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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely used to solve multi-objective optimization problems, and have become the most popular tool. However, the theoretical foundation of multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), especially the essential…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Chao Bian , Chao Qian

Two important characteristics of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms are distribution and convergency. As a classic multi-objective genetic algorithm, NSGA-II is widely used in multi-objective optimization fields. However, in NSGA-II,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Xinwu Yang , Guizeng You , Chong Zhao , Mengfei Dou , Xinian Guo

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

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

Feature selection plays a pivotal role in the data preprocessing and model-building pipeline, significantly enhancing model performance, interpretability, and resource efficiency across diverse domains. In population-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Sevda Ebrahimi , Masoud Makrehchi

Together with the NSGA-II and SMS-EMOA, the strength Pareto evolutionary algorithm 2 (SPEA2) is one of the most prominent dominance-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). Different from the NSGA-II, it does not employ the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yasser Alghouass , Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Mohammed Lagmah

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

We consider optimizing for different production requirements from the viewpoint of a bio-inspired framework for system flexibility that allows us to study the ability of an algorithm to transfer solutions from previous optimization tasks,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Leo Francoso Dal Piccol Sotto , Sebastian Mayer , Hemanth Janarthanam , Alexander Butz , Jochen Garcke

Algorithms developed for scheduling applications on heterogeneous multiprocessor system focus on asingle objective such as execution time, cost or total data transmission time. However, if more than oneobjective (e.g. execution cost and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-11 M. Rathna Devi , A. Anju

This work conducts a first theoretical analysis studying how well the NSGA-III approximates the Pareto front when the population size $N$ is less than the Pareto front size. We show that when $N$ is at least the number $N_r$ of reference…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Renzhong Deng , Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

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

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

NSGA-III is one of the most widely adopted algorithms for tackling many-objective optimization problems. However, its CPU-based design severely limits scalability and computational efficiency. To address the limitations, we propose…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hao Li , Zhenyu Liang , Ran Cheng

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

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

This article addresses theory in evolutionary many-objective optimization and focuses on the role of crossover operators. The advantages of using crossover are hardly understood and rigorous runtime analyses with crossover are lagging far…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Andre Opris

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

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

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 $(1 + (\lambda,\lambda))$ genetic algorithm is a younger evolutionary algorithm trying to profit also from inferior solutions. Rigorous runtime analyses on unimodal fitness functions showed that it can indeed be faster than classical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Denis Antipov , Benjamin Doerr , Vitalii Karavaev