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Efficient learning of user preferences is crucial for many modern decision making systems but typically requires costly labeled data. Active learning reduces this cost, yet standard methods are computationally expensive due to pool-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Namrata Nadagouda , Nauman Ahad , Maegan Tucker , Mark A. Davenport

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Akhil Agnihotri , Rahul Jain , Deepak Ramachandran , Zheng Wen

Multi-objective optimization (MOO) is a prevalent challenge for Deep Learning, however, there exists no scalable MOO solution for truly deep neural networks. Prior work either demand optimizing a new network for every point on the Pareto…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Michael Ruchte , Josif Grabocka

Decision-making is a cognitively intensive task that requires synthesizing relevant information from multiple unstructured sources, weighing competing factors, and incorporating subjective user preferences. Existing methods, including large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Akriti Jain , Anish Mulay , Divyansh Verma , Aishani Pandey , Pritika Ramu , Aparna Garimella

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has recently emerged as a simple and effective alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning large language models (LLMs) with user preferences. However, existing DPO…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Jason Bohne , Pawel Polak , David Rosenberg , Brian Bloniarz , Gary Kazantsev

Contact-rich manipulation plays an important role in daily human activities. However, uncertain physical parameters often pose significant challenges for both planning and control. A promising strategy is to develop policies that are robust…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Teng Xue , Amirreza Razmjoo , Suhan Shetty , Sylvain Calinon

We consider multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems handled by means of preference driven efficient heuristics. They look for the most preferred part of the Pareto front on the basis of some preferences expressed by the Decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Maria Barbati , Salvatore Corrente , Salvatore Greco

The recent success in using human preferences to align large language models (LLMs) has significantly improved their performance in various downstream tasks, such as question answering, mathematical reasoning, and code generation. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Xiaoqiang Lin , Arun Verma , Zhongxiang Dai , Daniela Rus , See-Kiong Ng , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Prior work in multi-objective reinforcement learning typically uses linear reward scalarization with fixed weights, which provably fails to capture non-convex Pareto fronts and thus yields suboptimal results. This limitation becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Yining Lu , Zilong Wang , Shiyang Li , Xin Liu , Changlong Yu , Qingyu Yin , Zhan Shi , Zixuan Zhang , Meng Jiang

As search depth increases in autonomous reasoning and embodied planning, candidate action spaces expand exponentially, often exhausting computational budgets. While heuristic pruning is a critical countermeasure, existing approaches lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tianhao Qian

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

In multiobjective optimization, most branch and bound algorithms provide the decision maker with the whole Pareto front, and then decision maker could select a single solution finally. However, if the number of objectives is large, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

Cross-modal hashing is a promising approach for efficient data retrieval and storage optimization. However, contemporary methods exhibit significant limitations in semantic preservation, contextual integrity, and information redundancy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Qiang Zou , Shuli Cheng , Jiayi Chen

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms (EMOAs) are widely employed to tackle problems with multiple conflicting objectives. Recent research indicates that not all objectives are equally important to the decision-maker (DM). In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Seyed Mahdi Shavarani , Mahmoud Golabi , Richard Allmendinger , Lhassane Idoumghar

Multi-objective reinforcement learning in robotic domains requires balancing complex, non-convex trade-offs between conflicting objectives. While linear scalarization methods provide stability, they are theoretically incapable of recovering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Mahmoud Ali , Lantao Liu

Interactive Machine Learning (IML) seeks to integrate human expertise into machine learning processes. However, most existing algorithms cannot be applied to Realworld Scenarios because their state spaces and/or action spaces are limited to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Nikolaus Feith , Elmar Rueckert

In this paper, we present an active exploration framework for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction that incrementally builds a multi-level uncertainty space and selects next-best-views through an uncertainty-driven motion planner. We introduce a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yan Li , Yingzhao Li , Gim Hee Lee

In this paper, we present the design of a multimodal interaction framework for intelligent virtual agents in wearable mixed reality environments, especially for interactive applications at museums, botanical gardens, and similar places.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ghazanfar Ali , Hong-Quan Le , Junho Kim , Seoung-won Hwang , Jae-In Hwang

Multi-objective preference alignment of large language models (LLMs) is critical for developing AI systems that are more configurable, personalizable, helpful, and safe. However, optimizing model outputs to satisfy diverse objectives with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Raghav Gupta , Ryan Sullivan , Yunxuan Li , Samrat Phatale , Abhinav Rastogi

Pareto front profiling in multi-objective optimization (MOO), i.e., finding a diverse set of Pareto optimal solutions, is challenging, especially with expensive objectives that require training a neural network. Typically, in MOO for neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Rhea Sanjay Sukthanker , Arber Zela , Benedikt Staffler , Samuel Dooley , Josif Grabocka , Frank Hutter