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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

In supply chain management, decision-making often involves balancing multiple conflicting objectives, such as cost reduction, service level improvement, and environmental sustainability. Traditional multi-objective optimization methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Niki Kotecha , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem seeks to discover the set of nodes in a graph that can spread the information propagation at most. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and it is usually studied by maximizing the influence (spread)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Elia Cunegatti , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

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

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

Choices in scientific research and management require balancing multiple, often competing objectives.Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) provides a unifying framework for solving multiple objective problems. Model selection is a critical…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-26 Perry Williams , William Kendall , Mevin Hooten

A significantly under-explored area of evolutionary optimization in the literature is the study of optimization methodologies that can evolve along with the problems solved. Particularly, present evolutionary optimization approaches…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Liang Feng , Yew Soon Ong , Ah Hwee Tan , Ivor Wai-Hung Tsang

Multi-objective optimization is a common problem in practical applications, and multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is considered as one of the effective methods to solve these problems. However, their randomness sometimes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wanyi Liu , Long Chen , Zhenzhou Tang

Assessing the empirical performance of Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) is vital when we extensively test a set of MOEAs and aim to determine a proper ranking thereof. Multiple performance indicators, e.g., the generational…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Hao Wang , Carlos Igncio Hernández Castellanos , Tome Eftimov

Scalability of evolutionary algorithms refers to assessing how their performance changes as problem size increases. In the area of multi-objective optimisation, research on the scalability of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Menghao Tang , Zimin Liang , Miqing Li

In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, effectiveness refers to how an evolutionary algorithm performs in terms of converging its solutions into the Pareto front and also diversifying them over the front. This is not an easy job,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yani Xue , Miqing Li , Xiaohui Liu

In the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the approximation of the Pareto front (PF) is achieved by utilizing a collection of representative candidate solutions that exhibit desirable convergence and diversity. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peng Chen , Jing Liang , Kangjia Qiao , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan , Xuanxuan Ban

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

Iterative feature space optimization involves systematically evaluating and adjusting the feature space to improve downstream task performance. However, existing works suffer from three key limitations:1) overlooking differences among data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanping Wu , Yanyong Huang , Zhengzhang Chen , Zijun Yao , Yanjie Fu , Kunpeng Liu , Xiao Luo , Dongjie Wang

Purpose: Current inverse planning methods for IMRT are limited because they are not designed to explore the trade-offs between the competing objectives between the tumor and normal tissues. Our goal was to develop an efficient…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Clay Holdsworth , Minsun Kim , Jay Liao , Mark H Phillips

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are prevalent in real-world applications, where the evaluation of a single solution requires a significant amount of resources. In our study of surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

Elitism, which constructs the new population by preserving best solutions out of the old population and newly-generated solutions, has been a default way for population update since its introduction into multi-objective evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Per Kristian Lehre

In this paper, we proposed a multi-objective approach for the EEG Inverse Problem. This formulation does not need unknown parameters that involve empirical procedures. Due to the combinatorial characteristics of the problem, this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-28 José Enrique Alvarez Iglesias , Mayrim Vega-Hernández , Eduardo Martínez-Montes

Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been successfully applied to a number of constrained optimization problems. Many of them adopt mutation and crossover operators from differential evolution. However, these operators do not…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Wei Huang , Tao Xu , Kangshun Li , Jun He

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