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 …

Multifactorial evolutionary algorithm with online transfer parameter estimation: MFEA-II

KK Bali, YS Ong, A Gupta… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humans rarely tackle every problem from scratch. Given this observation, the motivation for
this paper is to improve optimization performance through adaptive knowledge transfer …

Linearized domain adaptation in evolutionary multitasking

KK Bali, A Gupta, L Feng, YS Ong… - 2017 IEEE Congress on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent analytical studies have revealed that in spite of promising success in problem
solving, the performance of evolutionary multitasking deteriorates with decreasing similarity …

Evolutionary multitasking for multiobjective continuous optimization: Benchmark problems, performance metrics and baseline results

Y Yuan, YS Ong, L Feng, AK Qin, A Gupta, B Da… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2017 - arxiv.org
In this report, we suggest nine test problems for multi-task multi-objective optimization
(MTMOO), each of which consists of two multiobjective optimization tasks that need to be …

Parting ways and reallocating resources in evolutionary multitasking

YW Wen, CK Ting - 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multitasking aims to explore implicit synergy among multiple optimization tasks.
Through the effect of hitchhiking, evolutionary multitasking is capable of improving the …

Coevolutionary multitasking for concurrent global optimization: With case studies in complex engineering design

MY Cheng, A Gupta, YS Ong, ZW Ni - Engineering Applications of Artificial …, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent research efforts have provided hints towards the innate ability of population-based
evolutionary algorithms to tackle multiple distinct optimization tasks at once by combining …

Genetic transfer or population diversification? Deciphering the secret ingredients of evolutionary multitask optimization

A Gupta, YS Ong - 2016 IEEE Symposium Series on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evolutionary multitasking has recently emerged as a novel paradigm that enables the
similarities and/or latent complementarities (if present) between distinct optimization tasks to …

Evolutionary feature subspaces generation for ensemble classification

B Zhang, AK Qin, T Sellis - Proceedings of the genetic and evolutionary …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Ensemble learning is a powerful machine learning paradigm which leverages a collection of
diverse base learners to achieve better prediction performance than that could be achieved …

A fast memetic multi-objective differential evolution for multi-tasking optimization

Y Chen, J Zhong, M Tan - 2018 IEEE Congress on evolutionary …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-tasking optimization has now become a promising research topic that has attracted
increasing attention from researchers. In this paper, an efficient memetic evolutionary multi …

A multi-objective multi-factorial evolutionary algorithm with reference-point-based approach

HTT Binh, NQ Tuan, DCT Long - 2019 IEEE Congress on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, multi-task optimization is one of the emerging topics among evolutionary
computation researchers. Multi-Factorial Evolutionary Algorithm (MFEA) is developed based …