An adaptive localized decision variable analysis approach to large scale multi-objective and many-objective optimization

This paper proposes an adaptive localized decision variable analysis approach under the decomposition-based framework to solve the large scale multi-objective and many objective optimization problems. Its main idea is to incorporate the guidance of reference vectors into the control variable analysis and optimize the decision variables using an adaptive strategy. Especially, in the control variable analysis, for each search direction, the convergence relevance degree of each decision variable is measured by a projection-based detection method. In the decision variable optimization, the grouped decision variables are optimized with an adaptive scalarization strategy, which is able to adaptively balance the convergence and diversity of the solutions in the objective space. The proposed algorithm is evaluated with a suite of test problems with 2-10 objectives and 200-1000 variables. Experimental results validate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed algorithm on the large scale multiobjective and many-objective optimization problems.