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Current embedded systems are specifically designed to run multimedia applications. These applications have a big impact on both performance and energy consumption. Both metrics can be optimized selecting the best cache configuration for a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Josefa Díaz Álvarez , José L. Risco-Martín , J. Manuel Colmenar

In many scenarios, configurators support the configuration of a solution that satisfies the preferences of a single user. The concept of \emph{multi-configuration} is based on the idea of configuring a set of configurations. Such a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Benjamin Ritz , Alexander Felfernig , Viet-Man Le , Sebastian Lubos

We propose a methodology, based on machine learning and optimization, for selecting a solver configuration for a given instance. First, we employ a set of solved instances and configurations in order to learn a performance function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-10 Gabriele Iommazzo , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Antonio Frangioni , Leo Liberti

Solving multimodal optimization problems (MMOP) requires finding all optimal solutions, which is challenging in limited function evaluations. Although existing works strike the balance of exploration and exploitation through hand-crafted…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hongqiao Lian , Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Ting Huang , Yue-Jiao Gong

Software systems usually provide numerous configuration options that can affect performance metrics such as execution time, memory usage, binary size, or bitrate. On the one hand, making informed decisions is challenging and requires domain…

Alignment in artificial intelligence pursues the consistency between model responses and human preferences as well as values. In practice, the multifaceted nature of human preferences inadvertently introduces what is known as the "alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yiju Guo , Ganqu Cui , Lifan Yuan , Ning Ding , Zexu Sun , Bowen Sun , Huimin Chen , Ruobing Xie , Jie Zhou , Yankai Lin , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Multi-objective optimization is a crucial matter in computer systems design space exploration because real-world applications often rely on a trade-off between several objectives. Derivatives are usually not available or impractical to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Luigi Nardi , David Koeplinger , Kunle Olukotun

The performance of a camera network monitoring a set of targets depends crucially on the configuration of the cameras. In this paper, we investigate the reconfiguration strategy for the parameterized camera network model, with which the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xuechao Zhang , Xuda Ding , Yi Ren , Yu Zheng , Chongrong Fang , Jianping He

Multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are prevalent in machine learning, with applications in multi-task learning, learning under fairness or robustness constraints, etc. Instead of reducing multiple objective functions into a scalar…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Liang Zhao , Yingying Yu , Xi Lin , Yifan Chen , Han Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

Profile Guided Optimization (PGO) uses runtime profiling to direct compiler optimization decisions, effectively combining static analysis with actual execution behavior to enhance performance. Runtime profiles, collected through…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Bingxin Liu , Yinghui Huang , Jianhua Gao , Jianjun Shi , Yongpeng Liu , Yipin Sun , Weixing Ji

Finding optimal parameter configurations for tunable GPU kernels is a non-trivial exercise for large search spaces, even when automated. This poses an optimization task on a non-convex search space, using an expensive to evaluate function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Floris-Jan Willemsen , Rob van Nieuwpoort , Ben van Werkhoven

Metaheuristic algorithms have gained widespread application across various fields owing to their ability to generate diverse solutions. One such algorithm is the Snake Optimizer (SO), a progressive optimization approach. However, SO suffers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Genliang Li , Yaxin Cui , Jinyu Su

This paper discusses the challenge when evaluating multi-objective optimisation algorithms under noise, and argues that decision maker preferences need to be taken into account. It demonstrates that commonly used performance metrics are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Juergen Branke

For general multi-objective optimization problems, we propose a novel performance metric called domination measure to measure the quality of a solution, which can be intuitively interpreted as the size of the portion of the solution space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-26 Joshua Q Hale , Helin Zhu , Enlu Zhou

We propose a framework for online meta-optimization of parameters that govern optimization, called Amortized Proximal Optimization (APO). We first interpret various existing neural network optimizers as approximate stochastic proximal point…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Juhan Bae , Paul Vicol , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Roger Grosse

Multidimensional optimization problems where the objective function and the constraints are multiextremal non-differentiable Lipschitz functions (with unknown Lipschitz constants) and the feasible region is a finite collection of robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Yaroslav D. Sergeyev , Paolo Pugliese , Domenico Famularo

Robotic systems often require a team of robots to collectively visit multiple targets while optimizing competing objectives, such as total travel cost and makespan. This setting can be formulated as the Multi-Objective Multiple Traveling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Fengxiaoxiao Li , Xiao Mao , Mingfeng Fan , Yifeng Zhang , Yi Li , Tanishq Duhan , Guillaume Sartoretti

Traditional approaches to the design of multi-agent navigation algorithms consider the environment as a fixed constraint, despite the influence of spatial constraints on agents' performance. Yet hand-designing conducive environment layouts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-22 Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

Many Hadoop configuration parameters have significant influence in the performance of running MapReduce jobs on Hadoop. It is time-consuming and tedious for general users to manually tune the parameters for optimal MapReduce performance.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Donghua Chen

Configuration is a successful application area of Artificial Intelligence. In the majority of the cases, configuration systems focus on configuring one solution (configuration) that satisfies the preferences of a single user or a group of…