Multi-strategy multi-objective differential evolutionary algorithm with reinforcement learning

Y Han, H Peng, C Mei, L Cao, C Deng, H Wang… - Knowledge-Based …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) have gained much attention due to their
high effectiveness and efficiency in solving multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) …

Learning unified mutation operator for differential evolution by natural evolution strategies

H Zhang, J Sun, Z Xu, J Shi - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Differential evolution (DE) is one of the widely studied algorithms in evolutionary
computation. Recently, many adaptive mechanisms have been proposed for DE including …

Learning adaptive differential evolution by natural evolution strategies

H Zhang, J Sun, KC Tan, Z Xu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Adaptive parameter control is critical in the design and application of evolutionary algorithm
(EA), so does in differential evolution. In the past decade, many adaptive evolutionary …

Local optima correlation assisted adaptive operator selection

J Pei, H Tong, J Liu, Y Mei, X Yao - Proceedings of the Genetic and …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
For solving combinatorial optimisation problems with metaheuristics, different search
operators are applied for sampling new solutions in the neighbourhood of a given solution. It …

Variational reinforcement learning for hyper-parameter tuning of adaptive evolutionary algorithm

H Zhang, J Sun, Y Wang, J Shi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of an evolutionary algorithm (EA) is deeply affected by its control
parameter's setting. It has become a trend in recent studies to treat the control parameter as …

Learning to Transfer for Evolutionary Multitasking

SH Wu, Y Huang, X Wu, L Feng, ZH Zhan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) is an emerging approach for solving multitask optimization
problems (MTOPs) and has garnered considerable research interest. The implicit EMT is a …

An investigation of adaptive operator selection in solving complex vehicle routing problem

J Pei, Y Mei, J Liu, X Yao - Pacific Rim International Conference on …, 2022 - Springer
Search operators play an important role in meta-heuristics. There are typically a variety of
search operators available for solving a problem, and the selection and order of using the …

Learning to select the recombination operator for derivative-free optimization

H Zhang, J Sun, T Bäck, Z Xu - Science China Mathematics, 2024 - Springer
Extensive studies on selecting recombination operators adaptively, namely, adaptive
operator selection (AOS), during the search process of an evolutionary algorithm (EA), have …