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Given a ground set of items, the result diversification problem aims to select a subset with high "quality" and "diversity" while satisfying some constraints. It arises in various real-world artificial intelligence applications, such as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Chao Qian , Dan-Xuan Liu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

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…

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This study compares three evolutionary algorithms for the problem of fog service placement: weighted sum genetic algorithm (WSGA), non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II), and multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Carlos Guerrero , Isaac Lera , Carlos Juiz

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,…

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Indicator-based algorithms are gaining prominence as traditional multi-objective optimization algorithms based on domination and decomposition struggle to solve many-objective optimization problems. However, previous indicator-based…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Ziming Wang , Xin Yao

The multi-task learning (MTL) paradigm can be traced back to an early paper of Caruana (1997) in which it was argued that data from multiple tasks can be used with the aim to obtain a better performance over learning each task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Andrea Ponti

Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

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This paper presents a novel two-stage flexible dynamic decision support based optimal threat evaluation and defensive resource scheduling algorithm for multi-target air-borne threats. The algorithm provides flexibility and optimality by…

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Estimation of distribution algorithms (EDA) as one of the EAs is a stochastic optimization problem which establishes a probability model to describe the distribution of solutions and randomly samples the probability model to create…

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Feature subset selection (FSS) for classification is inherently a bi-objective optimization problem, where the task is to obtain a feature subset which yields the maximum possible area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC)…

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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…

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The infeasible parts of the objective space in difficult many-objective optimization problems cause trouble for evolutionary algorithms. This paper proposes a reference vector based algorithm which uses two interacting engines to adapt the…

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Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) have proven effective at solving Multi-Objective Optimisation Problems (MOOPs). However, their performance can be significantly hindered when applied to computationally intensive industrial…

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Large-scale multiobjective optimization problems (LSMOPs) refer to optimization problems with multiple conflicting optimization objectives and hundreds or even thousands of decision variables. A key point in solving LSMOPs is how to balance…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Haokai Hong , Min Jiang , Liang Feng , Qiuzhen Lin , Kay Chen Tan

An emerging optimisation problem from the real-world applications, named the multi-point dynamic aggregation (MPDA) problem, has become one of the active research topics of the multi-robot system. This paper focuses on a multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Guanqiang Gao , Bin Xin , Yi Mei , Shuxin Ding , Juan Li

Traditional recommendation systems tend to trap users in strong feedback loops by excessively pushing content aligned with their historical preferences, thereby limiting exploration opportunities and causing content fatigue. Although large…

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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

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

The performance of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) varies across problems, making it hard to develop new algorithms or apply existing ones to new problems. To simplify the development and application of new multiobjective…

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