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In this work, we propose integral global optimality conditions for multiobjective problems not necessarily differentiable. The integral characterization, already known for single objective problems, are extended to multiobjective problems…

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We give polynomial-time algorithms for the exact computation of lowest-energy (ground) states, worst margin violators, log partition functions, and marginal edge probabilities in certain binary undirected graphical models. Our approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Nicol N. Schraudolph , Dmitry Kamenetsky

We study the performance region of a general multicell downlink scenario with multiantenna transmitters, hardware impairments, and low-complexity receivers that treat interference as noise. The Pareto boundary of this region describes all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-13 Emil Björnson , Mats Bengtsson , Björn Ottersten

Multiobjective optimization plays an increasingly important role in modern applications, where several criteria are often of equal importance. The task in multiobjective optimization and multiobjective optimal control is therefore to…

This paper develops and analyzes an accelerated proximal descent method for finding stationary points of nonconvex composite optimization problems. The objective function is of the form $f+h$ where $h$ is a proper closed convex function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-02 Weiwei Kong

Multi-objective optimization aims at finding trade-off solutions to conflicting objectives. These constitute the Pareto optimal set. In the context of expensive-to-evaluate functions, it is impossible and often non-informative to look for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 David Gaudrie , Rodolphe Le Riche , Victor Picheny , Benoit Enaux , Vincent Herbert

Lens designers routinely use optimization in their everyday practice. Local optimization algorithms lead to the nearest minimum. In this paper, a new deterministic approach for multi-extremum optimization is proposed. Optimal solutions for…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-13 Ilya Agurok

In some cases, computational benefit can be gained by exploring the hyper parameter space using a deterministic set of grid points instead of a Markov chain. We view this as a numerical integration problem and make three unique…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-30 Chaitanya Joshi , Paul T. Brown , Stephen Joe

The framework of decision-making, modeled as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), typically assumes a single objective. However, practical scenarios often involve tradeoffs between multiple objectives. We address this in the Linear Quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Ali Jadbabaie , Devavrat Shah , Sean R. Sinclair

Minimax optimization has become a central tool in machine learning with applications in robust optimization, reinforcement learning, GANs, etc. These applications are often nonconvex-nonconcave, but the existing theory is unable to identify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-02 Benjamin Grimmer , Haihao Lu , Pratik Worah , Vahab Mirrokni

In this paper, a tunneling method is developed for nonlinear multiobjective optimization problems using some ideas of the single objective tunneling method. The proposed method does not require any a priori chosen parameters or ordering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Bikram Adhikary , Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary

Multi-Objective Alignment (MOA) aims to align LLMs' responses with multiple human preference objectives, with Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) emerging as a prominent approach. However, we find that DPO-based MOA approaches suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Moxin Li , Yuantao Zhang , Wenjie Wang , Wentao Shi , Zhuo Liu , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

We introduce Pareto-NRPA, a new Monte-Carlo algorithm designed for multi-objective optimization problems over discrete search spaces. Extending the Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (NRPA) algorithm originally formulated for single-objective…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Noé Lallouet , Tristan Cazenave , Cyrille Enderli

In this paper, a descent method for nonsmooth multiobjective optimization problems on complete Riemannian manifolds is proposed. The objective functions are only assumed to be locally Lipschitz continuous instead of convexity used in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Chunming Tang , Hao He , Jinbao Jian , Miantao Chao

Post-training of LLMs with RLHF, and subsequently preference optimization algorithms such as DPO, IPO, etc., made a big difference in improving human alignment. However, all such techniques can only work with a single (human) objective. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Akhil Agnihotri , Rahul Jain , Deepak Ramachandran , Zheng Wen

A robust algorithm for non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is presented in this paper with the purpose of dealing with large-scale data, where the separability assumption is satisfied. In particular, we modify the Linear Programming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-10 Jason Gejie Liu , Shuchin Aeron

Although resource-limited networked autonomous systems must be able to efficiently and effectively accomplish tasks, better conservation of resources often results in worse task performance. We specifically address the problem of finding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Anne Theurkauf , Nisar Ahmed , Morteza Lahijanian

Optimizing NLP models for fairness poses many challenges. Lack of differentiable fairness measures prevents gradient-based loss training or requires surrogate losses that diverge from the true metric of interest. In addition, competing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Soumyajit Gupta , Venelin Kovatchev , Anubrata Das , Maria De-Arteaga , Matthew Lease

Many real-world applications involve black-box optimization of multiple objectives using continuous function approximations that trade-off accuracy and resource cost of evaluation. For example, in rocket launching research, we need to find…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-24 Syrine Belakaria , Aryan Deshwal , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

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