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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

As large language models (LLMs) continue to scale up, their performance on various downstream tasks has significantly improved. However, evaluating their capabilities has become increasingly expensive, as performing inference on a large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Taolin Zhang , Hang Guo , Wang Lu , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia , Jindong Wang

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Real-world multiobjective optimization problems usually involve conflicting objectives that change over time, which requires the optimization algorithms to quickly track the Pareto optimal front (POF) when the environment changes. In recent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Dejun Xu , Min Jiang , Weizhen Hu , Shaozi Li , Renhu Pan , Gary G. Yen

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

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

Evolutionary many-objective optimization has been gaining increasing attention from the evolutionary computation research community. Much effort has been devoted to addressing this issue by improving the scalability of multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Zhi-Zhong Liu , Yong Wang , Pei-Qiu Huang

Feature selection for predictive analytics is the problem of identifying a minimal-size subset of features that is maximally predictive of an outcome of interest. To apply to molecular data, feature selection algorithms need to be scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-02 Michail Tsagris , Zacharias Papadovasilakis , Kleanthi Lakiotaki , Ioannis Tsamardinos

Solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) is a challenging task. While many practical algorithms have been developed to tackle CMOPs, real-world scenarios often present cases where the constraint functions are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Weixiong Huang , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Sheng Qi , Ling Wang

Population-based evolutionary algorithms have great potential to handle multiobjective optimisation problems. However, these algorithms depends largely on problem characteristics, and there is a need to improve their performance for a wider…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Shouyong Jiang , Hongru Li , Jinglei Guo , Mingjun Zhong , Shengxiang Yang , Marcus Kaiser , Natalio Krasnogor

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

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) with continuous state and observation spaces have powerful flexibility for representing real-world decision and control problems but are notoriously difficult to solve. Recent online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Michael H. Lim , Claire J. Tomlin , Zachary N. Sunberg

This paper proposes a push and pull search (PPS) framework for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs). To be more specific, the proposed PPS divides the search process into two different stages, including the push…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Zhun Fan , Wenji Li , Xinye Cai , Hui Li , Caimin Wei , Qingfu Zhang , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik D. Goodman

Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) frequently arise in real-world applications where multiple conflicting objectives must be optimized under complex constraints. Existing dual-population two-stage algorithms have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhen-Song Chen , Hong-Wei Ding , Xian-Jia Wang , Witold Pedrycz

Parent selection in evolutionary algorithms for multi-objective optimisation is usually performed by dominance mechanisms or indicator functions that prefer non-dominated points. We propose to refine the parent selection on evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Edgar Covantes Osuna , Wanru Gao , Frank Neumann , Dirk Sudholt

To solve real-world expensive constrained multi-objective optimization problems (ECMOPs), surrogate/approximation models are commonly incorporated in evolutionary algorithms to pre-select promising candidate solutions for evaluation.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Kamrul Hasan Rahi

This paper addresses the challenge of dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) by introducing novel approaches for accelerating prediction strategies within the evolutionary algorithm framework. Since the objectives of DMOPs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Ru Lei , Lin Li , Rustam Stolkin , Bin Feng

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai

The growing demand for sparse tensor algebra (SpTA) in machine learning and big data has driven the development of various sparse tensor accelerators. However, most existing manually designed accelerators are limited to specific scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Boran Zhao , Haiming Zhai , Zihang Yuan , Hetian Liu , Tian Xia , Wenzhe Zhao , Pengju Ren

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…

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