Journal articles, conference proceedings, and preprints in computational intelligence, evolutionary optimization, and smart grid engineering. See also Google Scholar.
94Total publications
60Journal articles
32Conference papers
2Preprints
Journals
60
2026
Advanced Sensing Materials and Their Applications for Power SensorsAccepted for publication.High Voltage, accepted.
Exploration of Large-model-enabled IntelliSense Paradigms for Power Equipment Operation StatesChinese title: 大模型赋能的电力装备运行状态智能感知新模式探索Cheng He, Zixin Wang, Yuntian Zhou, Yonglin He, Chuanji Zhang, Hongbin Li, Shijie Cheng.High Voltage Engineering, 52(7), 3022-3039, 2026.
Online Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty in Sensor Networks: A Case Study on Voltage TransformersZihan Gao, Cheng He*, Chuanji Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Yuxuan Zhang, Hongbin Li.IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 1-12, 2026.
Development Strategy of Advanced Electrical Sensing Materials and TechnologiesChinese title: 先进电工传感材料及技术发展战略Cheng He, Weigen Chen*, Jun Hu, Han Peng, Xia Chen, Shijie Cheng.High Voltage Engineering, 51(8), 3846-3875, 2025.
Knowledge-assisted Approach for Contactless Current Measurement in Multiconductor SystemsChaojun Ma, Yingying Xu, Qing Chen, Yang Jiao, Zeming Qu, Cheng He*.IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 61(4), 6031-6041, 2025.
Surrogate-assisted Multiobjective Gene Selection for Cell Classification from Large-scale Single-cell RNA Sequencing DataJianqing Lin, Cheng He, Hanjing Jiang, Yabing Huang*, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 29(3), 601-615, 2025.
Artificial Evolutionary Intelligence (AEI): Evolutionary Computation Evolves with Large Language ModelsCheng He, Ye Tian*, Zhichao Lu.Journal of Membrane Computing, 7(2), 135-152, 2025.
Variable Reconstruction for Evolutionary Expensive Large-scale Multiobjective Optimization and Its Application on Aerodynamic DesignJianqing Lin, Cheng He, Ye Tian, Linqiang Pan*.IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 12(4), 719-733, 2025.
Knowledge-assisted Differential Evolution based Non-contact Voltage Measurement for Multiconductor Systems in Smart GridHongbin Li, Chaojun Ma, Qing Chen, Yang Jiao, Cheng He*.Advanced Engineering Informatics, 62: 102740, 2024.
A Knowledge-based Cooperative Co-evolutionary Algorithm for Non-contact Voltage MeasurementHongbin Li, Chaojun Ma, Chuanji Zhang, Qing Chen, Cheng He*, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(2), 1142-1155, 2024.
Large-scale Multiobjective Optimization via Reformulated Decision Variable AnalysisCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Lianghao Li, Kay Chen Tan, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 28(1), 47-61, 2024. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
Detecting Breakdowns in Capacitor Voltage Transformers: A Knowledge-assisted Online ApproachChuanji Zhang, Panpan Guo, Cheng Cheng, Cheng He, Linqiang Pan, Hongbin Li*.Measurement, 114197, 2024.
Supervised Reconstruction for High-dimensional Expensive Multiobjective OptimizationHongbin Li, Jianqing Lin*, Cheng He, Qing Chen, Linqiang Pan*.IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 8(2), 1814-1827, 2024.
An Inverse Design Method for Supercritical Airfoil Based on Conditional Generative ModelsJing Wang, Runze Li, Cheng He, Haixin Chen, Ran Cheng, Chen Zhai, Miao Zhang.Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 35(3), 62-74, 2022. CAJ 2021-2024 High-impact Paper
A Physics-information-enabled Self-updating Method to Monitor Measurement Error of Capacitor Voltage TransformersYuxuan Zhang, Chuanji Zhang, Cheng He, Hongbin Li, Qing Chen, Panpan Guo, Cheng Cheng.Measurement, 220, 113295, 2023.
Guest Editorial for Special Issue "Emerging topics in evolutionary multiobjective optimization"Cheng He, Dunwei Gong, Tan Kay Chen.Complex & Intelligent Systems, 9, 1115-1116, 2023.
A Pairwise Comparison Based Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Multi-objective OptimizationYe Tian, Jiaxing Hu, Cheng He, Haiping Ma, Limiao Zhang, Xingyi Zhang.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 80, 101323, 2023.
Principled Design of Translation, Scale, and Rotation Invariant Variation Operators for MetaheuristicsYe Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Cheng He, Tan Kay Chen, Yaochu Jin.Chinese Journal of Electronics, 32(1), 111-129, 2023.
RelativeNAS: Relative Neural Architecture Search via Slow-fast LearningHao Tan, Ran Cheng*, Shihua Huang, Cheng He, Changxiao Qiu, Fan Yang, Ping Luo.IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 34(1), 475-489, 2023.
2022
Adaptive Offspring Generation for Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective OptimizationCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Danial Yazdani.IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 52(2), 786-798, 2022. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
A Fast Sampling-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Million-Dimensional Multiobjective OptimizationLianghao Li, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng, Hongbin Li, Linqiang Pan*, Yaochu Jin.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 75, 101181, 2022.
Adaptive Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-Scale Transformer Ratio Error EstimationChangwu Huang, Lianghao Li, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng, Xin Yao.Memetic Computing, 14, 237-251, 2022.
SoloGAN: Multi-domain Multimodal Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation via a Single Generative Adversarial NetworkShihua Huang, Cheng He, Ran Cheng*.IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 3(5), 722-737, 2022.
Adaptive Dropout for High-dimensional Expensive Multiobjective OptimizationJianqing Lin, Cheng He, Ran Cheng*.Complex & Intelligent Systems, 8, 271-285, 2022.
Adaptive Control of Sub-Populations in Evolutionary Dynamic OptimizationDanial Yazdani, Ran Cheng*, Cheng He, Jurgen Branke.IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 52(7), 6476-6489, 2022.
2021
Paired Offspring Generation for Constrained Large-Scale Multiobjective OptimizationCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Kay Chen Tan, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 25(3), 448-462, 2021.
Flow Field Prediction of Supercritical Airfoils via Variational Autoencoder-Based Deep Learning FrameworkJing Wang, Cheng He, Runze Li, Haixin Chen, Chen Zhai, Miao Zhang.Physics of Fluids, 33(8): 086108, 2021.
Evolutionary Large-Scale Multi-objective Optimization: A SurveyYe Tian, Langchun Si, Xingyi Zhang*, Ran Cheng, Cheng He, Kay Chen Tan, Yaochu Jin.ACM Computing Surveys, 54(8), 1-34, 2021. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
A Gradient-guided Evolutionary Approach to Training Deep Neural NetworksShangshang Yang, Tian Ye, Cheng He, Xingyi Zhang, Tan Kay Chen, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 33(9), 4861-4875, 2021.
Pioneer Selection for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization with Discontinuous Feasible RegionLianghao Li, Cheng He*, Wenting Xu, Linqiang Pan*.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 65, 100932, 2021.
A Kriging-Assisted Two-Archive Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Many-Objective OptimizationZhenshou Song, Handing Wang, Cheng He, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 25(6), 1013-1027, 2021. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
Manifold Learning Inspired Mating Restriction for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization with Complicated Pareto SetsLinqiang Pan, Lianghao Li, Ran Cheng, Cheng He*, Kay Chen Tan.IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 51(6), 3325-3337, 2021.
2020
Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization for Ratio Error Estimation of Voltage TransformersCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Chuanji Zhang, Ye Tian, Qin Chen, Xin Yao.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 24(5), 868-881, 2020.
Adaptive Simulated Binary Crossover for Rotated Multi-Objective OptimizationLinqiang Pan, Wenting Xu, Lianghao Li, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 60, 100759, 2020.
Reformulating Preferences into Constraints for Evolutionary Multi- and Many-Objective OptimizationZhanglu Hou, Cheng He, Ran Cheng*.Information Sciences, 51(6), 541, 1-15, 2020.
Constructing an Automatic Diagnosis and Severity-Classification Model for Acromegaly Using Facial Photographs by Deep LearningYanguo Kong*, Xiangyi Kong*, Cheng He, Changsong Liu, Liting Wang, Lijuan Su, Jun Gao, Qi Guo, Ran Cheng*.Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 13(1): 1-4, 2020.
2019
Accelerating Large-scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem ReformulationCheng He, Lianghao Li, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 23(6), 949-961, 2019. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
Switching Ripple Suppressor Design of the Grid-Connected Inverters: A Perspective of Many-Objective Optimization with Constraints HandlingCheng He, Zhixiong Zhang, Jie Ye, Jinbang Xu, Linqiang Pan*.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 44, 293-303, 2019.
A Subregion Division-Based Evolutionary Algorithm with Effective Mating Selection for Many-Objective OptimizationLinqiang Pan, Lianghao Li, Cheng He*, Kay Chen Tan.IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 50(8), 3477-3490, 2019.
A Multi-Stage Evolutionary Algorithm for Better Diversity Preservation in Multi-Objective OptimizationYe Tian, Cheng He, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang.IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, 51(9), 5880-5894, 2019.
A Classification-Based Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Expensive Many-Objective OptimizationLinqiang Pan, Cheng He, Ye Tian, Handing Wang, Xingyi Zhang, Yaochu Jin*.IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 23(1), 74-88, 2019. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)
Guiding Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization with Generic Front ModelingYe Tian, Xingyi Zhang*, Ran Cheng*, Cheng He, Yaochu Jin.IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 50(3), 1106-1119, 2018.
Model-based Evolutionary Algorithms: A Short SurveyRan Cheng*, Cheng He, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao.Complex & Intelligent Systems, 4(4), 283-292, 2018.
A Tissue P System Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Multi-Objective VRPTWWenbo Dong, Kang Zhou, Huaqing Qi, Cheng He, Jun Zhang*.Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 39, 310-322, 2018.
2017
A Radial Space Division Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective OptimizationCheng He, Ye Tian, Yaochu Jin, Xingyi Zhang, Linqiang Pan*.Applied Soft Computing, 61, 603-621, 2017.
A Region Division Based Diversity Maintaining Approach for Many-Objective OptimizationLinqiang Pan, Cheng He, Ye Tian, Yansen Su, Xingyi Zhang*.Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, 24(3), 279-296, 2017.
2015
A Novel Thermodynamic Model and Temperature Control Method of Laser Soldering SystemsZhihua Chen, Cheng He, Ying Zheng, Xiaolong Shi, Tao Song*.Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2015.
Preprints
2
2026
Evolutionary Multi-scale Spatiotemporal Modeling for Predictive Maintenance of Capacitor Voltage Transformers in Smart GridsXin Yan, Cheng He, Yonglin He, Chuanji Zhang, Hongbin Li, Yaochu Jin.SSRN Electronic Journal, 2026.
A Lightweight Prediction Method for Biases in Capacitor Voltage Transformers CalibrationJunchi Du, Chuanji Zhang, Zihan Gao, Jing Fang, Cheng He, Hongbin Li.2025 4th International Conference on Energy Internet and Power Systems (ICEIPS), 284-289, 2025. [Best Paper Award]
Non-contact Voltage Measurement for High-voltage Transmission Systems Driven by Graph Convolutional NetworksZhen Wang, Lingyu Zhao, Xin Yan, Ruiming Yuan, Cheng He.2025 7th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS), 18-24, 2025.
Surrogate Models are not Necessary for Black-Box Expensive OptimizationHongxiang Geng, Ye Tian*, Shangshang Yang, Xingyi Zhang, Cheng He.2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1-9, 2025.
A Performance Study of Surrogate-Assisted Large-scale Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms on GLSMOP Test SuiteHaoran Gu, Cheng He, Handing Wang*.2025 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1-8, 2025.
A Generic Non-Periodic Anomaly Detection Method for Secondary Circuits of Voltage TransformersXin Yan, Ruiming Yuan, Ziqin Gao, Hongbin Li, Chuanji Zhang, Cheng He*.Communications in Computer and Information Science, 178-188, 2025.
Anomaly Diagnosis of Dielectric Loss in Capacitor Voltage Transformer by Phase Angle ErrorJing Fang, Ruiming Yuan, Ziqin Gao, Panpan Guo*, Cheng He, Chuanji Zhang.Communications in Computer and Information Science, 189-204, 2025.
An Online Method for Monitoring Measurement Errors in Current Transformers Based on Outlier Detection and OptimizationCheng Cheng, Chuanji Zhang, Panpan Guo, Cheng He, Heng Zheng, Hongbin Li.2024 8th International Conference on Power Energy Systems and Applications (ICoPESA), 205-210, 2024.
Balancing Convergence and Diversity in Meta-Heuristics for Calibration of Instrument TransformersZihan Gao, Cheng He*, Chuanji Zhang, Hongbin Li.2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1-8, 2024.
Reference Vector Guided Variables Selection for Expensive Large-Scale Multiobjective OptimizationJianqing Lin, Cheng He, Xueming Liu, Linqiang Pan*.2024 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1-8, 2024.
Long Short-Term Memory Network Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Computational Expensive Multiobjective OptimizationCheng He, Hongbin Li*, Jianqing Lin, Zhichao Lu.2023 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (IEEE-SSCI), 972-978, 2023.
Magnetic Sensor Array-based Contactless Current Measurement for Multiconductor Systems Using Knowledge-Assisted Evolutionary AlgorithmChaojun Ma, Yingying Xu, Qing Chen, Yang Jiao, Zeming Qu, Cheng He*.2023 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IEEE-IAS), 1-10, 2023.
Voltage Transformer Anomaly Detection Using LSTM Based AutoencoderXin Yan, Cheng He*, Jing Yin, Chuanji Zhang, Hongbin Li.The 5th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS-2023), 1-6, 2023.
Online Calibration of Instrument Transformers Considering the Time-Varying Impedance of Transmission LinesZihan Gao, Chuanji Zhang*, Cheng Cheng, Cheng He*, Hongbin Li.The 5th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS-2023), 1-6, 2023.
Two-Archive-Based Competitive Swarm Optimizer for Constrained Multiobjective OptimizationLianghao Li, Cheng He*, Jianqing Lin, Linqiang Pan.The 5th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS-2023), 1-6, 2023. [Best Student Paper Award]
Impact of Spatial Encoding Methods on Differential Evolution: A Case Study on Non-contact Current MeasurementYonglin He, You Wu, Cheng He*, Hongbin Li, Chaojun Ma*.The 5th International Conference on Data-driven Optimization of Complex Systems (DOCS-2023), 1-6, 2023.
2022
A Comparison of Large-Scale MOEAs with Informed Initialization for Voltage Transformer Ratio Error EstimationLianghao Li*, Cheng He, Hongbin Li.17th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA), 23(6): 222-232, 2022.
2021
FaPN: Feature-Aligned Pyramid Network for Dense Image PredictionShihua Huang, Zhichao Lu, Ran Cheng, Cheng He.Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2021: 864-873.
Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Decomposition and ReformulationLianghao Li, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng, Linqiang Pan*.IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 23(6): 949-961, 2021.
Population Sizing of Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective OptimizationCheng He, Ran Cheng.Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2021: 41-52.
Operator-Adapted Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization for Voltage Transformer Ratio Error EstimationChangwu Huang, Lianghao Li, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng, Xin Yao.Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2021: 672-683.
Dimension Dropout for Evolutionary High-Dimensional Expensive Multiobjective OptimizationJianqing Lin, Cheng He, Ran Cheng*.Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2021: 567-579.
Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search with Almost No TrainingShengran Hu, Ran Cheng*, Cheng He, Zhichao Lu.Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2021: 492-503.
2020
Iterated Problem Reformulation for Evolutionary Large-Scale Multiobjective OptimizationCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang.IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2020: 1-8.
2019
Surrogate-Assisted Expensive Many-Objective Optimization by Model FusionCheng He, Ran Cheng*, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao.IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 1672-1679, 2019.
Efficient Evolutionary Deep Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by Noisy Network Morphism MutationYiming Chen, Tianci Pan, Cheng He*, Ran Cheng*.International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, 2019: 761-769.
Efficient Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (NAS) by Modular Inheritable CrossoverHao Tan, Cheng He*, Dexuan Tang, Ran Cheng*.Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization (EMO), 2019: 497-508. [Best Paper Award]
A Hybrid Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for Computationally Expensive Many-Objective OptimizationKanzhen Wan, Cheng He, Auraham Camacho, Ke Shang, Ran Cheng, Hisao Ishibuchi*.IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 2018-2025, 2019.
2016
A Multi-objective Optimization Algorithm Based on Tissue P System for VRPTWWeiwei Dong, Kai Zhou, Huan Qi, Cheng He, Jinhua Zhang, Baoyu Song.Communications in Computer and Information Science, 285-301, 2016.
An Improved Reference Point Sampling Method on Pareto Optimal FrontCheng He, Linqiang Pan*, Hang Xu, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang.IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), 5230-5237, 2016.
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