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We consider the online planning problem for a team of agents to discover and track an unknown and time-varying number of moving objects from onboard sensor measurements with uncertain measurement-object origins. Since the onboard sensors…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Hoa Van Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Multiobjective optimization problems with heterogeneous objectives are defined as those that possess significantly different types of objective function components (not just incommensurable in units or scale). For example, in a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Richard Allmendinger , Joshua Knowles

The orienteering problem (OP) is a combinatorial optimization problem that seeks a path visiting a subset of locations to maximize collected rewards under a limited resource budget. This article presents a systematic PRISMA-based review of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Songhao Shen , Yufeng Zhou , Qin Lei , Zhibin Wu

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

Path planning for autonomous search and tracking of multiple objects is a critical problem in applications such as reconnaissance, surveillance, and data gathering. Due to the inherent competing objectives of searching for new objects while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Leonardo Santos , Brady Moon , Sebastian Scherer , Hoa Van Nguyen

We investigate the problem of multimodal search of target modality, where the task involves enhancing a query in a specific target modality by integrating information from auxiliary modalities. The goal is to retrieve relevant objects whose…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mengzhao Wang , Xiangyu Ke , Xiaoliang Xu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Pinpin Huang , Runkai Zhu

The research area of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) is reaching better understandings of the properties and capabilities of EMO algorithms, and accumulating much evidence of their worth in practical scenarios. An urgent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2009-08-24 David Corne , Joshua Knowles

Machine learning develops rapidly, which has made many theoretical breakthroughs and is widely applied in various fields. Optimization, as an important part of machine learning, has attracted much attention of researchers. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-24 Shiliang Sun , Zehui Cao , Han Zhu , Jing Zhao

OPUS is a branch and bound search algorithm that enables efficient admissible search through spaces for which the order of search operator application is not significant. The algorithm's search efficiency is demonstrated with respect to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-11-17 G. I. Webb

Recent advances in the visualization of continuous multimodal multi-objective optimization (MMMOO) landscapes brought a new perspective to their search dynamics. Locally efficient (LE) sets, often considered as traps for local search, are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Lennart Schäpermeier , Christian Grimme , Pascal Kerschke

Algorithms for continuous optimization problems have a rich history of design and innovation over the past several decades, in which mathematical analysis of their convergence and complexity properties plays a central role. Besides their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Stephen J. Wright

The proliferation of Deep Neural Networks has resulted in machine learning systems becoming increasingly more present in various real-world applications. Consequently, there is a growing demand for highly reliable models in many domains,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Pedro Conde , Rui L. Lopes , Cristiano Premebida

The emergence and continued reliance on the Internet and related technologies has resulted in the generation of large amounts of data that can be made available for analyses. However, humans do not possess the cognitive capabilities to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 MohammadNoor Injadat , Abdallah Moubayed , Ali Bou Nassif , Abdallah Shami

Despite the somewhat different techniques used in developing search engines and recommender systems, they both follow the same goal: helping people to get the information they need at the right time. Due to this common goal, search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

This paper focuses on developing new navigation and reconnaissance capabilities for cooperative unmanned systems in uncertain environments. The goal is to design a cooperative multi-vehicle system that can survey an unknown environment and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

Multimodal machine learning is a vibrant multi-disciplinary research field that aims to design computer agents with intelligent capabilities such as understanding, reasoning, and learning through integrating multiple communicative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

Recently, evolutionary multitasking has been employed to generate a ``set of Pareto sets" (SOS) for machine learning models, addressing diverse task settings across heterogeneous environments. This involves creating a repository of compact,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Jiao Liu , Yew Soon Ong , Melvin Wong

Designing efficient and fair algorithms for sharing multiple resources between heterogeneous demands is becoming increasingly important. Applications include compute clusters shared by multi-task jobs and routers equipped with middleboxes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Thomas Bonald , James Roberts

Cooperation in multi-agent learning (MAL) is a topic at the intersection of numerous disciplines, including game theory, economics, social sciences, and evolutionary biology. Research in this area aims to understand both how agents can…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Yali Du , Joel Z. Leibo , Usman Islam , Richard Willis , Peter Sunehag

The interplay between Machine Learning (ML) and Constrained Optimization (CO) has recently been the subject of increasing interest, leading to a new and prolific research area covering (e.g.) Decision Focused Learning and Constrained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Mattia Silvestri , Allegra De Filippo , Michele Lombardi , Michela Milano