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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


Abstract: Multiobjective optimization (MOO) plays a critical role in various real-world domains. A major challenge therein is generating $K$ uniform Pareto-optimal solutions that represent the entire Pareto front. To address the very challenge, this study first introduces \emph{fill distance} to evaluate the $K$ design points, which provides a quantitative metric for the representativeness of the design. However, the direct specification of the optimal design that minimizes fill distance is almost intractable considering the nested $\min-\max-\min$ optimization problem; we further propose a surrogate to the fill distance, which is easier to optimize and induce a rate-optimal design whose fill distance proves at most $4\times$ the minimum one. Rigorous derivation also shows that asymptotically this induced design will converge to the uniform measure over the Pareto front. Extensive experiments on synthetic and real-world benchmarks demonstrate that our proposed paradigm efficiently produces high-quality, representative solutions and outperforms baseline methods. The model implementation and code will be open-sourced upon publication.

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