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This work aims at solving the problems with intractable sparsity-inducing norms that are often encountered in various machine learning tasks, such as multi-task learning, subspace clustering, feature selection, robust principal component…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Feiping Nie , Zhanxuan Hu , Xiaoqian Wang , Rong Wang , Xuelong Li , Heng Huang

Many problems in robotics seek to simultaneously optimize several competing objectives under constraints. A conventional approach to solving such multi-objective optimization problems is to create a single cost function comprised of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Alexander Botros , Armin Sadeghi , Nils Wilde , Javier Alonso-Mora , Stephen L. Smith

Combinatorial optimization can be described as the problem of finding a feasible subset that maximizes a objective function. The paper discusses combinatorial optimization problems, where for each dimension the set of feasible subsets is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Nimrod Megiddo

Multi-objective optimisation is a popular approach for finding solutions to complex problems with large search spaces that reliably yields good optimisation results. However, with the rise of cyber-physical systems, emerges a new challenge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Stefan Klikovits , Paolo Arcaini

This paper considers the distributed nonconvex optimization problem of minimizing a global cost function formed by a sum of local cost functions by using local information exchange. We first consider a distributed first-order primal-dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-26 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Tianyou Chai , Karl H. Johansson

An enhanced framework of quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is introduced and the parameter setting strategies are analyzed. The enhanced QAOA is as effective as the QAOA but exhibits greater computing power and flexibility,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-18 Mingyou Wu , Zhihao Liu , Hanwu Chen

In machine learning, Feature Selection (FS) is a major part of efficient algorithm. It fuels the algorithm and is the starting block for our prediction. In this paper, we present a new method, called Optimal Coordinate Ascent (OCA) that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 David Saltiel , Eric Benhamou

We determine the power of the weighted sum scalarization with respect to the computation of approximations for general multiobjective minimization and maximization problems. Additionally, we introduce a new multi-factor notion of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Cristina Bazgan , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Daniel Vanderpooten

In this paper, we study the following robust optimization problem. Given an independence system and candidate objective functions, we choose an independent set, and then an adversary chooses one objective function, knowing our choice. Our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Yasushi Kawase , Hanna Sumita

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is a well-studied problem for several important recommendation problems. While multiple approaches have been proposed, in this work, we focus on using constrained optimization formulations (e.g., quadratic…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-16 Kinjal Basu , Ankan Saha , Shaunak Chatterjee

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a leading candidate for achieving quantum advantage in combinatorial optimization on Near-Term Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices. However, random initialization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Matthaus Zering , Jolyon Joyce , Tal Gurfinkel , Jingbo Wang

Shifted combinatorial optimization is a new nonlinear optimization framework which is a broad extension of standard combinatorial optimization, involving the choice of several feasible solutions at a time. This framework captures well…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Jakub Gajarský , Petr Hliněný , Martin Koutecký , Shmuel Onn

We study the stochastic versions of a broad class of combinatorial problems where the weights of the elements in the input dataset are uncertain. The class of problems that we study includes shortest paths, minimum weight spanning trees,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jian Li , Amol Deshpande

We study the problem of minimizing an ordered norm of a load vector (indexed by a set of $d$ resources), where a finite number $n$ of customers $c$ contribute to the load of each resource by choosing a solution $x_c$ in a convex set $X_c…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Daniel Blankenburg , Antonia Ellerbrock , Thomas Kesselheim , Jens Vygen

The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a highly promising variational quantum algorithm that aims to solve combinatorial optimization problems that are classically intractable. This comprehensive review offers an overview…

Proposed hybrid algorithms encode a combinatorial cost function into a problem Hamiltonian and optimize its energy by varying over a set of states with low circuit complexity. Classical processing is typically only used for the choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-25 Libor Caha , Alexander Kliesch , Robert Koenig

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

In this paper, we investigate the problem of stochastic multi-level compositional optimization, where the objective function is a composition of multiple smooth but possibly non-convex functions. Existing methods for solving this problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Wei Jiang , Bokun Wang , Yibo Wang , Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang

For every list of integers x_1, ..., x_m there is some j such that x_1 + ... + x_j - x_{j+1} - ... - x_m \approx 0. So the list can be nearly balanced and for this we only need one alternation between addition and subtraction. But what if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-08-02 Christian Glaßer , Christian Reitwießner , Maximilian Witek

Multiobjective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems can be found in many real-world applications. However, exactly solving these problems would be very challenging, particularly when they are NP-hard. Many handcrafted heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang