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Evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) has made significant strides over the past two decades. However, as problem scales and complexities increase, traditional EMO algorithms face substantial performance limitations due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Zhenyu Liang , Hao Li , Naiwei Yu , Kebin Sun , Ran Cheng

Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bing Wang , Hemant K. Singh , Tapabrata Ray

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Multi-objective optimization problems whose objectives have different evaluation costs are commonly seen in the real world. Such problems are now known as multi-objective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives (HE-MOPs). So…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xilu Wang , Yaochu Jin , Sebastian Schmitt , Markus Olhofer

As evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, recent theoretical studies have tried to analyze their performance for solving general problem classes, with the goal of providing a general theoretical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chao Qian

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization aims to find all Pareto optimal solutions including overlapping solutions in the objective space. Multi-modal multi-objective optimization has been investigated in the evolutionary computation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. While decomposition-based evolutionary algorithms have good performance for multi-objective optimization, they are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

Evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms have been demonstrated to be effective in solving multi-criteria decision-making problems. In real-world applications, analysts often employ several algorithms concurrently and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yansong Huang , Zherui Zhang , Ao Jiao , Yuxin Ma , Ran Cheng

In multi-objective optimization problems, there might exist hidden objectives that are important to the decision-maker but are not being optimized. On the other hand, there might also exist irrelevant objectives that are being optimized but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Seyed Mahdi Shavarani , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Richard Allmendinger

Stopping criteria automatically determine when to stop an evolutionary algorithm, so as not to waste function evaluations on a stagnant population. Although stopping criteria play an important role in real-world applications, they have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kenji Kitamura , Ryoji Tanabe

Solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOP) requires finding all optimal solutions, which is challenging in limited function evaluations. Although existing works strike the balance of exploration and exploitation through hand-crafted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hongqiao Lian , Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Ting Huang , Yue-Jiao Gong

Solving constrained optimization problems by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms has scored tremendous achievements in the last decade. Standard multi-objective schemes usually aim at minimizing the objective function and also the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Tao Xu , Jun He

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

Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) has emerged as a popular topic of evolutionary computation over the past decade. It aims to concurrently address multiple optimization tasks within limited computing resources, leveraging inter-task knowledge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yanchi Li , Wenyin Gong , Tingyu Zhang , Fei Ming , Shuijia Li , Qiong Gu , Yew-Soon Ong

In recent years, multimodal multiobjective optimization algorithms (MMOAs) based on evolutionary computation have been widely studied. However, existing MMOAs are mainly tested on benchmark function sets such as the 2019 IEEE Congress on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhiqiu Chen , Zong-Gan Chen , Yuncheng Jiang , Zhi-Hui Zhan

Dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) remain a challenge to be settled, because of conflicting objective functions change over time. In recent years, transfer learning has been proven to be a kind of effective approach in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Zhenzhong Wang , Min Jiang , Xing Gao , Liang Feng , Weizhen Hu , Kay Chen Tan

Multi-task optimization (MTO) studies how to simultaneously solve multiple optimization problems for the purpose of obtaining better performance on each problem. Over the past few years, evolutionary MTO (EMTO) was proposed to handle MTO…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Xiaolong Zheng , Deyun Zhou , Na Li , Yu Lei , Tao Wu , Maoguo Gong

Learning-based heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems has recently attracted much academic attention. While most of the existing works only consider the single objective problem with simple constraints, many real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yongxin Zhang , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang , Yalan Zhou

In single-objective optimization, it is well known that evolutionary algorithms also without further adjustments can tolerate a certain amount of noise in the evaluation of the objective function. In contrast, this question is not at all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Matthieu Dinot , Benjamin Doerr , Ulysse Hennebelle , Sebastian Will

Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Sheng Qi , Ling Wang