Yanchi Li (李延炽) has been pursuing a Ph.D. degree in the School of Computer Science at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan, China) since 2023, supervised by Prof. Wenyin Gong and co-supervised by Prof. Qiong Gu. Since 2025. He has also been a visiting Ph.D. student in the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), supervised by Prof. Yew-Soon Ong.
He served as a referee for international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, Artificial Intelligence Review, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Expert Systems with Applications, etc.
Email: int_lyc<at>cug.edu.cn
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Research Interests
Evolutionary Multitasking, Multitask Optimization, Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning.
Publications
Journal Publications
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, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 2757-2770, Dec. 2025. [source code]
Q. Gu, Y. Li*(cor), W. Gong*, Z. Yuan, B. Ning, C. Hu and J. Wu, "Progressive auto-encoding for domain adaptation in evolutionary multi-task optimization", in Applied Soft Computing, vol.29, pp. 113916, Dec. 2025. [source code]
Y. Li, W. Gong and Q. Gu, "Transfer task-averaged natural gradient for efficient many-task optimization," in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1952-1965, Oct. 2025. [source code]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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]
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
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]
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