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Current brain-computer interfaces primarily decode single motor variables, limiting their ability to support natural, high-bandwidth neural control that requires simultaneous extraction of multiple correlated motor dimensions. We introduce…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-13 Kaixi Tian , Shengjia Zhao , Yuhan Zhang , Shan Yu

Combinatorial Optimisation problems arise in several application domains and are often formulated in terms of graphs. Many of these problems are NP-hard, but exact solutions are not always needed. Several heuristics have been developed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 David Ireland , Giovanni Montana

Multi-objective orienteering problems (MO-OPs) are classical multi-objective routing problems and have received a lot of attention in the past decades. This study seeks to solve MO-OPs through a problem-decomposition framework, that is, a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wei Liu , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Kaiwen Li , Wenhua Li , Hisao Ishibuchi

Robotic systems often require a team of robots to collectively visit multiple targets while optimizing competing objectives, such as total travel cost and makespan. This setting can be formulated as the Multi-Objective Multiple Traveling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Fengxiaoxiao Li , Xiao Mao , Mingfeng Fan , Yifeng Zhang , Yi Li , Tanishq Duhan , Guillaume Sartoretti

Combinatorial optimization problems involving multiple agents are notoriously challenging due to their NP-hard nature and the necessity for effective agent coordination. Despite advancements in learning-based methods, existing approaches…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Federico Berto , Chuanbo Hua , Laurin Luttmann , Jiwoo Son , Junyoung Park , Kyuree Ahn , Changhyun Kwon , Lin Xie , Jinkyoo Park

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

The design of good heuristics or approximation algorithms for NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems often requires significant specialized knowledge and trial-and-error. Can we automate this challenging, tedious process, and learn the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Hanjun Dai , Elias B. Khalil , Yuyu Zhang , Bistra Dilkina , Le Song

We develop a new Hamiton-Jacobi (HJ) and differential game approach for exploring the Pareto front of (constrained) multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems. Given a preference function, we embed the scalarized MOO problem into the value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shanqing Liu , Paula Chen , Youngkyu Lee , Jerome Darbon

Machine learning problems with multiple objective functions appear either in learning with multiple criteria where learning has to make a trade-off between multiple performance metrics such as fairness, safety and accuracy; or, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Heshan Fernando , Han Shen , Miao Liu , Subhajit Chaudhury , Keerthiram Murugesan , Tianyi Chen

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOP) frequently arise in practical applications that require the simultaneous optimization of conflicting objectives. Although traditional evolutionary algorithms can be effective, they…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Minh Hieu Ha , Hung Phan , Tung Duy Doan , Tung Dao , Dao Tran , Huynh Thi Thanh Binh

We consider problems with multiple linear objectives and linear constraints and use Adjustable Robust Optimization and Polynomial Optimization as tools to approximate the Pareto set with polynomials of arbitrarily large degree. The main…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-13 Bram L. Gorissen , Dick den Hertog

This paper presents a framework to tackle constrained combinatorial optimization problems using deep Reinforcement Learning (RL). To this end, we extend the Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO) theory in order to deal with constraints in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Ruben Solozabal , Josu Ceberio , Martin Takáč

Multi-objectivization is a term used to describe strategies developed for optimizing single-objective problems by multi-objective algorithms. This paper focuses on multi-objectivizing the sum-of-the-parts combinatorial optimization…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Jialong Shi , Jianyong Sun , Qingfu Zhang

A multi-condition multi-objective optimization method that can find Pareto front over a defined condition space is developed for the first time using deep reinforcement learning. Unlike the conventional methods which perform optimization at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sejin Kim , Innyoung Kim , Donghyun You

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

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) as an emerging technique have shown superior capacity of dealing with heterogeneous information network (HIN). However, most HGNNs follow a semi-supervised learning manner, which notably limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Nian Liu , Xiao Wang , Hui Han , Chuan Shi

In the last decade, a plethora of algorithms for single-objective Boolean optimization has been proposed that rely on the iterative usage of a highly effective Propositional Satisfiability (SAT) solver. But the use of SAT solvers in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-26 João Cortes , Inês Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

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

The knapsack problem (KP) and its multidimensional version (MKP) are basic problems in combinatorial optimization. In this paper we consider their multiobjective extension (MOKP and MOMKP), for which the aim is to obtain or to approximate…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-07-26 Thibaut Lust , Jacques Teghem

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