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This paper presents an optimization-based receding horizon trajectory planning algorithm for dynamical systems operating in unstructured and cluttered environments. The proposed approach is a two-step procedure that uses a motion planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Kristoffer Bergman , Oskar Ljungqvist , Torkel Glad , Daniel Axehill

This paper addresses the challenge of dynamic multi-objective optimization problems (DMOPs) by introducing novel approaches for accelerating prediction strategies within the evolutionary algorithm framework. Since the objectives of DMOPs…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Ru Lei , Lin Li , Rustam Stolkin , Bin Feng

We present a first exact study on higher-dimensional packing problems with order constraints. Problems of this type occur naturally in applications such as logistics or computer architecture and can be interpreted as higher-dimensional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Ekkehard Koehler , Juergen Teich

We show that many classical optimization problems --- such as $(1\pm\epsilon)$-approximate maximum flow, shortest path, and transshipment --- can be computed in $\newcommand{\tmix}{{\tau_{\text{mix}}}}\tmix(G)\cdot n^{o(1)}$ rounds of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mohsen Ghaffari , Jason Li

This work addresses a Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP) on a graph where the goal is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions from a start node to a destination in the graph. A family of approaches based on MOA* have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongqiang Ren , Richard Zhan , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

One of the major distinguishing features of the dynamic multiobjective optimization problems (DMOPs) is the optimization objectives will change over time, thus tracking the varying Pareto-optimal front becomes a challenge. One of the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Min Jiang , Zhongqiang Huang , Liming Qiu , Wenzhen Huang , Gary G. Yen

This work studies the behavior of three elitist multi- and many-objective evolutionary algorithms generating a high-resolution approximation of the Pareto optimal set. Several search-assessment indicators are defined to trace the dynamics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-09-29 Hernan Aguirre , Arnaud Liefooghe , Sébastien Verel , Kiyoshi Tanaka

Multi-objective optimization is a widely studied problem in diverse fields, such as engineering and finance, that seeks to identify a set of non-dominated solutions that provide optimal trade-offs among competing objectives. However, the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Arash Heidari , Sebastian Rojas Gonzalez , Tom Dhaene , Ivo Couckuyt

This paper considers the fundamental convergence time for opportunistic scheduling over time-varying channels. The channel state probabilities are unknown and algorithms must perform some type of estimation and learning while they make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael J. Neely

Scheduling on dataflow graphs (also known as computation graphs) is an NP-hard problem. The traditional exact methods are limited by runtime complexity, while reinforcement learning (RL) and heuristic-based approaches struggle with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Jiaqi Yin , Cunxi Yu

We propose the cone epsilon-dominance approach to improve convergence and diversity in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). A cone-eps-MOEA is presented and compared with MOEAs based on the standard Pareto relation (NSGA-II,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Lucas S. Batista , Felipe Campelo , Frederico G. Guimarães , Jaime A. Ramírez

Tasks in multi-task learning often correlate, conflict, or even compete with each other. As a result, a single solution that is optimal for all tasks rarely exists. Recent papers introduced the concept of Pareto optimality to this field and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Pingchuan Ma , Tao Du , Wojciech Matusik

Designing a transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) strategy requires considering multiple objectives, such as intensity in the target area, focality, stimulation depth, and avoidance zone, which are often mutually exclusive. A…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-13 Mo Wang , Kexin Lou , Zeming Liu , Pengfei Wei , Quanying Liu

We develop new algorithmic techniques for VLSI detailed routing. First, we improve the goal-oriented version of Dijkstra's algorithm to find shortest paths in huge incomplete grid graphs with edge costs depending on the direction and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Markus Ahrens , Dorothee Henke , Stefan Rabenstein , Jens Vygen

Optimal transport aims to estimate a transportation plan that minimizes a displacement cost. This is realized by optimizing the scalar product between the sought plan and the given cost, over the space of doubly stochastic matrices. When…

Embedded inference engines for convolutional networks must be parsimonious in memory bandwidth and buffer sizing to meet power and cost constraints. We present an analytical memory bandwidth model for loop-nest optimization targeting…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Arthur Stoutchinin , Francesco Conti , Luca Benini

This paper conducts the first rigorous runtime analysis of the SMS-EMOA for many-objective optimization. To this aim, we first propose a many-objective counterpart of the bi-objective OJZJ benchmark. We prove that SMS-EMOA computes the full…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr

This research proposes a novel indicator-based hybrid evolutionary approach that combines approximate and exact algorithms. We apply it to a new bi-criteria formulation of the travelling thief problem, which is known to the Evolutionary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Junhua Wu , Sergey Polyakovskiy , Markus Wagner , Frank Neumann

Balancing competing objectives is omnipresent across disciplines, from drug design to autonomous systems. Multi-objective Bayesian optimization is a promising solution for such expensive, black-box problems: it fits probabilistic surrogates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xinyu Zhang , Conor Hassan , Julien Martinelli , Daolang Huang , Samuel Kaski

The non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) is the most intensively used multi-objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) in real-world applications. However, in contrast to several simple MOEAs analyzed also via mathematical…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Weijie Zheng , Benjamin Doerr