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Ke Shang

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arXiv2020

Solution Subset Selection for Final Decision Making in Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

In general, a multi-objective optimization problem does not have a single optimal solution but a set of Pareto optimal solutions, which forms the Pareto front in the objective space. Various evolutionary algorithms have been proposed to approximate the Pareto front using a pre-specified number of solutions. Hundreds of solutions are obtained by their single run. The selection of a single final solution from the obtained solutions is assumed to be done by a human decision maker. However, in many cases, the decision maker does not want to examine hundreds of solutions. Thus, it is needed to select a small subset of the obtained solutions. In this paper, we discuss subset selection from a viewpoint of the final decision making. First we briefly explain existing subset selection studies. Next we formulate an expected loss function for subset selection. We also show that the formulated function is the same as the IGD plus indicator. Then we report experimental results where the proposed approach is compared with other indicator-based subset selection methods.

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arXiv2020

Effects of Discretization of Decision and Objective Spaces on the Performance of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Algorithms

Recently, the discretization of decision and objective spaces has been discussed in the literature. In some studies, it is shown that the decision space discretization improves the performance of evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithms on continuous multi-objective test problems. In other studies, it is shown that the objective space discretization improves the performance on combinatorial multi-objective problems. However, the effect of the simultaneous discretization of both spaces has not been examined in the literature. In this paper, we examine the effects of the decision space discretization, objective space discretization and simultaneous discretization on the performance of NSGA-II through computational experiments on the DTLZ and WFG problems. Using various settings about the number of decision variables and the number of objectives, our experiments are performed on four types of problems: standard problems, large-scale problems, many-objective problems, and large-scale many-objective problems. We show that the decision space discretization has a positive effect for large-scale problems and the objective space discretization has a positive effect for many-objective problems. We also show the discretization of both spaces is useful for large-scale many-objective problems.

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arXiv2019

R2-based Hypervolume Contribution Approximation

In this letter, a new hypervolume contribution approximation method is proposed which is formulated as an R2 indicator. The basic idea of the proposed method is to use different line segments only in the hypervolume contribution region for the hypervolume contribution approximation. Comparing with a traditional method which is based on the R2 indicator to approximate the hypervolume, the new method can directly approximate the hypervolume contribution and will utilize all the direction vectors only in the hypervolume contribution region. The new method, the traditional method and the Monte Carlo sampling method together with two exact methods are compared through comprehensive experiments. Our results show the advantages of the new method over the other methods. Comparing with the other two approximation methods, the new method achieves the best performance for comparing hypervolume contributions of different solutions and identifying the solution with the smallest hypervolume contribution. Comparing with the exact methods, the new method is computationally efficient in high-dimensional spaces where the exact methods are impractical to use.

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arXiv2017

Two-stage robust optimization for orienteering problem with stochastic weights

In this paper, the two-stage orienteering problem with stochastic weights (OPSW) is considered, where the first-stage problem is to plan a path under the uncertain environment and the second-stage problem is recourse action to make sure that the length constraint is satisfied after the uncertainty is realized. Two recourse models are introduced based on two different uncertainty realization ways, one is based on sequentially realized weights which leads to the recourse model proposed by Evers et al. (2014) and the other is based on concurrently realized weights which leads to a new recourse model with less variables and less constraints and is computationally more efficient. Subsequently two two-stage robust models are introduced for OPSW based on the two different recourse models, and the relationships between the two-stage robust models and their corresponding static robsut models are investigated. Theoretical conclusions are drawn which show that the two-stage robust models are equivalent to their corresponding static robust models with the box uncertainty set defined, and the two two-stage robust models are also equivalent to each other even though they are based on different recourse models. A case study is presented by comparing the two-stage robust models with an one-stage robust model for OPSW. The numerical results of the comparative studies show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed two-stage robust models for dealing with the two-stage OPSW.

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