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Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several criteria are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

The performance of multiobjective algorithms varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective algorithms, there has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Yuri Lavinas , Marcelo Ladeira , Gabriela Ochoa , Claus Aranha

Variable division and optimization (D\&O) is a frequently utilized algorithm design paradigm in Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs). A D\&O EA divides a variable into partial variables and then optimize them respectively. A complicated problem is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Yi Chen , Aimin Zhou

Knowledge transfer-based evolutionary optimization has garnered significant attention, such as in multi-task evolutionary optimization (MTEO), which aims to solve complex problems by simultaneously optimizing multiple tasks. While this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jie Zhao , Kang Hao Cheong , Yaochu Jin

In single-objective optimization, it is well known that evolutionary algorithms also without further adjustments can tolerate a certain amount of noise in the evaluation of the objective function. In contrast, this question is not at all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Matthieu Dinot , Benjamin Doerr , Ulysse Hennebelle , Sebastian Will

In this paper, we present novel randomized algorithms for solving saddle point problems whose dual feasible region is given by the direct product of many convex sets. Our algorithms can achieve an ${\cal O}(1/N)$ and ${\cal O}(1/N^2)$ rate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-16 Cong Dang , Guanghui Lan

Subset selection, which aims to select a subset from a ground set to maximize some objective function, arises in various applications such as influence maximization and sensor placement. In real-world scenarios, however, one often needs to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Chao Bian , Yawen Zhou , Chao Qian

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

Convex optimization is a well-established research area with applications in almost all fields. Over the decades, multiple approaches have been proposed to solve convex programs. The development of interior-point methods allowed solving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Ahmed Douik , Babak Hassibi

We study the problem of covering a given set of $n$ points in a high, $d$-dimensional space by the minimum enclosing polytope of a given arbitrary shape. We present algorithms that work for a large family of shapes, provided either only…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Rina Panigrahy

A key property underlying the success of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) is their global search behavior, which allows the algorithms to `jump' from a current state to other parts of the search space, thereby avoiding to get stuck in local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Furong Ye , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck

A common goal in evolutionary multi-objective optimization is to find suitable finite-size approximations of the Pareto front of a given multi-objective optimization problem. While many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have proven to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hao Wang , Angel E. Rodriguez-Fernandez , Lourdes Uribe , André Deutz , Oziel Cortés-Piña , Oliver Schütze

Numerous multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have been designed for constrained optimisation over past two decades. The idea behind these algorithms is to transform constrained optimisation problems into multi-objective optimisation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Tao Xu , Jun He , Changjing Shang

The weak Pareto boundary ($WPB$) refers to a boundary in the objective space of a multi-objective optimization problem, characterized by weak Pareto optimality rather than Pareto optimality. The $WPB$ brings severe challenges to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ruihao Zheng , Jingda Deng , Zhenkun Wang

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have successfully been used in the context of Pareto optimization where a given constraint is relaxed into an additional objective. In this paper, we explore the use of 3-objective formulations for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

A significantly under-explored area of evolutionary optimization in the literature is the study of optimization methodologies that can evolve along with the problems solved. Particularly, present evolutionary optimization approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Liang Feng , Yew Soon Ong , Ah Hwee Tan , Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang

The field of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) often emphasizes its popularity for optimization problems with conflicting objectives. However, it is still theoretically unknown how MOEAs perform compared with typical approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Weijie Zheng

Automated experimentation has the potential to revolutionize scientific discovery, but its effectiveness depends on well-defined optimization targets, which are often uncertain or probabilistic in real-world settings. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yu Liu , Sergei V. Kalinin

Single-objective bilevel optimization is a specialized form of constraint optimization problems where one of the constraints is an optimization problem itself. These problems are typically non-convex and strongly NP-Hard. Recently, there…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Anuraganand Sharma

Designing a transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) strategy requires considering multiple objectives, such as intensity in the target area, focality, stimulation depth, and avoidance zone, which are often mutually exclusive. A…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 Mo Wang , Kexin Lou , Zeming Liu , Pengfei Wei , Quanying Liu