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In this paper, we consider black-box multiobjective optimization problems in which all objective functions are not given analytically. In multiobjective optimization, it is important to produce a set of uniformly distributed discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Kwang-Hui Ju , Ju-Song Kim

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) has received growing attention in applications that require learning under multiple criteria. However, the existing MOO formulations do not explicitly account for distributional shifts in the data. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yufeng Yang , Fangning Zhuo , Ziyi Chen , Heng Huang , Yi Zhou

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is the generalization of standard reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to solve sequential decision making problems that consist of several, possibly conflicting, objectives. Generally, in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Xi Chen , Ali Ghadirzadeh , Mårten Björkman , Patric Jensfelt

We consider the problem of black-box multi-objective optimization (MOO) using expensive function evaluations (also referred to as experiments), where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions by minimizing the total…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

The issue of fairness in recommendation is becoming increasingly essential as Recommender Systems touch and influence more and more people in their daily lives. In fairness-aware recommendation, most of the existing algorithmic approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yingqiang Ge , Xiaoting Zhao , Lucia Yu , Saurabh Paul , Diane Hu , Chu-Cheng Hsieh , Yongfeng Zhang

We present several new results about smoothed analysis of multiobjective optimization problems. Motivated by the discrepancy between worst-case analysis and practical experience, this line of research has gained a lot of attention in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Tobias Brunsch , Heiko Röglin

Traditional multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are insufficiently equipped for scenarios involving multiple decision makers (DMs), which are prevalent in many practical applications. These scenarios are categorized as multiparty…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Kesheng Chen , Wenjian Luo , Qi Zhou , Yujiang liu , Peilan Xu , Yuhui Shi

Many real-world applications involve black-box optimization of multiple objectives using continuous function approximations that trade-off accuracy and resource cost of evaluation. For example, in rocket launching research, we need to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-24 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

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

AI inference scaling is often tuned through 1D heuristics (a fixed reasoning pass) or 2D bivariate trade-offs (e.g., accuracy vs. compute), which fail to consider cost and latency constraints. We introduce a 3D optimization framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Minseok Jung , Abhas Ricky , Muhammad Rameez Chatni

Multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) are prevalent in machine learning, with applications in multi-task learning, learning under fairness or robustness constraints, etc. Instead of reducing multiple objective functions into a scalar…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Liang Zhao , Yingying Yu , Xi Lin , Yifan Chen , Han Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

We consider the optimization of an uncertain objective over continuous and multi-dimensional decision spaces in problems in which we are only provided with observational data. We propose a novel algorithmic framework that is tractable,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Dimitris Bertsimas , Christopher McCord

We present AutoOptimization, a novel multi-objective optimization framework for adapting user interfaces. From a user's verbal preferences for changing a UI, our framework guides a prioritization-based Pareto frontier search over candidate…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhipeng Li , Christoph Gebhardt , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

In machine learning (ML), we often need to choose one among hundreds of trained ML models at hand, based on various objectives such as accuracy, robustness, fairness or scalability. However, it is often unclear how to compare, aggregate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Adrián Javaloy , Antonio Vergari , Isabel Valera

Algorithmic fairness seeks to identify and correct sources of bias in machine learning algorithms. Confoundingly, ensuring fairness often comes at the cost of accuracy. We provide formal tools in this work for reconciling this fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Susan Wei , Marc Niethammer

Optimization of materials performance for specific applications often requires balancing multiple aspects of materials functionality. Even for the cases where generative physical model of material behavior is known and reliable, this often…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-15 Arpan Biswas , Anna N. Morozovska , Maxim Ziatdinov , Eugene A. Eliseev , Sergei V. Kalinin

Multi-task learning solves multiple correlated tasks. However, conflicts may exist between them. In such circumstances, a single solution can rarely optimize all the tasks, leading to performance trade-offs. To arrive at a set of optimized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lu Bai , Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

Recently, there has been growing interest within the theoretical community in analytically studying multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. This runtime analysis-focused research can help formally understand algorithm behaviour, explain…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zimin Liang , Miqing Li

Real-world black-box optimization often involves time-consuming or costly experiments and simulations. Multi-fidelity optimization (MFO) stands out as a cost-effective strategy that balances high-fidelity accuracy with computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ke Li , Fan Li

It is a very challenging task to identify the objectives on which a certain decision was based, in particular if several, potentially conflicting criteria are equally important and a continuous set of optimal compromise decisions exists.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz