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We present new multi-test Bayesian optimization models and algorithms for use in large scale material screening applications. Our screening problems are designed around two tests, one expensive and one cheap. This paper differs from other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-14 James Hook , Calum Hand , Emma Whitfield

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

Accurately predicting protein-ligand binding free energies (BFEs) remains a central challenge in drug discovery, particularly because the most reliable methods, such as free energy perturbation (FEP), are computationally intensive and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Farzad Molani , Art E. Cho

In multiobjective optimization, most branch and bound algorithms provide the decision maker with the whole Pareto front, and then decision maker could select a single solution finally. However, if the number of objectives is large, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) is an important problem in real-world applications. However, for a non-trivial problem, no single solution exists that can optimize all the objectives simultaneously. In a typical MOO problem, the goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Zhang Haishan , Diptesh Das , Koji Tsuda

Molecular optimization, which aims to discover improved molecules from a vast chemical search space, is a critical step in chemical development. Various artificial intelligence technologies have demonstrated high effectiveness and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Xin Xia , Yajie Zhang , Xiangxiang Zeng , Xingyi Zhang , Chunhou Zheng , Yansen Su

Benchmark problems are an important tool for gaining understanding of optimization algorithms. Since algorithms often aim to perform well on benchmarks, biases in benchmark design provide misleading insights. In single-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Diederick Vermetten , Jeroen Rook

In supply chain management, decision-making often involves balancing multiple conflicting objectives, such as cost reduction, service level improvement, and environmental sustainability. Traditional multi-objective optimization methods,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Niki Kotecha , Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona

In this study we analyze linear mixed-integer programming problems, in which the distribution of the cost vector is only observable through a finite training data set. In contrast to the related studies, we assume that the number of random…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-20 Sergey S. Ketkov , Andrei S. Shilov

Selecting an optimal set of exemplars is critical for good performance of in-context learning. However, prior exemplar search methods narrowly optimize for predictive accuracy, critically neglecting model calibration--a key determinant of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Gaoxiang Luo , Aryan Deshwal

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

In this paper, we formulate the new multi-objective coverage (MOC) problem where our goal is to identify a small set of representative samples whose predicted outcomes broadly cover the feasible multi-objective space. This problem is of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Zakaria Shams Siam , Xuefeng Liu , Chong Liu

Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is important to leverage the full potential of machine learning (ML). In practice, users are often interested in multi-objective (MO) problems, i.e., optimizing potentially conflicting objectives, like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Joseph Giovanelli , Alexander Tornede , Tanja Tornede , Marius Lindauer

In engineering optimization problems, multiple objectives with a large number of variables under highly nonlinear constraints are usually required to be simultaneously optimized. Significant computing effort are required to find the Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junfei Zhang , Yimiao Huang , Guowei Ma , Brett Nener

Bayesian optimization is popular for optimizing time-consuming black-box objectives. Nonetheless, for hyperparameter tuning in deep neural networks, the time required to evaluate the validation error for even a few hyperparameter settings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Jian Wu , Saul Toscano-Palmerin , Peter I. Frazier , Andrew Gordon Wilson

Multicriteria optimization problems occur in many real life applications, for example in cancer radiotherapy treatment and in particular in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). In this work we focus on optimization problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Esther Bonacker , Aviv Gibali , Karl-Heinz Küfer , and Philipp Süss

Multi-task learning is a powerful method for solving multiple correlated tasks simultaneously. However, it is often impossible to find one single solution to optimize all the tasks, since different tasks might conflict with each other.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Xi Lin , Hui-Ling Zhen , Zhenhua Li , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

High-throughput virtual screening is an indispensable technique utilized in the discovery of small molecules. In cases where the library of molecules is exceedingly large, the cost of an exhaustive virtual screen may be prohibitive.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-05 David E. Graff , Matteo Aldeghi , Joseph A. Morrone , Kirk E. Jordan , Edward O. Pyzer-Knapp , Connor W. Coley

Drug discovery seeks molecules (ligands) that bind strongly and selectively to a target protein. However, fewer than 5% of candidate ligands pass the bar for even the early stages of drug discovery. Furthermore, we want methods that work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rahul Nandakumar , Ben Fauber , Deepayan Chakrabarti

We present PESMO, a Bayesian method for identifying the Pareto set of multi-objective optimization problems, when the functions are expensive to evaluate. The central idea of PESMO is to choose evaluation points so as to maximally reduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-23 Daniel Hernández-Lobato , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato , Amar Shah , Ryan P. Adams