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When dealing with continuous single-objective problems, multimodality poses one of the biggest difficulties for global optimization. Local optima are often preventing algorithms from making progress and thus pose a severe threat. In this…

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A homotopy method for multi-objective optimization that produces uniformly sampled Pareto fronts by construction is presented. While the algorithm is general, of particular interest is application to simulation-based engineering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Andreas Adelmann , Peter Arbenz , Andrew Foster , Yves Ineichen

Systems across different industries consist of interrelated processes and decisions in different time scales including long-time decisions and short-term decisions. To optimize such systems, the most effective approach is to formulate and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Asha Ramanujam , Can Li

Managing biodiversity extinction crisis requires wise decision-making processes able to account for the limited of resources available. In most decision problems in conservation biology, several conflicting objectives have to be taken into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Yann Dujardin , Iadine Chades

Multi-objective parametric optimization problem is presented for overwrapped composite pressure vessels under internal pressure for storage and heating water. It is solved using the developed iterative optimization algorithm. Optimal values…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Lyudmyla Rozova , Bilal Meemary , Salim Chaki , Mylène Deléglise-Lagardère , Dmytro Vasiukov

Multi-objective optimization is a type of decision making problems where multiple conflicting objectives are optimized. We study offline optimization of multi-objective policies from data collected by an existing policy. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shima Alizadeh , Aniruddha Bhargava , Karthick Gopalswamy , Lalit Jain , Branislav Kveton , Ge Liu

It is increasingly common to solve combinatorial optimisation problems that are partially-specified. We survey the case where the objective function or the relations between variables are not known or are only partially specified. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Stefano Teso , Laurens Bliek , Andrea Borghesi , Michele Lombardi , Neil Yorke-Smith , Tias Guns , Andrea Passerini

The recent decades have seen various attempts at accelerating the process of developing materials targeted towards specific applications. The performance required for a particular application leads to the choice of a particular material…

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is the generalization of standard reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to solve sequential decision making problems that consist of several, possibly conflicting, objectives. Generally, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Mårten Björkman , Patric Jensfelt

Real-world decision-making tasks are generally complex, requiring trade-offs between multiple, often conflicting, objectives. Despite this, the majority of research in reinforcement learning and decision-theoretic planning either assumes…

We study the problem of optimizing nonlinear objective functions over bipartite matchings. While the problem is generally intractable, we provide several efficient algorithms for it, including a deterministic algorithm for maximizing convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-24 Yael Berstein , Shmuel Onn

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to optimize multiple, possibly conflicting objectives with widespread applications. We introduce a novel interacting particle method for MOO inspired by molecular dynamics simulations. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Yinuo Ren , Tesi Xiao , Tanmay Gangwani , Anshuka Rangi , Holakou Rahmanian , Lexing Ying , Subhajit Sanyal

A new kind of six degree-of-freedom teaching manipulator without actuators is designed, for recording and conveniently setting a trajectory of an industrial robot. The device requires good gravity balance and operating force performance to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Zhun Fan , Yugen You , Haodong Zheng , Guijie Zhu , Wenji Li , Shen Chen , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman

Training a single model for multilingual, multi-task speech processing (MSP) is severely hampered by conflicting objectives between tasks like speech recognition and translation. While multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims to align…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 A F M Saif , Lisha Chen , Xiaodong Cui , Songtao Lu , Brian Kingsbury , Tianyi Chen

Optimization is offered as an objective approach to resolving complex, real-world decisions involving uncertainty and conflicting interests. It drives business strategies as well as public policies and, increasingly, lies at the heart of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Benjamin Laufer , Thomas Krendl Gilbert , Helen Nissenbaum

Bayesian optimization is a sequential method for minimizing objective functions that are expensive to evaluate and about which few assumptions can be made. By using all gathered data to train a Gaussian process model for the function and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jesse Schneider , William J. Welch

Finding multiple solutions of non-convex optimization problems is a ubiquitous yet challenging task. Most past algorithms either apply single-solution optimization methods from multiple random initial guesses or search in the vicinity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Lingxiao Li , Noam Aigerman , Vladimir G. Kim , Jiajin Li , Kristjan Greenewald , Mikhail Yurochkin , Justin Solomon

Multi-objective learning under user-specified preference is common in real-world problems such as multi-lingual speech recognition under fairness. In this work, we frame such a problem as a semivectorial bilevel optimization problem, whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Lisha Chen , Quan Xiao , Ellen Hidemi Fukuda , Xinyi Chen , Kun Yuan , Tianyi Chen

It is well known over the recent years that measuring the success of projects under the umbrella of project management is inextricably linked with the associated cost, time, and quality. Most of the previous researches in the field assigned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Mohammad Sammany , Ahmad Steef , Nedaa Agami , T. Medhat

In this paper, we propose a general class of algorithms for optimizing an extensive variety of nonsmoothly penalized objective functions that satisfy certain regularity conditions. The proposed framework utilizes the…

Computation · Statistics 2011-01-24 Elizabeth D. Schifano , Robert L. Strawderman , Martin T. Wells