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Learning Task Relationships in Evolutionary Multitasking for Multiobjective Continuous Optimization

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Zefeng Chen
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Yuren Zhou *
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何笑雨 (Xiaoyu He)
张军 (Jun Zhang)
DOI:10.1109/TCYB.2020.3029176delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Multiobjective multifactorial optimization (MO-MFO), rooted in a multitasking environment, is an emerging paradigm wherein multiple distinct multiobjective optimization problems are solved together. This article proposes an evolutionary multitasking algorithm with learning task relationships (LTR) for MO-MFO. In the proposed algorithm, a procedure of LTR is well designed. The decision space of each task is treated as a manifold, and all decision spaces of different tasks are jointly modeled as a joint manifold. Then, through solving a generalized eigenvalue decomposition problem, the joint manifold is projected to a latent space while keeping the necessary features for all tasks and the topology of each manifold. Finally, the task relationships are represented as the joint mapping matrix, which is composed of multiple mapping functions, and they are utilized for information transfer across different decision spaces during the evolutionary process. In the empirical experiments, the performance of the proposed algorithm is verified and compared with several state-of-the-art solvers for MO-MFO on three suites of MO-MFO test problems. Empirical results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm surpasses other competitors on most test instances, and can well tackle complicated MO-MFO problems which involve distinct optimization tasks with heterogeneous decision spaces.
Keywords:
Task analysis
Optimization
Multitasking
Manifolds
Genetics
Search problems
Knowledge transfer
Evolutionary multitasking
knowledge transfer
multiobjective optimization
task relationships

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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics cover
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
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10.5
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hanyang university
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Papers: 2.7W
Citations: 36
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Sun Yat Sen University
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Papers: 7.2W
Citations: 95