English
Related papers

Related papers: An Assignment Problem Formulation for Dominance Mo…

200 papers

Online task scheduling serves an integral role for task-intensive applications in cloud computing and crowdsourcing. Optimal scheduling can enhance system performance, typically measured by the reward-to-cost ratio, under some task arrival…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yongxin Xu , Shangshang Wang , Hengquan Guo , Xin Liu , Ziyu Shao

We propose an optimal solution to a deterministic dynamic assignment problem by leveraging connections to the theory of discrete optimal transport to convert the combinatorial assignment problem into a tractable linear program. We seek to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Koray G. Kachar , Alex A. Gorodetsky

This letter proposes a multiple parametric dictionary learning algorithm for direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in presence of array gain-phase error and mutual coupling. It jointly solves both the DOA estimation and array imperfection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-25 H. Ghanbari , H. Zayyani , E. Yazdian

Multi-objective learning (MOL) problems often arise in emerging machine learning problems when there are multiple learning criteria, data modalities, or learning tasks. Different from single-objective learning, one of the critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Lisha Chen , Heshan Fernando , Yiming Ying , Tianyi Chen

It is challenging to quantify numerical preferences for different objectives in a multi-objective decision-making problem. However, the demonstrations of a user are often accessible. We propose an algorithm to infer linear preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADM or ADMM) breaks a complex optimization problem into much simpler subproblems. The ADM algorithms are typically short and easy to implement yet exhibit (nearly) state-of-the-art…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-02 Ming Yan , Wotao Yin

In expensive multi-objective optimization, where the evaluation budget is strictly limited, selecting promising candidate solutions for expensive fitness evaluations is critical for accelerating convergence and improving algorithmic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Huixiang Zhen , Xiaotong Li , Wenyin Gong , Xiangyun Hu

Sensing emerges as a critical challenge in 6G networks, which require simultaneous communication and target sensing capabilities. State-of-the-art super-resolution techniques for the direction of arrival (DoA) estimation encounter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Murat Babek Salman , Emil Björnson

Reinforcement learning with multiple, potentially conflicting objectives is pervasive in real-world applications, while this problem remains theoretically under-explored. This paper tackles the multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Tianchen Zhou , FNU Hairi , Haibo Yang , Jia Liu , Tian Tong , Fan Yang , Michinari Momma , Yan Gao

We introduce motions as real six-dimensional vectors. A motion means a rotation and a translation. We define a motion operator which maps unit dual quaternions to motions, and a UDQ operator which maps motions to unit dual quaternions. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-29 Liqun Qi

Multi-Task Learning is a learning paradigm that uses correlated tasks to improve performance generalization. A common way to learn multiple tasks is through the hard parameter sharing approach, in which a single architecture is used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Angelica Tiemi Mizuno Nakamura , Denis Fernando Wolf , Valdir Grassi

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (EMOAs) are widely employed to tackle problems with multiple conflicting objectives. Recent research indicates that not all objectives are equally important to the decision-maker (DM). In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Seyed Mahdi Shavarani , Mahmoud Golabi , Richard Allmendinger , Lhassane Idoumghar

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

This paper proposes the multi objective variant of the recently introduced fitness dependent optimizer (FDO). The algorithm is called a Multi objective Fitness Dependent Optimizer (MOFDO) and is equipped with all five types of knowledge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jaza M. Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid , Bestan B. Maaroof , Seyedali Mirjalili

Density function describes the density of states in the state space of a dynamic system or a Markov Decision Process (MDP). Its evolution follows the Liouville equation. We show that the density function is the dual of the value function in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yuxiao Chen , Aaron D. Ames

The recent deployment of multi-agent networks has enabled the distributed solution of learning problems, where agents cooperate to train a global model without sharing their local, private data. This work specifically targets some prevalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-20 Nicola Bastianello , Diego Deplano , Mauro Franceschelli , Karl H. Johansson

Dexterous robotic manipulation remains a longstanding challenge in robotics due to the high dimensionality of control spaces and the semantic complexity of object interaction. In this paper, we propose an object affordance-guided…

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is the task of estimating the state trajectories of an unknown and time-varying number of objects over a certain time window. Several algorithms have been proposed to tackle the multi-object smoothing task, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Juliano Pinto , Georg Hess , Yuxuan Xia , Henk Wymeersch , Lennart Svensson

In practical multi-criterion decision-making, it is cumbersome if a decision maker (DM) is asked to choose among a set of trade-off alternatives covering the whole Pareto-optimal front. This is a paradox in conventional evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ke Li , Guiyu Lai , Xin Yao

Deformable object manipulation (DOM) represents a critical challenge in robotics, with applications spanning healthcare, manufacturing, food processing, and beyond. Unlike rigid objects, deformable objects exhibit infinite dimensionality,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ryan Paul McKennaa , John Oyekan