English
Related papers

Related papers: A Technique Based on Trade-off Maps to Visualise a…

200 papers

This paper studies how utility graphs decomposition algorithms can be used to effectively search for Pareto-efficient outcomes in complex automated negotiation. We propose a number of algorithms that can efficiently handle high-dimensional…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Valentin Robu , Mark Klein

Autonomous navigation often requires the simultaneous optimization of multiple objectives. The most common approach scalarizes these into a single cost function using a weighted sum, but this method is unable to find all possible trade-offs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Krishna Kalavadia , Shamak Dutta , Yash Vardhan Pant , Stephen L. Smith

This paper studies the underlying combinatorial structure of a class of object rearrangement problems, which appear frequently in applications. The problems involve multiple, similar-geometry objects placed on a flat, horizontal surface,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Shuai D. Han , Nicholas M. Stiffler , Athansios Krontiris , Kostas E. Bekris , Jingjin Yu

Autonomous robots are increasingly utilized in realistic scenarios with multiple complex tasks. In these scenarios, there may be a preferred way of completing all of the given tasks, but it is often in conflict with optimal execution.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Peter Amorese , Morteza Lahijanian

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is used to solve problems involving multiple objectives. An MORL agent must make decisions based on the diverse signals provided by distinct reward functions. Training an MORL agent yields a set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Zuzanna Osika , Jazmin Zatarain-Salazar , Frans A. Oliehoek , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Biswajit Paria , Kirthevasan Kandasamy , Barnabás Póczos

Graphs provide an efficient tool for object representation in various computer vision applications. Once graph-based representations are constructed, an important question is how to compare graphs. This problem is often formulated as a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-04-30 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Ranked data is commonly used in research across many fields of study including medicine, biology, psychology, and economics. One common statistic used for analyzing ranked data is Kendall's {\tau} coefficient, a non-parametric measure of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-04 Nicholas D. Edwards , Enzo de Jong , Stephen T. Ferguson

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization seeks Pareto-optimal solutions over exponentially large discrete spaces, yet existing methods sacrifice generality, scalability, or theoretical guarantees. We reformulate it as an online learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Esha Singh , Dongxia Wu , Chien-Yi Yang , Tajana Rosing , Rose Yu , Yi-An Ma

Two-phase methods are commonly used to solve bi-objective combinatorial optimization problems. In the first phase, all extreme supported nondominated points are generated through a dichotomic search. This phase also allows the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Felipe O. Mota , Luís Paquete , Daniel Vanderpooten

Sequential decision-making problems with multiple objectives arise naturally in practice and pose unique challenges for research in decision-theoretic planning and learning, which has largely focused on single-objective settings. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Diederik Marijn Roijers , Peter Vamplew , Shimon Whiteson , Richard Dazeley

We present a review that unifies decision-support methods for exploring the solutions produced by multi-objective optimization (MOO) algorithms. As MOO is applied to solve diverse problems, approaches for analyzing the trade-offs offered by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zuzanna Osika , Jazmin Zatarain Salazar , Diederik M. Roijers , Frans A. Oliehoek , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Like most multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems, biobjective optimization problems on matroids are in general intractable and their corresponding decision problems are in general NP-hard. In this paper, we consider biobjective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Jochen Gorski , Kathrin Klamroth , Julia Sudhoff

A multi-task learning (MTL) system aims at solving multiple related tasks at the same time. With a fixed model capacity, the tasks would be conflicted with each other, and the system usually has to make a trade-off among learning all of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Xi Lin , Zhiyuan Yang , Qingfu Zhang , Sam Kwong

The decomposition-based method has been recognized as a major approach for multi-objective optimization. It decomposes a multi-objective optimization problem into several single-objective optimization subproblems, each of which is usually…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Mengyuan Wu , Ke Li , Sam Kwong , Qingfu Zhang

We consider a class of combinatorial optimization problems that emerge in a variety of domains among which: condensed matter physics, theory of financial risks, error correcting codes in information transmissions, molecular and protein…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 L. Bussolari , P. Contucci , C. Giardina' , C. Giberti , F. Unguendoli , C. Vernia

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization aims to find the Pareto front of trade-offs between a set of expensive objectives while collecting as few samples as possible. In some cases, it is possible to evaluate the objectives separately, and a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Jack M. Buckingham , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Juergen Branke

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

We propose a method for finding approximate solutions to multiple-choice knapsack problems. To this aim we transform the multiple-choice knapsack problem into a bi-objective optimization problem whose solution set contains solutions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-20 Ewa M. Bednarczuk , Janusz Miroforidis , Przemysław Pyzel