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Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is a prevalent challenge for Deep Learning, however, there exists no scalable MOO solution for truly deep neural networks. Prior work either demand optimizing a new network for every point on the Pareto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Michael Ruchte , Josif Grabocka

We present an algorithm for accelerating the search of molecule's adsorption site based on global optimization of surface adsorbate geometries. Our approach uses a machine-learning interatomic potential (moment tensor potential) to…

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Artificial Intelligence predicts drug properties by encoding drug molecules, aiding in the rapid screening of candidates. Different molecular representations, such as SMILES and molecule graphs, contain complementary information for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Muzhen Cai , Sendong Zhao , Haochun Wang , Yanrui Du , Zewen Qiang , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Experienced users often have useful knowledge and intuition in solving real-world optimization problems. User knowledge can be formulated as inter-variable relationships to assist an optimization algorithm in finding good solutions faster.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Abhiroop Ghosh , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Ronald Averill

Machine learning (ML) can be used to construct surrogate models for the fast prediction of a property of interest. ML can thus be applied to chemical projects, where the usual experimentation or calculation techniques can take hours or days…

This paper addresses the problem of constrained multi-objective optimization over black-box objective functions with practitioner-specified preferences over the objectives when a large fraction of the input space is infeasible (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

The precise prediction of molecular properties is essential for advancements in drug development, particularly in virtual screening and compound optimization. The recent introduction of numerous deep learning-based methods has shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Taojie Kuang , Pengfei Liu , Zhixiang Ren

To date, the multi-objective optimization literature has mainly focused on conflicting objectives, studying the Pareto front, or requiring users to balance tradeoffs. Yet, in machine learning practice, there are many scenarios where such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yonathan Efroni , Ben Kretzu , Daniel Jiang , Jalaj Bhandari , Zheqing , Zhu , Karen Ullrich

Molecular language modeling is an effective approach to generating novel chemical structures. However, these models do not \emph{a priori} encode certain preferences a chemist may desire. We investigate the use of fine-tuning using Direct…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-20 Ryan Park , Ryan Theisen , Navriti Sahni , Marcel Patek , Anna Cichońska , Rayees Rahman

Here, we present two complementary approaches that advance quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) toward practical use in data-driven materials design and other real-valued black-box optimization tasks. First, we introduce a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-15 Thomas Plehn , Daniel Barragan-Yani , Eric Breitbarth , Guillermo Requena , David Melching

Parametric multi-objective optimization (PMO) addresses the challenge of solving an infinite family of multi-objective optimization problems, where optimal solutions must adapt to varying parameters. Traditional methods require re-execution…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ji Cheng , Bo Xue , Qingfu Zhang

Molecular docking is an important tool for structure-based drug design, accelerating the efficiency of drug development. Complex and dynamic binding processes between proteins and small molecules require searching and sampling over a wide…

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We present a model-agnostic framework for jointly optimizing the predictive performance and interpretability of supervised machine learning models for tabular data. Interpretability is quantified via three measures: feature sparsity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Lennart Schneider , Bernd Bischl , Janek Thomas

We consider the problem of constrained multi-objective (MO) blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions satisfying a set of constraints while minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems are prevalent in various real-world applications. Most existing neural MOCO methods rely on problem decomposition to transform an MOCO problem into a series of singe-objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yongfan Lu , Zixiang Di , Bingdong Li , Shengcai Liu , Hong Qian , Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Aimin Zhou

Real-world black-box optimization often involves time-consuming or costly experiments and simulations. Multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) stands out as a cost-effective strategy that balances high-fidelity accuracy with computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ke Li , Fan Li

Efficient exploration of the chemical space to search the candidate drugs that satisfy various constraints is a fundamental task of drug discovery. Advanced deep generative methods attempt to optimize the molecules in the compact latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Zhiyuan Chen , Xiaomin Fang , Zixu Hua , Yueyang Huang , Fan Wang , Hua Wu

The Quality-Diversity (QD) optimization aims to discover a collection of high-performing solutions that simultaneously exhibit diverse behaviors within a user-defined behavior space. This paradigm has stimulated significant research…

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Encoding combinatorial optimization problems into physically meaningful Hamiltonians with tractable energy landscapes forms the foundation of quantum optimization. Numerous works have studied such efficient encodings for the class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Sebastian Egginger , Kristina Kirova , Sonja Bruckner , Stefan Hillmich , Richard Kueng

Multi-objective optimization has burgeoned as a potent methodology for informed decision-making in enhanced geothermal systems, aiming to concurrently maximize economic yield, ensure enduring geothermal energy provision, and curtail carbon…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Guodong Chen , Jiu Jimmy Jiao , Qiqi Liu , Zhongzheng Wang , Yaochu Jin