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Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are essential for solving complex optimization problems, such as the diet problem, where balancing conflicting objectives, like cost and nutritional content, is crucial. However, most MOEAs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Gustavo V. Nascimento , Ivan R. Meneghini , Valéria Santos , Eduardo Luz , Gladston Moreira

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

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are general-purpose optimization algorithms, inspired by natural evolution. Recent theoretical studies have shown that EAs can achieve good approximation guarantees for solving the problem classes of submodular…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Chao Qian , Dan-Xuan Liu , Chao Feng , Ke Tang

In Symbolic Regression (SR), achieving a proper balance between accuracy and interpretability remains a key challenge. The Genetic Programming variant of the Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (GP-GOMEA) is of particular…

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A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

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…

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Feature selection is an expensive challenging task in machine learning and data mining aimed at removing irrelevant and redundant features. This contributes to an improvement in classification accuracy, as well as the budget and memory…

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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Sevda Ebrahimi , Masoud Makrehchi

In an evolutionary algorithm, the population has a very important role as its size has direct implications regarding solution quality, speed, and reliability. Theoretical studies have been done in the past to investigate the role of…

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Population-based search algorithms (PBSAs), including swarm intelligence algorithms (SIAs) and evolutionary algorithms (EAs), are competitive alternatives for solving complex optimization problems and they have been widely applied to…

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This paper intends to understand and to improve the working principle of decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. We review the design of the well-established Moea/d framework to support the smooth integration of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Geoffrey Pruvost , Bilel Derbel , Arnaud Liefooghe , Ke Li , Qingfu Zhang

Estimation-of-distribution algorithms (EDAs) are randomized search heuristics that create a probabilistic model of the solution space, which is updated iteratively, based on the quality of the solutions sampled according to the model. As…

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A novel meta-heuristic algorithm, Egret Swarm Optimization Algorithm (ESOA), is proposed in this paper, which is inspired by two egret species' (Great Egret and Snowy Egret) hunting behavior. ESOA consists of three primary components:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Zuyan Chen , Adam Francis , Shuai Li , Bolin Liao , Dunhui Xiao

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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Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is attracting an ever-growing attention and more than ever it has found many application areas for many challenging optimization problems. It is, however, a known fact that PSO has a severe drawback in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Bertrand Ngansop , Stefan Götz , Martin Eckl

Most of the real-world problems are multimodal in nature that consists of multiple optimum values. Multimodal optimization is defined as the process of finding multiple global and local optima (as opposed to a single solution) of a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Shatendra Singh , Aruna Tiwari

Problems defined on binary decision spaces have been intensively studied in the theory of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). In contrast, no mathematical runtime analyses exist so far for MOEAs dealing with decision variables…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Mingfeng Li , Zheng Cheng , Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

Optimization algorithms are very different from human optimizers. A human being would gain more experiences through problem-solving, which helps her/him in solving a new unseen problem. Yet an optimization algorithm never gains any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Xunzhao Yu , Yan Wang , Ling Zhu , Dimitar Filev , Xin Yao

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are widely used for searching optimal solutions in complex multi-component applications. Traditional MOEAs for multi-component deep learning (MCDL) systems face challenges in enhancing the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Haoxiang Tian , Xingshuo Han , Guoquan Wu , An Guo , Yuan Zhou. Jie Zhang , Shuo Li , Jun Wei , Tianwei Zhang

In the field of artificial intelligence, real parameter single objective optimization is an important direction. Both the Differential Evolution (DE) and the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) demonstrate good…

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