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Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these progressively improved MOEAs have not necessarily been equipped with scalable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Songbai Liu , Qiuzhen Lin , Jianqiang Li , Kay Chen Tan

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

In this paper, we scale evolutionary algorithms to high-dimensional optimization problems that deceptively possess a low effective dimensionality (certain dimensions do not significantly affect the objective function). To this end, an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yaqing Hou , Mingyang Sun , Abhishek Gupta , Yaochu Jin , Haiyin Piao , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have been widely shown to be successful when utilized for a variety of stochastic combinatorial optimization problems. Chance constrained optimization plays an important role in complex real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Kokila Perera , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

Single-objective bilevel optimization is a specialized form of constraint optimization problems where one of the constraints is an optimization problem itself. These problems are typically non-convex and strongly NP-Hard. Recently, there…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Anuraganand Sharma

One of the major distinguishing features of the dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) is the optimization objectives will change over time, thus tracking the varying Pareto-optimal front becomes a challenge. One of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Min Jiang , Zhongqiang Huang , Liming Qiu , Wenzhen Huang , Gary G. Yen

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 have been successful in solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). However, as a class of population-based search methodology, evolutionary algorithms require a large number of evaluations of the objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

Evolutionary algorithms have been frequently applied to constrained continuous optimisation problems. We carry out feature based comparisons of different types of evolutionary algorithms such as evolution strategies, differential evolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Shayan Poursoltan , Frank Neumann

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

Creating diverse sets of high quality solutions has become an important problem in recent years. Previous works on diverse solutions problems consider solutions' objective quality and diversity where one is regarded as the optimization goal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anh Viet Do , Mingyu Guo , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

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

Multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world applications, presenting a complex challenge of balancing multiple conflicting objectives. Traditional evolutionary algorithms (EAs), though effective, often rely on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuxiao Huang , Shenghao Wu , Wenjie Zhang , Jibin Wu , Liang Feng , Kay Chen Tan

This paper shows how to evolve numerically the maximum entropy probability distributions for a given set of constraints, which is a variational calculus problem. An evolutionary algorithm can obtain approximations to some well-known…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-02-07 Raul Rojas

Evolutionary strategies have recently been shown to achieve competing levels of performance for complex optimization problems in reinforcement learning. In such problems, one often needs to optimize an objective function subject to a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Youssef Diouane , Aurelien Lucchi , Vihang Patil

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely applied for solving dynamic constrained optimization problems (DCOPs) as a common area of research in evolutionary optimization. Current benchmarks proposed for testing these problems in the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-10 Maryam Hasani-Shoreh , María-Yaneli Ameca-Alducin , Wilson Blaikie , Frank Neumann , Marc Schoenauer

In the real world, there exist a class of optimization problems that multiple (local) optimal solutions in the solution space correspond to a single point in the objective space. In this paper, we theoretically show that for such multimodal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shengjie Ren , Zhijia Qiu , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Dynamic multimodal multiobjective optimization presents the dual challenge of simultaneously tracking multiple equivalent pareto optimal sets and maintaining population diversity in time-varying environments. However, existing dynamic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Li Yan , Bolun Liu , Chao Li , Jing Liang , Kunjie Yu , Caitong Yue , Xuzhao Chai , Boyang Qu

In dealing with constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs), a key issue of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) is to balance the convergence and diversity of working populations.

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhun Fan , Zhaojun Wang , Wenji Li , Yutong Yuan , Yugen You , Zhi Yang , Fuzan Sun , Jie Ruan , Zhaocheng Li

The chance-constrained knapsack problem is a variant of the classical knapsack problem where each item has a weight distribution instead of a deterministic weight. The objective is to maximize the total profit of the selected items under…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Yue Xie , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann