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This paper gives a concise overview of evolutionary algorithms for multiobjective optimization. A substantial number of evolutionary computation methods for multiobjective problem solving has been proposed so far, and an attempt of unifying…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-21 Arnaud Liefooghe , Laetitia Jourdan , El-Ghazali Talbi

Most of existing neural methods for multi-objective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems solely rely on decomposition, which often leads to repetitive solutions for the respective subproblems, thus a limited Pareto set. Beyond…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jinbiao Chen , Zizhen Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Yaoxin Wu , Yining Ma , Te Ye , Jiahai Wang

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

Post-training of LLMs with RLHF, and subsequently preference optimization algorithms such as DPO, IPO, etc., made a big difference in improving human alignment. However, all such techniques can only work with a single (human) objective. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Akhil Agnihotri , Rahul Jain , Deepak Ramachandran , Zheng Wen

Multiobjective combinatorial optimization (MOCO) problems can be found in many real-world applications. However, exactly solving these problems would be very challenging, particularly when they are NP-hard. Many handcrafted heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang

The decomposition-based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA/D) does not directly optimize a given multi-objective function $f$, but instead optimizes $N + 1$ single-objective subproblems of $f$ in a co-evolutionary manner. It…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Benjamin Doerr , Martin S. Krejca , Noé Weeks

In the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the approximation of the Pareto front (PF) is achieved by utilizing a collection of representative candidate solutions that exhibit desirable convergence and diversity. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peng Chen , Jing Liang , Kangjia Qiao , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan , Xuanxuan Ban

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

Decomposition has been the mainstream approach in classic mathematical programming for multi-objective optimization and multi-criterion decision-making. However, it was not properly studied in the context of evolutionary multi-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ke Li

This paper studies an entropy-based multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MBO). The entropy search is successful approach to Bayesian optimization. However, for MBO, existing entropy-based methods ignore trade-off among objectives or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Shinya Suzuki , Shion Takeno , Tomoyuki Tamura , Kazuki Shitara , Masayuki Karasuyama

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) arises in many real-world applications where trade-offs between competing objectives must be carefully balanced. In the offline setting, where only a static dataset is available, the main challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jatan Shrestha , Santeri Heiskanen , Kari Hepola , Severi Rissanen , Pekka Jääskeläinen , Joni Pajarinen

Many-objective optimisation, a subset of multi-objective optimisation, involves optimisation problems with more than three objectives. As the number of objectives increases, the number of solutions needed to adequately represent the entire…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Chao Jiang , Jingyu Huang , Miqing Li

Many complex systems obey to optimality conditions that are usually not simple. Conflicting traits often interact making a Multi Objective Optimization (MOO) approach necessary. Recent MOO research on complex systems report about the Pareto…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-16 Luís F. Seoane , Ricard Solé

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

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

An important challenge in multi-objective reinforcement learning is obtaining a Pareto front of policies to attain optimal performance under different preferences. We introduce Iterated Pareto Referent Optimisation (IPRO), which decomposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Willem Röpke , Mathieu Reymond , Patrick Mannion , Diederik M. Roijers , Ann Nowé , Roxana Rădulescu

Multi-task learning (MTL), which aims to improve performance by learning multiple tasks simultaneously, inherently presents an optimization challenge due to multiple objectives. Hence, multi-objective optimization (MOO) approaches have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Simyung Chang , KiYoon Yoo , Jiho Jang , Nojun Kwak

When working with decomposition-based algorithms, an appropriate set of weights might improve quality of the final solution. A set of uniformly distributed weights usually leads to well-distributed solutions on a Pareto front. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Lucas R. C. de Farias , Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani , Aluizio F. R. Araújo

This paper is concerned with a recently developed paradigm for population-based optimization, termed particle filter optimization (PFO). This paradigm is attractive in terms of coherence in theory and easiness in mathematical analysis and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-26 Bin Liu , Yaochu Jin

The major difficulty in Multi-objective Optimization Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) is how to find an appropriate solution that is able to converge towards the true Pareto Front with high diversity. Most existing methodologies, which have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-30 Jeisson Prieto , Jonatan Gomez