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As machine learning (ML) applications grow increasingly complex in recent years, modern ML frameworks often need to address multiple potentially conflicting objectives with coupled decision variables across different layers. This creates a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhiyao Zhang , Zhuqing Liu , Xin Zhang , Wen-Yen Chen , Jiyan Yang , Jia Liu

Global optimization algorithms have shown impressive performance in data-association based multi-object tracking, but handling online data remains a difficult hurdle to overcome. In this paper, we present a hybrid data association framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Min Yang , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

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

We propose a novel receding horizon planner for an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) performing path planning in urban waterways. Feasible paths are found by repeatedly generating and searching a graph reflecting the obstacles observed in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Tixiao Shan , Wei Wang , Brendan Englot , Carlo Ratti , Daniela Rus

In the real-time decision-making and local planning process of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments, the autonomous driving system may fail to find a reasonable policy or even gets trapped in some situation due to the complexity of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Lilin Qian , Xin Xu , Yujun Zeng , Xiaohui Li , Zhenping Sun , Hang Song

This paper introduces a new method of partitioning the solution space of a multi-objective optimisation problem for parallel processing, called Efficient Projection Partitioning. This method projects solutions down into a single dimension,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-23 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

Traditional navigation services find the fastest route for a single driver. Though always using the fastest route seems desirable for every individual, selfish behavior can have undesirable effects such as higher energy consumption and…

The All-Pairs Shortest Paths (APSP) problem is one of the fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. It asks to compute the distance matrix of a given $n$-vertex graph. We revisit the classical problem of maintaining the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xiao Mao

The multi-gradient descent algorithm (MGDA) finds a common descent direction that can improve all objectives by identifying the minimum-norm point in the convex hull of the objective gradients. This method has become a foundational tool in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Yuan-Zheng Lei , Yaobang Gong , Xianfeng Terry Yang

In this article, we propose a Newton-based method for solving multiobjective interval optimization problems (MIOPs). We first provide a connection between weakly Pareto optimal points and Pareto critical points in the context of MIOPs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Tapas Mondal , Debdas Ghosh , Do Sang Kim

We introduce Pareto-NRPA, a new Monte-Carlo algorithm designed for multi-objective optimization problems over discrete search spaces. Extending the Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (NRPA) algorithm originally formulated for single-objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Noé Lallouet , Tristan Cazenave , Cyrille Enderli

In this article we propose a descent method for equality and inequality constrained multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) which generalizes the steepest descent method for unconstrained MOPs by Fliege and Svaiter to constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Bennet Gebken , Sebastian Peitz , Michael Dellnitz

In practice, objective functions of real-time control systems can have multiple local minimums or can dramatically change over the function space, making them hard to optimize. To efficiently optimize such systems, in this paper, we develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Haowei Wang , Songhao Wang , Qun Meng , Szu Hui Ng

In this work we consider the multi-agent motion planning (MAMP) problem with the constraint that agents arrive at their respective goals at the same time. For the special case where all agents are initially at rest we propose a two-step…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Anja Hellander , Daniel Axehill

Planning for Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (AUGV) is still a challenge, especially in difficult, off-road, critical situations. Automatic planning can be used to reach mission objectives, to perform navigation or maneuvers. Most of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kevin Osanlou , Christophe Guettier , Andrei Bursuc , Tristan Cazenave , Eric Jacopin

In this research, we investigate the subject of path-finding. A pruned version of visibility graph based on Candidate Vertices is formulated, followed by a new visibility check technique. Such combination enables us to quickly identify the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Pei Cao , Zhaoyan Fan , Robert X. Gao , Jiong Tang

We present a novel algorithm that fuses the existing convex-programming based approach with heuristic information to find optimality guarantees and near-optimal paths for the Shortest Path Problem in the Graph of Convex Sets (SPP-GCS). Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Kaarthik Sundar , Sivakumar Rathinam

Heuristic search-based planning techniques are commonly used for motion planning on discretized spaces. The performance of these algorithms is heavily affected by the resolution at which the search space is discretized. Typically a fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Wei Du , Fahad Islam , Maxim Likhachev

The main aim of this paper is to solve a path planning problem for an autonomous mobile robot in static and dynamic environments. The problem is solved by determining the collision-free path that satisfies the chosen criteria for shortest…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Fatin H. Ajeil , Ibraheem Kasim Ibraheem , Mouayad A. Sahib , Amjad J. Humaidi

We propose a Path-Tracking Hybrid A* planner coupled with a hierarchical Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for path smoothing in agricultural vehicles. The goal is to minimize deviation from reference paths during cross-furrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Mingke Lu , Han Gao , Haijie Dai , Qianli Lei , Chang Liu