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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

Benson's outer approximation algorithm and its variants are the most frequently used methods for solving linear multiobjective optimization problems. These algorithms have two intertwined components: one-dimensional linear optimization one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-21 Laszlo Csirmaz

Optimizing the performance of many objectives (instantiated by tasks or clients) jointly with a few Pareto stationary solutions (models) is critical in machine learning. However, previous multi-objective optimization methods often focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ziyue Li , Tian Li , Virginia Smith , Jeff Bilmes , Tianyi Zhou

Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several objectives are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-24 Stefan Banholzer , Bennet Gebken , Michael Dellnitz , Sebastian Peitz , Stefan Volkwein

We consider the problem of coordinating a fleet of robots in a warehouse so as to maximize the reward achieved within a time limit while respecting problem and robot specific constraints. We formulate the problem as a weighted set packing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Naveed Haghani , Jiaoyang Li , Sven Koenig , Gautam Kunapuli , Claudio Contardo , Julian Yarkony

Pairwise comparison matrices and the weight vectors obtained from them are important concepts in multi-criteria decision making. A weight vector calculated from a pairwise comparison matrix is called Pareto efficient if the approximation of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Kristóf Ábele-Nagy , Sándor Bozóki , Zsombor Szádoczki

In multi-objective optimization, computing the entire non-dominated set (also known as the Pareto front or the Pareto frontier) is often intractable. However, for any multiplicative factor greater than one, an approximation set can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Levin Nemesch , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen , Alina Wittmann

Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is prevalent in numerous applications, in which a Pareto front (PF) is constructed to display optima under various preferences. Previous methods commonly utilize the set of Pareto objectives (particles on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Yichi Zhang , Yifan Chen , Qingfu Zhang

In inverse optimization problems, the goal is to modify the costs in an underlying optimization problem in such a way that a given solution becomes optimal, while the difference between the new and the original cost functions, called the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Kristóf Bérczi , Lydia Mirabel Mendoza-Cadena , Kitti Varga

The quality of solution sets generated by decomposition-based evolutionary multiobjective optimisation (EMO) algorithms depends heavily on the consistency between a given problem's Pareto front shape and the specified weights' distribution.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Miqing Li , Xin Yao

Benchmark problems play a central role in assessing the performance of numerical optimization algorithms. However, many existing constrained multiobjective optimization benchmark problems rely on overly restricted constructions or lack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Anne Auger , Dimo Brockhoff , Luka Opravš , Tea Tušar

We study model selection in linear bandits, where the learner must adapt to the dimension (denoted by $d_\star$) of the smallest hypothesis class containing the true linear model while balancing exploration and exploitation. Previous papers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-17 Yinglun Zhu , Robert Nowak

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

In the a posteriori approach of multiobjective optimization the Pareto front is approximated by a finite set of solutions in the objective space. The quality of the approximation can be measured by different indicators that take into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-27 Luis Marti , Christian Grimme , Pascal Kerschke , Heike Trautmann , Günter Rudolph

The travelling salesperson problem (TSP) is a classic resource allocation problem used to find an optimal order of doing a set of tasks while minimizing (or maximizing) an associated objective function. It is widely used in robotics for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ishaan Mehta , Sharareh Taghipour , Sajad Saeedi

In multi-objective optimization, the set of optimal trade-offs -- the Pareto front -- often contains regions that are extremely steep or flat. The Pareto optimal points in these regions are typically of limited interest for decision-making,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Markus Herrmann-Wicklmayr , Kathrin Flaßkamp

This paper addresses the problem of approximating the set of all solutions for Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes. We show that in the vast majority of interesting cases, the number of solutions is exponential or even infinite. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 L. Mandow , J. L. Pérez de la Cruz , N. Pozas

Many real-world optimization problems can be stated in terms of submodular functions. Furthermore, these real-world problems often involve uncertainties which may lead to the violation of given constraints. A lot of evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann

In one of our earlier works, we proposed to approximate Pareto fronts to multiobjective optimization problems by two-sided approximations, one from inside and another from outside of the feasible objective set, called, respectively, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Ignacy Kaliszewski , Janusz Miroforidis

Optimization of accelerator performance parameters is limited by numerous trade-offs and finding the appropriate balance between optimization goals for an unknown system is challenging to achieve. Here we show that multi-objective Bayesian…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 F. Irshad , C. Eberle , F. M. Foerster , K. v. Grafenstein , F. Haberstroh , E. Travac , N. Weisse , S. Karsch , A. Döpp