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jMetal is a Java-based framework for multi-objective optimization with metaheuristics. The last stable version is 7.1. The most recent documentation is hosted in https://jmetal.readthedocs.io.

jMetal 7.0 is a Maven project structured in the following sub-projects:

+---------------------+------------------------------------+ | Sub-project | Contents | +=====================+====================================+ | jmetal-core | Core classes | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-solution | Solution encodings | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-algorithm | Algorithm implementations | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-problem | Benchmark problems | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-lab | Experimentation and visualization | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-parallel | Parallel extensions | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-auto | Auto-design and configuration | +---------------------+------------------------------------+ | jmetal-component | Component-based algorithms | +---------------------+------------------------------------+

Related projects

• jMetalPy <https://github.com/jMetal/jmetalpy>_: jMetal in Python
• SAES <https://github.com/jMetal/SAES>_: Python library to analyse and compare the performance of multi-objective algorithms

Changelog

• [03/20/2026] jMetal 7.1 is released.

• [03/18/2026] Add RVEA (contributed by @NicolasRodriguezUribe)

• [03/02/2026] jMetal 7.0 is released.

• [03/01/2026] Add new solution creations stragegies: SobolSolutionsCreation and CauchySolutionsCreation.

• [02/23/2026] Refactored Check utility: added parameter-name-aware overloads and introduced several specific exceptions for clearer errors.

• [02/22/2026] All the unit and integration tests have been updated to jUnit6.

• [02/02/2026] Added the AverageHausdorffDistance quality indicator

• [12/18/2025] jMetal 6.10 is released.

• [12/18/2025] Added new selection (TruncationSelection, RankingSelection, StochasticUniversalSampling, BoltzmannSelection), replacement (RandomReplacement, TournamentReplacement), and solutions creation (OppositionBasedSolutionsCreation) components.

• [07/09/2025] jMetal 6.9 is released.

• [07/07/2025] jMetal 6.8 is released.

• [07/07/2025] Added new crossover (BLX-Alpha-Beta, Laplace, Arithmetic, Fuzzy recombination, UNDX) and mutation (Power Law, Levy Flight, Simple Random) operators for continuous problems.

• [06/18/2025] A new folder resources/referenceFrontsRSG have been added. It contains Pareto front approximations produced with the Reference Set Generator (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/math13101626) <https://doi.org/10.3390/math13101626>_ method. Contribution of Oliver Schütze.

• [05/09/2025] jMetal 6.7 is released.

• [05/09/2025] The jMetal project adopts Java 22.

• [01/17/2025] Added a variant of SMS-EMOA using differential evolution.

• [11/30/2024] Added single and multi-objective versions of the Knapsack problem.

• [11/22/2024] Added new crossover (Cycle, EdgeRecombination, ODX, Population-Based) and mutation (Displacement, Insert, Inversion, Scamble, SimpleInversion) operators for permutations. Contribution of Nicolas R. Uribe (@NicolasRodriguezUribe)

• [06/27/2024] The jMetal project adopts Java 19.

• [11/30/2023] The Zapotecas-Coello-Aguirre-benchmark (ZCAT) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.swevo.2023.101350) is included in jMetal.

• [09/25/2023] The jMetal project adopts Java 17.

• [09/25/2023] Added a variant of NSGA-II using differential evolution.

• [07/19/2023] jMetal 6.1 is released.

• [07/04/2023]. Added the RWA benchmark, described in "Engineering applications of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms: A test suite of box-constrained real-world problems". DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.106192

• [12/13/2022] jMetal 6.0 is released.

• [9/12/2022] The master branch has been renamed main.

• [7/5/2022] The jMetal project adopts Java 14.

• [5/23/2022] Algorithm AGE-MOEA-II. Contribution of Annibale Panichella (@apanichella).

• [5/9/2022] Algorithm AGE-MOEA <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3321707.3321839>_. Contribution of Annibale Panichella (@apanichella).

• [3/28/2022] The CF benchmark of constrained multi-objective problems, defined in Constrained Multiobjective Optimization: Test Problem Construction and Performance Evaluations <https://doi.org/10.1109/TEVC.2020.3011829>_, has been included.

• [3/28/2022] The constraint handling code has been refactorized and the documentation <https://jmetal.readthedocs.io/en/latest/constraints.html>_ has been updated.