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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

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) for science has led to the emergence of learning-based research paradigms, necessitating a compelling reevaluation of the design of multi-objective optimization (MOO) methods. The new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Linxi Yang , Xinmin Yang , Liping Tang

In recent years, multi-objective optimization (MOO) emerges as a foundational problem underpinning many multi-agent multi-task learning applications. However, existing algorithms in MOO literature remain limited to centralized learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Haibo Yang , Zhuqing Liu , Jia Liu , Chaosheng Dong , Michinari Momma

This paper presents a novel algorithmic study with extensive numerical experiments of distributionally robust multistage convex optimization (DR-MCO). Following the previous work on dual dynamic programming (DDP) algorithmic framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun

In this work, we first consider distributed convex constrained optimization problems where the objective function is encoded by multiple local and possibly nonsmooth objectives privately held by a group of agents, and propose a distributed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Changxin Liu , Huiping Li , Yang Shi

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) are widely used to infer conditional dependence structures in high-dimensional data. However, standard precision matrix estimators are highly sensitive to data contamination, such as extreme outliers and…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-25 Canruo Shen , Xintong Ji , Qiong Li , Wenzhi Yang , Xiaoping Shi

In distributed machine learning, efficient training across multiple agents with different data distributions poses significant challenges. Even with a centralized coordinator, current algorithms that achieve optimal communication complexity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junchi Yang , Murat Yildirim , Qiu Feng

Multiobjective optimization (MOO) is prevalent in numerous applications, in which a Pareto front (PF) is constructed to display optima under various preferences. Previous methods commonly utilize the set of Pareto objectives (particles on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Xi Lin , Yichi Zhang , Yifan Chen , Qingfu Zhang

This paper investigates group distributionally robust optimization (GDRO) with the goal of learning a model that performs well over $m$ different distributions. First, we formulate GDRO as a stochastic convex-concave saddle-point problem,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Lijun Zhang , Haomin Bai , Peng Zhao , Tianbao Yang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Stochastic multi-objective optimization (SMOO) has recently emerged as a powerful framework for addressing machine learning problems with multiple objectives. The bias introduced by the nonlinearity of the subproblem solution mapping…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Linxi Yang , Liping Tang , Jiahao Lv , Yuehong He , Xinmin Yang

Inverse multiobjective optimization provides a general framework for the unsupervised learning task of inferring parameters of a multiobjective decision making problem (DMP), based on a set of observed decisions from the human expert.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-01 Chaosheng Dong , Bo Zeng

Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) techniques have become increasingly popular in recent years due to their potential for solving real-world problems in various fields, such as logistics, finance, environmental management, and engineering.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Noor A. Rashed , Yossra H. Ali , Tarik A. Rashid , A. Salih

In problems that involve input parameter information gathered from multiple data sources with varying reliability, incorporating decision makers' trust on different sources in optimization models can potentially improve solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Yanru Guo , Ruiwei Jiang , Siqian Shen

Group distributionally robust optimization (GDRO) aims to develop models that perform well across $m$ distributions simultaneously. Existing GDRO algorithms can only process a fixed number of samples per iteration, either 1 or $m$, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Haomin Bai , Dingzhi Yu , Shuai Li , Haipeng Luo , Lijun Zhang

A multi-modal multi-objective optimization problem is a special kind of multi-objective optimization problem with multiple Pareto subsets. In this paper, we propose an efficient multi-modal multi-objective optimization algorithm based on…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yiming Peng , Hisao Ishibuchi

This study proposes an end-to-end framework for solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs) using Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), that we call DRL-MOA. The idea of decomposition is adopted to decompose the MOP into a set of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Kaiwen Li , Tao Zhang , Rui Wang

The performance of machine learning (ML) models critically depends on the quality and representativeness of the training data. In applications with multiple heterogeneous data generating sources, standard ML methods often learn spurious…

A common goal in statistics and machine learning is to learn models that can perform well against distributional shifts, such as latent heterogeneous subpopulations, unknown covariate shifts, or unmodeled temporal effects. We develop and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-21 John Duchi , Hongseok Namkoong

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in the application of multiobjective optimization (MOO) in machine learning (ML). This interest is driven by the numerous real-life situations where multiple objectives must be optimized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junaid Akhter , Paul David Fährmann , Konstantin Sonntag , Sebastian Peitz , Daniel Schwietert

Traditional approaches to portfolio optimization, often rooted in Modern Portfolio Theory and solved via quadratic programming or evolutionary algorithms, struggle with scalability or flexibility, especially in scenarios involving complex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Christian Oliva , Pedro R. Ventura , Luis F. Lago-Fernández