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In this paper, we propose a new descent method, termed as multiobjective memory gradient method, for finding Pareto critical points of a multiobjective optimization problem. The main thought in this method is to select a combination of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-02 Wang Chen , Xinmin Yang , Yong Zhao

We consider a multi-objective optimization problem with objective functions that are expensive to evaluate. The decision maker (DM) has unknown preferences, and so the standard approach is to generate an approximation of the Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Ungredda , Mariapia Marchi , Teresa Montrone , Juergen Branke

We present a new branch-and-bound type search method for mixed integer linear optimization problems based on the concept of offshoots (introduced in this paper). While similar to a classic branch-and-bound method, it allows for changing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Philipp M. Christophel , Imre Pólik

This paper proposes Branch & Learn, a framework for Predict+Optimize to tackle optimization problems containing parameters that are unknown at the time of solving. Given an optimization problem solvable by a recursive algorithm satisfying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Xinyi Hu , Jasper C. H. Lee , Jimmy H. M. Lee , Allen Z. Zhong

In this paper, we present an exact algorithm for optimizing two linear fractional over the efficient set of a multi-objective integer quadratic problem. This type of problems arises when two decision-makers, such as firms, each have a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Ali Bencheikh , Mustapha Moulai , Ilies Badaoui

It is challenging to quantify numerical preferences for different objectives in a multi-objective decision-making problem. However, the demonstrations of a user are often accessible. We propose an algorithm to infer linear preference…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Junlin Lu

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

A multiple objective simulation optimization algorithm named Multiple Objective Probabilistic Branch and Bound with Single Observation (MOPBnB(so)) is presented for approximating the Pareto optimal set and the associated efficient frontier…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Hao Huang , Zelda B. Zabinsky

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

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

We present a novel approach to help decision-makers efficiently identify preferred solutions from the Pareto set of a multi-objective optimization problem. Our method uses a Bayesian model to estimate the decision-maker's utility function…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-13 Felix Huber , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Raul Astudillo

Offline multi-objective optimization aims to identify Pareto-optimal solutions given a dataset of designs and their objective values. In this work, we propose a preference-guided diffusion model that generates Pareto-optimal designs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Yashas Annadani , Syrine Belakaria , Stefano Ermon , Stefan Bauer , Barbara E Engelhardt

Most combinatorial optimization problems can be formulated as mixed integer linear programming (MILP), in which branch-and-bound (B\&B) is a general and widely used method. Recently, learning to branch has become a hot research topic in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Qingyu Qu , Xijun Li , Yunfan Zhou , Jia Zeng , Mingxuan Yuan , Jie Wang , Jinhu Lv , Kexin Liu , Kun Mao

In many real-world optimization problems, more than one objective plays a role and input parameters are subject to uncertainty. In this paper, motivated by applications in disaster relief and public facility location, we model and solve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-24 Sophie N. Parragh , Fabien Tricoire , Walter Gutjahr

Black-box optimization refers to the optimization problem whose objective function and/or constraint sets are either unknown, inaccessible, or non-existent. In many applications, especially with the involvement of humans, the only way to…

This paper addresses the problem of constrained multi-objective optimization over black-box objective functions with practitioner-specified preferences over the objectives when a large fraction of the input space is infeasible (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Redistricting practitioners must balance many competing constraints and criteria when drawing district boundaries. To aid in this process, researchers have developed many methods for optimizing districting plans according to one or more…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Cory McCartan

Operations research applications often pose multicriteria problems. Mathematical research on multicriteria problems predominantly revolves around the set of Pareto optimal solutions, while in practice, methods that output a single solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Christina Büsing , Kai-Simon Goetzmann , Jannik Matuschke , Sebastian Stiller

Many machine learning tasks aim to find models that work well not for a single, but for a group of criteria, often opposing ones. One such example is imbalanced data classification, where, on the one hand, we want to achieve the best…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Szymon Wojciechowski , Michał Woźniak

Many optimization problems arising in applications have to consider several objective functions at the same time. Evolutionary algorithms seem to be a very natural choice for dealing with multi-objective problems as the population of such…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Tobias Friedrich , Frank Neumann , Christian Thyssen