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Many real-world optimization problems can be stated in terms of submodular functions. Furthermore, these real-world problems often involve uncertainties which may lead to the violation of given constraints. A lot of evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Multi-objective optimization is key to solving many Engineering Design problems, where design parameters are optimized for several performance indicators. However, optimization results are highly dependent on how the designs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been well acknowledged as a promising paradigm for solving optimisation problems with multiple conflicting objectives in the sense that they are able to locate a set of diverse approximations of Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Jianyong Sun , Hu Zhang , Aimin Zhou , Qingfu Zhang

The field of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) often emphasizes its popularity for optimization problems with conflicting objectives. However, it is still theoretically unknown how MOEAs perform compared with typical approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Weijie Zheng

The multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm can be traced back to an early paper of Caruana (1997) in which it was argued that data from multiple tasks can be used with the aim to obtain a better performance over learning each task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Andrea Ponti

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic for solving difficult discrete optimization problems. This paper presents a deterministic model based on differential equation to analyze the dynamics of basic Ant System algorithm.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ayan Acharya , Deepyaman Maiti , Amit Konar , Ramadoss Janarthanan

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims at finding a set of optimal configurations for a given set of objectives. A recent line of work applies MOO methods to the typical Machine Learning (ML) setting, which becomes multi-objective if a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Michael Ruchte , Josif Grabocka

The trade-off between computation time and path optimality is a key consideration in motion planning algorithms. While classical sampling based algorithms fall short of computational efficiency in high dimensional planning, learning based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Yinghan Wang , Xiaoming Duan , Jianping He

We have developed a multi-objective optimization (MOO) procedure to construct modified-embedded-atom-method (MEAM) potentials with minimal manual fitting. This procedure has been applied successfully to develop a new MEAM potential for…

To handle different types of Many-Objective Optimization Problems (MaOPs), Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MaOEAs) need to simultaneously maintain convergence and population diversity in the high-dimensional objective space. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Peng Zhang , Jinlong Li , Tengfei Li , Huanhuan Chen

We introduce a new multimodal optimization approach called Natural Variational Annealing (NVA) that combines the strengths of three foundational concepts to simultaneously search for multiple global and local modes of black-box nonconvex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-18 Tâm LeMinh , Julyan Arbel , Thomas Möllenhoff , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Florence Forbes

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) require the simultaneous optimization of conflicting objectives. Real-world MOPs often exhibit complex characteristics, including high-dimensional decision spaces, many objectives, or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Haokai Hong , Liang Feng , Min Jiang , Kay Chen Tan

This paper investigates movable antenna (MA) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for multi-user downlink communication, where the base station (BS) is equipped with a fixed-position antenna (FPA) array to serve multiple MA-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhenyu Xiao , Zhe Li , Lipeng Zhu , Boyu Ning , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

The paper attempts to find numerical solutions of Diophantine equations, a challenging problem as there are no general methods to find solutions of such equations. It uses the metaphor of foraging habits of real ants. The ant colony…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-06-06 Siby Abraham , Sugata Sanyal , Mukund Sanglikar

The design of RNA molecules that interact with specific proteins is a critical challenge in experimental and computational biology. Despite recent progress in natural language modeling and deep learning-based protein design, there remains…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-26 Roman Klypa , Alberto Bietti , Sergei Grudinin

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

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are major methods for solving multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). Many MOEAs have been proposed in the past decades, of which the search operators need a carefully handcrafted design…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Fei Liu , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Shunyu Yao , Xialiang Tong , Mingxuan Yuan , Qingfu Zhang

In this study, we propose an improvement to the direct mating method, a constraint handling approach for multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, by hybridizing it with local mating. Local mating selects another parent from the feasible…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Masahiro Kanazaki , Takeharu Toyoda

This paper investigates a novel communication paradigm employing movable antennas (MAs) within a multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink framework, where users are equipped with MAs. Initially,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yufeng Zhou , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Nan Cheng

Numerous multi-objective optimization problems encounter with a number of fitness functions to be simultaneously optimized of which their mutual preferences are not inherently known. Suffering from the lack of underlying generative models,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Arash Broumand