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Solving Many-Objective Optimization Problems via Multistage Evolutionary Search
With the increase in the number of optimization objectives, balancing the convergence and diversity in evolutionary multiobjective …
Huangke Chen, Ran Cheng, Witold Pedrycz, Yaochu Jin
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Adaptive Control of Subpopulations in Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization
Multipopulation methods are highly effective in solving dynamic optimization problems. Three factors affect this significantly: 1) the …
Danial Yazdani, Ran Cheng, Cheng He, Jürgen Branke
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Guiding Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization With Generic Front Modeling
In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, the Pareto front (PF) is approximated by using a set of representative candidate solutions …
Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Cheng He, Yaochu Jin
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Iterated Problem Reformulation for Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization
Due to the curse of dimensionality, two main issues remain challenging for applying evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to large-scale …
Cheng He, Ran Cheng, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang
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Techniques for Accelerating Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms in PlatEMO
It has been widely recognized that evolutionary computation is one of the most effective techniques for solving complex optimization …
Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Yaochu Jin
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A Hybrid Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Computationally Expensive Many-Objective Optimization
Many real-world optimization problems are challenging because the evaluation of solutions is computationally expensive. As a result, …
Kanzhen Wan, Cheng He, Auraham Camacho, Ke Shang, Ran Cheng, Hisao Ishibuchi
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A Multistage Evolutionary Algorithm for Better Diversity Preservation in Multiobjective Optimization
Diversity preservation is a crucial technique in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), which aims at evolving the population …
Ye Tian, Cheng He, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang
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Surrogate-Assisted Expensive Many-Objective Optimization by Model Fusion
Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms have played an important role in expensive optimization where a small number of …
Cheng He, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao
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An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility
During the past two decades, a variety of multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have been proposed in the literature. As …
Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Fan Cheng, Yaochu Jin
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Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization-Based Multimodal Optimization: Fitness Landscape Approximation and Peak Detection
Recently, by taking advantage of evolutionary multiobjective optimization techniques in diversity preservation, the means of …
Ran Cheng, Miqing Li, Ke Li, Xin Yao
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