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Optimizing nonlinear systems involving expensive computer experiments with regard to conflicting objectives is a common challenge. When the number of experiments is severely restricted and/or when the number of objectives increases, uncovering the whole set of Pareto optimal solutions is out of reach, even for surrogat…
New ABC method improves Bézier simplex fitting for noisy data.
problem Overfitting in Bézier simplex fitting when sample points are not on the Pareto set.
method Extended Bézier simplex model to a probabilistic one and proposed a new learning algorithm based on approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) with Wasserstein distance.
result The new algorithm converges on a finite sample and outperforms deterministic methods on noisy instances.
Optimization of conflicting functions is of paramount importance in decision making, and real world applications frequently involve data that is uncertain or unknown, resulting in multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems of stochastic type. We study the stochastic multi-gradient (SMG) method, seen as an extension of…
Most content-based image retrieval systems consider either one single query, or multiple queries that include the same object or represent the same semantic information. In this paper we consider the content-based image retrieval problem for multiple query images corresponding to different image semantics. We propose a…
A multiobjective optimization problem is simplicial if the Pareto set and front are homeomorphic to a simplex and, under the homeomorphisms, each face of the simplex corresponds to the Pareto set and front of a subproblem. In this paper, we show that strongly convex problems are simplicial under a mild assumption on th…
Many real world applications can be framed as multi-objective optimization problems, where we wish to simultaneously optimize for multiple criteria. Bayesian optimization techniques for the multi-objective setting are pertinent when the evaluation of the functions in question are expensive. Traditional methods for mult…
A multiobjective optimization problem is Cr simplicial if the Pareto set and the Pareto front are Cr diffeomorphic to a simplex and, under the Cr diffeomorphisms, each face of the simplex corresponds to the Pareto set and the Pareto front of a subproblem, where 0≤r≤∞. In the paper titled "Topolo…
We propose a strategy for approximating Pareto optimal sets based on the global analysis framework proposed by Smale (Dynamical systems, New York, 1973, pp. 531-544). The method highlights and exploits the underlying manifold structure of the Pareto sets, approximating Pareto optima by means of simplicial complexes. Th…
We present a multi-objective Bayesian optimisation algorithm that allows the user to express preference-order constraints on the objectives of the type "objective A is more important than objective B". These preferences are defined based on the stability of the obtained solutions with respect to preferred objective fun…
Multi-objective Neural Architecture Search (NAS) aims to discover novel architectures in the presence of multiple conflicting objectives. Despite recent progress, the problem of approximating the full Pareto front accurately and efficiently remains challenging. In this work, we explore the novel reinforcement learning …
In this paper we propose the multi-objective contextual bandit problem with similarity information. This problem extends the classical contextual bandit problem with similarity information by introducing multiple and possibly conflicting objectives. Since the best arm in each objective can be different given the contex…
iMOCA optimizes multiple objectives with continuous approximations for resource efficiency.
problem Optimizing multiple objectives with continuous function approximations that balance accuracy and evaluation cost.
method Information-Theoretic Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization with Continuous Approximations (iMOCA) selects input and function approximations to maximize information gain per unit cost.
result iMOCA significantly improves over existing single-fidelity methods in approximating the optimal Pareto set.
In this paper, we study the multi-objective bandits (MOB) problem, where a learner repeatedly selects one arm to play and then receives a reward vector consisting of multiple objectives. MOB has found many real-world applications as varied as online recommendation and network routing. On the other hand, these applicati…
Automated machine learning has gained a lot of attention recently. Building and selecting the right machine learning models is often a multi-objective optimization problem. General purpose machine learning software that simultaneously supports multiple objectives and constraints is scant, though the potential benefits …
The performance of acquisition functions for Bayesian optimisation to locate the global optimum of continuous functions is investigated in terms of the Pareto front between exploration and exploitation. We show that Expected Improvement (EI) and the Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) always select solutions to be expensively…