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Simultaneously considering multiple objectives in machine learning has been a popular approach for several decades, with various benefits for multi-task learning, the consideration of secondary goals such as sparsity, or multicriteria…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Sebastian Peitz , Sedjro Salomon Hotegni

Designing evolutionary algorithms capable of uncovering highly evolvable representations is an open challenge; such evolvability is important because it accelerates evolution and enables fast adaptation to changing circumstances. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Alexander Gajewski , Jeff Clune , Kenneth O. Stanley , Joel Lehman

Recent advances in learnable evolutionary algorithms have demonstrated the importance of leveraging population distribution information and historical evolutionary trajectories. While significant progress has been made in continuous…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jiaxiang Huang , Licheng Jiao

This paper describes a scalable algorithm for solving multiobjective decomposable problems by combining the hierarchical Bayesian optimization algorithm (hBOA) with the nondominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) and clustering in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Martin Pelikan , Kumara Sastry , David E. Goldberg

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…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-08 A. Maesani , G. Iacca , D. Floreano

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

In this work we consider multitasking in the context of solving multiple optimization problems simultaneously by conducting a single search process. The principal goal when dealing with this scenario is to dynamically exploit the existing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Eneko Osaba , Aritz D. Martinez , Javier Del Ser

This paper presents an evolutionary algorithm with a new goal-sequence domination scheme for better decision support in multi-objective optimization. The approach allows the inclusion of advanced hard/soft priority and constraint…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-06-02 E. F. Khor , T. H. Lee , R. Sathikannan , K. C. Tan

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where the evaluation of a single solution requires a significant amount of resources. In our study of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

In evolutionary algorithms, a preselection operator aims to select the promising offspring solutions from a candidate offspring set. It is usually based on the estimated or real objective values of the candidate offspring solutions. In a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Jinyuan Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Ke Tang , Guixu Zhang

An emerging optimisation problem from the real-world applications, named the multi-point dynamic aggregation (MPDA) problem, has become one of the active research topics of the multi-robot system. This paper focuses on a multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Guanqiang Gao , Bin Xin , Yi Mei , Shuxin Ding , Juan Li

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

To enable emerging applications such as deep machine learning and graph processing, 3D network-on-chip (NoC) enabled heterogeneous manycore platforms that can integrate many processing elements (PEs) are needed. However, designing such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Sirui Qi , Yingheng Li , Sudeep Pasricha , Ryan Gary Kim

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

Multi-label classification consists in classifying an instance into two or more classes simultaneously. It is a very challenging task present in many real-world applications, such as classification of biology, image, video, audio, and text.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Thiago Zafalon Miranda , Diorge Brognara Sardinha , Márcio Porto Basgalupp , Yaochu Jin , Ricardo Cerri

In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, effectiveness refers to how an evolutionary algorithm performs in terms of converging its solutions into the Pareto front and also diversifying them over the front. This is not an easy job,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yani Xue , Miqing Li , Xiaohui Liu

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

Sequential decision-making problems with multiple objectives arise naturally in practice and pose unique challenges for research in decision-theoretic planning and learning, which has largely focused on single-objective settings. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Diederik Marijn Roijers , Peter Vamplew , Shimon Whiteson , Richard Dazeley

Large Language Models (LLMs) possess substantial reasoning capabilities and are increasingly applied to optimization tasks, particularly in synergy with evolutionary computation. However, while recent surveys have explored specific aspects…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yisong Zhang , Ran Cheng , Guoxing Yi , Kay Chen Tan