Population Sizing of Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization

Cheng He, Ran Cheng

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Abstract

Large-scale multiobjective optimization problems (LSMOPs) are emerging and widely existed in real-world applications, which involve a large number of decision variables and multiple conflicting objectives. Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are naturally suitable for multiobjective optimization due to their population-based property, allowing the search of optima simultaneously. Nevertheless, LSMOPs are challenging for conventional EAs, mainly due to the huge volume of search space in LSMOPs. Thus, it is important to explore the impact of the population sizing on the performance of conventional multiobjective EAs (MOEAs) in solving LSMOPs. In this work, we compare several representative MOEAs with different settings of population sizes on some transformer ratio error estimation (TREE) problems in the power system. These test cases are defined on combinations of three population sizes, three TREE problems, and five MOEAs. Our results indicate that the performances of conventional MOEAs with different population sizes in solving LSMOPs are different. The impact of population sizing is most significant for differential evolution based and particle swarm based MOEAs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEvolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization - 11th International Conference, EMO 2021, Proceedings
EditorsHisao Ishibuchi, Qingfu Zhang, Ran Cheng, Ke Li, Hui Li, Handing Wang, Aimin Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages41-52
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030720612
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
Event11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2021 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 28 Mar 202131 Mar 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12654 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2021
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period28/03/2131/03/21

Keywords

  • Large-scale optimization
  • Multiobjective optimization
  • Population size
  • Transformer ratio error estimation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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