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 …

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 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 …

An evolutionary multitasking optimization framework for constrained multiobjective optimization problems

K Qiao, K Yu, B Qu, J Liang, H Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When addressing constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) via
evolutionary algorithms, various constraints and multiple objectives need to be satisfied and …

A meta-knowledge transfer-based differential evolution for multitask optimization

JY Li, ZH Zhan, KC Tan, J Zhang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge transfer plays a vastly important role in solving multitask optimization problems
(MTOPs). Many existing methods transfer task-specific knowledge, such as the high-quality …

Evolutionary multitasking for feature selection in high-dimensional classification via particle swarm optimization

K Chen, B Xue, M Zhang, F Zhou - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Feature selection (FS) is an important preprocessing technique for improving the quality of
feature sets in many practical applications. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) has been …

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 …

Solving multitask optimization problems with adaptive knowledge transfer via anomaly detection

C Wang, J Liu, K Wu, Z Wu - IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multitask optimization (EMTO) has recently attracted widespread attention in
the evolutionary computation community, which solves two or more tasks simultaneously to …

A bi-objective knowledge transfer framework for evolutionary many-task optimization

Y Jiang, ZH Zhan, KC Tan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many-task problem (MaTOP) is a kind of challenging multitask optimization problem with
more than three tasks. Two significant issues in solving MaTOPs are measuring intertask …

Evolutionary multitasking descriptor optimization for point cloud registration

Y Wu, J Sheng, H Ding, P Gong, H Li… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Point cloud registration is an important task for other point cloud tasks. Feature-based
methods are widely adopted for their speed and efficiency in point cloud registration. The …