of machine learning algorithms. In particular, the minimization of the estimation of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-02 Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán , Daniel Hernández-Lobato

Multi-objective optimization problems whose objectives have different evaluation costs are commonly seen in the real world. Such problems are now known as multi-objective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives (HE-MOPs). So…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xilu Wang , Yaochu Jin , Sebastian Schmitt , Markus Olhofer

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

We are focusing on bound constrained global optimization problems, whose objective functions are computationally expensive black-box functions and have multiple local minima. The recently popular Metric Stochastic Response Surface (MSRS)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-24 Yilun Wang , Christine A. Shoemaker

Various variants of the well known Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) have been proposed recently, which improve the empirical performance of the original algorithm by structural modifications. However, in practice it…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Sander van Rijn , Hao Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Thomas Bäck

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 multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) frequently arise in real-world applications where multiple conflicting objectives must be optimized under complex constraints. Existing dual-population two-stage algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

Many real-world optimization problems such as engineering design can be eventually modeled as the corresponding multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) which must be solved to obtain approximate Pareto optimal fronts. Multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Wang Chen , Jian Chen , Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang , Hui Li

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

In the post-Moore era, main performance gains of black-box optimizers are increasingly depending on parallelism, especially for large-scale optimization (LSO). Here we propose to parallelize the well-established covariance matrix adaptation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Qiqi Duan , Chang Shao , Guochen Zhou , Minghan Zhang , Qi Zhao , Yuhui Shi

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. While decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms have good performance for multi-objective optimization, they are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

An efficient beamforming design is proposed for continuous aperture array (CAPA)-based point-to-point multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In contrast to conventional spatially discrete array (SPDA)-MIMO systems, whose optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhaolin Wang , Chongjun Ouyang , Yuanwei Liu

Optimizing a set of functions simultaneously by leveraging their similarity is called multi-task optimization. Current black-box multi-task algorithms only solve a finite set of tasks, even when the tasks originate from a continuous space.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Timothée Anne , Jean-Baptiste Mouret