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Simultaneous optimization of multiple objective functions results in a set of trade-off, or Pareto, solutions. Choosing a, in some sense, best solution in this set is in general a challenging task: In the case of three or more objectives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-01 C. Yalçın Kaya , Helmut Maurer

Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) aims to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and has found important applications in machine learning, such as minimizing classification loss and discrepancy in treating different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Eric Enouen , Katja Mathesius , Sean Wang , Arielle Carr , Sihong Xie

This paper addresses the problem of approximating the set of all solutions for Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes. We show that in the vast majority of interesting cases, the number of solutions is exponential or even infinite. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 L. Mandow , J. L. Pérez de la Cruz , N. Pozas

We introduce a nonmonotone extension of the Front Descent framework for multiobjective optimization. The method uses novel nonmonotone line searches that allow temporary increases in some objective functions. To our knowledge, this is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Pierluigi Mansueto

We give the first approximation algorithm for mixed packing and covering semidefinite programs (SDPs) with polylogarithmic dependence on width. Mixed packing and covering SDPs constitute a fundamental algorithmic primitive with recent…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Arun Jambulapati , Yin Tat Lee , Jerry Li , Swati Padmanabhan , Kevin Tian

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

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…

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

In this paper, a new one-parameter filled function approach is developed for nonlinear multi-objective optimization. Inspired by key filled function ideas from single-objective optimization, the proposed method is adapted to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Bikram Adhikary , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Pareto front profiling in multi-objective optimization (MOO), i.e., finding a diverse set of Pareto optimal solutions, is challenging, especially with expensive objectives that require training a neural network. Typically, in MOO for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arber Zela , Benedikt Staffler , Samuel Dooley , Josif Grabocka , Frank Hutter

This note proposes an effective pruning-based Pareto front generation method in mixed-discrete bi-objective optimization. The mixed-discrete problem is decomposed into multiple continuous subproblems; two-phase pruning steps identify and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-10 SeungBum Hong , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Data-driven inverse optimization for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), which seeks to learn an objective function and constraints consistent with observed decisions, is important for building accurate mathematical models in a variety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Akira Kitaoka

A key problem in multiobjective linear programming is to find the set of all efficient extreme points in objective space. In this paper we introduce oriented projective geometry as an efficient and effective framework for solving this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-17 Benjamin A. Burton , Melih Ozlen

Multiobjective combinatorial optimization deals with problems considering more than one viewpoint or scenario. The problem of aggregating multiple criteria to obtain a globalizing objective function is of special interest when the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-07 Elena Fernández , Miguel A. Pozo , Justo Puerto

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

In this paper, a tunneling method is developed for nonlinear multiobjective optimization problems using some ideas of the single objective tunneling method. The proposed method does not require any a priori chosen parameters or ordering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Bikram Adhikary , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Automated machine learning has gained a lot of attention recently. Building and selecting the right machine learning models is often a multi-objective optimization problem. General purpose machine learning software that simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Steven Gardner , Oleg Golovidov , Joshua Griffin , Patrick Koch , Wayne Thompson , Brett Wujek , Yan Xu

This work proposes a novel multi-objective optimization approach that globally finds a representative non-inferior set of solutions, also known as Pareto-optimal solutions, by automatically formulating and solving a sequence of weighted sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Marcos M. Raimundo , Paulo A. V. Ferreira , Fernando J. Von Zuben

This work proposes a novel multi-objective optimization approach that globally finds a representative non-inferior set of solutions, also known as Pareto-optimal solutions, by automatically formulating and solving a sequence of weighted sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Marcos M. Raimundo , Fernando J. Von Zuben

In the imprecise geometry model, the input is an imprecise point set, which is a family of regions $F = (R_1, \ldots,R_n)$, where for each $R_i$ one may retrieve the true point $p_i \in R_i$. By preprocessing $F$, we can construct the…