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The Multi-Objective Mixed-Integer Programming (MOMIP) problem is one of the most challenging. To derive its Pareto optimal solutions one can use the well-known Chebyshev scalarization and Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) solvers. However,…

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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

In this paper, we study a solution approach for set optimization problems with respect to the lower set less relation. This approach can serve as a base for numerically solving set optimization problems by using established solvers from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Gabriele Eichfelder , Ernest Quintana , Stefan Rocktäschel

An important benefit of multi-objective search is that it maintains a diverse population of candidates, which helps in deceptive problems in particular. Not all diversity is useful, however: candidates that optimize only one objective while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Hormoz Shahrzad , Daniel Fink , Risto Miikkulainen

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

As the interest in multi- and many-objective optimization algorithms grows, the performance comparison of these algorithms becomes increasingly important. A large number of performance indicators for multi-objective optimization algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Amin Ibrahim , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Kalyanmoy Deb

We study a general scalarization approach via utility functions in multi-objective optimization. It consists of maximizing utility which is obtained from the objectives' bargaining with regard to a disagreement reference point. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Lorenzo Lampariello , Simone Sagratella , Valerio Giuseppe Sasso , Vladimir Shikhman

Few-for-many (F4M) optimization, recently introduced as a novel paradigm in multi-objective optimization, aims to find a small set of solutions that effectively handle a large number of conflicting objectives. Unlike traditional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ke Shang , Hisao Ishibuchi , Zexuan Zhu , Qingfu Zhang

Multi-objective learning (MOL) aims to learn under multiple potentially conflicting objectives and strike a proper balance. While recent preference-guided MOL methods often rely on additional optimization objectives or constraints, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Meitong Liu , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Chulin Xie , Kate Donahue , Han Zhao

Many real-world decision-making problems involve optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously, rendering the selection of the most preferred solution a non-trivial problem: All Pareto optimal solutions are viable candidates, and it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Niclas Boehmer , Maximilian T. Wittmann

We consider a decision-making problem to find absolute ratings of alternatives that are compared in pairs under multiple criteria, subject to constraints in the form of two-sided bounds on ratios between the ratings. Given matrices of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-22 Nikolai Krivulin

To date, the multi-objective optimization literature has mainly focused on conflicting objectives, studying the Pareto front, or requiring users to balance tradeoffs. Yet, in machine learning practice, there are many scenarios where such…

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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

Modern machine learning tasks often require considering not just one but multiple objectives. For example, besides the prediction quality, this could be the efficiency, robustness or fairness of the learned models, or any of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Peter Súkeník , Christoph H. Lampert

In recent years, there has been significant research interest in solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimisation (QUBO) problems. Physics-inspired optimisation algorithms have been proposed for deriving optimal or sub-optimal solutions…

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In this paper we propose a linear scalarization proximal point algorithm for solving arbitrary lower semicontinuous quasiconvex multiobjective minimization problems. Under some natural assumptions and using the condition that the proximal…

Nowadays, most online services are hosted on multi-stakeholder marketplaces, where consumers and producers may have different objectives. Conventional recommendation systems, however, mainly focus on maximizing consumers' satisfaction by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Haolun Wu , Chen Ma , Bhaskar Mitra , Fernando Diaz , Xue Liu

We study the approximation of general multiobjective optimization problems with the help of scalarizations. Existing results state that multiobjective minimization problems can be approximated well by norm-based scalarizations. However, for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-25 Stephan Helfrich , Arne Herzel , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen

We investigate the problem of computing a minimum set of solutions that approximates within a specified accuracy $\epsilon$ the Pareto curve of a multiobjective optimization problem. We show that for a broad class of bi-objective problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-05-20 Ilias Diakonikolas , Mihalis Yannakakis

Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

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