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Optimization problems are ubiquitous in our societies and are present in almost every segment of the economy. Most of these optimization problems are NP-hard and computationally demanding, often requiring approximate solutions for…

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Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

The goal of multi-objective optimization is to understand optimal trade-offs between competing objective functions by finding the Pareto front, i.e., the set of all Pareto optimal solutions, where no objective can be improved without…

This work proposes an implementable proximal-type method for a broad class of optimization problems involving nonsmooth and nonconvex objective and constraint functions. In contrast to existing methods that rely on an ad hoc model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Gregorio M. Sempere , Welington de Oliveira , Johannes O. Royset

Motivated by multi-domain service function chain (SFC) orchestration, we define the shortest-longest path (SLP) problem, prove its hardness, and design an efficient fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) using the dynamic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Jianwei Zhang

We consider a decision-making problem to find absolute ratings of alternatives that are compared in pairs under multiple criteria, subject to constraints in the form of two-sided bounds on ratios between the ratings. Given matrices of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Nikolai Krivulin

Papadimitriou and Yannakakis show that the polynomial-time solvability of a certain singleobjective problem determines the class of multiobjective optimization problems that admit a polynomial-time computable $(1+\varepsilon, \dots ,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Arne Herzel , Cristina Bazgan , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Daniel Vanderpooten

It is well known that, under very weak assumptions, multiobjective optimization problems admit $(1+\varepsilon,\dots,1+\varepsilon)$-approximation sets (also called $\varepsilon$-Pareto sets) of polynomial cardinality (in the size of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Cristina Bazgan , Arne Herzel , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Daniel Vanderpooten

Multi-objective learning under user-specified preference is common in real-world problems such as multi-lingual speech recognition under fairness. In this work, we frame such a problem as a semivectorial bilevel optimization problem, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Lisha Chen , Quan Xiao , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda , Xinyi Chen , Kun Yuan , Tianyi Chen

In this paper we propose a scalarization proximal point method to solve multiobjective unconstrained minimization problems with locally Lipschitz and quasiconvex vector functions. We prove, under natural assumptions, that the sequence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-28 H. C. F. Apolinário , E. A. Papa Quiroz , P. R. Oliveira

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is important to leverage the full potential of machine learning (ML). In practice, users are often interested in multi-objective (MO) problems, i.e., optimizing potentially conflicting objectives, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Joseph Giovanelli , Alexander Tornede , Tanja Tornede , Marius Lindauer

In this paper we present novel algorithmic solutions for several resource processing and data transfer multicriteria optimization problems. The results of most of the presented techniques are strategies which solve the considered problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Mugurel Ionut Andreica , Nicolae Tapus

In this paper, we propose a variable metric method for unconstrained multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). First, a sequence of points is generated using different positive definite matrices in the generic framework. It is proved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Jian Chen , Gaoxi Li , Xinmin Yang

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is an important problem in real-world applications. However, for a non-trivial problem, no single solution exists that can optimize all the objectives simultaneously. In a typical MOO problem, the goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhang Haishan , Diptesh Das , Koji Tsuda

This paper addresses the problem of approximating the set of all solutions for Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes. We show that in the vast majority of interesting cases, the number of solutions is exponential or even infinite. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 L. Mandow , J. L. Pérez de la Cruz , N. Pozas

We consider multicriteria problems of evaluating absolute ratings (scores, priorities, weights) of given alternatives for making decisions, which are compared in pairs under several criteria. Given matrices of pairwise comparisons of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Nikolai Krivulin

Post-training of LLMs with RLHF, and subsequently preference optimization algorithms such as DPO, IPO, etc., made a big difference in improving human alignment. However, all such techniques can only work with a single (human) objective. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Akhil Agnihotri , Rahul Jain , Deepak Ramachandran , Zheng Wen

In multiobjective optimization, the result of an optimization algorithm is a set of efficient solutions from which the decision maker selects one. It is common that not all the efficient solutions can be computed in a short time and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Miguel Ángel Domínguez-Ríos , Francisco Chicano , Enrique Alba

A new relaxed variant of interior point method for low-rank semidefinite programming problems is proposed in this paper. The method is a step outside of the usual interior point framework. In anticipation to converging to a low-rank primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Stefania Bellavia , Jacek Gondzio , Margherita Porcelli

The Pareto sum of two-dimensional point sets $P$ and $Q$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ is defined as the skyline of the points in their Minkowski sum. The problem of efficiently computing the Pareto sum arises frequently in bi-criteria optimization…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Geri Gokaj , Marvin Künnemann , Sabine Storandt , Carina Truschel