A space sampling based large-scale many-objective evolutionary algorithm

Xiaoxin Gao, Fazhi He, Yansong Duan, Chuanlong Ye, Junwei Bai, Chen Zhang

Abstract: Highlights•A space sampling based algorithm for large-scale many-objective optimization problems is developed.•An individual-linkage sampling strategy for sampling in the large-scale decision space is introduced.•An environmental selection strategy based on nondominated sorting and reference vector association is introduced.