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What is crowding distance in NSGA-II?
Updated May 16, 2026
Short answer
A metric used to preserve diversity in Pareto front solutions.
Deep explanation
Crowding distance estimates density around a solution in objective space. Higher distance means less crowded region, preserving diversity during selection in NSGA-II.
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