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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

The optimal mixing evolutionary algorithms (OMEAs) have recently drawn much attention for their robustness, small size of required population, and efficiency in terms of number of function evaluations (NFE). In this paper, the performances…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Yu-Fan Tung , Tian-Li Yu

Designing optimal soft modular robots is difficult, due to non-trivial interactions between morphology and controller. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs), combined with physical simulators, represent a valid tool to overcome this issue. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Enrico Zardini , Davide Zappetti , Davide Zambrano , Giovanni Iacca , Dario Floreano

Multi-modal optimization involves identifying multiple global and local optima of a function, offering valuable insights into diverse optimal solutions within the search space. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) excel at finding multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Dikshit Chauhan , Shivani , Donghwi Jung , Anupam Yadav

Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural Architecture Search. These algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aitor Martínez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

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

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO-OPs through a problem-decomposition framework, that is, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wei Liu , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Hisao Ishibuchi

Multi-task learning (MTL), which aims to improve performance by learning multiple tasks simultaneously, inherently presents an optimization challenge due to multiple objectives. Hence, multi-objective optimization (MOO) approaches have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Simyung Chang , KiYoon Yoo , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann

Evolutionary algorithms are popular algorithms for multiobjective optimisation (also called Pareto optimisation) as they use a population to store trade-offs between different objectives. Despite their popularity, the theoretical foundation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duc-Cuong Dang , Andre Opris , Dirk Sudholt

An emerging optimisation problem from the real-world applications, named the multi-point dynamic aggregation (MPDA) problem, has become one of the active research topics of the multi-robot system. This paper focuses on a multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Guanqiang Gao , Bin Xin , Yi Mei , Shuxin Ding , Juan Li

For the purpose of addressing the multi-objective optimal reactive power dispatch (MORPD) problem, a two-step approach is proposed in this paper. First of all, to ensure the economy and security of the power system, the MORPD model aiming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Meng Zhang , Yang Li

Filter pruning is a common method to achieve model compression and acceleration in deep neural networks (DNNs).Some research regarded filter pruning as a combinatorial optimization problem and thus used evolutionary algorithms (EA) to prune…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Xuhua Li , Weize Sun , Lei Huang , Shaowu Chen

Multiobjective optimization remains challenging for many scientific and engineering problems due to the need to balance convergence, diversity, and computational efficiency across high-dimensional objective landscapes. This work presents…

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In this paper, the monotone submodular maximization problem (SM) is studied. SM is to find a subset of size $\kappa$ from a universe of size $n$ that maximizes a monotone submodular objective function $f$. We show using a novel analysis…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Victoria G. Crawford

In practical multi-criterion decision-making, it is cumbersome if a decision maker (DM) is asked to choose among a set of trade-off alternatives covering the whole Pareto-optimal front. This is a paradox in conventional evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ke Li , Guiyu Lai , Xin Yao

In the last years, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEA) have been applied to different software engineering problems where many conflicting objectives have to be optimized simultaneously. In theory, evolutionary algorithms feature…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Donia El Kateb , François Fouquet , Johann Bourcier , Yves Le Traon

Machine learning has rapidly evolved during the last decade, achieving expert human performance on notoriously challenging problems such as image classification. This success is partly due to the re-emergence of bio-inspired modern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

Evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) has made significant strides over the past two decades. However, as problem scales and complexities increase, traditional EMO algorithms face substantial performance limitations due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhenyu Liang , Hao Li , Naiwei Yu , Kebin Sun , Ran Cheng

A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

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