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Recently, a deep reinforcement learning method is proposed to solve multiobjective optimization problem. In this method, the multiobjective optimization problem is decomposed to a number of single-objective optimization subproblems and all…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Hong Wu , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang

Existing results on decomposition methods and algorithms for nonconvex problems are minimal. Parallel decomposition algorithms do not exist for nonconvex problems with coupling nonlinear equality constraints. Besides, decomposition…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Yiqing Zhai , Ying Cui , Danny H. K. Tsang

This note proposes an algorithm to generate the Pareto front of a mixed discrete multi-objective optimization problem based on the pruning of irrelevant subproblems. An existing pruning-based method for a mixed discrete bi-objective problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Juseong Lee , Sang-Il Lee , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) aims to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and has found important applications in machine learning, such as minimizing classification loss and discrepancy in treating different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Eric Enouen , Katja Mathesius , Sean Wang , Arielle Carr , Sihong Xie

In this paper, we scale evolutionary algorithms to high-dimensional optimization problems that deceptively possess a low effective dimensionality (certain dimensions do not significantly affect the objective function). To this end, an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Yaqing Hou , Mingyang Sun , Abhishek Gupta , Yaochu Jin , Haiyin Piao , Hongwei Ge , Qiang Zhang

Solving constrained optimization problems by multi-objective evolutionary algorithms has scored tremendous achievements in the last decade. Standard multi-objective schemes usually aim at minimizing the objective function and also the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Tao Xu , Jun He

We study the approximation of general multiobjective optimization problems with the help of scalarizations. Existing results state that multiobjective minimization problems can be approximated well by norm-based scalarizations. However, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Stephan Helfrich , Arne Herzel , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs' responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Moxin Li , Yuantao Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Wentao Shi , Zhuo Liu , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

The decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) transforms a multi-objective optimization problem (MOP) into a set of single-objective subproblems for collaborative optimization. Mismatches between subproblems and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ruihao Zheng , Zhenkun Wang

Mode-based model-reduction is used to reduce the degrees of freedom of high dimensional systems, often by describing the system state by a linear combination of spatial modes. Transport dominated phenomena, ubiquitous in technical and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Julius Reiss

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

In multi-task learning, multiple tasks are solved jointly, sharing inductive bias between them. Multi-task learning is inherently a multi-objective problem because different tasks may conflict, necessitating a trade-off. A common compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

Customer satisfaction is crucially affected by energy consumption in mobile devices. One of the most energy-consuming parts of an application is images. While different images with different quality consume different amounts of energy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Seyed Jalaleddin Mousavirad , Luís A. Alexandre

Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bing Wang , Hemant K. Singh , Tapabrata Ray

In this paper, we develop a new decomposition technique for solving bi-objective linear programming problems. The proposed methodology combines the bi-objective simplex algorithm with Benders decomposition and can be used to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Andrea Raith , Richard Lusby , Ali Akbar Sohrabi Yousefkhan

This paper provides a novel framework for solving multiobjective discrete optimization problems with an arbitrary number of objectives. Our framework formulates these problems as network models, in that enumerating the Pareto frontier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-06 David Bergman , Merve Bodur , Carlos Cardonha , Andre A. Cire

Decomposition methods have been proposed to approximate solutions to large sequential decision making problems. In contexts where an agent interacts with multiple entities, utility decomposition can be used to separate the global objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Maxime Bouton , Kyle Julian , Alireza Nakhaei , Kikuo Fujimura , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In this paper, we propose a new descent method, termed as multiobjective memory gradient method, for finding Pareto critical points of a multiobjective optimization problem. The main thought in this method is to select a combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

Given a point in $m$-dimensional objective space, any $\varepsilon$-ball of a point can be partitioned into the incomparable, the dominated and dominating region. The ratio between the size of the incomparable region, and the dominated (and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Yali Wang , André Deutz , Thomas Bäck , Michael Emmerich

The optimization of large-scale multibody systems is a numerically challenging task, in particular when considering multiple conflicting criteria at the same time. In this situation, we need to approximate the Pareto set of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Augustina C. Amakor , Manuel B. Berkemeier , Meike Wohlleben , Walter Sextro , Sebastian Peitz