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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…

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Quantum computers show potential for achieving computational advantage over classical computers, with many candidate applications in combinatorial optimisation. We present an application level benchmarking framework for near-term quantum…

We present a review that unifies decision-support methods for exploring the solutions produced by multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms. As MOO is applied to solve diverse problems, approaches for analyzing the trade-offs offered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zuzanna Osika , Jazmin Zatarain Salazar , Diederik M. Roijers , Frans A. Oliehoek , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

The practical implementation of high-fidelity quantum gates faces significant challenges in simultaneously mitigating multiple operational errors arising from distinct physical mechanisms. These errors often span orders of magnitude in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Min-Hua Zhang , Jing Qian

In this paper, we consider black-box multiobjective optimization problems in which all objective functions are not given analytically. In multiobjective optimization, it is important to produce a set of uniformly distributed discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Kwang-Hui Ju , Ju-Song Kim

In this paper, we introduce a quantum-enhanced algorithm for simulation-based optimization. Simulation-based optimization seeks to optimize an objective function that is computationally expensive to evaluate exactly, and thus, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Julien Gacon , Christa Zoufal , Stefan Woerner

When solving optimization problems with multiple objective functions we are often faced with the situation that one or several objective functions are non-convex or that we can not easily show the convexity of all functions involved. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Kerstin Dächert , Katrin Teichert

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 real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

This paper introduces the first objective space algorithm which can exactly find all supported and non-supported non-dominated solutions to a mixed-integer multi-objective linear program with an arbitrary number of objective functions. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

Automated machine learning has gained a lot of attention recently. Building and selecting the right machine learning models is often a multi-objective optimization problem. General purpose machine learning software that simultaneously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Steven Gardner , Oleg Golovidov , Joshua Griffin , Patrick Koch , Wayne Thompson , Brett Wujek , Yan Xu

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) transforms a simple many-qubit wavefunction into one which encodes a solution to a difficult classical optimization problem. It does this by optimizing the schedule according to which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-29 Yunlong Yu , Chenfeng Cao , Carter Dewey , Xiang-Bin Wang , Nic Shannon , Robert Joynt

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems require balancing competing objectives, often under constraints. The Pareto optimal solution set defines all possible optimal trade-offs over such objectives. In this work, we present a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Soumyajit Gupta , Gurpreet Singh , Raghu Bollapragada , Matthew Lease

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization aims to find the Pareto front of trade-offs between a set of expensive objectives while collecting as few samples as possible. In some cases, it is possible to evaluate the objectives separately, and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jack M. Buckingham , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Juergen Branke

Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several criteria are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

This paper presents an algorithm for solving multiobjective optimization problems involving composite functions, where we minimize a quadratic model that approximates $F(x) - F(x^k)$ and that can be derivative-free. We establish theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-29 V. S. Amaral , P. B. Assunção , D. R. Souza

Design problems in industrial engineering often involve a large number of design variables with multiple objectives, under complex nonlinear constraints. The algorithms for multiobjective problems can be significantly different from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Xin-She Yang

Many combinatorial optimization problems admit a maximin fairness variant, where the aim is to find a distribution over possible solutions which maximizes an expected worst-case outcome. However, the support for an optimal distribution may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Bao Bach , Cameron Ibrahim , Reuben Tate , Jad Salem , Stephan Eidenbenz , Ilya Safro

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 this paper, we deal with the Front Steepest Descent algorithm for multi-objective optimization. We point out that the algorithm from the literature is often incapable, by design, of spanning large portions of the Pareto front. We thus…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Matteo Lapucci , Pierluigi Mansueto