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Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach for tackling complex problems. The recent introduction of multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) has further expanded the scope of RL by enabling agents to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Florian Felten , Daniel Gareev , El-Ghazali Talbi , Grégoire Danoy

Meta learning with multiple objectives can be formulated as a Multi-Objective Bi-Level optimization Problem (MOBLP) where the upper-level subproblem is to solve several possible conflicting targets for the meta learner. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Feiyang Ye , Baijiong Lin , Zhixiong Yue , Pengxin Guo , Qiao Xiao , Yu Zhang

In a wide range of applications it is desirable to optimally control a dynamical system with respect to concurrent, potentially competing goals. This gives rise to a multiobjective optimal control problem where, instead of computing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Sebastian Peitz , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Michael Dellnitz

Optimization problems involving mixed variables (i.e., variables of numerical and categorical nature) can be challenging to solve, especially in the presence of mixed-variable constraints. Moreover, when the objective function is the result…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Mengjia Zhu , Alberto Bemporad

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the application of multiobjective optimization (MOO) in machine learning (ML). This interest is driven by the numerous real-life situations where multiple objectives must be optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junaid Akhter , Paul David Fährmann , Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz , Daniel Schwietert

This paper proposes the multi objective variant of the recently introduced fitness dependent optimizer (FDO). The algorithm is called a Multi objective Fitness Dependent Optimizer (MOFDO) and is equipped with all five types of knowledge…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Jaza M. Abdullah , Tarik A. Rashid , Bestan B. Maaroof , Seyedali Mirjalili

In this paper we develop an algorithm to optimise a nonlinear utility function of multiple objectives over the integer efficient set. Our approach is based on identifying and updating bounds on the individual objectives as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-08 Melih Ozlen , Meral Azizoğlu , Benjamin A. Burton

Optimization problems with more than one objective consist in a very attractive topic for researchers due to its applicability in real-world situations. Over the years, the research effort in the Computational Intelligence field resulted in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-25 F. B. Lima Neto , I. M. C. Albuquerque , J. B. Monteiro Filho

The subject of this work is the problem of optimizing the configuration of cuts for skin grafting in order to improve the efficiency of the procedure. We consider the optimization problem in the framework of a linear elasticity model. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Helmut Harbrecht , Viacheslav Karnaev

The maximal coding rate reduction (MCR$^2$) objective for learning structured and compact deep representations is drawing increasing attention, especially after its recent usage in the derivation of fully explainable and highly effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng Wang , Huikang Liu , Druv Pai , Yaodong Yu , Zhihui Zhu , Qing Qu , Yi Ma

We consider robust submodular maximization problems (RSMs), where given a set of $m$ monotone submodular objective functions, the robustness is with respect to the worst-case (scaled) objective function. The model we consider generalizes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-12 Hsin-Yi Huang , Hao-Hsiang Wu , Simge Kucukyavuz

In this paper, a new one-parameter filled function approach is developed for nonlinear multi-objective optimization. Inspired by key filled function ideas from single-objective optimization, the proposed method is adapted to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Bikram Adhikary , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Multi-agent systems seeking consensus may also have other objective functions to optimize, requiring the research of multi-objective optimization in consensus. Several recent publications have explored this domain using various methods such…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Michael P. Wozniak

Multimodal multi-objective problems (MMOPs) commonly arise in real-world problems where distant solutions in decision space correspond to very similar objective values. To obtain all solutions for MMOPs, many multimodal multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Wenhua Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang , Jing Liang

Real-world problems are often multi-objective with decision-makers unable to specify a priori which trade-off between the conflicting objectives is preferable. Intuitively, building machine learning solutions in such cases would entail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Timo M. Deist , Monika Grewal , Frank J. W. M. Dankers , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

This paper considers scheduling on identical machines. The scheduling objective considered in this paper generalizes most scheduling minimization problems. In the problem, there are $n$ jobs and each job $j$ is associated with a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Benjamin Moseley

The minimization of a nonconvex composite function can model a variety of imaging tasks. A popular class of algorithms for solving such problems are majorization-minimization techniques which iteratively approximate the composite nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Jonas Geiping , Michael Moeller

Multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where the objectives often conflict each other and cannot be optimized by a single solution. In the past few decades, numerous methods have been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xi Lin , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Zhiyuan Yang , Fei Liu , Zhenkun Wang , Qingfu Zhang

Many clustering applications in machine learning and data mining rely on solving metric-constrained optimization problems. These problems are characterized by $O(n^3)$ constraints that enforce triangle inequalities on distance variables…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Cameron Ruggles , Nate Veldt , David F. Gleich

Composite convex optimization models arise in several applications, and are especially prevalent in inverse problems with a sparsity inducing norm and in general convex optimization with simple constraints. The most widely used algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Vahan Hovhannisyan , Panos Parpas , Stefanos Zafeiriou