Diversity Enhancement via Magnitude

Abstract: Promoting and maintaining diversity of candidate solutions is a key requirement of evolutionary algorithms in general and multi-objective evolutionary algorithms in particular. In this paper, we use the recently developed theory of magnitude to construct a gradient flow and similar notions that systematically manipulate finite subsets of Euclidean space to enhance their diversity, and apply the ideas in service of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. We demonstrate diversity enhancement on benchmark problems using leading algorithms, and discuss extensions of the framework.