2026 ICML 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 Paper Code 0 ACM TELO 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 Paper Code 40 2025 IEEE TEVC 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 Paper Code 14 ASOC 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 Paper Code 3 IEEE TEVC Transfer task-averaged natural gradient for efficient many-task optimization Y. Li, W. Gong, and Q. Gu IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Oct 2025 Paper Code 10 IEEE TSMC-S 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 Paper Code 20 IEEE TEVC Multiobjective multitask optimization with multiple knowledge types and transfer adaptation Y. Li and W. Gong IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Feb 2025 Paper Code 63 2024 IEEE TEVC Multitask evolution strategy with knowledge-guided external sampling Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Dec 2024 Paper Code 42 GECCO 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 Paper Code 14 IEEE TSMC-S 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 Paper Code 26 2023 INS Multitasking optimization via an adaptive solver multitasking evolutionary framework Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li Information Sciences, Jun 2023 Paper Code 95 ESWA Evolutionary competitive multitasking optimization via improved adaptive differential evolution Y. Li, W. Gong, and S. Li Expert Systems with Applications, May 2023 Paper Code 30 2022 GECCO 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 Paper Code 22