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Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

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Real-world Constrained Multi-objective Optimization Problems (CMOPs) often contain multiple constraints, and understanding and utilizing the coupling between these constraints is crucial for solving CMOPs. However, existing Constrained…

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The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

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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…

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Constrained optimization problems are often characterized by multiple constraints that, in the practice, must be satisfied with different tolerance levels. While some constraints are hard and as such must be satisfied with zero-tolerance,…

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Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have become essential tools for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs), making their running time analysis crucial for assessing algorithmic efficiency and guiding practical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Han Huang , Tianyu Wang , Chaoda Peng , Tongli He , Zhifeng Hao

Numerous multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have been designed for constrained optimisation over past two decades. The idea behind these algorithms is to transform constrained optimisation problems into multi-objective optimisation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Tao Xu , Jun He , Changjing Shang

The performance of the Quantum Approximate Optimisation Algorithm (QAOA) relies on the setting of optimal parameters in each layer of the circuit. This is no trivial task, and much literature has focused on the challenge of finding optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Vivek Katial , Kate Smith-Miles , Charles Hill

Molecular optimization, which aims to discover improved molecules from a vast chemical search space, is a critical step in chemical development. Various artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated high effectiveness and…

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The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms…

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This research concerns a type of configuration optimization problems frequently encountered in engineering design and manufacturing, where the envelope volume in space occupied by a number of components needs to be minimized along with…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Pei Cao , Zhaoyan Fan , Robert X. Gao , Jiong Tang

Constrained multiobjective optimisation requires fast feasibility attainment together with stable convergence and diversity preservation under strict evaluation budgets. This report documents RDEx-CMOP, the differential evolution variant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Sichen Tao , Yifei Yang , Ruihan Zhao , Kaiyu Wang , Sicheng Liu , Shangce Gao

In black-box optimization, it is essential to understand why an algorithm instance works on a set of problem instances while failing on others and provide explanations of its behavior. We propose a methodology for formulating an algorithm…

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For any optimisation problem where diverse algorithmic approaches are available, the task of predicting algorithm performance and selecting the algorithm most likely to perform well on a given instance holds great practical interest.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Jeffrey Christiansen , Kate Smith-Miles

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) are widely accepted to be more challenging than stationary problems due to the time-dependent nature of the objective functions and/or constraints. Evaluation of purpose-built algorithms…

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Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) frequently arise in real-world applications where multiple conflicting objectives must be optimized under complex constraints. Existing dual-population two-stage algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

When dealing with continuous single-objective problems, multimodality poses one of the biggest difficulties for global optimization. Local optima are often preventing algorithms from making progress and thus pose a severe threat. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Vera Steinhoff , Pascal Kerschke , Christian Grimme

Fitness landscape analysis investigates features with a high influence on the performance of optimization algorithms, aiming to take advantage of the addressed problem characteristics. In this work, a fitness landscape analysis using…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Marcella S. R. Martins , Mohamed El Yafrani , Roberto Santana , Myriam Delgado , Ricardo Lüders , Belaïd Ahiod

Different types of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for constrained continuous optimization. We carry out a feature-based analysis of evolved constrained continuous optimization instances to understand the characteristics of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Shayan Poursoltan , FranK Neumann

We present an analysis of landscape features for predicting the performance of multi-objective combinatorial optimization algorithms. We consider features from the recently proposed compressed Pareto Local Optimal Solutions Networks…

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