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When designing a motion planner for autonomous robots there are usually multiple objectives to be considered. However, a cost function that yields the desired trade-off between objectives is not easily obtainable. A common technique across…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nils Wilde , Stephen L. Smith , Javier Alonso-Mora

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

In contrast to single-objective optimization (SOO), multi-objective optimization (MOO) requires an optimizer to find the Pareto frontier, a subset of feasible solutions that are not dominated by other feasible solutions. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Kevin Yang , Tianjun Zhang , Tian Guo , Yuandong Tian

The problem of minimizing a continuously differentiable convex function over an intersection of closed convex sets is ubiquitous in applied mathematics. It is particularly interesting when it is easy to project onto each separate set, but…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-06 Eric C. Chi , Hua Zhou , Kenneth Lange

In multiobjective optimization, most branch and bound algorithms provide the decision maker with the whole Pareto front, and then decision maker could select a single solution finally. However, if the number of objectives is large, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

We consider the problem of multi-objective optimization (MOO) of expensive black-box functions with the goal of discovering high-quality and diverse Pareto fronts where we are allowed to evaluate a batch of inputs. This problem arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

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

We present a novel communication-efficient Newton-type algorithm for finite-sum optimization over a distributed computing environment. Our method, named DINO, overcomes both theoretical and practical shortcomings of similar existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Rixon Crane , Fred Roosta

We develop a new Hamiton-Jacobi (HJ) and differential game approach for exploring the Pareto front of (constrained) multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems. Given a preference function, we embed the scalarized MOO problem into the value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shanqing Liu , Paula Chen , Youngkyu Lee , Jerome Darbon

Inverse optimization refers to the inference of unknown parameters of an optimization problem based on knowledge of its optimal solutions. This paper considers inverse optimization in the setting where measurements of the optimal solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-27 Anil Aswani , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Auyon Siddiq

We introduce Post-Optimization Model Edit (POME), a new algorithm that enhances the performance of fine-tuned large language models using only their pretrained and fine-tuned checkpoints, without requiring extra data or further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yong Liu , Di Fu , Yang Luo , Zirui Zhu , Minhao Cheng , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Yang You

A novel neural network (NN) approach is proposed for constrained optimization. The proposed method uses a specially designed NN architecture and training/optimization procedure called Neural Optimization Machine (NOM). The objective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-10 Jie Chen , Yongming Liu

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of The Australian National University. In this work we introduce several new optimisation methods for problems in machine learning. Our algorithms broadly fall into two categories:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-22 Aaron Defazio

Generally, multi-objective optimisation problems are solved exactly or approximated by solving a series of scalarisations, for example by dichotomic search. In this paper, we take a different approach and attempt to compute the set of all…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Oliver Bachtler , Felix Fritz , Stefan Ruzika

We consider the problem of constrained multi-objective blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions satisfying a set of constraints while minimizing the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Optimization of three-dimensional road alignments is a nonlinear non-convex optimization problem. The development of models that fully optimize a three-dimensional road alignment problem is challenging due to numerous factors involved and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 D. Hirpa , W. Hare , Y. Lucet , Y. Pushak , S. Tesfamariam

The decomposition-based method has been recognized as a major approach for multi-objective optimization. It decomposes a multi-objective optimization problem into several single-objective optimization subproblems, each of which is usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mengyuan Wu , Ke Li , Sam Kwong , Qingfu Zhang

Multi-objectivization is a term used to describe strategies developed for optimizing single-objective problems by multi-objective algorithms. This paper focuses on multi-objectivizing the sum-of-the-parts combinatorial optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jialong Shi , Jianyong Sun , Qingfu Zhang

Search-optimization problems are plentiful in scientific and engineering domains. Artificial intelligence has long contributed to the development of search algorithms and declarative programming languages geared toward solving and modeling…

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