Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

143 papers on this topic

Navigation Variable-based Multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization for UAV Path Planning with Kinematic Constraints

Path planning is essential for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as it determines the path that the UAV needs to follow to complete a task. This work addresses this problem by introducing a new...

Large Language Models As Evolution Strategies

Large Transformer models are capable of implementing a plethora of so-called in-context learning algorithms. These include gradient descent, classification, sequence completion, transformation,...

HiFo-Prompt: Prompting with Hindsight and Foresight for LLM-based Automatic Heuristic Design

LLM-based Automatic Heuristic Design (AHD) within Evolutionary Computation (EC) frameworks has shown promising results. However, its effectiveness is hindered by the use of static operators and...

19 citations 2025-08 arXiv (Cornell University)

Fast Genetic Algorithm for feature selection -- A qualitative approximation approach

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) are often challenging to apply in real-world settings since evolutionary computations involve a large number of evaluations of a typically expensive fitness function....

LICO: Large Language Models for In-Context Molecular Optimization

Optimizing black-box functions is a fundamental problem in science and engineering. To solve this problem, many approaches learn a surrogate function that estimates the underlying objective from...

40 citations 2024-06 arXiv (Cornell University)

Instance Generation for Meta-Black-Box Optimization through Latent Space Reverse Engineering

To relieve intensive human-expertise required to design optimization algorithms, recent Meta-Black-Box Optimization (MetaBBO) researches leverage generalization strength of meta-learning to train...

9 citations 2025-09 arXiv (Cornell University)

Effective anytime algorithm for multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems

In multiobjective optimization, the result of an optimization algorithm is a set of efficient solutions from which the decision maker selects one. It is common that not all the efficient solutions...

30 citations 2024-02 Inf. Sci. 565: 210-228 (2021)

Task-free Adaptive Meta Black-box Optimization

Handcrafted optimizers become prohibitively inefficient for complex black-box optimization (BBO) tasks. MetaBBO addresses this challenge by meta-learning to automatically configure optimizers for...

4 citations 2026-01 arXiv.org

The First Proven Performance Guarantees for the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II) on a Combinatorial Optimization Problem

The Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-II (NSGA-II) is one of the most prominent algorithms to solve multi-objective optimization problems. Recently, the first mathematical runtime guarantees...

PARCO: Parallel AutoRegressive Models for Multi-Agent Combinatorial Optimization

Combinatorial optimization problems involving multiple agents are notoriously challenging due to their NP-hard nature and the necessity for effective agent coordination. Despite advancements in...

Metaheuristics and Large Language Models Join Forces: Toward an Integrated Optimization Approach

Since the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) a couple of years ago, researchers in metaheuristics (MHs) have wondered how to use their power in a beneficial way within their algorithms. This...

FluidFlow: a flow-matching generative model for fluid dynamics surrogates on unstructured meshes

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) provides high-fidelity simulations of fluid flows but remains computationally expensive for many-query applications. In recent years deep learning (DL) has been...

3 citations 2026-03 arXiv (Cornell University)

From Automation to Autonomy in Smart Manufacturing: A Bayesian Optimization Framework for Modeling Multi-Objective Experimentation and Sequential Decision Making

Discovering novel materials with desired properties is essential for driving innovation. Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing have promised transformative advances in this area through real-time...

Hyperparameter Optimization via Interacting with Probabilistic Circuits

Despite the growing interest in designing truly interactive hyperparameter optimization (HPO) methods, to date, only a few allow to include human feedback. Existing interactive Bayesian...

7 citations 2025-05 arXiv (Cornell University)

PIED: Physics-Informed Experimental Design for Inverse Problems

In many science and engineering settings, system dynamics are characterized by governing PDEs, and a major challenge is to solve inverse problems (IPs) where unknown PDE parameters are inferred...

7 citations 2025-03 arXiv (Cornell University)

Scaling Pareto-Efficient Decision Making Via Offline Multi-Objective RL

The goal of multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) is to learn policies that simultaneously optimize multiple competing objectives. In practice, an agent's preferences over the objectives...

44 citations 2023-04 arXiv (Cornell University)

Uncertainty-Aware Search Framework for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

We consider the problem of multi-objective (MO) blackbox optimization using expensive function evaluations, where the goal is to approximate the true Pareto set of solutions while minimizing the...

Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization of Large Language Model Prompts for Balancing Sentiments

The advent of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT has attracted considerable attention in various domains due to their remarkable performance and versatility. As the use of these models...

20 citations 2024-01 Lecture notes in computer science