Optimality of TS with noninformative priors proven for Pareto model.
problem Optimality of Thompson Sampling with noninformative priors for Pareto bandits.
method Proved optimality of TS with certain probability matching priors, showed suboptimality with others, and found effectiveness of truncation procedures.
result TS with certain probability matching priors achieves optimal regret bound for Pareto model.
A new method for faster multi-objective optimization by evaluating objectives separately.
problem Finding the Pareto front of trade-offs between multiple objectives efficiently.
method Knowledge Gradient with decoupled evaluations, accounting for different costs.
result The method significantly outperforms existing approaches in terms of evaluation cost.
We consider the problem of optimal risk sharing in a pool of cooperative agents. We analyze the asymptotic behavior of the certainty equivalents and risk premia associated with the Pareto optimal risk sharing contract as the pool expands. We first study this problem under expected utility preferences with an objectivel…
Study examines risk premium convergence rates in risk sharing contracts.
problem Analyzing risk premium convergence rates in risk sharing contracts.
method Examines the limiting behavior of risk premium associated with Pareto optimal risk sharing contracts under general law-invariant risk measures.
result Risk premium convergence rate is typically n1/2, not n. FraPPE efficiently identifies Pareto optimal arms in multi-objective bandits.
problem Efficiently identifying Pareto optimal arms in multi-objective bandits with confidence.
method Deriving structural properties and using Frank-Wolfe optimisation to solve the maxmin optimisation problem.
result FraPPE achieves optimal sample complexity and identifies the exact Pareto set.
Paper proposes PSIPS for identifying Pareto set with correlated objectives.
problem Identifying the best answer among items with multiple conflicting metrics.
method Posterior sampling in stopping and sampling rules for structure and correlation.
result PSIPS is asymptotically optimal and demonstrates good empirical performance.
Paper proposes Adaptive Pareto Exploration for identifying Pareto optimal arms in multi-objective scenarios.
problem Identifying Pareto optimal arms in multi-objective scenarios with relaxed constraints.
method Adaptive Pareto Exploration strategy for different relaxations of Pareto Set Identification.
result Reduction in sample complexity when identifying at most k Pareto optimal arms.
The paper optimizes watermarking of LLMs, improving detection ability.
problem Optimizing watermarking of large language models (LLMs) while balancing model distortion and detection ability.
method Formulated as a constrained optimization problem, developed an online dual gradient ascent algorithm proving asymptotic Pareto optimality.
result Guarantees an increased green list probability and detection ability.
Pareto optimal centralized risk sharing with multiple agents
problem Centralized risk sharing with endogenous prices
method Inclusive and fair Pareto optimality
result Equivalence between inclusive and fair Pareto optimality and balanced sequential optimization
The paper optimizes reinsurance under uncertain dependence among insurers.
problem Designing Pareto-optimal reinsurance contracts in a market with uncertain dependence.
method Robust optimization approach assuming known marginal distributions and unspecified dependence structure.
result Characterization of optimal indemnity schedules under worst-case scenario and derivation of optimal two-parameter layer contracts for independent risks.
This paper develops a method to approximate the whole Pareto set for expensive multi-objective optimization.
problem Finding an approximate Pareto front with limited expensive evaluations.
method A novel learning-based method to approximate the whole Pareto set for multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO).
result The method approximates the whole Pareto set, not just a finite set, for MOBO.
New method optimizes multiple objectives in A/B testing for AI and clinical trials.
problem Minimizing cumulative regret, maximizing CATE, and ensuring differential privacy in large-scale experiments.
method ConSE and DP-ConSE algorithms for sequential segmentation and elimination, achieving Pareto-optimal frontier.
result Privacy comes 'for free' in our framework, with only asymptotically negligible costs to regret and accuracy.
Study on Pareto optimality in multi-objective bandit problems.
problem Pareto optimality in multi-objective multi-armed bandit problems.
method Formulated adversarial multi-objective multi-armed bandit, defined Pareto regrets, presented algorithms, established upper and lower bounds.
result New algorithms are optimal in adversarial settings and nearly optimal in stochastic settings.
Pareto MTL finds optimal solutions for multiple tasks with different trade-offs.
problem Finding a single optimal solution for multiple conflicting tasks.
method Formulate multi-task learning as multiobjective optimization, decompose into subproblems, solve in parallel.
result Generates well-representative Pareto optimal solutions for different trade-offs.
This paper solves aggregation of Pareto optimal models by using Bayesian priors and weighted averaging.
problem How to rationally aggregate Pareto optimal models while preserving Pareto efficiency.
method Four logical steps: 1) Bayesian models, 2) Prior as preference ranking, 3) Consistent aggregation, 4) Weighted average of priors.
result All rational/consistent aggregation rules follow a generalized hierarchical Bayesian model.
New method generates continuous Pareto sets for multi-task learning.
problem Challenges in finding optimal solutions for correlated multi-task learning problems.
method Efficiently generates locally continuous Pareto sets and fronts in multi-objective optimization problems.
result Demonstrates continuous analysis of Pareto optimal solutions in machine learning problems.
The paper tackles the trade-off between fairness and accuracy in machine learning models.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning often reduces model accuracy.
method The paper introduces formal tools for reconciling the fairness-accuracy tension using Pareto optimality from multi-objective optimization.
result The Chebyshev scalarization scheme is superior for finding Pareto optimal solutions compared to the linear scalarization scheme.
A new method for multi-objective Bayesian optimization using entropy search and variational lower bound maximization.
problem Efficiently optimizing multiple objectives in continuous domains.
method Approximates the Pareto-frontier using a mixture distribution and optimizes the balance through variational lower bound maximization.
result Demonstrated effectiveness especially with many objective functions.
This work improves cost-aware Bayesian optimization by introducing Pareto-efficient acquisition functions.
problem Cost variability in hyperparameter evaluations affects the efficiency of Bayesian optimization.
method Reformulated cost-aware Bayesian optimization as Pareto efficiency, proposing a novel Pareto-efficient expected improvement.
result Pareto-efficient acquisition functions significantly outperform previous solutions, providing finer control over cost-accuracy trade-offs.
A new method for diverse Pareto solutions in multi-objective learning.
problem Maximizing diversity while maximizing hypervolume in Pareto solutions.
method Annealed Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) with diverse gradient directions.
result SVH-MOL achieves superior performance in multi-objective and multi-task learning.
PALS extends PAL for optimizing stochastic simulators efficiently.
problem Optimizing stochastic simulators with high output variance and expensive evaluations.
method Bayesian optimization with probabilistic models, extending PAL for stochastic settings.
result PALS outperforms other methods in optimizing stochastic simulators.
This paper analyzes MORL and proposes efficient algorithms to learn Pareto optimal policies.
problem Understanding and efficiently learning Pareto optimal policies in multi-objective reinforcement learning.
method Systematic analysis of optimization targets, reformulation of Tchebycheff scalarization, online UCB-based algorithm, preference-free framework.
result Identification of Tchebycheff scalarization as a favorable method and efficient algorithms for learning Pareto optimal policies.
Study dynamic Pareto-optimal allocations in multi-period economies with time-consistent risk measures.
problem Optimal allocation in multi-period pure-exchange economies with stochastic endowments and time-consistent risk measures.
method Introduced dynamic Pareto-optimal allocation processes and derived recursive and comonotone improvement theorems.
result Dynamic Pareto-optimal allocation processes can be constructed recursively and are comonotone.
Algorithm identifies Pareto optimal designs efficiently for noisy, multi-objective functions.
problem Optimizing multi-objective functions with noisy data and large design spaces.
method Adaptive discretization and tree-based approach to identify Pareto optimal designs.
result Algorithm identifies Pareto optimal designs with fewer evaluations than exhaustive search.
New method finds exact Pareto front for MO-MDPs efficiently.
problem Finding the exact Pareto front for MO-MDPs is challenging.
method Investigates geometric structure, develops efficient algorithm.
result Pareto front is on boundary of convex polytope of deterministic policies.
New algorithms identify Pareto optimal sets in multi-objective bandit problems.
problem Identifying Pareto optimal sets in multi-objective bandit problems.
method Empirical Gap Elimination (EGE) algorithms combining hardness estimation and elimination schemes.
result Two EGE algorithms have exponentially decaying error probabilities with budget.
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…
Proposes Pareto efficient fairness for supervised learning models.
problem Ensuring fairness in machine learning models without sacrificing accuracy.
method Formulates a bilevel optimization problem to find Pareto efficient classifiers.
result Guaranteed solution on Pareto frontier for convex and non-convex objectives.
Optimal learning for parametric prophet inequalities with exponential-type distributions
problem Learning in prophet inequalities with unknown parameters
method Confidence-based dynamic-programming policy
result Achieves optimal asymptotic competitive ratio using online observations
BADR framework optimizes fairness metrics efficiently.
problem Fairness-inefficient models in machine learning.
method Bilevel Adaptive Rescalarisation procedure.
result BADR framework recovers optimal Pareto-efficient models.
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…
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…
We model the influence of sharing large exogeneous losses to the reinsurance market by a bipartite graph. Using Pareto-tailed claims and multivariate regular variation we obtain asymptotic results for the Value-at-Risk and the Conditional Tail Expectation. We show that the dependence on the network structure plays a fu…
A-GPS learns to generate Pareto sets efficiently with user preferences.
problem Online discrete multi-objective optimization with user preferences.
method Generative model with class probability estimator (CPE) for non-dominance and preference alignment.
result Amortized generative model for efficient Pareto set approximation.
Method estimates LLM error rates using Pareto optimization.
problem Quantifying error rates in text-generating models.
method Pareto optimization for generating risk scores.
result Risk scores correlate well with true error rates.
Algorithm identifies Pareto front using multiple context directions and reuses exploration samples.
problem Identifying a set of arms with undominated mean reward vectors in linear bandits.
method Proposes a new estimator that updates estimates along multiple context directions and reuses exploration samples.
result Optimal sample complexity and logarithmic regret compared to optimal algorithms.
New method for identifying best designs in vector optimization with uncertain feedback.
problem Optimizing vector-valued outcomes with uncertain preferences.
method Stochastic bandit feedback, polyhedral ordering cone, (ε,δ)-PAC Pareto set identification. result Sample complexity characterized and matched by the naïve elimination algorithm.
Paper tackles entity matching over multi-source data, optimizing alignment and mitigating negative transfer.
problem Learning effective entity matching models over multi-source large-scale data with relaxed assumptions.
method Proposes a Relaxed Multi-source Large-scale Entity-matching (RMLE) problem and Incentive Compatible Pareto Alignment (ICPA) method.
result Optimized cross-source alignments and mitigated negative transfer, improving entity matching accuracy.
This work fills the gap in understanding multi-objective learning generalization.
problem Lack of statistical learning theory insights into multi-objective learning generalization.
method Established generalization bounds and excess bounds for multi-objective learning.
result Showed that all Pareto-optimal solutions can be approximated by empirically Pareto-optimal ones, but not vice versa.
Paper finds a method to compute fair risk-sharing rules.
problem Finding a fair and understandable risk-sharing rule.
method Established a one-to-one correspondence with a fixed point approach.
result Fast numerical method for computing AFPO risk-sharing rules.
The paper analyzes reinsurance strategies in peer-to-peer insurance schemes.
problem Strategic interaction between plan managers and reinsurers in P2P insurance.
method Develops two game-theoretic contract designs: Pareto and Bowley designs, deriving optimal contracts and analyzing their welfare effects.
result The Bowley design yields a unique optimal contract, while the Pareto design allows for multiple Pareto-optimal contracts.
The paper simplifies strongly convex problems to simplicial structures.
problem Strongly convex problems with Cr smoothness. method Generic linear perturbations and singularity theory.
result Strongly convex C1 problems are C0 simplicial. We consider the \mnk{classical} problem of a controller activating (or sampling) sequentially from a finite number of N≥2 populations, specified by unknown distributions. Over some time horizon, at each time n=1,2,…, the controller wishes to select a population to sample, with the goal of sampling fro…
SVH-PSL uses Stein Variational Gradient Descent and Hypernetworks to improve Pareto set learning for expensive MOO.
problem Fragmented surrogate models and pseudo-local optima in expensive multi-objective optimization problems.
method SVH-PSL integrates Stein Variational Gradient Descent (SVGD) with Hypernetworks to address fragmentation and pseudo-local optima.
result SVH-PSL significantly improves the quality of the learned Pareto set, offering a promising solution for expensive MOO.
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…
New method finds all Nash equilibria via vector optimization.
problem Finding all Nash equilibria in games.
method Formulate vector optimization problem to find Pareto optimal solutions.
result Characterize set of all Nash equilibria as Pareto optimal solutions.
Bayesian method reduces misclassification errors in ranking Pareto-optimal solutions.
problem Identifying true Pareto-optimal solutions in noisy multiobjective optimization.
method Sequential allocation of extra samples using stochastic kriging to build predictive distributions.
result The proposed method outperforms existing algorithms in reducing misclassification errors.
New method shows multi-objective bandits are not harder than single-objective ones.
problem Comparing multi-objective bandits to single-objective ones.
method Upper and lower confidence-bound estimators for every arm-objective pair, using top-two races and uncertainty-greedy rule.
result Achieves Pareto regret of \(O(
icefrac{\log T}{g^\dagger})\), matching lower bound of \(Ω(
icefrac{\log T}{g^\dagger})\).