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Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are a key tool for addressing costly optimization tasks, with their efficiency being heavily dependent on the selection of surrogate models and infill sampling criteria. However, designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Lindong Xie , Genghui Li , Zhenkun Wang , Edward Chung , Maoguo Gong

By remarkably reducing real fitness evaluations, surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs), especially hierarchical SAEAs, have been shown to be effective in solving computationally expensive optimization problems. The success of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xiaodong Ren , Daofu Guo , Zhigang Ren , Yongsheng Liang , An Chen

Building a surrogate model of an objective function has shown to be effective to assist evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to solve real-world complex optimisation problems which involve either computationally expensive numerical simulations or…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xiaoran Ruan , Ke Li , Bilel Derbel , Arnaud Liefooghe

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) hold significant importance in resolving expensive optimization problems~(EOPs). Extensive efforts have been devoted to improving the efficacy of SAEAs through the development of proficient…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hao Hao , Xiaoqun Zhang , Aimin Zhou

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

In this paper, we propose a novel approach (SAPEO) to support the survival selection process in multi-objective evolutionary algorithms with surrogate models - it dynamically chooses individuals to evaluate exactly based on the model…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Vanessa Volz , Günter Rudolph , Boris Naujoks

Expensive optimization problems (EOPs) are black-box tasks with costly objective evaluations and no gradient access, making the evaluation budget the key bottleneck. Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) reduce evaluations via…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Ye Lu , Bingdong Li , Aimin Zhou , Hao Hao

Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithms (SAEAs) are widely used for expensive Black-Box Optimization. However, their reliance on rigid, manually designed components such as infill criteria and evolutionary strategies during the search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Yukun Du , Haiyue Yu , Xiaotong Xie , Yan Zheng , Lixin Zhan , Yudong Du , Chongshuang Hu , Boxuan Wang , Jiang Jiang

We propose a novel surrogate-assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for solving expensive combinatorial optimization problems. We integrate a surrogate model, which is used for fitness value estimation, into a state-of-the-art P3-like variant of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Arkadiy Dushatskiy , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Very expensive problems are very common in practical system that one fitness evaluation costs several hours or even days. Surrogate assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) have been widely used to solve this crucial problem in the past…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Hao Tong , Changwu Huang , Jialin Liu , Xin Yao

Data-driven evolutionary algorithms has shown surprising results in addressing expensive optimization problems through robust surrogate modeling. Though promising, existing surrogate modeling schemes may encounter limitations in complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Xian-Rong Zhang , Yue-Jiao Gong , Zeyuan Ma , Jun Zhang

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

Evolutionary algorithms often struggle to find well converged (e.g small inverted generational distance on test problems) solutions to multi-objective optimization problems on a limited budget of function evaluations (here, a few hundred).…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Christopher M. Pierce , Young-Kee Kim , Ivan Bazarov

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are powerful optimisation tools for computationally expensive problems (CEPs). However, a randomly selected algorithm may fail in solving unknown problems due to no free lunch theorems, and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Hao Tong , Jialin Liu , Xin Yao

Most existing multiobjetive evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) implicitly assume that each objective function can be evaluated within the same period of time. Typically. this is untenable in many real-world optimization scenarios where…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xilu Wang , Yaochu Jin , Sebastian Schmitt , Markus Olhofer

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms have been widely developed to solve complex and computationally expensive multi-objective optimization problems in recent years. However, when dealing with high-dimensional optimization problems,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Guodong Chen , Jiu Jimmy Jiao , Xiaoming Xue , Zhongzheng Wang

This work aims at developing new methodologies to optimize computational costly complex systems (e.g., aeronautical engineering systems). The proposed surrogate-based method (often called Bayesian optimization) uses adaptive sampling to…

Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) are recently among the most widely studied methods for their capability to solve expensive real-world optimization problems. However, the development of new methods and benchmarking with…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jakub Kudela , Ladislav Dobrovsky

Decades of progress in simulation-based surrogate-assisted optimization and unprecedented growth in computational power have enabled researchers and practitioners to optimize previously intractable complex engineering problems. This paper…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Qi Huang , Roy de Winter , Bas van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

The surrogate-assisted optimization algorithm is a promising approach for solving expensive multi-objective optimization problems. However, most existing surrogate-assisted multi-objective optimization algorithms have three main drawbacks:…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Xi Lin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zhenhua Li , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong
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