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In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

Geometric programming problems occur frequently in engineering design and management. In multiobjective optimization, the trade-off information between different objective functions is probably the most important piece of information in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-25 A. K. Ojha , A. K. Das

Bi-objective optimization problems on matroids are in general intractable and their corresponding decision problems are in general NP-hard. However, if one of the objective functions is restricted to binary cost coefficients the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Julia Sudhoff

Mathematical Selection is a method in which we select a particular choice from a set of such. It have always been an interesting field of study for mathematicians. Accordingly, Combinatorial Optimization is a sub field of this domain of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Anurag Dutta , K. Lakshmanan , A. Ramamoorthy , Liton Chandra Voumik , John Harshith , John Pravin Motha

Geometric programming is an important class of optimization problems that enable practitioners to model a large variety of real-world applications, mostly in the field of engineering design. In many real life optimization problem…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2011-02-19 A. K. Ojha , K. K. Biswal

This paper connects discrete optimal transport to a certain class of multi-objective optimization problems. In both settings, the decision variables can be organized into a matrix. In the multi-objective problem, the notion of Pareto…

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Automated machine learning has gained a lot of attention recently. Building and selecting the right machine learning models is often a multi-objective optimization problem. General purpose machine learning software that simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Steven Gardner , Oleg Golovidov , Joshua Griffin , Patrick Koch , Wayne Thompson , Brett Wujek , Yan Xu

The Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator is a traditional and commonly used criterion for aggregating discrete values of uncertain quantities. In this paper, it is shown that the discrete OWA naturally extends to the continuous case by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Werner Baak , Marc Goerigk , Adam Kasperski , Paweł Zieliński

Combinatorial optimization can be described as the problem of finding a feasible subset that maximizes a objective function. The paper discusses combinatorial optimization problems, where for each dimension the set of feasible subsets is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Nimrod Megiddo

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

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well…

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Many problems in robotics seek to simultaneously optimize several competing objectives under constraints. A conventional approach to solving such multi-objective optimization problems is to create a single cost function comprised of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Alexander Botros , Armin Sadeghi , Nils Wilde , Javier Alonso-Mora , Stephen L. Smith

This paper considers the problem of minimizing the ordered weighted average (or ordered median) function of finitely many rational functions over compact semi-algebraic sets. Ordered weighted averages of rational functions are not, in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-06-30 V. Blanco , S. El-Haj Ben-Ali , J. Puerto

Autonomous navigation often requires the simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. The most common approach scalarizes these into a single cost function using a weighted sum, but this method is unable to find all possible trade-offs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Krishna Kalavadia , Shamak Dutta , Yash Vardhan Pant , Stephen L. Smith

Various local search approaches have recently been applied to machine scheduling problems under multiple objectives. Their foremost consideration is the identification of the set of Pareto optimal alternatives. An important aspect of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-02 Martin Josef Geiger

Recently wide application in engineering-economic problems was received with problems of vector optimization. Development of methods of the decision of these problems it is executed in works A. Messac and others. Complexity of the offered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-03 A. A. Bosov , G. N. Kodola , L. N. Savchenko

Multiobjective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems can be found in many real-world applications. However, exactly solving these problems would be very challenging, particularly when they are NP-hard. Many handcrafted heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework, which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. It captures well studied and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-08 Martin Koutecky , Asaf Levin , Syed M. Meesum , Shmuel Onn