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Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is a relatively new field which builds on conventional Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve multi-objective problems. One of common algorithm is to extend scalar value Q-learning by using vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Kewen Ding

The main feature of large-scale multi-objective optimization problems (LSMOP) is to optimize multiple conflicting objectives while considering thousands of decision variables at the same time. An efficient LSMOP algorithm should have the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Haokai Hong , Kai Ye , Min Jiang , Donglin Cao , Kay Chen Tan

Bilevel optimization (BLO) is a popular approach with many applications including hyperparameter optimization, neural architecture search, adversarial robustness and model-agnostic meta-learning. However, the approach suffers from time and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Valerii Likhosherstov , Xingyou Song , Krzysztof Choromanski , Jared Davis , Adrian Weller

Deep neural networks trained using a softmax layer at the top and the cross-entropy loss are ubiquitous tools for image classification. Yet, this does not naturally enforce intra-class similarity nor inter-class margin of the learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 José Lezama , Qiang Qiu , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Recently, Pareto Set Learning (PSL) has been proposed for learning the entire Pareto set using a neural network. PSL employs preference vectors to scalarize multiple objectives, facilitating the learning of mappings from preference vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Rongguang Ye , Longcan Chen , Jinyuan Zhang , Hisao Ishibuchi

Learning-based methods for routing have gained significant attention in recent years, both in single-objective and multi-objective contexts. Yet, existing methods are unsuitable for routing on multigraphs, which feature multiple edges with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Filip Rydin , Attila Lischka , Jiaming Wu , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Balázs Kulcsár

We present methods for co-designing rigid robots over control and morphology (including discrete topology) over multiple objectives. Previous work has addressed problems in single-objective robot co-design or multi-objective control.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Jie Xu , Andrew Spielberg , Allan Zhao , Daniela Rus , Wojciech Matusik

The task adaptation and alignment of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been significantly advanced by instruction tuning and further strengthened by recent preference optimization. Yet, most LMMs still suffer from severe modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chenxi Liu , Tianyi Xiong , Yanshuo Chen , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Tianyi Zhou , Heng Huang

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

In offline multi-objective optimization (MOO), we leverage an offline dataset of designs and their associated labels to simultaneously minimize multiple objectives. This setting more closely mirrors complex real-world problems compared to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ye Yuan , Can Chen , Christopher Pal , Xue Liu

In this paper, we present a new MTL framework that searches for structures optimized for multiple tasks with diverse graph topologies and shares features among tasks. We design a restricted DAG-based central network with read-in/read-out…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Wonhyeok Choi , Sunghoon Im

Most multi-objective optimisation algorithms maintain an archive explicitly or implicitly during their search. Such an archive can be solely used to store high-quality solutions presented to the decision maker, but in many cases may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Miqing Li , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Xin Yao

We study multi-robot persistent monitoring on weighted graphs, where node weights encode monitoring priorities and edge weights encode travel distances. The goal is to design joint robot trajectories that minimize the worst-case weighted…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weizhen Wang , Ziheng Wang , Jianping He , Xinping Guan , Xiaoming Duan

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong multimodal performance, yet how computation is organized across populations of neurons remains poorly understood. In this work, we study VLMs through the lens of neural topology, representing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haoyu He , Yue Zhuo , Yu Zheng , Qi R. Wang

Bilevel optimization deals with nested problems in which a leader takes the first decision to minimize their objective function while accounting for a follower's best-response reaction. Constrained bilevel problems with integer variables…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Justin Dumouchelle , Esther Julien , Jannis Kurtz , Elias B. Khalil

The goal of multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is to learn policies that simultaneously optimize multiple competing objectives. In practice, an agent's preferences over the objectives may not be known apriori, and hence, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Baiting Zhu , Meihua Dang , Aditya Grover

Early advancements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) architectures are primarily driven by human expertise and by elaborate design processes. Recently, neural architecture search was proposed with the aim of automating the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Zhichao Lu , Ian Whalen , Yashesh Dhebar , Kalyanmoy Deb , Erik Goodman , Wolfgang Banzhaf , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

Learning-based heuristics for solving combinatorial optimization problems has recently attracted much academic attention. While most of the existing works only consider the single objective problem with simple constraints, many real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yongxin Zhang , Jiahai Wang , Zizhen Zhang , Yalan Zhou

A novel method, the Pareto Envelope Augmented with Reinforcement Learning (PEARL), has been developed to address the challenges posed by multi-objective problems, particularly in the field of engineering where the evaluation of candidate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Paul Seurin , Koroush Shirvan

Multimodal learning has been a field of increasing interest, aiming to combine various modalities in a single joint representation. Especially in the area of visiolinguistic (VL) learning multiple models and techniques have been developed,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou