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We consider the bi-criteria shortest-path problem where we want to compute shortest paths on a graph that simultaneously balance two cost functions. While this problem has numerous applications, there is usually no path minimizing both cost…

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Optimal Experiment Design for parameter estimation in water networks has been traditionally formulated to maximize either hydraulic model accuracy or spatial coverage. Because a unique sensor configuration that optimizes both objectives may…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Filippo Pecci , Ivan Stoianov

The Chance-Constrained Parallel Machine Scheduling Problem (CC-PMSP) assigns jobs with uncertain processing times to machines, ensuring that each machine's availability constraints are met with a certain probability. We present a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-30 Nicolás Casassus , Margarita Castro , Gustavo Angulo

In this paper, a branch and bound algorithm that incorporates the decision maker's preference information is proposed for multiobjective optimization. In the proposed algorithm, a new discarding test is designed to check whether a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

In several different applications, including data transformation and entity resolution, rules are used to capture aspects of knowledge about the application at hand. Often, a large set of such rules is generated automatically or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Phokion G. Kolaitis , Lucian Popa , Kun Qian

Artificial neural networks have gone through a recent rise in popularity, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields, including image classification, speech recognition, and automated control. Both the performance and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Sean C. Smithson , Guang Yang , Warren J. Gross , Brett H. Meyer

Cutting plane methods, particularly outer approximation, are a well-established approach for solving nonlinear discrete optimization problems without relaxing the integrality of decision variables. While powerful in theory, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hòa T. Bùi , Alberto De Marchi

Generating feasible Pareto fronts for constrained bi-objective continuous optimization is central to multi-criteria decision-making. Existing methods usually rely on iterative scalarization, evolutionary search, or problem-specific solvers,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Peipei Xu , SiYuan Ma , Yaohua Liu , Yu Wu , Guanliang Liu , Yang Zhang , Yong Liu

Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) agents often struggle with long-horizon visual planning due to their reliance on error-prone distance metrics. We propose Discrete Hierarchical Planning (DHP), a method that replaces continuous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Shashank Sharma , Janina Hoffmann , Vinay Namboodiri

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems can be found in many real-world applications, where their objective function evaluations involve expensive computations or physical experiments. It is desirable to obtain an approximate Pareto…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Qingfu Zhang

Many discriminative natural language understanding (NLU) tasks have large label spaces. Learning such a process of large-space decision making is particularly challenging due to the lack of training instances per label and the difficulty of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Nan Xu , Fei Wang , Mingtao Dong , Muhao Chen

We conduct a theoretical study of various solution methods for the adaptive fractionation problem. The two messages of this paper are: (i) dynamic programming (DP) is a useful framework for adaptive radiation therapy, particularly adaptive…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-02-16 Jagdish Ramakrishnan , David Craft , Thomas Bortfeld , John N. Tsitsiklis

Hierarchical learning algorithms that gradually approximate a solution to a data-driven optimization problem are essential to decision-making systems, especially under limitations on time and computational resources. In this study, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Christos Mavridis , John Baras

This work tackles two critical challenges related to the development of metaheuristics for Multi-Objective Optimization Problems (MOOPs): the exponential growth of non-dominated solutions and the tendency of metaheuristics to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Amadeu A. Coco , Cyprien Borée , Julien Baste , Laetitia Jourdan , Lucien Mousin

Many networked systems involve multiple modes of transport. Such systems are called multimodal, and examples include logistic networks, biomedical phenomena, manufacturing process and telecommunication networks. Existing techniques for…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-16 Andrew Ensor , Felipe Lillo

We consider the canonical (quantity-based) network revenue management problem, where a firm accepts or rejects incoming customer requests irrevocably in order to maximize expected revenue given limited resources. Due to the curse of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Pornpawee Bumpensanti , He Wang

Low-precision arithmetic trains deep learning models using less energy, less memory and less time. However, we pay a price for the savings: lower precision may yield larger round-off error and hence larger prediction error. As applications…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Chengrun Yang , Ziyang Wu , Jerry Chee , Christopher De Sa , Madeleine Udell

We present methods for co-designing rigid robots over control and morphology (including discrete topology) over multiple objectives. Previous work has addressed problems in single-objective robot co-design or multi-objective control.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Jie Xu , Andrew Spielberg , Allan Zhao , Daniela Rus , Wojciech Matusik

Many modern machine learning applications, such as multi-task learning, require finding optimal model parameters to trade-off multiple objective functions that may conflict with each other. The notion of the Pareto set allows us to focus on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Mao Ye , Qiang Liu

In this work, we propose a novel method to tackle the problem of multiobjective optimization under parameteric uncertainties, by considering the Conditional Pareto Sets and Conditional Pareto Fronts. Based on those quantities we can define…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Victor Trappler , Céline Helbert , Rodolphe Le Riche