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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

Optimization of three-dimensional road alignments is a nonlinear non-convex optimization problem. The development of models that fully optimize a three-dimensional road alignment problem is challenging due to numerous factors involved and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 D. Hirpa , W. Hare , Y. Lucet , Y. Pushak , S. Tesfamariam

Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

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

Many communication and control problems are cast as multi-objective Markov decision processes (MOMDPs). The complete solution to an MOMDP is the Pareto front. Much of the literature approximates this front via scalarization into…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Jiping Luo , Nikolaos Pappas

We describe multi-objective influence diagrams, based on a set of p objectives, where utility values are vectors in Rp, and are typically only partially ordered. These can still be solved by a variable elimination algorithm, leading to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Radu Marinescu , Abdul Razak , Nic Wilson

Selecting the optimal material for a part designed through topology optimization is a complex problem. The shape and properties of the Pareto front plays an important role in this selection. In this paper we show that the compliance-volume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Edouard Duriez , Miguel Charlotte , Catherine Azzaro-Pantel , Joseph Morlier

Pareto optimization via evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been shown to efficiently solve constrained monotone submodular functions. Traditionally when solving multiple problems, the algorithm is run for each problem separately.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Liam Wigney , Frank Neumann

Nervous systems, like any organismal structure, have been shaped by evolutionary processes to increase fitness. The resulting neural 'bauplan' has to account for multiple objectives simultaneously, including computational function as well…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-05 Fabian Pallasdies , Philipp Norton , Jan-Hendrik Schleimer , Susanne Schreiber

According to the published papers and books since the turn of the century, Pareto optimization is the dominating assessment method for multi-objective nonlinear optimization problems treated by population-based optimizers like Evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Wilfried Jakob , Christian Blume

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

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

In multiobjective optimisation, a set of scalable test problems with a variety of features allow researchers to investigate and evaluate the abilities of different optimisation algorithms, and thus can help them to design and develop more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Liangli Zhen , Miqing Li , Ran Cheng , Dezhong Peng , Xin Yao

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

Scalarization is widely used in multi-objective optimization owing to its simplicity and scalability. In many applications, the goal is to generate solutions that represent diverse user preferences, ideally with uniform coverage of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Liuyuan Jiang , Chentong Huang , Lisha Chen

Understanding the relationships between objectives in a multiobjective optimisation problem is important for developing tailored and efficient solving techniques. In particular, when tackling combinatorial optimisation problems with many…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Rodrigo Lankaites Pinheiro , Dario Landa-Silva , Jason Atkin

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

This note proposes an algorithm to generate the Pareto front of a mixed discrete multi-objective optimization problem based on the pruning of irrelevant subproblems. An existing pruning-based method for a mixed discrete bi-objective problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-28 Juseong Lee , Sang-Il Lee , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

Most approaches for designing self-assembled materials focus on the thermodynamic stability of a target structure or crystal polymorph. Yet in practice, the outcome of a self-assembly process is often controlled by kinetic pathways. Here we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-08 Sambarta Chatterjee , William M. Jacobs

In the current work, we have formulated the optimal bit-allocation problem for a scalable codec of images or videos as a constrained vector-valued optimization problem and demonstrated that there can be many optimal solutions, called Pareto…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Wen-Liang Hwang