English
Related papers

Related papers: A Performance Investigation of Multimodal Multiobj…

200 papers

A novel multiscale consensus-based optimization (CBO) algorithm for solving bi- and tri-level optimization problems is introduced. Existing CBO techniques are generalized by the proposed method through the employment of multiple interacting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Michael Herty , Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

Real-world multiobjective optimization problems usually involve conflicting objectives that change over time, which requires the optimization algorithms to quickly track the Pareto optimal front (POF) when the environment changes. In recent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Dejun Xu , Min Jiang , Weizhen Hu , Shaozi Li , Renhu Pan , Gary G. Yen

This paper proposes an improved epsilon constraint-handling mechanism, and combines it with a decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) to solve constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). The…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Han Huang , Yi Fang , Yugen You , Jiajie Mo , Caimin Wei , Erik Goodman

This paper looks in detail at how an evolutionary algorithm attempts to solve instances from the multimodal problem generator. The paper shows that in order to consistently reach the global optimum, an evolutionary algorithm requires a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fernando G. Lobo , Claudio F. Lima

Over the last three decades, a large number of evolutionary algorithms have been developed for solving multiobjective optimization problems. However, there lacks an up-to-date and comprehensive software platform for researchers to properly…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-19 Ye Tian , Ran Cheng , Xingyi Zhang , Yaochu Jin

Real-world problems are often comprised of many objectives and require solutions that carefully trade-off between them. Current approaches to many-objective optimization often require challenging assumptions, like knowledge of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Jackson Dean , Nick Cheney

Abbreviated Abstract: The objective of Evolutionary Computation is to solve practical problems (e.g. optimization, data mining) by simulating the mechanisms of natural evolution. This thesis addresses several topics related to adaptation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-06 James M Whitacre

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely and successfully applied to solve multi-objective optimization problems, due to their nature of population-based search. Population update, a key component in multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chao Bian , Yawen Zhou , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

In the past few decades, many multiobjective evolutionary optimization algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed to find a finite set of approximate Pareto solutions for a given problem in a single run, each with its own structure. However, in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xi Lin , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Optimization problems are crucial in artificial intelligence. Optimization algorithms are generally used to adjust the performance of artificial intelligence models to minimize the error of mapping inputs to outputs. Current evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zhicheng He

Understanding the search dynamics of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) is still an open problem. This paper extends a recent network-based tool, search trajectory networks (STNs), to model the behavior of MOEAs. Our approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yuri Lavinas , Claus Aranha , Gabriela Ochoa

Multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are prevalent in machine learning, with applications in multi-task learning, learning under fairness or robustness constraints, etc. Instead of reducing multiple objective functions into a scalar…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Liang Zhao , Yingying Yu , Xi Lin , Yifan Chen , Han Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

When dealing with continuous single-objective problems, multimodality poses one of the biggest difficulties for global optimization. Local optima are often preventing algorithms from making progress and thus pose a severe threat. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Vera Steinhoff , Pascal Kerschke , Christian Grimme

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

An approach to the classification problem of machine learning, based on building local classification rules, is developed. The local rules are considered as projections of the global classification rules to the event we want to classify. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vladislav Malyshkin , Ray Bakhramov , Andrey Gorodetsky

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

Neighborhood search operators are critical to the performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) and rely heavily on expert design. Although recent LLM-based Automated Heuristic Design (AHD) methods have made notable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Junhao Qiu , Xin Chen , Liang Ge , Liyong Lin , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang

Many real world scientific and industrial applications require optimizing multiple competing black-box objectives. When the objectives are expensive-to-evaluate, multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Samuel Daulton , David Eriksson , Maximilian Balandat , Eytan Bakshy

This study modifies the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm for multi-modal optimization problems. The enhancements focus on addressing the challenges of multiple global minima, improving the algorithm's…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Wathsala Karunarathne , Indu Bala , Dikshit Chauhan , Matthew Roughan , Lewis Mitchell

Machine learning has rapidly evolved during the last decade, achieving expert human performance on notoriously challenging problems such as image classification. This success is partly due to the re-emergence of bio-inspired modern…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton