Publications

Reversed chronological order.

2026

  1. Breaking Multi-Task Curse: Reward-weighted evolution for black-box many-task optimization
    Y. Li, J. Liu, W. Gong, and 3 more authors
    In Forty-third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’26), May 2026
  2. MToP: A MATLAB optimization platform for evolutionary multitasking
    Y. Li, W. Gong, T. Zhang, and 4 more authors
    ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, Apr 2026
    Just Accepted

2025

  1. Evolutionary competitive multiobjective multitasking: one-pass optimization of heterogeneous Pareto solutions
    Y. Li, X. Wu, W. Gong, and 3 more authors
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Dec 2025
  2. Progressive auto-encoding for domain adaptation in evolutionary multi-task optimization
    Q. Gu, Y. Li*, W. Gong*, and 4 more authors
    Applied Soft Computing, Dec 2025
    * Corresponding author
  3. Transfer task-averaged natural gradient for efficient many-task optimization
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and Q. Gu
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Oct 2025
  4. Multiobjective multitask optimization via diversity and convergence oriented knowledge transfer
    Y. Li, D. Li, W. Gong, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Mar 2025
  5. Multiobjective multitask optimization with multiple knowledge types and transfer adaptation
    Y. Li and W. Gong
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Feb 2025

2024

  1. Multitask evolution strategy with knowledge-guided external sampling
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li
    IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Dec 2024
  2. Transfer search directions among decomposed subtasks for evolutionary multitasking in multiobjective optimization
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and Q. Gu
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO ’24), Jul 2024
  3. A competitive and cooperative evolutionary framework for ensemble of constraint handling techniques
    Y. Li, W. Gong, Z. Hu, and 1 more author
    IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Apr 2024

2023

  1. INS
    Multitasking optimization via an adaptive solver multitasking evolutionary framework
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li
    Information Sciences, Jun 2023
  2. Evolutionary competitive multitasking optimization via improved adaptive differential evolution
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li
    Expert Systems with Applications, May 2023

2022

  1. Evolutionary constrained multi-task optimization: benchmark problems and preliminary results
    Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li
    In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO ’22), Jul 2022