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By remarkably reducing real fitness evaluations, surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs), especially hierarchical SAEAs, have been shown to be effective in solving computationally expensive optimization problems. The success of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaodong Ren , Daofu Guo , Zhigang Ren , Yongsheng Liang , An Chen

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) hold significant importance in resolving expensive optimization problems~(EOPs). Extensive efforts have been devoted to improving the efficacy of SAEAs through the development of proficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where the evaluation of a single solution requires a significant amount of resources. In our study of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

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

Optimization algorithms are very different from human optimizers. A human being would gain more experiences through problem-solving, which helps her/him in solving a new unseen problem. Yet an optimization algorithm never gains any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xunzhao Yu , Yan Wang , Ling Zhu , Dimitar Filev , Xin Yao

Surrogate assisted evolutionary algorithms (EA) are rapidly gaining popularity where applications of EA in complex real world problem domains are concerned. Although EAs are powerful global optimizers, finding optimal solution to complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-13 Maumita Bhattacharya

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are a key tool for addressing costly optimization tasks, with their efficiency being heavily dependent on the selection of surrogate models and infill sampling criteria. However, designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lindong Xie , Genghui Li , Zhenkun Wang , Edward Chung , Maoguo Gong

Most existing multiobjetive evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) implicitly assume that each objective function can be evaluated within the same period of time. Typically. this is untenable in many real-world optimization scenarios where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xilu Wang , Yaochu Jin , Sebastian Schmitt , Markus Olhofer

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are recently among the most widely studied methods for their capability to solve expensive real-world optimization problems. However, the development of new methods and benchmarking with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jakub Kudela , Ladislav Dobrovsky

Surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithms~(SAEAs) have shown promising robustness in solving expensive optimization problems. A key aspect that impacts SAEAs' effectiveness is surrogate model selection, which in existing works is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuxin Wu , Hongshu Guo , Ting Huang , Yue-Jiao Gong , Zeyuan Ma

Chemical plant design and optimisation have proven challenging due to the complexity of these real-world systems. The resulting complexity translates into high computational costs for these systems' mathematical formulations and simulation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Liezl Stander , Matthew Woolway , Terence L. Van Zyl

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been proposed to solve expensive optimization problems. Although SAEAs use surrogate models that approximate the evaluations of solutions using machine learning techniques, prior…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yuki Hanawa , Tomohiro Harada , Yukiya Miura

Standard evolutionary optimization algorithms assume that the evaluation of the objective and constraint functions is straightforward and computationally cheap. However, in many real-world optimization problems, these evaluations involve…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Jakub Kudela , Radomil Matousek

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are powerful optimisation tools for computationally expensive problems (CEPs). However, a randomly selected algorithm may fail in solving unknown problems due to no free lunch theorems, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Hao Tong , Jialin Liu , Xin Yao

Real-world optimisation problems typically have objective functions which cannot be expressed analytically. These optimisation problems are evaluated through expensive physical experiments or simulations. Cheap approximations of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mohamed Z. Variawa , Terence L. Van Zyl , Matthew Woolway

In this paper, we propose a novel approach (SAPEO) to support the survival selection process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with surrogate models - it dynamically chooses individuals to evaluate exactly based on the model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

Simulation models are widely used in practice to facilitate decision-making in a complex, dynamic and stochastic environment. But they are computationally expensive to execute and optimize, due to lack of analytical tractability. Simulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-14 L. Jeff Hong , Xiaowei Zhang

Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have proven effective at solving Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems (MOOPs). However, their performance can be significantly hindered when applied to computationally intensive industrial…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Tiwonge Msulira Banda , Alexandru-Ciprian Zăvoianu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant progress across various fields and have exhibited strong potential in evolutionary computation, such as generating new solutions and automating algorithm design. Surrogate-assisted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

The surrogate-assisted optimization algorithm is a promising approach for solving expensive multi-objective optimization problems. However, most existing surrogate-assisted multi-objective optimization algorithms have three main drawbacks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xi Lin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zhenhua Li , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong
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