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In this article, we develop an efficient algorithm based on three special variants of the nonlinear conjugate gradient method, namely, the Polak--Ribiere--Polyak, Hestenes--Stiefel, and Liu--Story schemes for computing Pareto critical…

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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…

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In this article, we propose an algorithm for the nonlinear conjugate gradient method to find a Pareto critical point of unconstrained multiobjective interval optimization problems. In this algorithm, we use the Wolfe line search procedure…

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In nonsmooth optimization, a negative subgradient is not necessarily a descent direction, making the design of convergent descent methods based on zeroth-order and first-order information a challenging task. The well-studied bundle methods…

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Optimal damping aims at determining a vector of damping coefficients $\nu$ that maximizes the decay rate of a mechanical system's response. This problem can be formulated as the minimization of the trace of the solution of a Lyapunov…

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Accurately detecting symbols transmitted over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels is crucial in realizing the benefits of MIMO techniques. However, optimal MIMO detection is associated with a complexity that grows…

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Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

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Sparse optimization is a central problem in machine learning and computer vision. However, this problem is inherently NP-hard and thus difficult to solve in general. Combinatorial search methods find the global optimal solution but are…

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Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has received growing attention in applications that require learning under multiple criteria. However, the existing MOO formulations do not explicitly account for distributional shifts in the data. We…

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