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Sequential decision-making problems with multiple objectives arise naturally in practice and pose unique challenges for research in decision-theoretic planning and learning, which has largely focused on single-objective settings. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Diederik Marijn Roijers , Peter Vamplew , Shimon Whiteson , Richard Dazeley

In multi-objective optimization, set-based quality indicators are a cornerstone of benchmarking and performance assessment. They capture the quality of a set of trade-off solutions by reducing it to a scalar number. One of the most commonly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Lennart Schäpermeier , Pascal Kerschke

Some real problems require the evaluation of expensive and noisy objective functions. Moreover, the analytical expression of these objective functions may be unknown. These functions are known as black-boxes, for example, estimating the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-12 Lucia Asencio Martín , Eduardo C. Garrido-Merchán

Efficiency in optimisation and search processes persists to be one of the challenges, which affects the performance and use of optimisation algorithms. Utilising a pool of operators instead of a single operator to handle move operations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Mehmet Emin Aydin

Geometric programming problems occur frequently in engineering design and management. In multiobjective optimization, the trade-off information between different objective functions is probably the most important piece of information in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-03-25 A. K. Ojha , A. K. Das

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) aims at finding a set of optimal configurations for a given set of objectives. A recent line of work applies MOO methods to the typical Machine Learning (ML) setting, which becomes multi-objective if a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Michael Ruchte , Josif Grabocka

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is a well-studied problem for several important recommendation problems. While multiple approaches have been proposed, in this work, we focus on using constrained optimization formulations (e.g., quadratic…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-16 Kinjal Basu , Ankan Saha , Shaunak Chatterjee

Multi-objective optimisation problems involve finding solutions with varying trade-offs between multiple and often conflicting objectives. Ising machines are physical devices that aim to find the absolute or approximate ground states of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mayowa Ayodele , Richard Allmendinger , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Arnaud Liefooghe , Matthieu Parizy

Bi-objective optimization problems on matroids are in general intractable and their corresponding decision problems are in general NP-hard. However, if one of the objective functions is restricted to binary cost coefficients the problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Kathrin Klamroth , Michael Stiglmayr , Julia Sudhoff

We consider a wide class of the discrete optimization problems with interval objective function. We give a generalization of the greedy algorithm for the problems. Using the algorithm, we obtain the set of all possible greedy solutions and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Alexander Prolubnikov

In multi-task learning, multiple tasks are solved jointly, sharing inductive bias between them. Multi-task learning is inherently a multi-objective problem because different tasks may conflict, necessitating a trade-off. A common compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

In multi-objective optimization, a single decision vector must balance the trade-offs between many objectives. Solutions achieving an optimal trade-off are said to be Pareto optimal: these are decision vectors for which improving any one…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-07 Abhishek Roy , Geelon So , Yi-An Ma

We study a bi-objective optimization problem, which for a given positive real number $n$ aims to find a vector $X = \{x_0,\cdots,x_{k-1}\} \in \mathbb{R}^{k}_{\ge 0}$ such that $\sum_{i=0}^{k-1} x_i = n$, minimizing the maximum of $k$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Hamidreza Khaleghzadeh , Ravi Reddy Manumachu , Alexey Lastovetsky

Submodular functions allow to model many real-world optimisation problems. This paper introduces approaches for computing diverse sets of high quality solutions for submodular optimisation problems. We first present diversifying greedy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Aneta Neumann , Jakob Bossek , Frank Neumann

In Multi-Task Learning (MTL), it is a common practice to train multi-task networks by optimizing an objective function, which is a weighted average of the task-specific objective functions. Although the computational advantages of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Lucas Pascal , Pietro Michiardi , Xavier Bost , Benoit Huet , Maria A. Zuluaga

Bayesian optimization is an effective method to efficiently optimize unknown objective functions with high evaluation costs. Traditional Bayesian optimization algorithms select one point per iteration for single objective function, whereas…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-08 Takashi Wada , Hideitsu Hino

An ongoing aim of research in multiobjective Bayesian optimization is to extend its applicability to a large number of objectives. While coping with a limited budget of evaluations, recovering the set of optimal compromise solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Mickaël Binois , Victor Picheny , Patrick Taillandier , Abderrahmane Habbal

Multi-objective optimization is the problem of optimizing simultaneously multiple objective functions and several techniques exist to deal with this problem. This paper aims to present the main methods that can be used to solve this issue…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Tortorelli

The greedy strategy is an approximation algorithm to solve optimization problems arising in decision making with multiple actions. How good is the greedy strategy compared to the optimal solution? In this survey, we mainly consider two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-10 Yajing Liu , Edwin K. P. Chong , Ali Pezeshki , Zhenliang Zhang

In a multiobjective optimization problem a solution is called Pareto-optimal if no criterion can be improved without deteriorating at least one of the other criteria. Computing the set of all Pareto-optimal solutions is a common task in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Heiko Röglin