Knowledge transfer in evolutionary multi-task optimization: A survey

Z Tan, L Luo, J Zhong - Applied Soft Computing, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Evolutionary multi-task optimization (EMTO) is an optimization algorithm designed to
optimize multiple tasks simultaneously. In real life, different tasks often correlate to each …

Evolutionary multitask optimization: a methodological overview, challenges, and future research directions

E Osaba, J Del Ser, AD Martinez, A Hussain - Cognitive Computation, 2022‏ - Springer
In this work, we consider multitasking in the context of solving multiple optimization problems
simultaneously by conducting a single search process. The principal goal when dealing with …

Evolutionary multiform optimization with two-stage bidirectional knowledge transfer strategy for point cloud registration

Y Wu, H Ding, M Gong, AK Qin, W Ma… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Point cloud registration is an important task in computer vision, where the goal is to estimate
a transformation to align a pair of point clouds. Most of the existing registration methods face …

A survey on learnable evolutionary algorithms for scalable multiobjective optimization

S Liu, Q Lin, J Li, KC Tan - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary
algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these …

An evolutionary multitasking memetic algorithm for multi-objective distributed heterogeneous welding flow shop scheduling

R Li, L Wang, W Gong, F Ming - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The decomposable feature of operations in the welding shop scheduling scenario results in
a vast search space, posing challenges for the design of traditional optimization algorithms …

Half a dozen real-world applications of evolutionary multitasking, and more

A Gupta, L Zhou, YS Ong, Z Chen… - IEEE Computational …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Until recently, the potential to transfer evolved skills across distinct optimization problem
instances (or tasks) was seldom explored in evolutionary computation. The concept of …

Evolutionary multitask optimization with lower confidence bound-based solution selection strategy

Z Wang, L Cao, L Feng, M Jiang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) is an emerging research direction within the evolutionary
computation community, attempting to concurrently solve multiple optimization tasks by …

Ensemble of domain adaptation-based knowledge transfer for evolutionary multitasking

W Lin, Q Lin, L Feng, KC Tan - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a number of domain adaptation (DA) methods have been proposed for knowledge
transfer in evolutionary multitasking (EMT). However, the learned map**s in these …

Multiobjective multitask optimization with multiple knowledge types and transfer adaptation

Y Li, W Gong - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multitasking (EMT) exploits the correlation among different tasks to help handle
them through knowledge transfer (KT) techniques in evolutionary algorithms. In this area …

Decoupling constraint: Task clone-based multi-tasking optimization for constrained multi-objective optimization

G Li, Z Wang, W Gao, L Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coupling of multiple constraints can pose difficulties in solving constrained multi-
objective optimization problems (CMOPs). Existing constrained multi-objective evolutionary …