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In complex clinical decision-making, clinicians must often track a variety of competing metrics defined by aim (ideal) and limit (strict) thresholds. Sifting through these high-dimensional tradeoffs to infer the optimal patient-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Edward Chen , Natalie Dullerud , Pang Wei Koh , Thomas Niedermayr , Elizabeth Kidd , Sanmi Koyejo , Carlos Guestrin

We present a new algorithm to quickly generate high-performance GPU implementations of complex imaging and vision pipelines, directly from high-level Halide algorithm code. It is fully automatic, requiring no schedule templates or…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Luke Anderson , Andrew Adams , Karima Ma , Tzu-Mao Li , Tian Jin , Jonathan Ragan-Kelley

We present a method to include robustness into a multi-criteria optimization (MCO) framework for intensity-modulated proton therapy (IMPT). The approach allows one to simultaneously explore the trade-off between different objectives as well…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Wei Chen , Jan Unkelbach , Alexei Trofimov , Thomas Madden , Hanne Kooy , Thomas Bortfeld , David Craft

We review the field of multi-criteria optimization for radiation therapy treatment planning. Special attention is given to the technique known as Pareto surface navigation, which allows physicians and treatment planners to interactively…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-05-08 David Craft

In radiation therapy (RT) treatment planning, multi-criteria optimization (MCO) supports efficient plan selection but is usually solved for population-based dosimetric criteria and ignores patient-specific biological risk, potentially…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Mara Schubert , Katrin Teichert , Zhongxing Liao , Thomas Bortfeld , Ali Ajdari

We propose a GPU-based distributed optimization algorithm, aimed at controlling optimal power flow in multi-phase and unbalanced distribution systems. Typically, conventional distributed optimization algorithms employed in such scenarios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Minseok Ryu , Geunyeong Byeon , Kibaek Kim

Online adaptive radiation therapy (ART) is an attractive concept that promises the ability to deliver an optimal treatment in response to the inter-fraction variability in patient anatomy. However, it has yet to be realized due to technical…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Xuejun Gu , Dongju Choi , Chunhua Men , Hubert Pan , Amitava Majumdar , Steve B. Jiang

A novel phase-space source implementation has been designed for GPU-based Monte Carlo dose calculation engines. Due to the parallelized nature of GPU hardware, it is essential to simultaneously transport particles of the same type and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-06-21 Reid Townson , Xun Jia , Zhen Tian , Yan Jiang Graves , Sergei Zavgorodni , Steve B Jiang

We present GFORS, a GPU-accelerated framework for large binary integer programs. It couples a first-order (PDHG-style) routine that guides the search in the continuous relaxation with a randomized, feasibility-aware sampling module that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Ningji Wei , Jiaming Liang

Gaussian Processes have become an indispensable part of the spatial statistician's toolbox but are unsuitable for analyzing large dataset because of the significant time and memory needed to fit the associated model exactly. Vecchia…

Computation · Statistics 2025-07-18 Zachary James , Joseph Guinness

We present GP-MOBO, a novel multi-objective Bayesian Optimization algorithm that advances the state-of-the-art in molecular optimization. Our approach integrates a fast minimal package for Exact Gaussian Processes (GPs) capable of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Anabel Yong

Model selection in Gaussian processes scales prohibitively with the size of the training dataset, both in time and memory. While many approximations exist, all incur inevitable approximation error. Recent work accounts for this error in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jonathan Wenger , Kaiwen Wu , Philipp Hennig , Jacob R. Gardner , Geoff Pleiss , John P. Cunningham

Purpose: Monte Carlo methods are considered the gold standard for dosimetric computations in radiotherapy. Their execution time is however still an obstacle to the routine use of Monte Carlo packages in a clinical setting. To address this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Sami Hissoiny , Hugo Bouchard , Benoît Ozell , Philippe Després

Objective: Radiation therapy treatment planning is a time-consuming process involving iterative adjustments of hyperparameters. To automate the treatment planning process, we propose a meta-optimization framework, called MetaPlanner (MP).…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Charles Huang , Yusuke Nomura , Yong Yang , Lei Xing

Policy optimization methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) and its variants have achieved strong results on mathematical reasoning and code generation tasks. Despite extensive exploration of reward processing strategies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rui Yuan , Mykola Khandoga , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu

The complex regulatory dynamics of a biological network can be succinctly captured using discrete logic models. Given even sparse time-course data from the system of interest, previous work has shown that global optimization schemes are…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Joyce Reimer , Pranta Saha , Chris Chen , Neeraj Dhar , Brook Byrns , Steven Rayan , Gordon Broderick

We study a multi-objective scheduling problem on two dedicated processors. The aim is to minimize simultaneously the makespan, the total tardiness and the total completion time. This NP-hard problem requires the use of well-adapted methods.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Adel Kacem , Abdelaziz Dammak

The discovery of therapeutic molecules is fundamentally a multi-objective optimization problem. One formulation of the problem is to identify molecules that simultaneously exhibit strong binding affinity for a target protein, minimal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-17 Jenna C. Fromer , David E. Graff , Connor W. Coley

With many variables to adjust, conventional manual forward planning for Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery is very complicated and cumbersome. The resulting plan quality heavily depends on planners skills, experiences and devoted efforts, and…

Gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) have seen widespread adoption in academia, industry and competitive data science due to their state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks. One relative downside to these models is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Andreea Anghel , Nikolaos Papandreou , Thomas Parnell , Alessandro De Palma , Haralampos Pozidis