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Diversity is an important factor in evolutionary algorithms to prevent premature convergence towards a single local optimum. In order to maintain diversity throughout the process of evolution, various means exist in literature. We analyze…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Thomas Gabor , Lenz Belzner , Claudia Linnhoff-Popien

Population diversity plays a key role in evolutionary algorithms that enables global exploration and avoids premature convergence. This is especially more crucial in dynamic optimization in which diversity can ensure that the population…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , Frank Neumann

The possibility to use competitive evolutionary algorithms to generate long-term progress is normally prevented by the convergence on limit cycle dynamics in which the evolving agents keep progressing against their current competitors by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Luca Simione , Stefano Nolfi

Traditional optimization algorithms search for a single global optimum that maximizes (or minimizes) the objective function. Multimodal optimization algorithms search for the highest peaks in the search space that can be more than one.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis , Antoine Cully , Vassilis Vassiliades , Jean-Baptiste Mouret

Multitasking optimization is an emerging research field which has attracted lot of attention in the scientific community. The main purpose of this paradigm is how to solve multiple optimization problems or tasks simultaneously by conducting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Eneko Osaba , Javier Del Ser , Xin-She Yang , Andres Iglesias , Akemi Galvez

We discuss a new optimization strategy, which considerably improves the effectivity of evolutionary algorithms applied to a certain class of optimization problems. The basic principle is to solve first a simpler related problem, which is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Volkhard Buchholtz , Thorsten Poeschel

Evolutionary processes proved very useful for solving optimization problems. In this work, we build a formalization of the notion of cooperation and competition of multiple systems working toward a common optimization goal of the population…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Mark Burgin , Eugene Eberbach

In this paper we present an evolutionary optimization approach to solve the risk parity portfolio selection problem. While there exist convex optimization approaches to solve this problem when long-only portfolios are considered, the…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2015-04-14 Ronald Hochreiter

We investigate two representation alternatives for the controllers of teams of cyber agents. We combine these controller representations with different evolutionary algorithms, one of which introduces a novel LLM-supported mutation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Erik Hemberg , Eric Liu , Lucille Fuller , Stephen Moskal , Una-May O'Reilly

Hybrid optimization algorithms have gained popularity as it has become apparent there cannot be a universal optimization strategy which is globally more beneficial than any other. Despite their popularity, hybridization frameworks require…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-03-15 Hassan A. Bashir , Richard S. Neville

Real-world optimization often demands diverse, high-quality solutions. Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization is a multifaceted approach in evolutionary algorithms that aims to generate a set of solutions that are both high-performing and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Meng Xu , Frank Neumann , Aneta Neumann , Yew Soon Ong

Dynamic optimisation occurs in a variety of real-world problems. To tackle these problems, evolutionary algorithms have been extensively used due to their effectiveness and minimum design effort. However, for dynamic problems, extra…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Maryam Hasani Shoreh , Renato Hermoza Aragonés , Frank Neumann

In recent years, to improve the evolutionary algorithms used to solve optimization problems involving a large number of decision variables, many attempts have been made to simplify the problem solution space of a given problem for the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Liang Feng , Qingxia Shang , Yaqing Hou , Kay Chen Tan , Yew-Soon Ong

Generating diverse populations of high quality solutions has gained interest as a promising extension to the traditional optimization tasks. This work contributes to this line of research with an investigation on evolutionary diversity…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Recently, it has been proven that evolutionary algorithms produce good results for a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems. Some of the considered problems are tackled by evolutionary algorithms that use a representation which…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Benjamin Doerr , Anton Eremeev , Frank Neumann , Madeleine Theile , Christian Thyssen

Evolutionary diversity optimization aims to compute a diverse set of solutions where all solutions meet a given quality criterion. With this paper, we bridge the areas of evolutionary diversity optimization and evolutionary multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Aneta Neumann , Wanru Gao , Markus Wagner , Frank Neumann

We show how an evolutionary algorithm can successfully be used to evolve a set of difficult to solve symmetric travelling salesman problem instances for two variants of the Lin-Kernighan algorithm. Then we analyse the instances in those…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 J. I. van Hemert

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

A fascinating aspect of nature lies in its ability to produce a collection of organisms that are all high-performing in their niche. Quality-Diversity (QD) methods are evolutionary algorithms inspired by this observation, that obtained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Felix Chalumeau , Thomas Pierrot , Valentin Macé , Arthur Flajolet , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully , Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert

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