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While evolutionary computation is well suited for automatic discovery in engineering, it can also be used to gain insight into how humans and organizations could perform more effectively. Using a real-world problem of innovation search in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Erkin Bahceci , Riitta Katila , Risto Miikkulainen

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with complex reasoning tasks due to their limitations in addressing the vast reasoning space and inherent ambiguities of natural language. We propose the Mixture-of-Search-Agents (MoSA) paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sen Yang , Yafu Li , Wai Lam , Yu Cheng

Structural bias (SB) refers to systematic preferences of an optimisation algorithm for particular regions of the search space that arise independently of the objective function. While SB has been studied extensively in single-objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Jakub Kudela , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

Multi-objective learning (MOL) problems often arise in emerging machine learning problems when there are multiple learning criteria, data modalities, or learning tasks. Different from single-objective learning, one of the critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Lisha Chen , Heshan Fernando , Yiming Ying , Tianyi Chen

Crafting adversarial examples is crucial for evaluating and enhancing the robustness of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), presenting a challenge equivalent to maximizing a non-differentiable 0-1 loss function. However, existing single objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ping Guo , Cheng Gong , Xi Lin , Fei Liu , Zhichao Lu , Qingfu Zhang , Zhenkun Wang

In this paper we propose an optimization-based framework to multiple object matching. The framework takes maps computed between pairs of objects as input, and outputs maps that are consistent among all pairs of objects. The central idea of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Nan Hu , Qixing Huang , Boris Thibert , Leonidas Guibas

The growth of real world objects with embedded and globally networked sensors allows to consolidate the Internet of Things paradigm and increase the number of applications in the domains of ubiquitous and context-aware computing. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Luiz H. Nunes , Julio C. Estrella , Charith Perera , Stephan Reiff-Marganiec , Alexandre N. Delbem

High user interaction capability of mobile devices can help improve the accuracy of mobile visual search systems. At query time, it is possible to capture multiple views of an object from different viewing angles and at different scales…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Fatih Calisir , Muhammet Bastan , Ozgur Ulusoy , Ugur Gudukbay

As researchers and practitioners of applied machine learning, we are given a set of requirements on the problem to be solved, the plausibly obtainable data, and the computational resources available. We aim to find (within those bounds)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-05 Bronwyn Woods

Machine learning problems with multiple objective functions appear either in learning with multiple criteria where learning has to make a trade-off between multiple performance metrics such as fairness, safety and accuracy; or, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Heshan Fernando , Han Shen , Miao Liu , Subhajit Chaudhury , Keerthiram Murugesan , Tianyi Chen

Various local search approaches have recently been applied to machine scheduling problems under multiple objectives. Their foremost consideration is the identification of the set of Pareto optimal alternatives. An important aspect of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-09-02 Martin Josef Geiger

Adaptive multi-agent systems (MAS) are increasingly adopted to tackle complex problems. However, the narrow task coverage of their optimization raises the question of whether they can function as general-purpose systems. To address this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Namyoung So , Seokgyu Jang , Taeuk Kim

Multi-Object Tracking, also known as Multi-Target Tracking, is a significant area of computer vision that has many uses in a variety of settings. The development of deep learning, which has encouraged researchers to propose more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Vincenzo Mariano Scarrica , Ciro Panariello , Alessio Ferone , Antonino Staiano

Determining optimal well placements and controls are two important tasks in oil field development. These problems are computationally expensive, nonconvex, and contain multiple optima. The practical solution of these problems require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-02 Xiang Wang , Ronald D. Haynes , Qihong Feng

Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) addresses the challenge of simultaneously optimizing multiple, often conflicting, rewards, moving beyond the single-reward focus of conventional reinforcement learning (RL). This approach is…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Carlos Hernández , Roberto Santana

In this paper, we introduce an Augmented Lagrangian based method to incorporate the multiple objectives (MO) in a search ranking algorithm. Optimizing MOs is an essential and realistic requirement for building ranking models in production.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Michinari Momma , Alireza Bagheri Garakani , Nanxun Ma , Yi Sun

Our experience of the world is multimodal - we see objects, hear sounds, feel texture, smell odors, and taste flavors. Modality refers to the way in which something happens or is experienced and a research problem is characterized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Tadas Baltrušaitis , Chaitanya Ahuja , Louis-Philippe Morency

In this report, we suggest nine test problems for multi-task multi-objective optimization (MTMOO), each of which consists of two multiobjective optimization tasks that need to be solved simultaneously. The relationship between tasks varies…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Yuan Yuan , Yew-Soon Ong , Liang Feng , A. K. Qin , Abhishek Gupta , Bingshui Da , Qingfu Zhang , Kay Chen Tan , Yaochu Jin , Hisao Ishibuchi

Algorithmic fairness is receiving significant attention in the academic and broader literature due to the increasing use of predictive algorithms, including those based on artificial intelligence. One benefit of this trend is that algorithm…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Pratyush Garg , John Villasenor , Virginia Foggo

With the recent growth of conversational systems and intelligent assistants such as Apple Siri and Google Assistant, mobile devices are becoming even more pervasive in our lives. As a consequence, users are getting engaged with the mobile…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Hamed Zamani , Fabio Crestani , W. Bruce Croft