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During the past two decades, multi-agent optimization problems have drawn increased attention from the research community. When multiple objective functions are present among agents, many works optimize the sum of these objective functions.…

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Model merging, which combines multiple models into a single model, has gained popularity in recent years. By efficiently integrating the capabilities of various models, this significantly reduces the parameter count and memory usage.…

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We consider the problem of multi-objective optimization (MOO) of expensive black-box functions with the goal of discovering high-quality and diverse Pareto fronts where we are allowed to evaluate a batch of inputs. This problem arises in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Alaleh Ahmadianshalchi , Syrine Belakaria , Janardhan Rao Doppa

Current computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) methods often treat retrosynthesis as solved once a single feasible route is identified, focusing primarily on convergence or shortest-path metrics. This view is misaligned with real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Friedrich Hastedt , Dongda Zhang , Antonio del Rio Chanona

We study the trade-offs between strategyproofness and other desiderata, such as efficiency or fairness, that often arise in the design of random ordinal mechanisms. We use approximate strategyproofness to define manipulability, a measure to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Timo Mennle , Sven Seuken

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

We propose a new approach to the combinatorial interpretations of linearization coefficient problem of orthogonal polynomials. We first establish a difference system and then solve it combinatorially and analytically using the method of…

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Manufacturing advanced materials and products with a specific property or combination of properties is often warranted. To achieve that it is crucial to find out the optimum recipe or processing conditions that can generate the ideal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Hamed Khosravi , Taofeeq Olajire , Ahmed Shoyeb Raihan , Imtiaz Ahmed

We consider fair allocation of indivisible items under additive utilities. When the utilities can be negative, the existence and complexity of an allocation that satisfies Pareto optimality and proportionality up to one item (PROP1) is an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Haris Aziz , Herve Moulin , Fedor Sandomirskiy

As the interest in multi- and many-objective optimization algorithms grows, the performance comparison of these algorithms becomes increasingly important. A large number of performance indicators for multi-objective optimization algorithms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Amin Ibrahim , Azam Asilian Bidgoli , Shahryar Rahnamayan , Kalyanmoy Deb

Evolutionary multi-objective algorithms have successfully been used in the context of Pareto optimization where a given constraint is relaxed into an additional objective. In this paper, we explore the use of 3-objective formulations for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Frank Neumann , Carsten Witt

The evaluation of heuristic optimizers on test problems, better known as \emph{benchmarking}, is a cornerstone of research in multi-objective optimization. However, most test problems used in benchmarking numerical multi-objective black-box…

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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.…

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In multidisciplinary optimization the designer needs to find solution to optimization problems which include a number of usually contradicting criteria. Such a problem is mathematically related to the field of nonlinear vector optimization…

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We study a multi-objective scheduling problem on two dedicated processors. The aim is to minimize simultaneously the makespan, the total tardiness and the total completion time. This NP-hard problem requires the use of well-adapted methods.…

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Papadimitriou and Yannakakis show that the polynomial-time solvability of a certain singleobjective problem determines the class of multiobjective optimization problems that admit a polynomial-time computable $(1+\varepsilon, \dots ,…

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This paper addresses the problem of approximating the set of all solutions for Multi-objective Markov Decision Processes. We show that in the vast majority of interesting cases, the number of solutions is exponential or even infinite. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 L. Mandow , J. L. Pérez de la Cruz , N. Pozas

In offline multi-objective optimization (MOO), we leverage an offline dataset of designs and their associated labels to simultaneously minimize multiple objectives. This setting more closely mirrors complex real-world problems compared to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Ye Yuan , Can Chen , Christopher Pal , Xue Liu

In the preprocessing model for uncertain data we are given a set of regions R which model the uncertainty associated with an unknown set of points P. In this model there are two phases: a preprocessing phase, in which we have access only to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Ivor van der Hoog , Irina Kostitsyna , Maarten Löffler , Bettina Speckmann

Recently, there has been growing interest within the theoretical community in analytically studying multi-objective evolutionary algorithms. This runtime analysis-focused research can help formally understand algorithm behaviour, explain…

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