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Most existing studies on evolutionary multi-objective optimization focus on approximating the whole Pareto-optimal front. Nevertheless, rather than the whole front, which demands for too many points (especially in a high-dimensional space),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ke Li , Kalyanmoy Deb , Xin Yao

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are major methods for solving multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). Many MOEAs have been proposed in the past decades, of which the search operators need a carefully handcrafted design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Shunyu Yao , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Qingfu Zhang

Neighborhood search operators are critical to the performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and rely heavily on expert design. Although recent LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) methods have made notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junhao Qiu , Xin Chen , Liang Ge , Liyong Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

It is desirable in many multi-objective machine learning applications, such as multi-task learning with conflicting objectives and multi-objective reinforcement learning, to find a Pareto solution that can match a given preference of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Qingfu Zhang

This paper introduces V2A-DPO, a novel Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) framework tailored for flow-based video-to-audio generation (V2A) models, incorporating key adaptations to effectively align generated audio with human preferences.…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Nolan Chan , Timmy Gang , Yongqian Wang , Yuzhe Liang , Dingdong Wang

An integrated optimization method based on the constrained multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) and non-intrusive polynomial chaos expansion (PCE) is proposed, which solves robust multi-objective optimization problems under…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yuji Takubo , Masahiro Kanazaki

In a flexible job shop environment, using Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) to transport jobs and process materials is an important way to promote the intelligence of the workshop. Compared with single-load AGVs, multi-load AGVs can improve…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Feige Liu , Chao Lu , Xin Li

Intrinsically disordered regions of proteins play a crucial role in cell signaling and drug discovery. However, their high structural flexibility makes accurate residue-level prediction challenging. Existing methods often rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Shaokuan Wang , Pengshan Cui , Yining Qian , An-Yang Lu , Xianpeng Wang

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has gained significant attention for its simplicity and computational efficiency in aligning large language models (LLMs). Recent advancements have extended DPO to multimodal scenarios, achieving strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yeyuan Wang , Dehong Gao , Rujiao Long , Lei Yi , Linbo Jin , Libin Yang , Xiaoyan Cai

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) has shown promising performance on various expensive multi-objective optimization problems (EMOPs). However, effectively modeling complex distributions of the Pareto optimal solutions is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Bingdong Li , Zixiang Di , Yongfan Lu , Hong Qian , Feng Wang , Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Aimin Zhou

Gradient-based preference optimization methods for large language model (LLM) alignment suffer from preference collapse, converging to narrow behavioral modes while neglecting preference diversity. We introduce EvoPref, a multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dongxin Guo , Jikun Wu , Siu Ming Yiu

Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms based on Decomposition (MOEA/D) represent a widely used class of population-based metaheuristics for the solution of multicriteria optimization problems. We introduce the MOEADr package, which offers…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Felipe Campelo , Lucas S. Batista , Claus Aranha

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

Decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms have become fairly popular for many-objective optimization in recent years. However, the existing decomposition methods still are quite sensitive to the various shapes of frontiers of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Yu Wu , Jianle Wei , Weiqin Ying , Yanqi Lan , Zhen Cui , Zhenyu Wang

Computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for a given optimization problem has become an important topic in recent years. In this paper, we introduce a coevolutionary Pareto Diversity Optimization approach which builds on the success…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Aneta Neumann , Denis Antipov , Frank Neumann

When working with decomposition-based algorithms, an appropriate set of weights might improve quality of the final solution. A set of uniformly distributed weights usually leads to well-distributed solutions on a Pareto front. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Lucas R. C. de Farias , Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani , Aluizio F. R. Araújo

This paper proposes a push and pull search (PPS) framework for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). To be more specific, the proposed PPS divides the search process into two different stages, including the push…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Hui Li , Caimin Wei , Qingfu Zhang , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik D. Goodman

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

This note proposes an algorithm to generate the Pareto front of a mixed discrete multi-objective optimization problem based on the pruning of irrelevant subproblems. An existing pruning-based method for a mixed discrete bi-objective problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Juseong Lee , Sang-Il Lee , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Parent selection in evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimisation is usually performed by dominance mechanisms or indicator functions that prefer non-dominated points. We propose to refine the parent selection on evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Edgar Covantes Osuna , Wanru Gao , Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt