Learning Value Functions in Interactive Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

• Published in: IEEE transactions on evolutionary computation Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 88 - 102
• Main Authors: Branke, Jurgen, Greco, Salvatore, Slowinski, Roman, Zielniewicz, Piotr
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.02.2015
• Subjects: Additives; Business; Computational modeling; Educational institutions; Electronic mail; Linear programming; Optimization; ordinal regression; interactive procedure; Evolutionary multiobjective optimization; preference learning

This paper proposes an interactive multiobjective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) that attempts to learn a value function capturing the users' true preferences. At regular intervals, the user is asked to rank a single pair of solutions. This information is used to update the algorithm's inte...