On Tchebycheff Decomposition Approaches for Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimization
研究了切比雪夫分解中子问题目标函数的几何性质,提出带lp范数约束的切比雪夫分解,并设计新算法在基准和实际问题中取得高质量解。
Tchebycheff decomposition represents one of the most widely used decomposition approaches that can convert a multiobjective optimization problem into a set of scalar optimization subproblems. Nevertheless, the geometric properties of the subproblem objective functions in Tchebycheff decomposition have not been explicitly studied. This paper proposes a Tchebycheff decomposition with lp-norm constraint on direction vectors in which the subproblem objective functions are endowed with clear geometric property. Especially, the Tchebycheff decomposition with l <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> -norm constraint on direction vectors is taken as an example to illustrate its advantage. A new unary R <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> indicator is also introduced to approximate the hyper-volume metric and justify the efficiency of the proposed Tchebycheff decomposition. A resultant Tchebycheff decomposition-based multiobjective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) with l <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sub> -norm constraint and a new population update strategy is proposed to solve multiobjective optimization problems. The experimental results on both benchmark and real-world multiobjective optimization problems show that the proposed algorithm is capable of obtaining high quality solutions compared with other state-of-the-art MOEAs.