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Generally, the uniformity of weight vectors in MOEA\/D can ensure the diversity of the Pareto optimal solutions, however, it cannot work as well when the target MOP has a complex Pareto front (PF; i.e., discontinuous PF or PF with sharp peak or low tail). To remedy this, we propose an improved MOEA\/D with adaptive weight vector adjustment (MOEA\/D-AWA). According to the analysis of the geometric relationship between the weight vectors and the optimal solutions under the Chebyshev decomposition scheme, a new weight vector initialization method and an adaptive weight vector adjustment strategy are introduced in MOEA\/D-AWA. The weights are adjusted periodically so that the weights of subproblems can be redistributed adaptively to obtain better uniformity of solutions. Meanwhile, computing efforts devoted to subproblems with duplicate optimal solution can be saved. Moreover, an external elite population is introduced to help adding new subproblems into real sparse regions rather than pseudo sparse regions of the complex PF, that is, discontinuous regions of the PF. MOEA\/D-AWA has been compared with four state of the art MOEAs, namely the original MOEA\/D, Adaptive-MOEA\/D, [Formula: see text]-MOEA\/D, and NSGA-II on 10 widely used test problems, two newly constructed complex problems, and two many-objective problems. 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