A Research Mode Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

The development of algorithms to solve Many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs) has attracted significant research interest in recent years. Solving various types of Pareto front (PF) is a daunting challenge for evolutionary algorithm. A Research mode based evolutionary algorithm (RMEA) is proposed for many-objective optimization. The archive in the RMEA is used to store non-dominated solutions that can reflect the shape of the PF to guide the reference vector adaptation. Information concerning the population is collected, once the number of non-dominated solutions reaches its limit after many generations without exceeding a given threshold, RMEA introduces a research mode that generates more reference vectors to search through the solutions. The proposed algorithm showed competitive performance with four state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms in a large number of experiments.