Does preference always help? A holistic study on preference-based evolutionary multiobjective optimization using reference points

K Li, M Liao, K Deb, G Min, X Yao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ultimate goal of multiobjective optimization is to help a decision maker (DM) identify
solution (s) of interest (SOI) achieving satisfactory tradeoffs among multiple conflicting …

DeepSQLi: Deep semantic learning for testing SQL injection

M Liu, K Li, T Chen - Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Security is unarguably the most serious concern for Web applications, to which SQL
injection (SQLi) attack is one of the most devastating attacks. Automatically testing SQLi …

BiLO-CPDP: Bi-level programming for automated model discovery in cross-project defect prediction

K Li, Z **ang, T Chen, KC Tan - Proceedings of the 35th IEEE/ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Cross-Project Defect Prediction (CPDP), which borrows data from similar projects by
combining a transfer learner with a classifier, have emerged as a promising way to predict …

Batched data-driven evolutionary multiobjective optimization based on manifold interpolation

K Li, R Chen - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multiobjective optimization problems are ubiquitous in real-world science, engineering, and
design optimization problems. It is not uncommon that the objective functions are as a black …

A data-driven evolutionary transfer optimization for expensive problems in dynamic environments

K Li, R Chen, X Yao - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many real-world problems are computationally costly and the objective functions evolve over
time. Data-driven, aka surrogate-assisted, evolutionary optimization has been recognized as …

Empirical studies on the role of the decision maker in interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization

G Lai, M Liao, K Li - 2021 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The interactive evolutionary multi-objective optimization (IEMO) algorithms aim to learn and
utilize the preference information from the decision maker (DM) during the optimization …

Interactive evolutionary multiobjective optimization via learning to rank

K Li, G Lai, X Yao - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In practical multicriterion decision making, it is cumbersome if a decision maker (DM) is
asked to choose among a set of tradeoff alternatives covering the whole Pareto-optimal …

Decomposition multi-objective evolutionary optimization: From state-of-the-art to future opportunities

K Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:2108.09588, 2021 - arxiv.org
Decomposition has been the mainstream approach in the classic mathematical
programming for multi-objective optimization and multi-criterion decision-making. However …

An improved two-archive evolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization

X Shan, K Li - International Conference on Evolutionary Multi …, 2021 - Springer
Constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs) are ubiquitous in real-world
engineering optimization scenarios. A key issue in constrained multi-objective optimization …

Do we really need to use constraint violation in constrained evolutionary multi-objective optimization?

S Li, K Li, W Li - International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving …, 2022 - Springer
Constraint violation has been a building block to design evolutionary multi-objective
optimization algorithms for solving constrained multi-objective optimization problems …