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Solving Multi-Objective Optimization via Adaptive Stochastic Search with Domination Measure

2016/10/20 by Joshua Q. Hale, Joshua Q Hale, Hale, Joshua Q +4
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #Advanced Bandit Algorithms Research #Advanced Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms #FOS: Mathematics #Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms Research #Optimization and Control (math.OC) #math.OC

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1610.06614

openalex publication_date 2016/10/20 · arxiv created 2016/12/23 · arxiv updated 2016/12/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

For general multi-objective optimization problems, we propose a novel performance metric called domination measure to measure the quality of a solution, which can be intuitively interpreted as the size of the portion of the solution space that dominates that solution. As a result, we reformulate the original multi-objective problem into a stochastic single-objective one and propose a model-based approach to solve it. We show that an ideal version algorithm of the proposed approach converges to a set representation of the global optima of the reformulated problem. We also investigate the numerical performance of an implementable version algorithm by comparing it with numerous existing multi-objective optimization methods on popular benchmark test functions. The numerical results show that the proposed approach is effective in generating a finite and uniformly spread approximation of the Pareto optimal set of the original multi-objective problem, and is competitive to the tested existing methods.

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