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Workforce scheduling in the healthcare sector is a significant operational challenge, characterized by fluctuating patient loads, diverse clinical skills, and the critical need to control labor costs while upholding high standards of…

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Optimizing the performance of many objectives (instantiated by tasks or clients) jointly with a few Pareto stationary solutions (models) is critical in machine learning. However, previous multi-objective optimization methods often focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ziyue Li , Tian Li , Virginia Smith , Jeff Bilmes , Tianyi Zhou

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen

In this work, we consider the problem of Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization with multiple objectives. QD algorithms have been proposed to search for a large collection of both diverse and high-performing solutions instead of a single set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Thomas Pierrot , Guillaume Richard , Karim Beguir , Antoine Cully

Machine learning problems with multiple objective functions appear either in learning with multiple criteria where learning has to make a trade-off between multiple performance metrics such as fairness, safety and accuracy; or, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Heshan Fernando , Han Shen , Miao Liu , Subhajit Chaudhury , Keerthiram Murugesan , Tianyi Chen

A scoring system is a linear classifier composed of a small number of explanatory variables, each assigned a small integer coefficient. This system is highly interpretable and allows predictions to be made with simple manual calculations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Moe Shiina , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Yuichi Takano

This article addresses the problem of derivative-free (single- or multi-objective) optimization subject to multiple inequality constraints. Both the objective and constraint functions are assumed to be smooth, non-linear and expensive to…

Computation · Statistics 2017-07-28 Paul Feliot , Julien Bect , Emmanuel Vazquez

Constrained multiobjective optimization has gained much interest in the past few years. However, constrained multiobjective optimization problems (CMOPs) are still unsatisfactorily understood. Consequently, the choice of adequate CMOPs for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Aljoša Vodopija , Tea Tušar , Bogdan Filipič

Deep learning has been widely used in various applications from different fields such as computer vision, natural language processing, etc. However, the training models are often manually developed via many costly experiments. This manual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Thanh Phuong Pham

Feature selection plays a pivotal role in the data preprocessing and model-building pipeline, significantly enhancing model performance, interpretability, and resource efficiency across diverse domains. In population-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Sevil Zanjani Miyandoab , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Sevda Ebrahimi , Masoud Makrehchi

In the last twenty-five years (1990-2014), algorithmic advances in integer optimization combined with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 200 billion factor speedup in solving Mixed Integer Optimization (MIO) problems. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-07-14 Dimitris Bertsimas , Angela King , Rahul Mazumder

Sequential decision-making problems with multiple objectives arise naturally in practice and pose unique challenges for research in decision-theoretic planning and learning, which has largely focused on single-objective settings. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Diederik Marijn Roijers , Peter Vamplew , Shimon Whiteson , Richard Dazeley

In this paper, a new approach is proposed for automated software maintenance. The tool is able to perform 26 different refactorings. It also contains a large selection of metrics to measure the impact of the refactorings on the software and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Michael Mohan , Des Greer

Offline optimization aims to maximize a black-box objective function with a static dataset and has wide applications. In addition to the objective function being black-box and expensive to evaluate, numerous complex real-world problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Ke Xue , Rong-Xi Tan , Xiaobin Huang , Chao Qian

Classical evolutionary approaches for multiobjective optimization are quite accurate but incur a lot of queries to the objectives; this can be prohibitive when objectives are expensive oracles. A sample-efficient approach to solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Ashwin Renganathan , Kade E. Carlson

Context: Software has become an innovative solution nowadays for many applications and methods in science and engineering. Ensuring the quality and correctness of software is challenging because each program has different configurations and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Bestoun S. Ahmed , Taib Sh. Abdulsamad , Moayad Y. Potrus

Software configuration tuning is essential for optimizing a given performance objective (e.g., minimizing latency). Yet, due to the software's intrinsically complex configuration landscape and expensive measurement, there has been a rather…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Pengzhou Chen , Tao Chen , Miqing Li

In this report, we suggest nine test problems for multi-task multi-objective optimization (MTMOO), each of which consists of two multiobjective optimization tasks that need to be solved simultaneously. The relationship between tasks varies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Yuan Yuan , Yew-Soon Ong , Liang Feng , A. K. Qin , Abhishek Gupta , Bingshui Da , Qingfu Zhang , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin , Hisao Ishibuchi

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

The evaluation of heuristic optimizers on test problems, better known as \emph{benchmarking}, is a cornerstone of research in multi-objective optimization. However, most test problems used in benchmarking numerical multi-objective black-box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Lennart Schäpermeier , Pascal Kerschke