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Selecting a set of alternatives based on the preferences of agents is an important problem in committee selection and beyond. Among the various criteria put forth for the desirability of a committee, Pareto optimality is a minimal and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Haris Aziz , Jerome Lang , Jerome Monnot

In alloy design, the search for candidate materials is often framed as an optimization problem, with the goal of identifying Pareto-optimal solutions across multiple objectives. However, Pareto-optimal solutions do not necessarily satisfy…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-24 Cayden Maguire , Christofer Hardcastle , Trevor Hastings , Raymundo Arróyave , Brent Vela

Modern machine learning tasks often require considering not just one but multiple objectives. For example, besides the prediction quality, this could be the efficiency, robustness or fairness of the learned models, or any of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Peter Súkeník , Christoph H. Lampert

In this paper we address a unified mathematical optimization framework to compute a wide range of measures used in most operations research and data science contexts. The goal is to embed such metrics within general optimization models…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Victor Blanco , Miguel A. Pozo , Justo Puerto , Alberto Torrejon

In contrast to single-objective optimization (SOO), multi-objective optimization (MOO) requires an optimizer to find the Pareto frontier, a subset of feasible solutions that are not dominated by other feasible solutions. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yiyang Zhao , Linnan Wang , Kevin Yang , Tianjun Zhang , Tian Guo , Yuandong Tian

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

We present an algorithm for multi-objective optimization of computationally expensive problems. The proposed algorithm is based on solving a set of surrogate problems defined by models of the real one, so that only solutions estimated to be…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Santiago Cuervo , Miguel Melgarejo , Angie Blanco-Cañon , Laura Reyes-Fajardo , Sergio Rojas-Galeano

In this study, we consider the subset selection problems with submodular or monotone discrete objective functions under partition matroid constraints where the thresholds are dynamic. We focus on POMC, a simple Pareto optimization approach…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Anh Viet Do , Frank Neumann

When solving large-scale multiobjective optimization problems, solvers can get stuck with the memory or time limit. In such cases, one is left with no information how far is the best feasible solution, found before the optimization process…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Ignacy Kaliszewski

The study of online algorithms with machine-learned predictions has gained considerable prominence in recent years. One of the common objectives in the design and analysis of such algorithms is to attain (Pareto) optimal tradeoffs between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Spyros Angelopoulos , Christoph Dürr , Alex Elenter , Yanni Lefki

Many systems require optimisation over multiple objectives, where objectives are characteristics of the system such as energy consumed or increase in time to perform the work. Optimisation is performed by selecting the `best' set of input…

Performance · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Alexander J. M. Kell , Matthew Forshaw , A. Stephen McGough

Multi-agent optimization problems with many objective functions have drawn much interest over the past two decades. Many works on the subject minimize the sum of objective functions, which implicitly carries a decision about the problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Maude J. Blondin , Matthew Hale

The discovery of therapeutic molecules is fundamentally a multi-objective optimization problem. One formulation of the problem is to identify molecules that simultaneously exhibit strong binding affinity for a target protein, minimal…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-17 Jenna C. Fromer , David E. Graff , Connor W. Coley

Real-world problems are often multi-objective with decision-makers unable to specify a priori which trade-off between the conflicting objectives is preferable. Intuitively, building machine learning solutions in such cases would entail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Timo M. Deist , Monika Grewal , Frank J. W. M. Dankers , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

For solving constrained multicriteria problems, we introduce the multiobjective barrier method (MBM), which extends the scalar-valued internal penalty method. This multiobjective version of the classical method also requires a penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-02 Ellen H. Fukuda , L. M. Grana Drummond , Fernanda M. P. Raupp

We present a comprehensive classical and parameterized complexity analysis of decision tree pruning operations, extending recent research on the complexity of learning small decision trees. Thereby, we offer new insights into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Juha Harviainen , Frank Sommer , Manuel Sorge , Stefan Szeider

There has been a surge of recent interest in automatically learning policies to target treatment decisions based on rich individual covariates. In addition, practitioners want confidence that the learned policy has better performance than…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Hamsa Bastani , Osbert Bastani , Bryce McLaughlin

Multi-modal multi-objective optimization is to locate (almost) equivalent Pareto optimal solutions as many as possible. Some evolutionary algorithms for multi-modal multi-objective optimization have been proposed in the literature. However,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Ryoji Tanabe , Hisao Ishibuchi

In planning problems, it is often challenging to fully model the desired specifications. In particular, in human-robot interaction, such difficulty may arise due to human's preferences that are either private or complex to model.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mahsa Ghasemi , Evan Scope Crafts , Bo Zhao , Ufuk Topcu

In this work, we use a multiobjective approach to address the lot sizing problem integrated with the cutting stock problem in a paper industry. We analyze the trade-offs and correlations which exist among the costs and their decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Betania S. C. Campello , Washington A. Oliveira , Amanda O. C. Ayres , Carla T. L. S. Ghidini