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A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

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Optimization problems have been the subject of statistical physics approximations. A specially relevant and general scenario is provided by optimization methods considering tradeoffs between cost and efficiency, where optimal solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Luís F. Seoane , Ricard V. Solé

This paper presents an algorithm for solving multiobjective optimization problems involving composite functions, where we minimize a quadratic model that approximates $F(x) - F(x^k)$ and that can be derivative-free. We establish theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 V. S. Amaral , P. B. Assunção , D. R. Souza

Design problems in industrial engineering often involve a large number of design variables with multiple objectives, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms for multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Xin-She Yang

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 note proposes an algorithm to generate the Pareto front of a mixed discrete multi-objective optimization problem based on the pruning of irrelevant subproblems. An existing pruning-based method for a mixed discrete bi-objective problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Juseong Lee , Sang-Il Lee , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

For strongly convex objectives that are smooth, the classical theory of gradient descent ensures linear convergence relative to the number of gradient evaluations. An analogous nonsmooth theory is challenging. Even when the objective is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 X. Y. Han , Adrian S. Lewis

We present a multi-objective Bayesian optimisation algorithm that allows the user to express preference-order constraints on the objectives of the type "objective A is more important than objective B". These preferences are defined based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Majid Abdolshah , Alistair Shilton , Santu Rana , Sunil Gupta , Svetha Venkatesh

Recently the away-step Frank-Wolfe algoritm for constrained multiobjective optimization has been shown linear convergence rate over a polytope which is generated by finite points set. In this paper we design a decomposition-invariant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zhuoxin Fan , Liping Tang

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Bikram Adhikary , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Over the past two decades, descent methods have received substantial attention within the multiobjective optimization field. Nonetheless, both theoretical analyses and empirical evidence reveal that existing first-order methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-13 Jian Chen , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

This paper introduces the first objective space algorithm which can exactly find all supported and non-supported non-dominated solutions to a mixed-integer multi-objective linear program with an arbitrary number of objective functions. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

Simultaneous optimization of multiple objective functions results in a set of trade-off, or Pareto, solutions. Choosing a, in some sense, best solution in this set is in general a challenging task: In the case of three or more objectives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-01 C. Yalçın Kaya , Helmut Maurer

In this paper, we propose a generalized conditional gradient method for multiobjective optimization, which can be viewed as an improved extension of the classical Frank-Wolfe (conditional gradient) method for single-objective optimization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Anteneh Getachew Gebrie , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda

Multiobjective design optimization problems require multiobjective optimization techniques to solve, and it is often very challenging to obtain high-quality Pareto fronts accurately. In this paper, the recently developed flower pollination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Xin-She Yang , M. Karamanoglu , X. S. He

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

Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) aims to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and has found important applications in machine learning, such as minimizing classification loss and discrepancy in treating different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Eric Enouen , Katja Mathesius , Sean Wang , Arielle Carr , Sihong Xie

This paper is devoted to a new modification of a recently proposed adaptive stochastic mirror descent algorithm for constrained convex optimization problems in the case of several convex functional constraints. Algorithms, standard and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-22 Mohammad S. Alkousa

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization aims to find the Pareto front of trade-offs between a set of expensive objectives while collecting as few samples as possible. In some cases, it is possible to evaluate the objectives separately, and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jack M. Buckingham , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Juergen Branke