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The decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) does not directly optimize a given multi-objective function $f$, but instead optimizes $N + 1$ single-objective subproblems of $f$ in a co-evolutionary manner. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Noé Weeks

Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) does well in dealing with multi-objective problems. When evaluating validity of an algorithm for multi-objective problems, two kinds of indices are often considered simultaneously, i.e.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Xiangxiang Chu , Xinjie Yu

Problems defined on binary decision spaces have been intensively studied in the theory of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). In contrast, no mathematical runtime analyses exist so far for MOEAs dealing with decision variables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mingfeng Li , Zheng Cheng , Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

Very recently, the first mathematical runtime analyses for the NSGA-II, the most common multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, have been conducted. Continuing this research direction, we prove that the NSGA-II optimizes the OneJumpZeroJump…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Benjamin Doerr , Zhongdi Qu

NSGA-III is a prominent algorithm in evolutionary many-objective optimization. It is particularly well suited for optimizing problems with more than three objectives, distinguishing it from the classical NSGA-II. However, theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Andre Opris

Characteristics of an evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithm can be explained using its best solution set. For example, the best solution set for SMS-EMOA is the same as the optimal distribution of solutions for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Hisao Ishibuchi , Lie Meng Pang

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

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

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have emerged as a predominant approach for addressing multi-objective optimization problems. However, the theoretical foundation of multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), particularly the fundamental aspects like running…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shengjie Ren , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Despite significant progress in the field of mathematical runtime analysis of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), the performance of MOEAs on discrete many-objective problems is little understood. In particular, the few…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Simon Wietheger , Benjamin Doerr

We study a multi-objective scheduling problem on two dedicated processors. The aim is to minimize simultaneously the makespan, the total tardiness and the total completion time. This NP-hard problem requires the use of well-adapted methods.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Adel Kacem , Abdelaziz Dammak

In parallel and distributed environments, generational evolutionary algorithms often do not exploit the full potential of the computation system since they have to wait until the entire population is evaluated before starting selection…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ilya Yakupov , Maxim Buzdalov

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

The global simple evolutionary multi-objective optimizer (GSEMO) is a simple, yet often effective multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA). By only maintaining non-dominated solutions, it has a variable population size that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Benjamin Doerr , Martin Krejca , Andre Opris

Evolutionary algorithms are widely used for solving multi-objective optimization problems. A prominent example is NSGA-III, which is particularly well suited for solving problems involving more than three objectives, distinguishing it from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Andre Opris

The concurrent optimization of language models and instructional prompts presents a significant challenge for deploying efficient and effective AI systems, particularly when balancing performance against computational costs like token…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Cláudio Lúcio do Val Lopes , Lucca Machado

Elitism, which constructs the new population by preserving best solutions out of the old population and newly-generated solutions, has been a default way for population update since its introduction into multi-objective evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Per Kristian Lehre

In this paper, we present NSGA-II-SVM (Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm with Support Vector Machine Guidance), a novel learnable evolutionary and search-based testing algorithm that leverages Support Vector Machine (SVM)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Lev Sorokin , Niklas Kerscher

NSGA-II and NSGA-III are two of the most popular evolutionary multi-objective algorithms used in practice. While NSGA-II is used for few objectives such as 2 and 3, NSGA-III is designed to deal with a larger number of objectives. In a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Andre Opris , Duc-Cuong Dang , Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt

Software quality estimation is a challenging and time-consuming activity, and models are crucial to face the complexity of such activity on modern software applications. In this context, software refactoring is a crucial activity within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Vittorio Cortellessa , Daniele Di Pompeo , Vincenzo Stoico , Michele Tucci