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Kay Chen Tan and Liang Feng and Min Jiang · IEEE CIM 2021
Contribution. Defines evolutionary transfer optimization as a field and gives it a shared agenda.
Why read it. If your research touches transfer learning, surrogate modeling, multi-task optimization, or expensive black-box problems, this IEEE CIM article is the canonical starting point and the source most authors cite to motivate their work.
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Most real-world optimization problems are not isolated: solving one gives you experience that should accelerate solving the next. This article articulates a vision for evolutionary transfer optimization as a first-class research frontier, in which search algorithms explicitly carry knowledge — about solutions, landscapes, hyperparameters, and problem structure — across related tasks. The authors survey existing efforts, identify the open theoretical and algorithmic questions, and propose a unifying taxonomy that has since guided the design of dozens of new algorithms for dynamic, multi-task, and expensive optimization scenarios.