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Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are the preferred method for solving black-box multi-objective optimization problems, but when gradients of the objective functions are available, it is not straightforward to exploit these efficiently. By…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Timo M. Deist , Stefanus C. Maree , Tanja Alderliesten , Peter A. N. Bosman

Performing multi-objective Bayesian optimisation by scalarising the objectives avoids the computation of expensive multi-dimensional integral-based acquisition functions, instead of allowing one-dimensional standard acquisition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Clym Stock-Williams , Tinkle Chugh , Alma Rahat , Wei Yu

In this paper, we present a significant improvement of Quick Hypervolume algorithm, one of the state-of-the-art algorithms for calculating exact hypervolume of the space dominated by a set of d-dimensional points. This value is often used…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-08-14 Andrzej Jaszkiewicz

We propose a nested weighted Tchebycheff Multi-objective Bayesian optimization framework where we build a regression model selection procedure from an ensemble of models, towards better estimation of the uncertain parameters of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Arpan Biswas , Claudio Fuentes , Christopher Hoyle

Hypervolume (HV)-based Bayesian optimization (BO) is one of the standard approaches for multi-objective decision-making. However, the computational cost of optimizing the acquisition function remains a significant bottleneck, primarily due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Shuhei Watanabe

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

The $H_2$ norm is a commonly used performance metric in the design of estimators. However, $H_2$-optimal estimation of most PDEs is complicated by the lack of transfer function and state-space representations. To address this problem, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Danio Braghini , Sachin Shivakumar , Matthew M. Peet

In sparse optimization, enforcing hard constraints using the $\ell_0$ pseudo-norm offers advantages like controlled sparsity compared to convex relaxations. However, many real-world applications demand not only sparsity constraints but also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-12 William de Vazelhes , Xiao-Tong Yuan , Bin Gu

We investigate \emph{magnitude} as a new unary and strictly Pareto-compliant quality indicator for finite approximation sets to the Pareto front in multiobjective optimization. Magnitude originates in enriched category theory and metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Michael T. M. Emmerich

Preferential Bayesian optimization (PBO) learns latent utilities from pairwise comparisons, but most existing methods assume homoscedastic comparison noise. This is inadequate in human-in-the-loop settings, where a user may compare some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Marshal Arijona Sinaga , Julien Martinelli , Samuel Kaski

Density estimation plays a key role in many tasks in machine learning, statistical inference, and visualization. The main bottleneck in high-dimensional density estimation is the prohibitive computational cost and the slow convergence rate.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Liang Ding , Lu Zou , Wenjia Wang , Shahin Shahrampour , Rui Tuo

Benefiting from pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, real-world image super-resolution (Real-ISR) methods can synthesize rich and realistic details. However, due to the inherent stochasticity of T2I models, different noise…

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This paper introduces a high-performance hybrid algorithm, called Hybrid Hypervolume Maximization Algorithm (H2MA), for multi-objective optimization that alternates between exploring the decision space and exploiting the already obtained…

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In this paper, we study the problem of inference in high-order structured prediction tasks. In the context of Markov random fields, the goal of a high-order inference task is to maximize a score function on the space of labels, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Chuyang Ke , Jean Honorio

A nonsmooth set-gradient ascent method is developed for moving finite approximation sets toward the Pareto front in multiobjective optimization. The method optimizes layered set indicators: a base indicator is evaluated on successive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Michael T. M. Emmerich

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) provides a principled framework for optimizing expensive black-box functions with multiple objectives. However, existing MOBO methods often struggle with coverage, scalability with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yaohong Yang , Sammie Katt , Samuel Kaski

Much of the focus in machine learning research is placed in creating new architectures and optimization methods, but the overall loss function is seldom questioned. This paper interprets machine learning from a multi-objective optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-22 Conrado Silva Miranda , Fernando José Von Zuben

The goal of multi-objective optimisation is to identify a collection of points which describe the best possible trade-offs between the multiple objectives. In order to solve this vector-valued optimisation problem, practitioners often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-09 Ben Tu , Nikolas Kantas , Robert M. Lee , Behrang Shafei

This article introduces two absolutely continuous global-local shrinkage priors to enable stochastic variable selection in the context of high-dimensional matrix exponential spatial specifications. Existing approaches as a means to dealing…

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