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Many real-world applications are characterized by a number of conflicting performance measures. As optimizing in a multi-objective setting leads to a set of non-dominated solutions, a preference function is required for selecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Audrey Durand , Christian Gagné

In the real world, there exist a class of optimization problems that multiple (local) optimal solutions in the solution space correspond to a single point in the objective space. In this paper, we theoretically show that for such multimodal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Shengjie Ren , Zhijia Qiu , Chao Bian , Miqing Li , Chao Qian

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are essential for solving complex optimization problems, such as the diet problem, where balancing conflicting objectives, like cost and nutritional content, is crucial. However, most MOEAs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Gustavo V. Nascimento , Ivan R. Meneghini , Valéria Santos , Eduardo Luz , Gladston Moreira

Multi-objective preference alignment in language models often encounters a challenging trade-off: optimizing for one human preference (e.g., helpfulness) frequently compromises others (e.g., harmlessness) due to the inherent conflicts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhihao Xu , Yongqi Tong , Xin Zhang , Jun Zhou , Xiting Wang

An important benefit of multi-objective search is that it maintains a diverse population of candidates, which helps in deceptive problems in particular. Not all diversity is useful, however: candidates that optimize only one objective while…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Hormoz Shahrzad , Babak Hodjat , Camille Dollé , Andrei Denissov , Simon Lau , Donn Goodhew , Justin Dyer , Risto Miikkulainen

Solutions to multi-objective optimization problems can generally not be compared or ordered, due to the lack of orderability of the single objectives. Furthermore, decision-makers are often made to believe that scaled objectives can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Sebastian Hönel , Welf Löwe

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions with multiple objectives. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yaohong Yang , Sammie Katt , Samuel Kaski

Many real world scientific and industrial applications require optimizing multiple competing black-box objectives. When the objectives are expensive-to-evaluate, multi-objective Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular approach because of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Samuel Daulton , David Eriksson , Maximilian Balandat , Eytan Bakshy

Optimization has found numerous applications in engineering, particularly since 1960s. Many optimization applications in engineering have more than one objective (or performance criterion). Such applications require multi-objective (or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan Wang , Seyed Reza Nabavi , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

The problem we consider is a multi-objective optimization problem, in which the goal is to find an optimal value of a vector function representing various criteria. The aim of this work is to develop an algorithm which utilizes the trust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Nataša Krejić , Nataša Krklec Jerinkić , Luka Rutešić

Most existing studies on evolutionary multi-objective optimization focus on approximating the whole Pareto-optimal front. Nevertheless, rather than the whole front, which demands for too many points (especially in a high-dimensional space),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Ke Li , Kalyanmoy Deb , Xin Yao

Large-scale multi-objective optimization poses challenges to existing evolutionary algorithms in maintaining the performances of convergence and diversity because of high dimensional decision variables. Inspired by the motion of particles…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Li , Min-Rong Chen , Guo-Qiang Zeng , Jian Weng , Man Wang , Jia-Lin Mai

Multi-objective search (MOS) has emerged as a unifying framework for planning and decision-making problems where multiple, often conflicting, criteria must be balanced. While the problem has been studied for decades, recent years have seen…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Oren Salzman , Carlos Hernández Ulloa , Ariel Felner , Sven Koenig

The significance of transportation efficiency, safety, and related services is increasing in urban vehicular networks. Within such networks, roadside units (RSUs) serve as intermediates in facilitating communication. Therefore, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Weian Guo , Zecheng Kang , Dongyang Li , Lun Zhang , Li Li

This paper addresses the problem of constrained multi-objective optimization over black-box objective functions with practitioner-specified preferences over the objectives when a large fraction of the input space is infeasible (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

In this paper, a branch and bound algorithm that incorporates the decision maker's preference information is proposed for multiobjective optimization. In the proposed algorithm, a new discarding test is designed to check whether a box…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Weitian Wu , Xinmin Yang

Optimizing the consolidation process in container-based fulfillment centers requires trading off competing objectives such as processing speed, resource usage, and space utilization while adhering to a range of real-world operational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Sikata Sengupta , Guangyi Liu , Omer Gottesman , Joseph W Durham , Michael Kearns , Aaron Roth , Michael Caldara

Learning-enabled control systems increasingly rely on multiple sensing modalities (e.g., vision, audio, language, etc.) for perception and decision support. A key challenge is that multi-modal sensor training dynamics are often imbalanced:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Heshan Fernando , Quan Xiao , Parikshit Ram , Yi Zhou , Horst Samulowitz , Nathalie Baracaldo , Tianyi Chen

Many real-world problems require trading off multiple competing objectives. However, these objectives are often in different units and/or scales, which can make it challenging for practitioners to express numerical preferences over…

We present the viewpoint that optimization problems encountered in machine learning can often be interpreted as minimizing a convex functional over a function space, but with a non-convex constraint set introduced by model parameterization.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yongqiang Cai , Qianxiao Li , Zuowei Shen