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Decomposition has been the mainstream approach in the classic mathematical programming for multi-objective optimization and multi-criterion decision-making. However, it was not properly studied in the context of evolutionary multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ke Li

In recent years, a theoretical understanding has rapidly advanced regarding how popular multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) can optimize many-objective problems. However, the benefits of using crossover in many-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Andre Opris

A customized multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is proposed for the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP). It uses smart initialization approaches to enrich the first generated population, and proposes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yali Wang , Bas van Stein , Michael T. M. Emmerich , Thomas Bäck

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

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai

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

We present a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm that uses Gaussian process (GP) regression-based models to select trial solutions in a multi-generation iterative procedure. In each generation, a surrogate model is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Xiaobiao Huang , Minghao Song , Zhe Zhang

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are among the most widely and successfully applied optimizers for multi-objective problems. However, to store many optimal trade-offs (the Pareto optima) at once, MOEAs are typically run with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Simon Wietheger

The diagnostic performance of most of the deep learning models is greatly affected by the selection of model architecture and hyperparameters. Manual selection of model architecture is not feasible as training and evaluating the different…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have become essential tools for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), making their running time analysis crucial for assessing algorithmic efficiency and guiding practical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Han Huang , Tianyu Wang , Chaoda Peng , Tongli He , Zhifeng Hao

Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) balance predictive accuracy and interpretability, but manually configuring their structure is challenging. We propose using the multi-objective genetic algorithm NSGA-II to automatically optimize GAMs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kaaustaaub Shankar , Kelly Cohen

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

Finding the optimal parameter setting (i.e. the optimal population size, the optimal mutation probability, the optimal evolutionary model etc) for an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is a difficult task. Instead of evolving only the parameters…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Mihai Oltean , Crina Groşan

Decomposition has been the mainstream approach in classic mathematical programming for multi-objective optimization and multi-criterion decision-making. However, it was not properly studied in the context of evolutionary multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ke Li

Runtime analysis has recently been applied to popular evolutionary multi-objective (EMO) algorithms like NSGA-II in order to establish a rigorous theoretical foundation. However, most analyses showed that these algorithms have the same…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Duc-Cuong Dang , Andre Opris , Dirk Sudholt

Most multimodal multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MMEAs) aim to find all global Pareto optimal sets (PSs) for a multimodal multi-objective optimization problem (MMOP). However, in real-world problems, decision makers (DMs) may be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wenhua Li , Xingyi Yao , Kaiwen Li , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Ling Wang

Community detection in complex networks is fundamental across social, biological, and technological domains. While traditional single-objective methods like Louvain and Leiden are computationally efficient, they suffer from resolution bias…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Guilherme O. Santos , Lucas S. Vieira , Giulio Rossetti , Carlos H. G. Ferreira , Gladston Moreira

Many real-world optimization problems can be stated in terms of submodular functions. Furthermore, these real-world problems often involve uncertainties which may lead to the violation of given constraints. A lot of evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

This paper presents the Multi-Objective Ant Nesting Algorithm (MOANA), a novel extension of the Ant Nesting Algorithm (ANA), specifically designed to address multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). MOANA incorporates adaptive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali Tarik A. Rashid , Seyedali Mirjalili

This paper proposes the multi objective variant of the recently introduced fitness dependent optimizer (FDO). The algorithm is called a Multi objective Fitness Dependent Optimizer (MOFDO) and is equipped with all five types of knowledge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jaza M. Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid , Bestan B. Maaroof , Seyedali Mirjalili