A review on evolutionary multitask optimization: Trends and challenges

T Wei, S Wang, J Zhong, D Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) possess strong problem-solving abilities and have been
applied in a wide range of applications. However, they still suffer from a high computational …

Multi-task optimization and multi-task evolutionary computation in the past five years: A brief review

Q Xu, N Wang, L Wang, W Li, Q Sun - Mathematics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Traditional evolution algorithms tend to start the search from scratch. However, real-world
problems seldom exist in isolation and humans effectively manage and execute multiple …

Evolutionary transfer optimization-a new frontier in evolutionary computation research

KC Tan, L Feng, M Jiang - IEEE Computational Intelligence …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolutionary algorithm (EA) is a nature-inspired population-based search method that
works on Darwinian principles of natural selection. Due to its strong search capability and …

Toward evaluation and screening of the enhanced oil recovery scenarios for low permeability reservoirs using statistical and machine learning techniques

M Mahdaviara, M Sharifi, M Ahmadi - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The concurrence of the oil demand increment and running out of fossil fuels have brought
about special attention toward the tight and low permeability reservoirs. The decision …

Genetic programming with knowledge transfer and guided search for uncertain capacitated arc routing problem

MA Ardeh, Y Mei, M Zhang - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The uncertain capacitated arc routing problem has many real-world applications in logistics
domains. Genetic programming (GP) is a promising approach to training routing policies to …

Multitask linear genetic programming with shared individuals and its application to dynamic job shop scheduling

Z Huang, Y Mei, F Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multitask genetic programming methods have been applied to various domains, such as
classification, regression, and combinatorial optimization problems. Most existing multitask …

Consequential innovations in nature-inspired intelligent computing techniques for biomarkers and potential therapeutics identification

K Sheikh, S Sayeed, A Asif, MF Siddiqui… - … computing techniques in …, 2022 - Springer
Computational biology has changed how healthcare systems and biomedical engineering
work. Nature-inspired intelligent computing (NIIC) approaches in predicting potential …

Transfer learning in optimization: Interpretable self-organizing maps driven similarity indices to identify candidate source functions

SS Ravichandran, K Sekar, V Ramanath… - Expert Systems with …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the design evolution of a product, designers often require solving similar functions
repeatedly across different designs. These functions are usually related to each other and …

Fitness Landscape Optimization Makes Stochastic Symbolic Search By Genetic Programming Easier

Z Huang, Y Mei, F Zhang, M Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Searching for symbolic models plays an important role in a wide range of domains such as
neural architecture search and automatic program synthesis. Genetic programming is a …

Solving optimization problems simultaneously: the variants of the traveling salesman problem with time windows using multifactorial evolutionary algorithm

HB Ban, DH Pham - PeerJ Computer Science, 2023 - peerj.com
We studied two problems called the Traveling Repairman Problem (TRPTW) and Traveling
Salesman Problem (TSPTW) with time windows. The TRPTW wants to minimize the sum of …