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We propose two Euler-Maruyama (EM) type numerical schemes in order to approximate the invariant measure of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by an $\alpha$-stable L\'evy process ($1<\alpha<2$): an approximation scheme with the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Peng Chen , Changsong Deng , Rene Schilling , Lihu Xu

Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimization (SMOO) is critical for decision-making trading off multiple potentially conflicting objectives in uncertain environments. SMOO aims at identifying the Pareto frontier, which contains all mutually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jinzhao Li , Nan Jiang , Yexiang Xue

Multi-objective symbolic regression has the advantage that while the accuracy of the learned models is maximized, the complexity is automatically adapted and need not be specified a-priori. The result of the optimization is not a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Michael Kommenda , Andreas Beham , Michael Affenzeller , Gabriel Kronberger

Pareto optimization using evolutionary multi-objective algorithms has been widely applied to solve constrained submodular optimization problems. A crucial factor determining the runtime of the used evolutionary algorithms to obtain good…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are heuristic algorithms inspired by natural evolution. They are often used to obtain satisficing solutions in practice. In this paper, we investigate a largely underexplored issue: the approximation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Yang Yu , Xin Yao , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Very recently, the first mathematical runtime analyses for the NSGA-II, the most common multi-objective evolutionary algorithm, have been conducted. Continuing this research direction, we prove that the NSGA-II optimizes the OneJumpZeroJump…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Benjamin Doerr , Zhongdi Qu

CSMA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access), which resolves contentions over wireless networks in a fully distributed fashion, has recently gained a lot of attentions since it has been proved that appropriate control of CSMA parameters guarantees…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-01-16 Se-Young Yun , Jinwoo Shin , Yung Yi

Many real-world optimization problems such as engineering design can be eventually modeled as the corresponding multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) which must be solved to obtain approximate Pareto optimal fronts. Multiobjective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Wang Chen , Jian Chen , Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang , Hui Li

Even if a Multi-modal Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm (MMOEA) is designed to find solutions well spread over all locally optimal approximation sets of a Multi-modal Multi-objective Optimization Problem (MMOP), there is a risk that…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Renzo J. Scholman , Anton Bouter , Leah R. M. Dickhoff , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is receiving more attention in various fields such as multi-task learning. Recent works provide some effective algorithms with theoretical analysis but they are limited by the standard $L$-smooth or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qi Zhang , Peiyao Xiao , Shaofeng Zou , Kaiyi Ji

Consider an optimization problem with $n$ binary variables and $d+1$ linear objective functions. Each valid solution $x \in \{0,1\}^n$ gives rise to an objective vector in $\R^{d+1}$, and one often wants to enumerate the Pareto optima among…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-11-11 Ankur Moitra , Ryan O'Donnell

The study of semantics in Genetic Program (GP) deals with the behaviour of a program given a set of inputs and has been widely reported in helping to promote diversity in GP for a range of complex problems ultimately improving evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Edgar Galván , Fergal Stapleton

Search-based software testing (SBST) is a widely adopted technique for testing complex systems with large input spaces, such as Deep Learning-enabled (DL-enabled) systems. Many SBST techniques focus on Pareto-based optimization, where…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Lev Sorokin , Damir Safin , Shiva Nejati

The recent advancement of foundation models (FMs) has brought about a paradigm shift, revolutionizing various sectors worldwide. The popular optimizers used to train these models are stochastic gradient descent-based algorithms, which face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shenglong Zhou , Ouya Wang , Ziyan Luo , Yongxu Zhu , Geoffrey Ye Li

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) have been widely applied to multi-objective optimization due to their population-based nature. Population update, a key component in multi-objective EAs (MOEAs), is usually performed in a greedy, deterministic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Shengjie Ren , Zimin Liang , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Real-world and complex problems have usually many objective functions that have to be optimized all at once. Over the last decades, Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) are designed to solve this kind of problems. Nevertheless,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Cristian Ramirez-Atencia , Sanaz Mostaghim , David Camacho

In this work, we conduct the first systematic study of stochastic variational inequality (SVI) and stochastic saddle point (SSP) problems under the constraint of differential privacy (DP). We propose two algorithms: Noisy Stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Digvijay Boob , Cristóbal Guzmán

In the field of evolutionary multi-objective optimization, the approximation of the Pareto front (PF) is achieved by utilizing a collection of representative candidate solutions that exhibit desirable convergence and diversity. Although…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Peng Chen , Jing Liang , Kangjia Qiao , Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan , Xuanxuan Ban

Evolutionary algorithms are popular algorithms for multiobjective optimisation (also called Pareto optimisation) as they use a population to store trade-offs between different objectives. Despite their popularity, the theoretical foundation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Duc-Cuong Dang , Andre Opris , Dirk Sudholt

This article investigates the approximation quality achievable for biobjective minimization problems with respect to the Pareto cone by solutions that are (approximately) optimal with respect to larger ordering cones. When simultaneously…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Arne Herzel , Stephan Helfrich , Stefan Ruzika , Clemens Thielen