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Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to optimize multiple, possibly conflicting objectives with widespread applications. We introduce a novel interacting particle method for MOO inspired by molecular dynamics simulations. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yinuo Ren , Tesi Xiao , Tanmay Gangwani , Anshuka Rangi , Holakou Rahmanian , Lexing Ying , Subhajit Sanyal

Learning to Optimize (L2O) approaches, including algorithm unrolling, plug-and-play methods, and hyperparameter learning, have garnered significant attention and have been successfully applied to the Alternating Direction Method of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Ling Liang , Cameron Austin , Haizhao Yang

This paper proposes MOON (Multi-Objective Optimization-driven Object-goal Navigation), a novel framework designed for efficient navigation in large-scale, complex indoor environments. While existing methods often rely on local heuristics,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Daigo Nakajima , Kanji Tanaka , Daiki Iwata , Kouki Terashima

Ports, warehouses and courier services have to decide online how an arriving task is to be served in order that cost is minimized (or profit maximized). These operators have a wealth of historical data on task assignments; can these data be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jason W. H. Lee , Y. C. Tay , Anthony K. H. Tung

We propose a modified primal-dual method for general convex optimization problems with changing constraints. We obtain properties of Lagrangian saddle points for these problems which enable us to establish convergence of the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Igor Konnov

Distributed optimization algorithms are used in a wide variety of problems involving complex network systems where the goal is for a set of agents in the network to solve a network-wide optimization problem via distributed update rules. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Liam Hallinan , Ioannis Lestas

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization seeks Pareto-optimal solutions over exponentially large discrete spaces, yet existing methods sacrifice generality, scalability, or theoretical guarantees. We reformulate it as an online learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Esha Singh , Dongxia Wu , Chien-Yi Yang , Tajana Rosing , Rose Yu , Yi-An Ma

AI inference scaling is often tuned through 1D heuristics (a fixed reasoning pass) or 2D bivariate trade-offs (e.g., accuracy vs. compute), which fail to consider cost and latency constraints. We introduce a 3D optimization framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Minseok Jung , Abhas Ricky , Muhammad Rameez Chatni

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

3D Mixed Reality interfaces have nearly unlimited space for layout placement, making automatic UI adaptation crucial for enhancing the user experience. Such adaptation is often formulated as a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yao Song , Christoph Gebhardt , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

Lagrangian duality in mixed integer optimization is a useful framework for problems decomposition and for producing tight lower bounds to the optimal objective, but in contrast to the convex counterpart, it is generally unable to produce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Robin Vujanic , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Paul Goulart , Sebastien Mariethoz , Manfred Morari

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

Hyperparameter optimization constitutes a large part of typical modern machine learning workflows. This arises from the fact that machine learning methods and corresponding preprocessing steps often only yield optimal performance when…

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) arises in many real-world applications where trade-offs between competing objectives must be carefully balanced. In the offline setting, where only a static dataset is available, the main challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jatan Shrestha , Santeri Heiskanen , Kari Hepola , Severi Rissanen , Pekka Jääskeläinen , Joni Pajarinen

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the application of multiobjective optimization (MOO) in machine learning (ML). This interest is driven by the numerous real-life situations where multiple objectives must be optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junaid Akhter , Paul David Fährmann , Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz , Daniel Schwietert

Large-scale simulation optimization (SO) problems encompass both large-scale ranking-and-selection problems and high-dimensional discrete or continuous SO problems, presenting significant challenges to existing SO theories and algorithms.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Weiwei Fan , L. Jeff Hong , Guangxin Jiang , Jun Luo

We consider a multi-objective risk-averse two-stage stochastic programming problem with a multivariate convex risk measure. We suggest a convex vector optimization formulation with set-valued constraints and propose an extended version of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-20 Çağın Ararat , Özlem Çavuş , Ali İrfan Mahmutoğulları

Real-life engineering optimization problems need Multiobjective Optimization (MOO) tools. These problems are highly nonlinear. As the process of Multiple Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) is much expanded most MOO problems in different…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-04-20 A. Mosavi

Many real world scientific and industrial applications require optimizing multiple competing black-box objectives. When the objectives are expensive-to-evaluate, multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Samuel Daulton , David Eriksson , Maximilian Balandat , Eytan Bakshy