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Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a metaheuristic for solving difficult discrete optimization problems. This paper presents a deterministic model based on differential equation to analyze the dynamics of basic Ant System algorithm.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Ayan Acharya , Deepyaman Maiti , Amit Konar , Ramadoss Janarthanan

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is important to leverage the full potential of machine learning (ML). In practice, users are often interested in multi-objective (MO) problems, i.e., optimizing potentially conflicting objectives, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Joseph Giovanelli , Alexander Tornede , Tanja Tornede , Marius Lindauer

Post-training of LLMs with RLHF, and subsequently preference optimization algorithms such as DPO, IPO, etc., made a big difference in improving human alignment. However, all such techniques can only work with a single (human) objective. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Akhil Agnihotri , Rahul Jain , Deepak Ramachandran , Zheng Wen

This paper proposes an extension method for Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm called Dynamic Impact. Dynamic Impact is designed to solve challenging optimization problems that has nonlinear relationship between resource consumption…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Jonas Skackauskas , Tatiana Kalganova , Ian Dear , Mani Janakram

Swarm Intelligence algorithms have gained significant attention in recent years as a means of solving complex and non-deterministic problems. These algorithms are inspired by the collective behavior of natural creatures, and they simulate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Amirhossein Mohammadi , Sara Hajiaghajani , Mohammad Bahrani

Multi-objective preference alignment of large language models (LLMs) is critical for developing AI systems that are more configurable, personalizable, helpful, and safe. However, optimizing model outputs to satisfy diverse objectives with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Raghav Gupta , Ryan Sullivan , Yunxuan Li , Samrat Phatale , Abhinav Rastogi

Quantum ant colony optimization (QACO) has drew much attention since it combines the advantages of quantum computing and ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms and overcomes some limitations of the traditional ACO algorithm. However, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Qian Qiu , Mohan Wu , Qichun Sun , Xiaogang Li , Hua Xu

This paper introduces a new optimisation algorithm, called Adaptive Bacterial Colony Optimisation (ABCO), modelled after the foraging behaviour of E. coli bacteria. The algorithm follows three stages--explore, exploit and reproduce--and is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Barisi Kogam , Yevgeniya Kovalchuk , Mohamed Medhat Gaber

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs' responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Moxin Li , Yuantao Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Wentao Shi , Zhuo Liu , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

There are a lot of real-world black-box optimization problems that need to optimize multiple criteria simultaneously. However, in a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem, identifying the whole Pareto front requires the prohibitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ryota Ozaki , Kazuki Ishikawa , Youhei Kanzaki , Shinya Suzuki , Shion Takeno , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

Offline preference optimization offers a simpler and more stable alternative to RLHF for aligning language models. However, their effectiveness is critically dependent on ranking accuracy, a metric where further gains are highly impactful.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruibo Deng , Duanyu Feng , Wenqiang Lei

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) is a well-known method inspired by the foraging behavior of ants and is extensively used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we first consider a general framework based on the concept…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Bodo Manthey , Jesse van Rhijn , Ashkan Safari , Tjark Vredeveld

Multi-preference optimization enriches language-model alignment beyond pairwise preferences by contrasting entire sets of helpful and undesired responses, thereby enabling richer training signals for large language models. During self-play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Taneesh Gupta , Rahul Madhavan , Xuchao Zhang , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan

Audio, animations and video belong to a class of data known as delay sensitive because they are sensitive to delays in presentation to the users. Also, because of huge data in such items, disk is an important device in managing them. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Hossein Rahmani , Sajjad Arshad , Mohsen Ebrahimi Moghaddam

In this paper, we investigate nonlinear optimization problems whose constraints are defined as fuzzy relational equations (FRE) with max-min composition. Since the feasible solution set of the FRE is often a non-convex set and the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Amin Ghodousian , Sara Zal

Autonomous robots are increasingly utilized in realistic scenarios with multiple complex tasks. In these scenarios, there may be a preferred way of completing all of the given tasks, but it is often in conflict with optimal execution.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Peter Amorese , Morteza Lahijanian

Preference optimization has made significant progress recently, with numerous methods developed to align language models with human preferences. This paper introduces $f$-divergence Preference Optimization ($f$-PO), a novel framework that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jiaqi Han , Mingjian Jiang , Yuxuan Song , Stefano Ermon , Minkai Xu

Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) has time complexity O(t*m*N*N), and its typical application is to solve Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), where t, m, and N denotes the iteration number, number of ants, number of cities respectively. Cutting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-07-07 Chao-Yang Pang , Wei Hu , Xia Li , Be-Qiong Hu

In contrast to single-objective optimization (SOO), multi-objective optimization (MOO) requires an optimizer to find the Pareto frontier, a subset of feasible solutions that are not dominated by other feasible solutions. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Kevin Yang , Tianjun Zhang , Tian Guo , Yuandong Tian

We introduce a framework for applying metaheuristic algorithms, such as ant colony optimization (ACO), to combinatorial optimization problems (COPs) like the traveling salesman problem (TSP). The framework consists of three sequential…

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