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Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Trang H. Tran , Luis Nunes Vicente

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is an important problem in real-world applications. However, for a non-trivial problem, no single solution exists that can optimize all the objectives simultaneously. In a typical MOO problem, the goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhang Haishan , Diptesh Das , Koji Tsuda

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

Offline multi-objective optimization aims to identify Pareto-optimal solutions given a dataset of designs and their objective values. In this work, we propose a preference-guided diffusion model that generates Pareto-optimal designs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yashas Annadani , Syrine Belakaria , Stefano Ermon , Stefan Bauer , Barbara E Engelhardt

In this paper, a branch and bound algorithm that incorporates the decision maker's preference information is proposed for multiobjective optimization. In the proposed algorithm, a new discarding test is designed to check whether a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

Optimization modeling translates real decision-making problems into mathematical optimization models and solver-executable implementations. Although language models are increasingly used to generate optimization formulations and solver…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Yuxuan Zhu , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen , Zaiwen Wen , Lincen Yang

Benchmarking is essential for developing and evaluating black-box optimization algorithms, providing a structured means to analyze their search behavior. Its effectiveness relies on carefully selected problem sets used for evaluation. To…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Iván Olarte Rodríguez , Maria Laura Santoni , Fabian Duddeck , Carola Doerr , Thomas Bäck , Elena Raponi

In a multiobjective optimization problem a solution is called Pareto-optimal if no criterion can be improved without deteriorating at least one of the other criteria. Computing the set of all Pareto-optimal solutions is a common task in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Heiko Röglin

Many complex systems obey to optimality conditions that are usually not simple. Conflicting traits often interact making a Multi Objective Optimization (MOO) approach necessary. Recent MOO research on complex systems report about the Pareto…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-16 Luís F. Seoane , Ricard Solé

The evolution of gene regulatory networks in variable environments poses Multi-objective Optimization Problem (MOP), where the expression levels of genes must be tuned to meet the demands of each environment. When formalized in the context…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-23 Philippe Nghe , Bela M. Mulder , Sander J. Tans

Dealing with multi-objective problems by using generation methods has some interesting advantages since it provides the decision-maker with the complete information about the set of non-dominated points (Pareto front) and a clear overview…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Mariana Mesquita-Cunha , José Rui Figueira , Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa

Dock-based bike-sharing systems exhibit spatial imbalances between bicycle supply and user demand, often addressed through overnight truck-based rebalancing. This work studies static overnight rebalancing under demand uncertainty modeled as…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Diego Daniel Pedroza-Perez , Gabriel Luque , Sergio Nesmachnow , Jamal Toutouh

Application of the multi-objective particle swarm optimisation (MOPSO) algorithm to design of water distribution systems is described. An earlier MOPSO algorithm is augmented with (a) local search, (b) a modified strategy for assigning the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mahesh B. Patil , M. Naveen Naidu , A. Vasan , Murari R. R. Varma

Multi-objective multi-armed bandit (MO-MAB) problems traditionally aim to achieve Pareto optimality. However, real-world scenarios often involve users with varying preferences across objectives, resulting in a Pareto-optimal arm that may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Linfeng Cao , Ming Shi , Ness B. Shroff

A common goal in evolutionary multi-objective optimization is to find suitable finite-size approximations of the Pareto front of a given multi-objective optimization problem. While many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have proven to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Hao Wang , Angel E. Rodriguez-Fernandez , Lourdes Uribe , André Deutz , Oziel Cortés-Piña , Oliver Schütze

A benchmark of 25 nonlinear optimization problems with domain-induced discontinuity is proposed to support the performance evaluation of global optimization algorithms under feasibility-scarce and structurally discontinuous landscapes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Peicong Cheng , Makoto Yamashita

A key task in multi-objective optimization is to compute the Pareto subset or frontier $P$ of a given $d$-dimensional objective space $F$; that is, a maximal subset $P\subseteq F$ such that every element in $P$ is not-dominated (it is not…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Konstantinos Karathanasis , Spyros Kontogiannis , Christos Zaroliagis

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

any practical multiobjective optimization (MOO) problems include discrete decision variables and/or nonlinear model equations and exhibit disconnected or smooth but nonconvex Pareto surfaces. Scalarization methods, such as the weighted-sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Ye Seol Lee , George Jackson , Amparo Galindo , Claire S. Adjiman

Bilevel optimization problems comprise an upper level optimization task that contains a lower level optimization task as a constraint. While there is a significant and growing literature devoted to solving bilevel problems with single…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Bing Wang , Hemant K. Singh , Tapabrata Ray