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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

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) addresses the challenge of simultaneously optimizing multiple, often conflicting, rewards, moving beyond the single-reward focus of conventional reinforcement learning (RL). This approach is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Carlos Hernández , Roberto Santana

Many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs), especially the decomposition-based MOEAs, have attracted wide attention in recent years. Recent studies show that a well designed combination of the decomposition method and the domination…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yingyu Zhang , Yuanzhen Li , Quan-Ke Panb , P. N. Suganthan

Multi-objective feature selection is one of the most significant issues in the field of pattern recognition. It is challenging because it maximizes the classification performance and, at the same time, minimizes the number of selected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Motahare Namakin , Modjtaba Rouhani , Mostafa Sabzekar

We consider the problem of multi-objective optimization (MOO) of expensive black-box functions with the goal of discovering high-quality and diverse Pareto fronts where we are allowed to evaluate a batch of inputs. This problem arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

In multi-task learning, multiple tasks are solved jointly, sharing inductive bias between them. Multi-task learning is inherently a multi-objective problem because different tasks may conflict, necessitating a trade-off. A common compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Ozan Sener , Vladlen Koltun

Deep neural networks suffer from storing millions and billions of weights in memory post-training, making challenging memory-intensive models to deploy on embedded devices. The weight-sharing technique is one of the popular compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Rasa Khosrowshahli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Beatrice Ombuki-Berman

Most multimodal multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MMEAs) aim to find all global Pareto optimal sets (PSs) for a multimodal multi-objective optimization problem (MMOP). However, in real-world problems, decision makers (DMs) may be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Wenhua Li , Xingyi Yao , Kaiwen Li , Rui Wang , Tao Zhang , Ling Wang

When addressing the challenge of complex multi-objective optimization problems, particularly those with non-convex and non-uniform Pareto fronts, Decomposition-based Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEADs) often converge to local…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Ting Dong , Haoxin Wang , Hengxi Zhang , Wenbo Ding

Benchmark problems play a central role in assessing the performance of numerical optimization algorithms. However, many existing constrained multiobjective optimization benchmark problems rely on overly restricted constructions or lack…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Anne Auger , Dimo Brockhoff , Luka Opravš , Tea Tušar

Most multi-objective optimisation algorithms maintain an archive explicitly or implicitly during their search. Such an archive can be solely used to store high-quality solutions presented to the decision maker, but in many cases may…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Miqing Li , Manuel López-Ibáñez , Xin Yao

The performance of deep neural networks, such as Deep Belief Networks formed by Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs), strongly depends on their training, which is the process of adjusting their parameters. This process can be posed as an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-16 S. Ivvan Valdez , Alfonso Rojas-Domínguez

Optimization problems find widespread use in both single-objective and multi-objective scenarios. In practical applications, users aspire for solutions that converge to the region of interest (ROI) along the Pareto front (PF). While the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Tian Huang , Shengbo Wang , Ke Li

A weak formulation for a class of parabolic free boundary problems (FBP) is proposed that does not involve the notion of a free boundary but reduces to a FBP when classical solutions exist. It is aimed at hydrodynamic limits (HDL) of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-18 Rami Atar

Recent decades have witnessed great advancements in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) for multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs). However, these progressively improved MOEAs have not necessarily been equipped with scalable…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Songbai Liu , Qiuzhen Lin , Jianqiang Li , Kay Chen Tan

Parameterized analysis provides powerful mechanisms for obtaining fine-grained insights into different types of algorithms. In this work, we combine this field with evolutionary algorithms and provide parameterized complexity analysis of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Samuel Baguley , Tobias Friedrich , Aneta Neumann , Frank Neumann , Marcus Pappik , Ziena Zeif

In spite of the recent quick growth of the Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization (EMO) research field, there has been few trials to adapt the general variation operators to the particular context of the quest for the Pareto-optimal set.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Olga Roudenko , Marc Schoenauer

We study the following problem: Given a variable of interest, we would like to find a best linear predictor for it by choosing a subset of $k$ relevant variables obeying a matroid constraint. This problem is a natural generalization of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Theophile Thiery , Justin Ward

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs' responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Moxin Li , Yuantao Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Wentao Shi , Zhuo Liu , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, we investigate the nonemptiness of weak Pareto efficient solution set for a class of nonsmooth vector optimization problems on a nonempty closed constraint set without any boundedness and convexity assumptions. First, we…

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