arXiv:2605.28164cs.NEcs.AI2026-05

提升进化算法在物理优化中的性能与可解释性,增强实际应用信任度。

Performance and Explainability Requirements of Evolutionary Algorithms in Real-World Physics-Informed Optimization

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  • 针对五个真实物理优化问题,明确算法需快速收敛并提供结果解释。
  • 专家普遍要求算法在10次迭代内逼近最优解,且能说明搜索路径。
  • 提出可复用的可解释性技术,填补理论与实际应用间空白。

进化计算为解决复杂现实世界优化问题提供了多种工具,但现有研究多聚焦于简化的小规模问题,导致算法在真实场景中表现不佳。此外,在物理建模等关键领域,用户对算法及结果的信任至关重要,而这依赖于对搜索过程的理解。本文通过五类真实物理优化问题,由领域专家提出性能与可解释性要求:所有专家均期望算法能在10次迭代内快速收敛至高质量解,并希望获得结果生成过程的解释;其他需求则因问题而异。文章进一步综述了可用于提升算法性能与可解释性的现有技术,这些方法虽在理论上成熟,却尚未在复杂现实场景中应用,揭示了理论与实践之间的显著差距,亟需弥合以释放进化计算的全部潜力。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Evolutionary computation offers a variety of tools to solve complex real-world optimization problems. However, research often focuses on smaller, simplified problems and optimization algorithms that sometimes miss expectations in real-world scenarios. Additionally, trust in the applied algorithm and the solutions it provides is often essential in such settings, but requires an understanding of the search process itself. This leads to evolutionary computation often not being seriously considered by practitioners in many application contexts, among them physics-based modeling. In this article, techniques from evolutionary computation are detailed that can alleviate these problems. First, five real-world physics-based optimization problems are introduced and described by domain experts. For each of these, the requirements for the evolutionary algorithm regarding performance and explainability to increase trust and usability are presented. We found that all domain experts expect fast convergence to a good solution and want some explanations for how the results were formed, while other requirements strongly depend on the respective problem. Finally, we present existing approaches that can be leveraged to improve those aspects of evolutionary algorithms but have to our knowledge never been employed in complex real-world scenarios. This implies a gap between both domains that needs to be closed to exploit the full potential of evolutionary computation.

进化算法可解释性物理建模优化

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