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A minimum Manhattan distance (MMD) approach to multiple criteria decision making in multiobjective optimization problems (MOPs) is proposed. The approach selects the final solution corresponding with a vector that has the MMD from a…
Several researchers have proposed minimisation of maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) as a method to quantise probability measures, i.e., to approximate a target distribution by a representative point set. We consider sequential algorithms that…
Likelihood-free inference methods typically make use of a distance between simulated and real data. A common example is the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), which has previously been used for approximate Bayesian computation, minimum…
One of the most well-known and simplest models for diversity maximization is the Max-Min Diversification (MMD) model, which has been extensively studied in the data mining and database literature. In this paper, we initiate the study of the…
Detecting changes is of fundamental importance when analyzing data streams and has many applications, e.g., in predictive maintenance, fraud detection, or medicine. A principled approach to detect changes is to compare the distributions of…
This paper proposes a nonmonotone proximal quasi-Newton algorithm for unconstrained convex multiobjective composite optimization problems. To design the search direction, we minimize the max-scalarization of the variations of the Hessian…
In the field of evolutionary multiobjective optimization, the decision maker (DM) concerns conflicting objectives. In the real-world applications, there usually exist more than one DM and each DM concerns parts of these objectives.…
Covariate shifts are a common problem in predictive modeling on real-world problems. This paper proposes addressing the covariate shift problem by minimizing Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) statistics between the training and test sets in…
Inverted Generational Distance (IGD) has been widely considered as a reliable performance indicator to concurrently quantify the convergence and diversity of multi- and many-objective evolutionary algorithms. In this paper, an IGD…
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.…
A common goal in evolutionary multi-objective optimization is to find suitable finite-size approximations of the Pareto front of a given multi-objective optimization problem. While many multi-objective evolutionary algorithms have proven to…
Approximate Newton methods are a standard optimization tool which aim to maintain the benefits of Newton's method, such as a fast rate of convergence, whilst alleviating its drawbacks, such as computationally expensive calculation or…
Accurate approximation of probability measures is essential in numerical applications. This paper explores the quantization of probability measures using the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) distance as a guiding metric. We first investigate…
Existing domain adaptation methods aim to reduce the distributional difference between the source and target domains and respect their specific discriminative information, by establishing the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) and the…
Multiple-objective optimization (MOO) aims to simultaneously optimize multiple conflicting objectives and has found important applications in machine learning, such as minimizing classification loss and discrepancy in treating different…
In solving multi-modal, multi-objective optimization problems (MMOPs), the objective is not only to find a good representation of the Pareto-optimal front (PF) in the objective space but also to find all equivalent Pareto-optimal subsets…
Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) is widely used in a number of domain adaptation (DA) methods and shows its effectiveness in aligning data distributions across domains. However, in previous DA research, MMD-based DA methods focus mostly on…
Multimodal multi-objective problems (MMOPs) commonly arise in real-world problems where distant solutions in decision space correspond to very similar objective values. To obtain all solutions for MMOPs, many multimodal multi-objective…
We construct a Wasserstein gradient flow of the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) and study its convergence properties. The MMD is an integral probability metric defined for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS), and serves as a metric on…
Multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs), one type of complex optimization problems, widely exist in various real applications. Although meta-heuristics have been successfully applied to address MOCOPs, the calculation…