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Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large number of conflicting objectives. Unlike traditional…

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In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Tapabrata Ray , Mohammad Mohiuddin Mamun , Hemant Kumar Singh

Relevant combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) are often NP-hard. While they have been tackled mainly via handcrafted heuristics in the past, advances in neural networks have motivated the development of general methods to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Tim Dernedde , Daniela Thyssens , Sören Dittrich , Maximilian Stubbemann , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Multi-objective optimization has burgeoned as a potent methodology for informed decision-making in enhanced geothermal systems, aiming to concurrently maximize economic yield, ensure enduring geothermal energy provision, and curtail carbon…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Guodong Chen , Jiu Jimmy Jiao , Qiqi Liu , Zhongzheng Wang , Yaochu Jin

Evolutionary algorithms excel in solving complex optimization problems, especially those with multiple objectives. However, their stochastic nature can sometimes hinder rapid convergence to the global optima, particularly in scenarios…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Zeyi Wang , Songbai Liu , Jianyong Chen , Kay Chen Tan

Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural Architecture Search. These algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Javier Poyatos , Daniel Molina , Aitor Martínez , Javier Del Ser , Francisco Herrera

We consider multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems handled by means of preference driven efficient heuristics. They look for the most preferred part of the Pareto front on the basis of some preferences expressed by the Decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Maria Barbati , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

It is assumed in the evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) community that a final solution is selected by a decision maker from a non-dominated solution set obtained by an EMO algorithm. The number of solutions to be presented to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Hisao Ishibuchi , Lie Meng Pang , Ke Shang

Many-objective optimisation, a subset of multi-objective optimisation, involves optimisation problems with more than three objectives. As the number of objectives increases, the number of solutions needed to adequately represent the entire…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chao Jiang , Jingyu Huang , Miqing Li

The theoretical understanding of MOEAs is lagging far behind their success in practice. In particular, previous theory work considers mostly easy problems that are composed of unimodal objectives. As a first step towards a deeper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

In scenarios where multiple decision-makers operate within a common decision space, each focusing on their own multi-objective optimization problem (e.g., bargaining games), the problem can be modeled as a multi-party multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuetong Sun , Peilan Xu , Wenjian Luo

Parent selection in evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimisation is usually performed by dominance mechanisms or indicator functions that prefer non-dominated points. We propose to refine the parent selection on evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Edgar Covantes Osuna , Wanru Gao , Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt

Current methods for end-to-end constructive neural combinatorial optimization usually train a policy using behavior cloning from expert solutions or policy gradient methods from reinforcement learning. While behavior cloning is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jonathan Pirnay , Dominik G. Grimm

Constructive neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) has attracted growing research attention due to its ability to solve complex routing problems without relying on handcrafted rules. However, existing NCO methods face significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Changliang Zhou , Xi Lin , Zhenkun Wang , Qingfu Zhang

Meta-learning models, or models that learn to learn, have been a long-desired target for their ability to quickly solve new tasks. Traditional meta-learning methods can require expensive inner and outer loops, thus there is demand for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Kevin Frans , Olaf Witkowski

We investigate an evolutionary multi-objective approach to good micro for real-time strategy games. Good micro helps a player win skirmishes and is one of the keys to developing better real-time strategy game play. In prior work, the same…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Rahul Dubey , Joseph Ghantous , Sushil Louis , Siming Liu

The construction of machine learning models involves many bi-level multi-objective optimization problems (BL-MOPs), where upper level (UL) candidate solutions must be evaluated via training weights of a model in the lower level (LL). Due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chao Wang , Licheng Jiao , Jiaxuan Zhao , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang

Pareto optimization using evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been widely applied to solve constrained submodular optimization problems. A crucial factor determining the runtime of the used evolutionary algorithms to obtain good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

To solve real-world expensive constrained multi-objective optimization problems (ECMOPs), surrogate/approximation models are commonly incorporated in evolutionary algorithms to pre-select promising candidate solutions for evaluation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Kamrul Hasan Rahi

The global simple evolutionary multi-objective optimizer (GSEMO) is a simple, yet often effective multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA). By only maintaining non-dominated solutions, it has a variable population size that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Benjamin Doerr , Martin Krejca , Andre Opris