A Line Complex-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization |
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| Authors: | Liang Zhang Qi Kang Qi Deng Luyuan Xu Qidi Wu |
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| Affiliation: | 1.Department of Control Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China2.Jiangsu Province Support Software Engineering R&D Center for Modern Information Technology Application in Enterprise, Suzhou 215104, China3.Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China |
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| Abstract: | In solving many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs), existing nondominated sorting-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithms suffer from the fast loss of selection pressure. Most candidate solutions become nondominated during the evolutionary process, thus leading to the failure of producing offspring toward Pareto-optimal front with diversity. Can we find a more effective way to select nondominated solutions and resolve this issue? To answer this critical question, this work proposes to evolve solutions through line complex rather than solution points in Euclidean space. First, Plücker coordinates are used to project solution points to line complex composed of position vectors and momentum ones. Besides position vectors of the solution points, momentum vectors are used to extend the comparability of nondominated solutions and enhance selection pressure. Then, a new distance function designed for high-dimensional space is proposed to replace Euclidean distance as a more effective distance-based estimator. Based on them, a novel many-objective evolutionary algorithm (MaOEA) is proposed by integrating a line complex-based environmental selection strategy into the NSGA-III framework. The proposed algorithm is compared with the state of the art on widely used benchmark problems with up to 15 objectives. Experimental results demonstrate its superior competitiveness in solving MaOPs. |
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| Keywords: | Environmental selection line complex many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs) Plücker coordinate |
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