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In the real world, there exist a class of optimization problems that multiple (local) optimal solutions in the solution space correspond to a single point in the objective space. In this paper, we theoretically show that for such multimodal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shengjie Ren , Zhijia Qiu , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

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

Evolution has produced an astonishing diversity of species, each filling a different niche. Algorithms like MAP-Elites mimic this divergent evolutionary process to find a set of behaviorally diverse but high-performing solutions, called the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Vassilis Vassiliades , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Evolutionary search via the quality-diversity (QD) paradigm can discover highly performing solutions in different behavioural niches, showing considerable potential in complex real-world scenarios such as evolutionary robotics. Yet most QD…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Roberto Gallotta , Antonios Liapis , Georgios N. Yannakakis

Solving combinatorial optimization problems on near-term quantum devices has gained a lot of attraction in recent years. Currently, most works have focused on single-objective problems, whereas many real-world applications need to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Linus Ekstrom , Hao Wang , Sebastian Schmitt

Most multi-objective optimisation algorithms maintain an archive explicitly or implicitly during their search. Such an archive can be solely used to store high-quality solutions presented to the decision maker, but in many cases may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Miqing Li , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Xin Yao

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are prevalent in machine learning, with applications in multi-task learning, learning under fairness or robustness constraints, etc. Instead of reducing multiple objective functions into a scalar…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Liang Zhao , Yingying Yu , Xi Lin , Yifan Chen , Han Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

Bayesian Optimization (BO) is a powerful tool for optimizing expensive black-box objective functions. While extensive research has been conducted on the single-objective optimization problem, the multi-objective optimization problem remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Lam Ngo , Huong Ha , Jeffrey Chan , Hongyu Zhang

Multi-objective search (MOS) has become essential in robotics, as real-world robotic systems need to simultaneously balance multiple, often conflicting objectives. Recent works explore complex interactions between objectives, leading to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Hadar Peer , Eyal Weiss , Ron Alterovitz , Oren Salzman

Multi-objective optimization problems whose objectives have different evaluation costs are commonly seen in the real world. Such problems are now known as multi-objective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives (HE-MOPs). So…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xilu Wang , Yaochu Jin , Sebastian Schmitt , Markus Olhofer

The majority of multi-agent system (MAS) implementations aim to optimise agents' policies with respect to a single objective, despite the fact that many real-world problem domains are inherently multi-objective in nature. Multi-objective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Roxana Rădulescu , Patrick Mannion , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé

The performance of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms deteriorates appreciably in solving many-objective optimization problems which encompass more than three objectives. One of the known rationales is the loss of selection pressure…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Yanan Sun , Gary G. Yen , Zhang Yi

The main feature of the Dynamic Multi-objective Optimization Problems (DMOPs) is that optimization objective functions will change with times or environments. One of the promising approaches for solving the DMOPs is reusing the obtained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Weizhen Hu , Min Jiang , Xing Gao , Kay Chen Tan , Yiu-ming Cheung

In dealing with constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs), a key issue of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) is to balance the convergence and diversity of working populations.

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhun Fan , Zhaojun Wang , Wenji Li , Yutong Yuan , Yugen You , Zhi Yang , Fuzan Sun , Jie Ruan , Zhaocheng Li

Optimisation problems often have multiple conflicting objectives that can be computationally and/or financially expensive. Mono-surrogate Bayesian optimisation (BO) is a popular model-based approach for optimising such black-box functions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 George De Ath , Tinkle Chugh , Alma A. M. Rahat

Workforce Scheduling and Routing Problems (WSRP) are very common in many practical domains, and usually, have a number of objectives. Illumination algorithms such as Map-Elites (ME) have recently gained traction in application to {\em…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Neil Urquhart , Emma Hart

While the field of Quality-Diversity (QD) has grown into a distinct branch of stochastic optimization, a few problems, in particular locomotion and navigation tasks, have become de facto standards. Are such benchmarks sufficient? Are they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Achkan Salehi , Stephane Doncieux

By combining Genetic Programming, MAP-Elites and Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy, we demonstrate very high success rates in Symbolic Regression problems. MAP-Elites is used to improve exploration while preserving diversity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 J. -P. Bruneton , L. Cazenille , A. Douin , V. Reverdy

Choices in scientific research and management require balancing multiple, often competing objectives.Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) provides a unifying framework for solving multiple objective problems. Model selection is a critical…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-26 Perry Williams , William Kendall , Mevin Hooten