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We present a review that unifies decision-support methods for exploring the solutions produced by multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms. As MOO is applied to solve diverse problems, approaches for analyzing the trade-offs offered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zuzanna Osika , Jazmin Zatarain Salazar , Diederik M. Roijers , Frans A. Oliehoek , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Linear scalarization, i.e., combining all loss functions by a weighted sum, has been the default choice in the literature of multi-task learning (MTL) since its inception. In recent years, there is a surge of interest in developing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Yuzheng Hu , Ruicheng Xian , Qilong Wu , Qiuling Fan , Lang Yin , Han Zhao

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) plays a pivotal role in addressing multi-criteria decision-making problems in the real world. The multi-policy (MP) based methods are widely used to obtain high-quality Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zeyu Zhao , Yueling Che , Kaichen Liu , Jian Li , Junmei Yao

A multi-task learning (MTL) system aims at solving multiple related tasks at the same time. With a fixed model capacity, the tasks would be conflicted with each other, and the system usually has to make a trade-off among learning all of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

Ensuring AI models align with human values is essential for their safety and functionality. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) leverages human preferences to achieve this alignment. However, when preferences are sourced from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ryan Bahlous-Boldi , Li Ding , Lee Spector , Scott Niekum

Scalarisation functions are widely employed in MORL algorithms to enable intelligent decision-making. However, these functions often struggle to approximate the Pareto front accurately, rendering them unideal in complex, uncertain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Muhammad Sa'ood Shah , Asad Jeewa

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

As machine learning (ML) applications grow increasingly complex in recent years, modern ML frameworks often need to address multiple potentially conflicting objectives with coupled decision variables across different layers. This creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhiyao Zhang , Zhuqing Liu , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Jiyan Yang , Jia Liu

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) provides an effective solution for decision-making problems involving conflicting objectives. However, achieving high-quality approximations to the Pareto policy set remains challenging,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tianmeng Hu , Biao Luo

The facility location problems (FLPs) are a typical class of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, which are widely seen in the supply chain and logistics. Many mathematical and heuristic algorithms have been developed for optimizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Shiqing Liu , Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

When some parameters of a constrained optimization problem (COP) are uncertain, this gives rise to a predict-then-optimize (PtO) problem, comprising two stages: the prediction of the unknown parameters from contextual information and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jayanta Mandi , Marianne Defresne , Senne Berden , Tias Guns

Many practical applications of multi-objective optimization (MOO), including engineering design, autonomous systems, and machine learning, often yield complex Pareto frontiers (e.g., discontinuous, degenerate, or non-convex), which pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Phuong Mai Dinh , Van-Nam Huynh

Classical federated learning (FL) enables training machine learning models without sharing data for privacy preservation, but heterogeneous data characteristic degrades the performance of the localized model. Personalized FL (PFL) addresses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Mingjia Shi , Yuhao Zhou , Kai Wang , Huaizheng Zhang , Shudong Huang , Qing Ye , Jiangcheng Lv

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

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

There are a lot of real-world black-box optimization problems that need to optimize multiple criteria simultaneously. However, in a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem, identifying the whole Pareto front requires the prohibitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ryota Ozaki , Kazuki Ishikawa , Youhei Kanzaki , Shinya Suzuki , Shion Takeno , Ichiro Takeuchi , Masayuki Karasuyama

Multi-Objective Markov Decision Processes (MO-MDPs) are receiving increasing attention, as real-world decision-making problems often involve conflicting objectives that cannot be addressed by a single-objective MDP. The Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yining Li , Peizhong Ju , Ness B. Shroff

Given multiple non-convex objective functions and objective-specific weights, Chebyshev scalarization (CS) is a well-known approach to obtain an Exact Pareto Optimal (EPO), i.e., a solution on the Pareto front (PF) that intersects the ray…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Debabrata Mahapatra , Vaibhav Rajan

There is a well known intrinsic trade-off between the fairness of a representation and the performance of classifiers derived from the representation. Due to the complexity of optimisation algorithms in most modern representation learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-27 Mark Kozdoba , Binyamin Perets , Shie Mannor

Pareto Set Learning (PSL) is an emerging research area in multi-objective optimization, focusing on training neural networks to learn the mapping from preference vectors to Pareto optimal solutions. However, existing PSL methods are limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Chikai Shang , Rongguang Ye , Jiaqi Jiang , Fangqing Gu