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Limited by cognitive abilities, decision-makers (DMs) may struggle to evaluate decision alternatives based on all criteria in multiple criteria decision-making problems. This paper proposes an embedded criteria selection method derived from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Kun Zhou , Zaiwu Gong , Guo Wei , Roman Slowinski

User preference learning is generally a hard problem. Individual preferences are typically unknown even to users themselves, while the space of choices is infinite. Here we study user preference learning from information-theoretic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Tanya Ignatenko , Kirill Kondrashov , Marco Cox , Bert de Vries

Many decision-making problems feature multiple objectives. In such problems, it is not always possible to know the preferences of a decision-maker for different objectives. However, it is often possible to observe the behavior of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu , Patrick Mannion , Karl Mason

Up-and-Down (U&D) is a popular sequential design for estimating threshold percentiles in binary experiments. However, U&D application practices have stagnated, and significant gaps in understanding its properties persist. The first part of…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-08-25 Assaf P. Oron

We consider black-box global optimization of time-consuming-to-evaluate functions on behalf of a decision-maker (DM) whose preferences must be learned. Each feasible design is associated with a time-consuming-to-evaluate vector of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-05 Raul Astudillo , Peter I. Frazier

Many real networks are embedded in space, where in some of them the links length decay as a power law distribution with distance. Indications that such systems can be characterized by the concept of dimension were found recently. Here, we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Thorsten Emmerich , Armin Bunde , Shlomo Havlin , Li Guanlian , Li Daqing

We analyze the problem of learning a single user's preferences in an active learning setting, sequentially and adaptively querying the user over a finite time horizon. Learning is conducted via choice-based queries, where the user selects…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-27 Stephen N. Pallone , Peter I. Frazier , Shane G. Henderson

We consider a spatial voting model where both candidates and voters are positioned in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space, and each voter ranks candidates based on their proximity to the voter's ideal point. We focus on the scenario where…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hadas Shachnai , Rotem Shavitt , Andreas Wiese

Eliciting the preferences of a set of agents over a set of alternatives is a problem of fundamental importance in social choice theory. Prior work on this problem has studied the query complexity of preference elicitation for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-19 Palash Dey , Neeldhara Misra

Learning human preferences is essential for human-robot interaction, as it enables robots to adapt their behaviors to align with human expectations and goals. However, the inherent uncertainties in both human behavior and robotic systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shaoting Peng , Haonan Chen , Katherine Driggs-Campbell

In this paper, we propose to study a new geometric optimization problem called "geometric prototype" in Euclidean space. Given a set of patterns, where each pattern is represented by a (weighted or unweighted) point set, the geometric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-04-26 Hu Ding , Manni Liu

With the widespread use of mobile phones, users can share their location anytime, anywhere, as a form of check-in data. These data reflect user preferences. Furthermore, the preference rules for different users vary. How to discover a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Yuanbang Li

The design of a metric between probability distributions is a longstanding problem motivated by numerous applications in Machine Learning. Focusing on continuous probability distributions on the Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^d$, we introduce…

Preference aggregation is a core operation in multi-objective design optimisation and group decision-making, as it determines the best-fit-for-common-purpose alternative within complex socio-technical contexts. Therefore, their aggregation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 A. R. M. , Wolfert

Two actively researched problem settings in matchings under preferences are popular matchings and the three-dimensional stable matching problem with cyclic preferences. In this paper, we apply the optimality notion of the first topic to the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ágnes Cseh , Jannik Peters

We consider the problem of learning to choose from a given set of objects, where each object is represented by a feature vector. Traditional approaches in choice modelling are mainly based on learning a latent, real-valued utility function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Karlson Pfannschmidt , Eyke Hüllermeier

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is the act of embedding proximity information about a set of $n$ objects in $d$-dimensional Euclidean space. As originally conceived by the psychometric community, MDS was concerned with embedding a fixed set…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-12 Michael W. Trosset , Carey E. Priebe

This survey (re)introduces reinforcement learning methods to economists. The curse of dimensionality limits how far exact dynamic programming can be effectively applied, forcing us to rely on suitably "small" problems or our ability to…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-25 Pranjal Rawat

We introduce a new incremental preference elicitation procedure able to deal with noisy responses of a Decision Maker (DM). The originality of the contribution is to propose a Bayesian approach for determining a preferred solution in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Nadjet Bourdache , Patrice Perny , Olivier Spanjaard

Dimension reduction algorithms are a crucial part of many data science pipelines, including data exploration, feature creation and selection, and denoising. Despite their wide utilization, many non-linear dimension reduction algorithms are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-06 Ryan Murray , Adam Pickarski