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For regulatory and interpretability reasons, logistic regression is still widely used. To improve prediction accuracy and interpretability, a preprocessing step quantizing both continuous and categorical data is usually performed:…
In this work we are interested in stochastic particle methods for multi-objective optimization. The problem is formulated using parametrized, single-objective sub-problems which are solved simultaneously. To this end a consensus based…
Most machine learning algorithms are configured by one or several hyperparameters that must be carefully chosen and often considerably impact performance. To avoid a time consuming and unreproducible manual trial-and-error process to find…
Optunity is a free software package dedicated to hyperparameter optimization. It contains various types of solvers, ranging from undirected methods to direct search, particle swarm and evolutionary optimization. The design focuses on ease…
Ordinal user-provided ratings across multiple items are frequently encountered in both scientific and commercial applications. Whilst recommender systems are known to do well on these type of data from a predictive point of view, their…
We propose a new method for analyzing a set of parameters in a multiple criteria ranking method. Unlike the existing techniques, we do not use any optimization technique, instead incorporating and extending a Segmenting Description…
Optimization of expensive computer models with the help of Gaussian process emulators in now commonplace. However, when several (competing) objectives are considered, choosing an appropriate sampling strategy remains an open question. We…
Recently, preference optimization methods such as DPO have significantly enhanced large language models (LLMs) in wide tasks including dialogue and question-answering. However, current methods fail to account for the varying difficulty…
We investigate the existence of approximation algorithms for maximization of submodular functions, that run in fixed parameter tractable (FPT) time. Given a non-decreasing submodular set function $v: 2^X \to \mathbb{R}$ the goal is to…
Tuning parameters is an important step for the application of metaheuristics to problem classes of interest. In this work we present a tuning framework based on the sequential optimization of perturbed regression models. Besides providing…
Hyperparameter optimization (HPO) is a powerful technique for automating the tuning of machine learning (ML) models. However, in many real-world applications, accuracy is only one of multiple performance criteria that must be considered.…
A choice of optimization objective is immensely pivotal in the design of a recommender system as it affects the general modeling process of a user's intent from previous interactions. Existing approaches mainly adhere to three categories of…
Optimization problems involving mixed variables (i.e., variables of numerical and categorical nature) can be challenging to solve, especially in the presence of mixed-variable constraints. Moreover, when the objective function is the result…
In this paper, a robust sequential quadratic programming method for constrained optimization is generalized to problem with an {expectation} objective function {and} deterministic equality and inequality constraints. A stochastic line…
In this paper, a new one-parameter filled function approach is developed for nonlinear multi-objective optimization. Inspired by key filled function ideas from single-objective optimization, the proposed method is adapted to the…
Multi-objective optimization is a crucial matter in computer systems design space exploration because real-world applications often rely on a trade-off between several objectives. Derivatives are usually not available or impractical to…
The paper concerns multiobjective linear optimization problems in R^n that are parameterized with respect to the right-hand side perturbations of inequality constraints. Our focus is on measuring the variation of the feasible set and the…
Post-training of LLMs with RLHF, and subsequently preference optimization algorithms such as DPO, IPO, etc., made a big difference in improving human alignment. However, all such techniques can only work with a single (human) objective. In…
Obtaining optimal data transfer performance is of utmost importance to today's data-intensive distributed applications and wide-area data replication services. Doing so necessitates effectively utilizing available network bandwidth and…
Perspective functions arise explicitly or implicitly in various forms in applied mathematics and in statistical data analysis. To date, no systematic strategy is available to solve the associated, typically nonsmooth, optimization problems.…