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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…

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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

Chance constrained optimization problems allow to model problems where constraints involving stochastic components should only be violated with a small probability. Evolutionary algorithms have been applied to this scenario and shown to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

Dynamic optimization, for which the objective functions change over time, has attracted intensive investigations due to the inherent uncertainty associated with many real-world problems. For its robustness with respect to noise,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Xiaofen Lu , Ke Tang , Stefan Menzel , Xin Yao

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 the evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) community, it is usually assumed that the final population is presented to the decision maker as the result of the execution of an EMO algorithm. Recently, an unbounded external archive…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Lie Meng Pang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Ke Shang

The ideal objective vector, which comprises the optimal values of the $m$ objective functions in an $m$-objective optimization problem, is an important concept in evolutionary multi-objective optimization. Accurate estimation of this vector…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ruihao Zheng , Zhenkun Wang , Yin Wu , Maoguo Gong

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are a kind of nature-inspired general-purpose optimization algorithm, and have shown empirically good performance in solving various real-word optimization problems. During the past two decades, promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Chao Qian , Yang Yu , Ke Tang , Xin Yao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

The multiple knapsack problem (MKP) generalizes the classical knapsack problem by assigning items to multiple knapsacks subject to capacity constraints. It is used to model many real-world resource allocation and scheduling problems. In…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Aneta Neumann

Real-world optimization problems often involve stochastic and dynamic components. Evolutionary algorithms are particularly effective in these scenarios, as they can easily adapt to uncertain and changing environments but often uncertainty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Ishara Hewa Pathiranage , Frank Neumann , Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann

Neural architecture search (NAS) automates neural network design, improving efficiency over manual approaches. However, efficiently discovering high-performance neural network architectures that simultaneously optimize multiple objectives…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yu Xue , Pengcheng Jiang , Chenchen Zhu , Yong Zhang , Ran Cheng , Kaizhou Gao , Dunwei Gong

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…

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As a typical model-based evolutionary algorithm (EA), estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) possesses unique characteristics and has been widely applied to global optimization. However, the common-used Gaussian EDA (GEDA) usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Yongsheng Liang , Zhigang Ren , Xianghua Yao , Zuren Feng , An Chen

Constrained submodular optimization problems play a key role in the area of combinatorial optimization as they capture many NP-hard optimization problems. So far, Pareto optimization approaches using multi-objective formulations have been…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Frank Neumann , Günter Rudolph

The performance of evolutionary algorithms can be heavily undermined when constraints limit the feasible areas of the search space. For instance, while Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy is one of the most efficient algorithms…

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The main goal of diversity optimization is to find a diverse set of solutions which satisfy some lower bound on their fitness. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are often used for such tasks, since they are naturally designed to optimize…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Denis Antipov , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Different from single-objective evolutionary algorithms, where non-elitism is an established concept, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms almost always select the next population in a greedy fashion. In the only notable exception, Bian,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mingfeng Li , Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

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

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have emerged as a predominant approach for addressing multi-objective optimization problems. However, the theoretical foundation of multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), particularly the fundamental aspects like running…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shengjie Ren , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian