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The evaluation of heuristic optimizers on test problems, better known as \emph{benchmarking}, is a cornerstone of research in multi-objective optimization. However, most test problems used in benchmarking numerical multi-objective black-box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Lennart Schäpermeier , Pascal Kerschke

Structured pruning is an effective compression technique to reduce the computation of neural networks, which is usually achieved by adding perturbations to reduce network parameters at the cost of slightly increasing training loss. A more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yinchuan Li , Xiaofeng Liu , Yunfeng Shao , Qing Wang , Yanhui Geng

Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

In one of our earlier works, we proposed to approximate Pareto fronts to multiobjective optimization problems by two-sided approximations, one from inside and another from outside of the feasible objective set, called, respectively, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Ignacy Kaliszewski , Janusz Miroforidis

In semidefinite programming (SDP), a number of pre-processing techniques have been developed including chordal-completion procedures, which reduce the dimension of individual constraints by exploiting sparsity therein, and facial reduction,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek

When solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems, solvers can get stuck with the memory or time limit. In such cases, one is left with no information how far is the best feasible solution, found before the optimization process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Ignacy Kaliszewski

Mixed-precision quantization is a powerful tool to enable memory and compute savings of neural network workloads by deploying different sets of bit-width precisions on separate compute operations. In this work, we present a flexible and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Santiago Miret , Vui Seng Chua , Mattias Marder , Mariano Phielipp , Nilesh Jain , Somdeb Majumdar

This work introduces MultiTRON, an approach that adapts Pareto front approximation techniques to multi-objective session-based recommender systems using a transformer neural network. Our approach optimizes trade-offs between key metrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Timo Wilm , Philipp Normann , Felix Stepprath

In this manuscript, we address continuous unconstrained multi-objective optimization problems and we discuss descent type methods for the reconstruction of the Pareto set. Specifically, we analyze the class of Front Descent methods, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto , Davide Pucci

We propose a new Pareto Local Search Algorithm for the many-objective combinatorial optimization. Pareto Local Search proved to be a very effective tool in the case of the bi-objective combinatorial optimization and it was used in a number…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Andrzej Jaszkiewicz

Bilevel optimization has been recently used in many machine learning problems such as hyperparameter optimization, policy optimization, and meta learning. Although many bilevel optimization methods have been proposed, they still suffer from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Feihu Huang , Junyi Li , Shangqian Gao , Heng Huang

Precoding matrix construction is a key element of the wireless signal processing using the multiple-input and multiple-output model. It is established that the problem of global throughput optimization under per-antenna power constraints…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-15 Sergey Petrov , Samson Lasaulce , Merouane Debbah

In this paper, p-dispersion problems are studied to select $p\geqslant 2$ representative points from a large 2D Pareto Front (PF), solution of bi-objective optimization. Four standard p-dispersion variants are considered. A novel variant,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Nicolas Dupin

When solving optimization problems with multiple objective functions we are often faced with the situation that one or several objective functions are non-convex or that we can not easily show the convexity of all functions involved. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Kerstin Dächert , Katrin Teichert

We consider bi-objective ranking and selection problems, where the goal is to correctly identify the Pareto optimal solutions among a finite set of candidates for which the two objective outcomes have been observed with uncertainty (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-29 Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Juergen Branke , Inneke van Nieuwenhuyse

In this paper, we present an exact algorithm for optimizing two linear fractional over the efficient set of a multi-objective integer quadratic problem. This type of problems arises when two decision-makers, such as firms, each have a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Ali Bencheikh , Mustapha Moulai , Ilies Badaoui

In evolutionary multiobjective optimization, effectiveness refers to how an evolutionary algorithm performs in terms of converging its solutions into the Pareto front and also diversifying them over the front. This is not an easy job,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yani Xue , Miqing Li , Xiaohui Liu

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

Machine learning algorithms have been effectively applied into various real world tasks. However, it is difficult to provide high-quality machine learning solutions to accommodate an unknown distribution of input datasets; this difficulty…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Ruihan Hu , Qijun Huang , Sheng Chang , Hao Wang , Jin He

We describe a hidden surface removal algorithm for two-dimensional layered scenes built from arbitrary primitives, particularly suited to interaction and animation in rich scenes (for example, in illustration). The method makes use of a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 John Whitington