CSS–A Cheap-Surrogate-Based Selection Operator for Multi-objective Optimization

Document Type

Conference Article

Publication Title

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Abstract

Due to the complex topology of the search space, expensive multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (EMOEAs) emphasize enhancing the exploration capability. Many algorithms use ensembles of surrogate models to boost the performance. Generally, the surrogate-based model either works out the solution’s fitness by approximating the evaluation function or selects the solution by weighting the uncertainty degree of candidate solutions. This paper proposes a selection operator called Cheap surrogate selection (CSS) for multi-objective problems by utilizing the density probability on a k-dimensional tree. As opposed to the first type of surrogate models, which approximate the objective function, the proposed CSS only estimates the uncertainty of the candidate solutions. As a result, CSS does not require extensive sampling or training. Besides, CSS makes use of neighbors’ density and builds the tree with low computational complexity, resulting in an accelerated surrogate process. Moreover, a new EMOEA is proposed by integrating spherical search as the core optimizer with the proposed selection scheme. Over a wide variety of benchmark problems, we show that the proposed method outperforms several state-of-the-art EMOEAs.

First Page

54

Last Page

68

DOI

10.1007/978-3-031-21094-5_5

Publication Date

1-1-2022

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