Dynamic Multi-Task Interactive Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm with Search Space Alignment

The interactive evolutionary multi-task optimization approach assisted by surrogate models has proven successful in enhancing individualized recommendation performance. However, in light of the dynamically changing user preferences, it becomes imperative to further develop more powerful knowledge sharing strategy to improve the interactive multi-task optimization efficiency. A probability model-assisted search space alignment among multiple tasks method is proposed for knowledge transfer across multi-task environment. Additionally, a diversity maintaining mechanism of the transferred population is proposed to improve the quality and diversity of the initial population in a preference varied multi-task environment. The research demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approach in achieving effective knowledge transfer across multi-task environmen. Furthermore, the utilization of a high-quality initial population not only enhances the evolutionary search efficiency of the algorithm but also significantly improves the accuracy, diversity., and novelty of personalized recommendation.