Title
A theoretical analysis of volume based Pareto front approximations
Abstract
Many multi-objective algorithms use volume based quality indicators to approximate the Pareto front. Amongst these, the hypervolume is the most widely used. The distribution of solution sets of finite size μ that maximize the hypervolume have been investigated theoretically. But nearly all results are limited to the bi-objective case. In this paper, many of these results are extended to higher dimensions and a theoretical analysis and characterization of optimal $\\mu$-distributions is done. We investigate monotonic Pareto curves that are embedded in three and higher dimensions that keep the property of the bi-objective case that only few points are determining the hypervolume contribution of a point. For finite μ, we consider the influence of the choice of the reference point and determine sufficient conditions that assure the extreme points of the Pareto curves to be included in an optimal μ- distribution. We state conditions about the slope of the front that makes it impossible to include the extremes. Furthermore, we prove more specific results for three dimensional linear Pareto fronts. It is shown that the equispaced property of an optimal distribution for a line in two dimensions does not hold in higher dimensions. We additionally investigate hypervolume in general dimensions and problems with cone domination structures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2576768.2598348
GECCO
Keywords
Field
DocType
cone domination,hypervolume indicator,miscellaneous,multi-objective optimization,multi objective optimization
Extreme point,Monotonic function,Pareto interpolation,Mathematical optimization,Multi-objective optimization,Solution set,Lomax distribution,Pareto principle,Mathematics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.40
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pradyumn Kumar Shukla127423.97
Nadja Doll230.40
Hartmut Schmeck31034120.58