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This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

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

We consider the subset selection problem for function $f$ with constraint bound $B$ that changes over time. Within the area of submodular optimization, various greedy approaches are commonly used. For dynamic environments we observe that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Vahid Roostapour , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Tobias Friedrich

To solve real-world expensive constrained multi-objective optimization problems (ECMOPs), surrogate/approximation models are commonly incorporated in evolutionary algorithms to pre-select promising candidate solutions for evaluation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Kamrul Hasan Rahi

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization aims to find all Pareto optimal solutions including overlapping solutions in the objective space. Multi-modal multi-objective optimization has been investigated in the evolutionary computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) pervade real-world applications in science, engineering, and design. Constraint violation has been a building block in designing evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithms…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Shuang Li , Ke Li , Wei Li , Ming Yang

Real-world combinatorial optimization problems are often stochastic and dynamic. Therefore, it is essential to make optimal and reliable decisions with a holistic approach. In this paper, we consider the dynamic chance-constrained knapsack…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-18 Hirad Assimi , Oscar Harper , Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

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

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world engineering optimization scenarios. A key issue in constrained multi-objective optimization is to strike a balance among convergence, diversity and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Xinyu Shan , Ke Li

Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large number of conflicting objectives. Unlike traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ke Shang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Zexuan Zhu , Qingfu Zhang

Greedy algorithms are widely used for problems in machine learning such as feature selection and set function optimization. Unfortunately, for large datasets, the running time of even greedy algorithms can be quite high. This is because for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-09 Rajiv Khanna , Ethan Elenberg , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Sahand Negahban , Joydeep Ghosh

In the classical selection problem, the input consists of a collection of elements and the goal is to pick a subset of elements from the collection such that some objective function $f$ is maximized. This problem has been studied…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Sofia Maria Nikolakaki , Alina Ene , Evimaria Terzi

Motivated by a wide range of applications in data mining and machine learning, we consider the problem of maximizing a submodular function subject to supermodular cost constraints. In contrast to the well-understood setting of cardinality…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ajitesh Srivastava , Shanghua Teng

Large-scale sparse multi-objective optimization problems (LSMOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where optimal solutions typically contain only a few nonzero variables, such as in adversarial attacks, critical node detection, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Shuai Shao , Yuhao Sun , Xing Chen , Ye Tian , Guan Wang , Jin Li

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

Stochastic optimization of continuous objectives is at the heart of modern machine learning. However, many important problems are of discrete nature and often involve submodular objectives. We seek to unleash the power of stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Mohammad Reza Karimi , Mario Lucic , Hamed Hassani , Andreas Krause

Migration has been a universal phenomenon, which brings opportunities as well as challenges for global development. As the number of migrants (e.g., refugees) increases rapidly in recent years, a key challenge faced by each country is the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Dan-Xuan Liu , Yu-Ran Gu , Chao Qian , Xin Mu , Ke Tang

Submodular functions allow to model many real-world optimisation problems. This paper introduces approaches for computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for submodular optimisation problems. We first present diversifying greedy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aneta Neumann , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann