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A homotopy method for multi-objective optimization that produces uniformly sampled Pareto fronts by construction is presented. While the algorithm is general, of particular interest is application to simulation-based engineering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Andreas Adelmann , Peter Arbenz , Andrew Foster , Yves Ineichen

Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several criteria are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

In multi-objective optimization, the set of optimal trade-offs -- the Pareto front -- often contains regions that are extremely steep or flat. The Pareto optimal points in these regions are typically of limited interest for decision-making,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Markus Herrmann-Wicklmayr , Kathrin Flaßkamp

There is a well known intrinsic trade-off between the fairness of a representation and the performance of classifiers derived from the representation. Due to the complexity of optimisation algorithms in most modern representation learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Mark Kozdoba , Binyamin Perets , Shie Mannor

Multi-task learning, which optimizes performance across multiple tasks, is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. Various algorithms are developed to provide discrete trade-off solutions on the Pareto front. Recently, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weiyu Chen , James T. Kwok

Many optimization problems arising in applications have to consider several objective functions at the same time. Evolutionary algorithms seem to be a very natural choice for dealing with multi-objective problems as the population of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tobias Friedrich , Frank Neumann , Christian Thyssen

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

This paper deals with approximate Pareto solutions of a nonsmooth interval-valued multiobjective optimization problem with data uncertainty in constraints. We first introduce some kinds of approximate Pareto solutions for the robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Vu Hong Quan , Duong Thi Viet An , Nguyen Van Tuyen

Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is prevalent in numerous applications, in which a Pareto front (PF) is constructed to display optima under various preferences. Previous methods commonly utilize the set of Pareto objectives (particles on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Yichi Zhang , Yifan Chen , Qingfu Zhang

Smoothed analysis of multiobjective 0-1 linear optimization has drawn considerable attention recently. The number of Pareto-optimal solutions (i.e., solutions with the property that no other solution is at least as good in all the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-07-21 Navin Goyal , Luis Rademacher

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

An important challenge in multi-objective reinforcement learning is obtaining a Pareto front of policies to attain optimal performance under different preferences. We introduce Iterated Pareto Referent Optimisation (IPRO), which decomposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Willem Röpke , Mathieu Reymond , Patrick Mannion , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé , Roxana Rădulescu

A common goal in evolutionary multi-objective optimization is to find suitable finite-size approximations of the Pareto front of a given multi-objective optimization problem. While many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have proven to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hao Wang , Angel E. Rodriguez-Fernandez , Lourdes Uribe , André Deutz , Oziel Cortés-Piña , Oliver Schütze

Tasks in multi-task learning often correlate, conflict, or even compete with each other. As a result, a single solution that is optimal for all tasks rarely exists. Recent papers introduced the concept of Pareto optimality to this field and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Pingchuan Ma , Tao Du , Wojciech Matusik

Multi-Objective Markov Decision Processes (MO-MDPs) are receiving increasing attention, as real-world decision-making problems often involve conflicting objectives that cannot be addressed by a single-objective MDP. The Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yining Li , Peizhong Ju , Ness B. Shroff

Polyhedral convex set optimization problems are the simplest optimization problems with set-valued objective function. Their role in set optimization is comparable to the role of linear programs in scalar optimization. Vector linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Andreas Löhne

Motivated by the need to better understand the properties of sparse cutting-planes used in mixed integer programming solvers, the paper [2] studied the idealized problem of how well a polytope is approximated by the use of sparse valid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-12 Santanu S. Dey , Andres Iroume , Marco Molinaro

A multiobjective optimization problem is $C^r$ simplicial if the Pareto set and the Pareto front are $C^r$ diffeomorphic to a simplex and, under the $C^r$ diffeomorphisms, each face of the simplex corresponds to the Pareto set and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-17 Naoki Hamada , Shunsuke Ichiki

When solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems, solvers can get stuck with the memory or time limit. In such cases, one is left with no information how far is the best feasible solution, found before the optimization process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Ignacy Kaliszewski

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems require balancing competing objectives, often under constraints. The Pareto optimal solution set defines all possible optimal trade-offs over such objectives. In this work, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Soumyajit Gupta , Gurpreet Singh , Raghu Bollapragada , Matthew Lease