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Poster

Gliding over the Pareto Front with Uniform Designs

Xiaoyuan Zhang · Genghui Li · Xi Lin · Yichi Zhang · Yifan Chen · Qingfu Zhang

West Ballroom A-D #6807
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Fri 13 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract: Multiobjective optimization (MOO) plays a critical role in various real-world domains. A major challenge therein is generating $K$ uniform Pareto-optimal solutions to represent the entire Pareto front. To address this issue, this paper firstly introduces \emph{fill distance} to evaluate the $K$ design points, which provides a quantitative metric for the representativeness of the design. However, directly specifying the optimal design that minimizes the fill distance is nearly intractable due to the nested $\min-\max-\min$ optimization problem. To address this, we propose a surrogate ``max-packing'' design for the fill distance design, which is easier to optimize and leads to a rate-optimal design with a fill distance at most $4\times$ the minimum value. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate that our proposed paradigm efficiently produces high-quality, representative solutions and outperforms baseline methods.

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