Ran Cheng

18.4k total citations · 16 hit papers
209 papers, 12.9k citations indexed

About

Ran Cheng is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ran Cheng has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 12.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 83 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ran Cheng's work include Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (79 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (72 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (56 papers). Ran Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (79 papers), Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research (72 papers) and Evolutionary Algorithms and Applications (56 papers). Ran Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and Germany. Ran Cheng's co-authors include Yaochu Jin, Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian, Bernhard Sendhoff, Markus Olhofer, Cheng He, Xin Yao, Miqing Li, Kay Chen Tan and Fan Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

Ran Cheng

193 papers receiving 12.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

PlatEMO: A MATLAB Platform for Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization [Educational Forum]

2017 1.8k citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine profile →
A Reference Vector Guided Evolutionary Algorithm for Many-Objective Optimization

2016 1.2k citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Competitive Swarm Optimizer for Large Scale Optimization

2014 803 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
A social learning particle swarm optimization algorithm for scalable optimization

2014 588 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin Information Sciences profile →
An Indicator-Based Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm With Reference Point Adaptation for Better Versatility

2017 528 citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Decision Variable Clustering-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Large-Scale Many-Objective Optimization

2016 471 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
An Efficient Approach to Nondominated Sorting for Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization

2014 397 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A benchmark test suite for evolutionary many-objective optimization

2017 375 citations Ran Cheng, Ye Tian et al. profile →
A competitive mechanism based multi-objective particle swarm optimizer with fast convergence

2017 309 citations Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng et al. Information Sciences profile →
Surrogate-Assisted Cooperative Swarm Optimization of High-Dimensional Expensive Problems

2017 307 citations Yaochu Jin, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
A Strengthened Dominance Relation Considering Convergence and Diversity for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization

2018 291 citations Ye Tian, Ran Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Test Problems for Large-Scale Multiobjective and Many-Objective Optimization

2016 286 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics profile →
A Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm Using Gaussian Process-Based Inverse Modeling

2015 284 citations Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Evolutionary Large-Scale Multi-Objective Optimization: A Survey

2021 255 citations Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang et al. profile →
Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation

2019 237 citations Cheng He, Lianghao Li et al. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation profile →
Mapping global lake dynamics reveals the emerging roles of small lakes

2022 194 citations Ran Cheng et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ran Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ran Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ran Cheng based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ran Cheng. Ran Cheng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Cu ₁₄ (dppy) ₇ (dmbt) ₃ cluster of chelating structure for enhanced electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia 2025 ·Journal of Materials Chemistry A ·Aamir Shehzad, Ran Cheng, Fang Zhang, Zhixun Luo	0
2	Multi-phase constrained multi-objective optimization via heterogeneous transfer 2025 ·Information Sciences ·(unknown), Yaochu Jin, Ran Cheng	2
3	TinyVLA: Toward Fast, Data-Efficient Vision-Language-Action Models for Robotic Manipulation 2025 ·IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ·(unknown), Yichen Zhu, Jinming Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ning Liu, Ran Cheng, Chaomin Shen, Yaxin Peng, Feifei Feng, Jian Tang	11
4	Evaluation of Large Language Models as Solution Generators in Complex Optimization 2025 ·IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine ·(unknown), Xingyu Wu, Yu Zhou, Jibin Wu, Liang Feng, Ran Cheng, Kay Chen Tan	0
5	CTU-Level Adaptive QP Offset Algorithm for V-PCC Using JND and Spatial Complexity 2024 ·IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Yuan Li, Ran Cheng, (unknown), (unknown)	1
6	Evolutionary Large‐Scale Multi‐Objective Optimization and Applications 2024 ·Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Ye Tian, Yaochu Jin	1
7	Tensorized NeuroEvolution of Augmenting Topologies for GPU Acceleration 2024 ·Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ran Cheng	1
8	EvoX: A Distributed GPU-Accelerated Framework for Scalable Evolutionary Computation 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation ·(unknown), Ran Cheng, Zhuozhao Li, Yaochu Jin, Kay Chen Tan	16
9	Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction to ammonia by atomically precise Cu₆ nanoclusters supported on graphene oxide 2024 ·Nanoscale ·Aamir Shehzad, Chaonan Cui, Ran Cheng, Zhixun Luo	5
10	Sparse Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization by Identifying Nonzero Decision Variables 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems ·Xiangyu Wang, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin	4
11	ParetoTracker: Understanding Population Dynamics in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms Through Visual Analytics 2024 ·IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ·Zherui Zhang, Fan Yang, Ran Cheng, Yuxin Ma	0
12	A Comparative Visual Analytics Framework for Evaluating Evolutionary Processes in Multi-objective Optimization 2023 ·IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ·(unknown), Zherui Zhang, (unknown), Yuxin Ma, Ran Cheng	6
13	Effects of rhizome and root trimming on the growth and survival of Phyllospadix iwatensis transplants: a case study in Shandong Peninsula, China 2021 ·Botanica Marina ·Xin Hou, Ran Cheng, Jia Song, (unknown), Peidong Zhang, Bin Kang, Wentao Li	3
14	Revisiting Self-training for Few-shot Learning of Language Model 2021 ·Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ·Yiming Chen, Yan Zhang, Chen Zhang, (unknown), Ran Cheng, Haizhou Li	25
15	Modeling of Interconnected Voltage and Current Controlled Converters With Coupled LC–LCL Filters 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics ·Ke Ma, Weiyu Tang, Ran Cheng, Yubo Song	14
16	A Multistage Evolutionary Algorithm for Better Diversity Preservation in Multiobjective Optimization 2019 ·IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems ·Ye Tian, Cheng He, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang	98
17	Accelerating Large-Scale Multiobjective Optimization via Problem Reformulation breakdown → 2019 ·IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation ·Cheng He, Lianghao Li, Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin, Xin Yao	237
18	A Strengthened Dominance Relation Considering Convergence and Diversity for Evolutionary Many-Objective Optimization breakdown → 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation ·Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Xingyi Zhang, Yansen Su, Yaochu Jin	291
19	Guiding Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization With Generic Front Modeling 2018 ·IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics ·Ye Tian, Xingyi Zhang, Ran Cheng, Cheng He, Yaochu Jin	69
20	Empirical analysis of a tree-based efficient non-dominated sorting approach for many-objective optimization 2016 ·Xingyi Zhang, Ye Tian, Ran Cheng, Yaochu Jin	12

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