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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

In multiobjective optimisation, a set of scalable test problems with a variety of features allow researchers to investigate and evaluate the abilities of different optimisation algorithms, and thus can help them to design and develop more…

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A multiple objective simulation optimization algorithm named Multiple Objective Probabilistic Branch and Bound with Single Observation (MOPBnB(so)) is presented for approximating the Pareto optimal set and the associated efficient frontier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Hao Huang , Zelda B. Zabinsky

In the context of Noisy Multi-Objective Optimization, dealing with uncertainties requires the decision maker to define some preferences about how to handle them, through some statistics (e.g., mean, median) to be used to evaluate the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Gaétan Marceau , Marc Schoenauer

Recently, there has been growing interest within the theoretical community in analytically studying multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. This runtime analysis-focused research can help formally understand algorithm behaviour, explain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li

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

Optimizing nonlinear systems involving expensive computer experiments with regard to conflicting objectives is a common challenge. When the number of experiments is severely restricted and/or when the number of objectives increases,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-16 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

The NSGA-III algorithm relies on uniformly distributed reference points to promote diversity in many-objective optimization problems. However, this strategy may underperform when facing irregular Pareto fronts, where certain vectors remain…

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In recent years, a theoretical understanding has rapidly advanced regarding how popular multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) can optimize many-objective problems. However, the benefits of using crossover in many-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Andre Opris

Multi-party multi-objective optimization problems (MPMOPs) require consensus among autonomous decision makers and therefore differ from flattened many-objective formulations. Existing runtime theory for multi-objective evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiaolei Fang , Peilan Xu , Wenjian Luo

Benson's outer approximation algorithm and its variants are the most frequently used methods for solving linear multiobjective optimization problems. These algorithms have two intertwined components: one-dimensional linear optimization one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Laszlo Csirmaz

The content ranking problem in a social news website, is typically a function that maximizes a scalar metric of interest like dwell-time. However, like in most real-world applications we are interested in more than one metric---for instance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-17 Jeya Balaji Balasubramanian , Akshay Soni , Yashar Mehdad , Nikolay Laptev

The goal of multi-objective optimization is to understand optimal trade-offs between competing objective functions by finding the Pareto front, i.e., the set of all Pareto optimal solutions, where no objective can be improved without…

Many machine learning tasks aim to find models that work well not for a single, but for a group of criteria, often opposing ones. One such example is imbalanced data classification, where, on the one hand, we want to achieve the best…

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Particle accelerators require constant tuning during operation to meet beam quality, total charge and particle energy requirements for use in a wide variety of physics, chemistry and biology experiments. Maximizing the performance of an…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ryan Roussel , Adi Hanuka , Auralee Edelen

Evolutionary algorithms are widely used to solve optimisation problems. However, challenges of transparency arise in both visualising the processes of an optimiser operating through a problem and understanding the problem features produced…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Mathew Walter , David Walker , Matthew Craven

This work focuses on a class of general decentralized constraint-coupled optimization problems. We propose a novel nested primal-dual gradient algorithm (NPGA), which can achieve linear convergence under the weakest known condition, and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Jingwang Li , Housheng Su

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…

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With the objective of handling the airspace sector congestion subject to continuously growing air traffic, we suggest to create a collaborative working plan during the strategic phase of air traffic control. The plan obtained via a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Gaétan Marceau , Pierre Savéant , Marc Schoenauer

For finite integer squares, we consider the problem of learning a classification $I$ that respects Pareto domination. The setup is natural in dynamic programming settings. We show that a generalization of the binary search algorithm…

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