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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

Expensive multi-objective optimization problems (EMOPs) are common in real-world scenarios where evaluating objective functions is costly and involves extensive computations or physical experiments. Current Pareto set learning methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Minh-Duc Nguyen , Phuong Mai Dinh , Quang-Huy Nguyen , Long P. Hoang , Dung D. Le

We consider a multi-objective optimization problem with objective functions that are expensive to evaluate. The decision maker (DM) has unknown preferences, and so the standard approach is to generate an approximation of the Pareto front…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Juan Ungredda , Mariapia Marchi , Teresa Montrone , Juergen Branke

In this paper, we develop a stochastic set-valued optimization (SVO) framework tailored for robust machine learning. In the SVO setting, each decision variable is mapped to a set of objective values, and optimality is defined via set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Tommaso Giovannelli , Jingfu Tan , Luis Nunes Vicente

Multi-task learning, which optimizes performance across multiple tasks, is inherently a multi-objective optimization problem. Various algorithms are developed to provide discrete trade-off solutions on the Pareto front. Recently, continuous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Weiyu Chen , James T. Kwok

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

Evaluating preference optimization (PO) algorithms on LLM alignment is a challenging task that presents prohibitive costs, noise, and several variables like model size and hyper-parameters. In this work, we show that it is possible to gain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Carlo Alfano , Silvia Sapora , Jakob Nicolaus Foerster , Patrick Rebeschini , Yee Whye Teh

This work addresses a Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP) on a graph where the goal is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions from a start node to a destination in the graph. A family of approaches based on MOA* have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongqiang Ren , Richard Zhan , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions with multiple objectives. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yaohong Yang , Sammie Katt , Samuel Kaski

Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) aims to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and has found important applications in machine learning, such as minimizing classification loss and discrepancy in treating different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Eric Enouen , Katja Mathesius , Sean Wang , Arielle Carr , Sihong Xie

Multiobjective simulation optimization (MOSO) problems are optimization problems with multiple conflicting objectives, where evaluation of at least one of the objectives depends on a black-box numerical code or real-world experiment, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Tyler H. Chang , Stefan M. Wild

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 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

Lead optimization in drug discovery requires efficiently navigating vast chemical space through iterative cycles to enhance molecular properties while preserving structural similarity to the original lead compound. Despite recent advances,…

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Optimization problems have been the subject of statistical physics approximations. A specially relevant and general scenario is provided by optimization methods considering tradeoffs between cost and efficiency, where optimal solutions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-16 Luís F. Seoane , Ricard V. Solé

Incorporating user preferences into multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) allows for personalization of the optimization procedure. Preferences are often abstracted in the form of an unknown utility function, estimated through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Joshua Hang Sai Ip , Ankush Chakrabarty , Ali Mesbah , Diego Romeres

Black-box optimization refers to the optimization problem whose objective function and/or constraint sets are either unknown, inaccessible, or non-existent. In many applications, especially with the involvement of humans, the only way to…

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) excels at handling rapidly changing preferences in tasks that involve multiple criteria, even for unseen preferences. However, previous dominating MORL methods typically generate a fixed policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ruohong Liu , Yuxin Pan , Linjie Xu , Lei Song , Jiang Bian , Pengcheng You , Yize Chen

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast approximator of solutions to constrained optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 James Kotary , Himanshu Sharma , Ethan King , Draguna Vrabie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

The construction of machine learning models involves many bi-level multi-objective optimization problems (BL-MOPs), where upper level (UL) candidate solutions must be evaluated via training weights of a model in the lower level (LL). Due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Chao Wang , Licheng Jiao , Jiaxuan Zhao , Lingling Li , Xu Liu , Fang Liu , Shuyuan Yang