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most citedAn Easy-to-use Real-world Multi-objective Optimization Problem Suite

316 citations · 1.3k across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.LG2026

Kolmogorov-Arnold Classifier Systems as Universal Approximators

Hiroki Shiraishi, Hisao Ishibuchi, Masaya Nakata

As the input dimension grows, rule-based machine learning, such as Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs), faces a fundamental scalability bottleneck for function approximation: bo…

cs.LG2026

PHIDA: Persistence-Guided Node-to-Cluster Mapping for Online Clustering

Naoki Masuyama, Yusuke Nojima, Stefan Wermter +3

Online clustering methods that adaptively create and update nodes as data arrive often make node learning explicit, whereas the mapping from the learned node state to output cluste…

cs.NE2026

An Efficient Evolutionary Algorithm for Few-for-Many Optimization

Ke Shang, Hisao Ishibuchi, Zexuan Zhu +1

Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large numb…

cs.LG2025

An Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering Algorithm with a Self-Adjusting Vigilance Parameter

Naoki Masuyama, Yuichiro Toda, Yusuke Nojima +1

Clustering in stationary and nonstationary settings, where data distributions remain static or evolve over time, requires models that can adapt to distributional shifts while prese…

cs.LG2025★ 7 cited

Adapting Rule Representation With Four-Parameter Beta Distribution for Learning Classifier Systems

Hiroki Shiraishi, Yohei Hayamizu, Tomonori Hashiyama +3

Rule representations significantly influence the search capabilities and decision boundaries within the search space of Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs), a family of rule-based m…

cs.LG2025★ 5 cited

A Class Inference Scheme With Dempster-Shafer Theory for Learning Fuzzy-Classifier Systems

Hiroki Shiraishi, Hisao Ishibuchi, Masaya Nakata

The decision-making process significantly influences the predictions of machine learning models. This is especially important in rule-based systems such as Learning Fuzzy-Classifie…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

X-KAN: Optimizing Local Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks via Evolutionary Rule-Based Machine Learning

Hiroki Shiraishi, Hisao Ishibuchi, Masaya Nakata

Function approximation is a critical task in various fields. However, existing neural network approaches struggle with locally complex or discontinuous functions due to their relia…

cs.NE2025

Optimal Distribution of Solutions for Crowding Distance on Linear Pareto Fronts of Two-Objective Optimization Problems

Hisao Ishibuchi, Lie Meng Pang

Characteristics of an evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO) algorithm can be explained using its best solution set. For example, the best solution set for SMS-EMOA is the…

cs.NE2025

When to Truncate the Archive? On the Effect of the Truncation Frequency in Multi-Objective Optimisation

Zhiji Cui, Zimin Liang, Lie Meng Pang +2

Using an archive to store nondominated solutions found during the search of a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is a useful practice. However, as nondominated solutions…

cs.NE2025

Large Language Model-Based Benchmarking Experiment Settings for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization

Lie Meng Pang, Hisao Ishibuchi

When we manually design an evolutionary optimization algorithm, we implicitly or explicitly assume a set of target optimization problems. In the case of automated algorithm design,…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Pareto Front Shape-Agnostic Pareto Set Learning in Multi-Objective Optimization

Rongguang Ye, Longcan Chen, Wei-Bin Kou +2

Pareto set learning (PSL) is an emerging approach for acquiring the complete Pareto set of a multi-objective optimization problem. Existing methods primarily rely on the mapping of…

cs.AI2024

Learning Pareto Set for Multi-Objective Continuous Robot Control

Tianye Shu, Ke Shang, Cheng Gong +2

For a control problem with multiple conflicting objectives, there exists a set of Pareto-optimal policies called the Pareto set instead of a single optimal policy. When a multi-obj…

cs.NE2024★ 1 cited

Evolutionary Computation for the Design and Enrichment of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Systems: Survey and Prospects

Javier Poyatos, Javier Del Ser, Salvador Garcia +6

In Artificial Intelligence, there is an increasing demand for adaptive models capable of dealing with a diverse spectrum of learning tasks, surpassing the limitations of systems de…

cs.NE2024★ 6 cited

Evolutionary Preference Sampling for Pareto Set Learning

Rongguang Ye, Longcan Chen, Jinyuan Zhang +1

Recently, Pareto Set Learning (PSL) has been proposed for learning the entire Pareto set using a neural network. PSL employs preference vectors to scalarize multiple objectives, fa…

cs.LG2024

Data-Driven Preference Sampling for Pareto Front Learning

Rongguang Ye, Lei Chen, Weiduo Liao +2

Pareto front learning is a technique that introduces preference vectors in a neural network to approximate the Pareto front. Previous Pareto front learning methods have demonstrate…

cs.NE2024

Improving Critical Node Detection Using Neural Network-based Initialization in a Genetic Algorithm

Chanjuan Liu, Shike Ge, Zhihan Chen +4

The Critical Node Problem (CNP) is concerned with identifying the critical nodes in a complex network. These nodes play a significant role in maintaining the connectivity of the ne…

cs.LG2023★ 9 cited

Privacy-preserving Continual Federated Clustering via Adaptive Resonance Theory

Naoki Masuyama, Yusuke Nojima, Yuichiro Toda +3

With the increasing importance of data privacy protection, various privacy-preserving machine learning methods have been proposed. In the clustering domain, various algorithms with…

cs.NE2023★ 3 cited

A Parameter-free Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering Algorithm Capable of Continual Learning

Naoki Masuyama, Takanori Takebayashi, Yusuke Nojima +3

In general, a similarity threshold (i.e., a vigilance parameter) for a node learning process in Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART)-based algorithms has a significant impact on cluster…

cs.NE2022

Effects of Archive Size on Computation Time and Solution Quality for Multi-Objective Optimization

Tianye Shu, Ke Shang, Hisao Ishibuchi +1

An unbounded external archive has been used to store all nondominated solutions found by an evolutionary multi-objective optimization algorithm in some studies. It has been shown t…

cs.NE2022

Hybridization of evolutionary algorithm and deep reinforcement learning for multi-objective orienteering optimization

Wei Liu, Rui Wang, Tao Zhang +3

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO…

cs.NE2022★ 3 cited

Reference Vector Adaptation and Mating Selection Strategy via Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Clustering for Many-objective Optimization

Takato Kinoshita, Naoki Masuyama, Yiping Liu +2

Decomposition-based multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) with clustering-based reference vector adaptation show good optimization performance for many-objective optimizat…

cs.NE2022

HV-Net: Hypervolume Approximation based on DeepSets

Ke Shang, Weiyu Chen, Weiduo Liao +1

In this letter, we propose HV-Net, a new method for hypervolume approximation in evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The basic idea of HV-Net is to use DeepSets, a deep neur…

cs.NE2022

Learning to Approximate: Auto Direction Vector Set Generation for Hypervolume Contribution Approximation

Ke Shang, Tianye Shu, Hisao Ishibuchi

Hypervolume contribution is an important concept in evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO). It involves in hypervolume-based EMO algorithms and hypervolume subset selectio…

cs.LG2022★ 16 cited

Adaptive Resonance Theory-based Topological Clustering with a Divisive Hierarchical Structure Capable of Continual Learning

Naoki Masuyama, Narito Amako, Yuna Yamada +2

Adaptive Resonance Theory (ART) is considered as an effective approach for realizing continual learning thanks to its ability to handle the plasticity-stability dilemma. In general…