Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms

143 papers on this topic

Deep neural operators can serve as accurate surrogates for shape optimization: A case study for airfoils

Deep neural operators, such as DeepONets, have changed the paradigm in high-dimensional nonlinear regression from function regression to (differential) operator regression, paving the way for...

27 citations 2023-02 arXiv (Cornell University)

Multi-objective Feature Selection with Missing Data in Classification

Feature selection (FS) is an important research topic in machine learning. Usually, FS is modelled as a+ bi-objective optimization problem whose objectives are: 1) classification accuracy; 2)...

CMA-ES for Safe Optimization

In several real-world applications in medical and control engineering, there are unsafe solutions whose evaluations involve inherent risk. This optimization setting is known as safe optimization...

Combining Lipschitz and RBF Surrogate Models for High-dimensional Computationally Expensive Problems

Standard evolutionary optimization algorithms assume that the evaluation of the objective and constraint functions is straightforward and computationally cheap. However, in many real-world...

Discovering Policies with DOMiNO: Diversity Optimization Maintaining Near Optimality

Finding different solutions to the same problem is a key aspect of intelligence associated with creativity and adaptation to novel situations. In reinforcement learning, a set of diverse policies...

49 citations 2022-05 arXiv (Cornell University)

Generative Pretraining for Black-Box Optimization

Many problems in science and engineering involve optimizing an expensive black-box function over a high-dimensional space. For such black-box optimization (BBO) problems, we typically assume a...

44 citations 2022-06 arXiv (Cornell University)

Differentiable Quality Diversity

Quality diversity (QD) is a growing branch of stochastic optimization research that studies the problem of generating an archive of solutions that maximize a given objective function but are also...

118 citations 2021-06 arXiv (Cornell University)

Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Active Preference Learning

There are a lot of real-world black-box optimization problems that need to optimize multiple criteria simultaneously. However, in a multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem, identifying the...

Transfer Learning of Surrogate Models: Integrating Domain Warping and Affine Transformations

Surrogate models provide efficient alternatives to computationally demanding real world processes but often require large datasets for effective training. A promising solution to this limitation...

3 citations 2025-01 GECCO Companion

Pareto Conditioned Networks

In multi-objective optimization, learning all the policies that reach Pareto-efficient solutions is an expensive process. The set of optimal policies can grow exponentially with the number of...

Multiobjective Evolutionary Pruning of Deep Neural Networks with Transfer Learning for improving their Performance and Robustness

Evolutionary Computation algorithms have been used to solve optimization problems in relation with architectural, hyper-parameter or training configuration, forging the field known today as Neural...

Neuromorphic Bayesian Optimization in Lava

The ever-increasing demands of computationally expensive and high-dimensional problems require novel optimization methods to find near-optimal solutions in a reasonable amount of time. Bayesian...

Influence Maximization in Hypergraphs using Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial problem over graphs whose goal is to find the set of nodes in a network that spreads influence at most. Among the...

5 citations 2024-05 Lecture notes in computer science

Speeding-up Evolutionary Algorithms to solve Black-Box Optimization Problems

Population-based evolutionary algorithms are often considered when approaching computationally expensive black-box optimization problems. They employ a selection mechanism to choose the best...

R2 Indicator and Deep Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Adaptive Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm

Choosing an appropriate optimization algorithm is essential to achieving success in optimization challenges. Here we present a new evolutionary algorithm structure that utilizes a reinforcement...

5 citations 2024-04 arXiv (Cornell University)

Principled Bayesian Optimisation in Collaboration with Human Experts

Bayesian optimisation for real-world problems is often performed interactively with human experts, and integrating their domain knowledge is key to accelerate the optimisation process. We consider...

3 citations 2024-10 arXiv (Cornell University)

Preference Learning from Physics-Based Feedback: Tuning Language Models to Design BCC/B2 Superalloys

We apply preference learning to the task of language model-guided design of novel structural alloys. In contrast to prior work that focuses on generating stable inorganic crystals, our approach...

1 citations 2025-11 arXiv (Cornell University)

Improving Pareto Front Learning via Multi-Sample Hypernetworks

Pareto Front Learning (PFL) was recently introduced as an effective approach to obtain a mapping function from a given trade-off vector to a solution on the Pareto front, which solves the...