Introduction of Yanchi Li

Yanchi Li (李延炽) is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the School of Computer Science at China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China, since 2023. Additionally, since 2025, he has been a visiting Ph.D. student in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Email: int_lyc<at>cug.edu.cn

GitHub, ResearchGate, GoogleScholar

Research Interests

Evolutionary Computation, Evolutionary Multitasking, Multi-task Optimization, Transfer Optimization.

Publications

Journal Publications

1. Y. Li, X. Wu, W. Gong, M. Xu, Y. Wang and Q. Gu, "Evolutionary competitive multiobjective multitasking: one-pass optimization of heterogeneous Pareto solutions" in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Jan. 2025 (Early Access). [source code]

2. Y. Li, W. Gong and Q. Gu, "Transfer task-averaged natural gradient for efficient many-task optimization," in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Sep. 2024 (Early Access). [source code]

3. Y. Li, D. Li, W. Gong and Q. Gu, "Multiobjective multitask optimization via diversity and convergence oriented knowledge transfer," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 2367-2379, Mar. 2025. [source code]

4. Y. Li and W. Gong, "Multiobjective multitask optimization with multiple knowledge types and transfer adaptation," in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 205-216, Feb. 2025. [source code]

5. Y. Li, W. Gong and S. Li, "Multitask evolution strategy with knowledge-guided external sampling," in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 1733-1745, Dec. 2024. [source code]

6. Y. Li, W. Gong, Z. Hu and S. Li, "A competitive and cooperative evolutionary framework for ensemble of constraint handling techniques," in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 2440-2451, Apr. 2024. [source code]

7. Y. Li, W. Gong and S. Li, "Multitasking optimization via an adaptive solver multitasking evolutionary framework," in Information Sciences, vol. 630, pp. 688-712, Jun. 2023. [source code]

8. Y. Li, W. Gong and S. Li, "Evolutionary competitive multitasking optimization via improved adaptive differential evolution," in Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 217, pp. 119550, May. 2023. [source code]

Conference Publications

1. Y. Li, W. Gong and Q. Gu, "Transfer search directions among decomposed subtasks for evolutionary multitasking in multiobjective optimization," in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO '24), pp. 557–565, Jul. 2024. [source code]

2. Y. Li, W. Gong and S. Li, "Evolutionary constrained multi-task optimization: benchmark problems and preliminary results," in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion (GECCO '22), pp. 443–446, Jul. 2022. [source code]

Preprints

1. Y. Li, W. Gong, F. Ming, T. Zhang, S. Li and Q. Gu, "MToP: A MATLAB optimization platform for evolutionary multitasking," in arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.08134, Dec. 2023. [source code]