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Data-driven optimization uses contextual information and machine learning algorithms to find solutions to decision problems with uncertain parameters. While a vast body of work is dedicated to interpreting machine learning models in the…

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Multi-agent optimization problems with many objective functions have drawn much interest over the past two decades. Many works on the subject minimize the sum of objective functions, which implicitly carries a decision about the problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Maude J. Blondin , Matthew Hale

Optimal mass transport, also known as the earth mover's problem, is an optimization problem with important applications in various disciplines, including economics, probability theory, fluid dynamics, cosmology and geophysics to cite a few.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Said Kerrache , Yasushi Nakauchi

To date, the multi-objective optimization literature has mainly focused on conflicting objectives, studying the Pareto front, or requiring users to balance tradeoffs. Yet, in machine learning practice, there are many scenarios where such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yonathan Efroni , Ben Kretzu , Daniel Jiang , Jalaj Bhandari , Zheqing , Zhu , Karen Ullrich

We present a model-agnostic framework for jointly optimizing the predictive performance and interpretability of supervised machine learning models for tabular data. Interpretability is quantified via three measures: feature sparsity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Lennart Schneider , Bernd Bischl , Janek Thomas

The phase transitions for many-body systems have been understood using field theories. A few canonical physical model classes encapsulate the underlying physical properties of a large number of systems. The finite-time driving of such…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-24 Atul Tanaji Mohite

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

We investigate Pareto equilibria for bi-objective optimal control problems. Our framework comprises the situation in which an agent acts with a distributed control in a portion of a given domain, and aims to achieve two distinct (possibly…

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Weak optimal transport generalizes the classical theory of optimal transportation to nonlinear cost functions and covers a range of problems that lie beyond the traditional theory - including entropic transport, martingale transport, and…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Filip Pramenković

Pareto-optimality plays a central role in evaluating the efficiency of solutions to allocation problems, such as house allocation, school choice, and kidney exchange. We introduce a general linear programming problem subject to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Bart van Rossum , Twan Dollevoet

Optimal transport is a powerful framework for the efficient allocation of resources between sources and targets. However, traditional models often struggle to scale effectively in the presence of large and heterogeneous populations. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Navpreet Kaur , Juntao Chen , Yingdong Lu

It is a very challenging task to identify the objectives on which a certain decision was based, in particular if several, potentially conflicting criteria are equally important and a continuous set of optimal compromise decisions exists.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

In this note we consider the iteration complexity of solving strongly convex multi objective optimization. We discuss the precise meaning of this problem, and indicate it is loosely defined, but the most natural notion is to find a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-08 E. Bergou , Y. Diouane , V. Kungurtsev

In this short note, we discuss a goal-oriented multiobjective optimization problem for system performance assessment. The objective function for such optimization problem, which is usually a composite of different performance indices…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-12 Getachew K Befekadu

The goal of multi-objective optimisation is to identify the Pareto front surface which is the set obtained by connecting the best trade-off points. Typically this surface is computed by evaluating the objectives at different points and then…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-24 Ben Tu , Nikolas Kantas , Robert M. Lee , Behrang Shafei

Optimal transport has been used to define bijective nonlinear transforms and different transport-related metrics for discriminating data and signals. Here we briefly describe the advances in this topic with the main applications and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Rocío Díaz Martín , Ivan V. Medri , Gustavo Kunde Rohde

In this short expository note, we describe a unified algorithmic perspective on several classical problems which have traditionally been studied in different communities. This perspective views the main characters -- the problems of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Jason M. Altschuler

Many-to-many matching seeks to match multiple points in one set and multiple points in another set, which is a basis for a wide range of data mining problems. It can be naturally recast in the framework of Optimal Transport (OT). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Weijie Liu , Han Bao , Makoto Yamada , Zenan Huang , Nenggan Zheng , Hui Qian

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

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