Improved Dominance Filtering for Unions and Minkowski Sums of Pareto Sets

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Autori principali: Karathanasis, Konstantinos, Kontogiannis, Spyros, Zaroliagis, Christos
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author Karathanasis, Konstantinos
Kontogiannis, Spyros
Zaroliagis, Christos
author_facet Karathanasis, Konstantinos
Kontogiannis, Spyros
Zaroliagis, Christos
contents A key task in multi-objective optimization is to compute the Pareto subset or frontier $P$ of a given $d$-dimensional objective space $F$; that is, a maximal subset $P\subseteq F$ such that every element in $P$ is not-dominated (it is not worse in all criteria) by any element in $F$. This process, called dominance-filtering, often involves handling objective spaces derived from either the union or the Minkowski sum of two given partial objective spaces which are Pareto sets themselves, and constitutes a major bottleneck in several multi-objective optimization techniques. In this work, we introduce three new data structures, ND$^{+}$-trees, QND$^{+}$-trees and TND$^{+}$-trees, which are designed for efficiently indexing non-dominated objective vectors and performing dominance-checks. We also devise three new algorithms that efficiently filter out dominated objective vectors from the union or the Minkowski sum of two Pareto sets. An extensive experimental evaluation on both synthetically generated and real-world data sets reveals that our new algorithms outperform state-of-art techniques for dominance-filtering of unions and Minkowski sums of Pareto sets, and scale well w.r.t. the number of $d\ge 3$ criteria and the sets' sizes.
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spellingShingle Improved Dominance Filtering for Unions and Minkowski Sums of Pareto Sets
Karathanasis, Konstantinos
Kontogiannis, Spyros
Zaroliagis, Christos
Data Structures and Algorithms
A key task in multi-objective optimization is to compute the Pareto subset or frontier $P$ of a given $d$-dimensional objective space $F$; that is, a maximal subset $P\subseteq F$ such that every element in $P$ is not-dominated (it is not worse in all criteria) by any element in $F$. This process, called dominance-filtering, often involves handling objective spaces derived from either the union or the Minkowski sum of two given partial objective spaces which are Pareto sets themselves, and constitutes a major bottleneck in several multi-objective optimization techniques. In this work, we introduce three new data structures, ND$^{+}$-trees, QND$^{+}$-trees and TND$^{+}$-trees, which are designed for efficiently indexing non-dominated objective vectors and performing dominance-checks. We also devise three new algorithms that efficiently filter out dominated objective vectors from the union or the Minkowski sum of two Pareto sets. An extensive experimental evaluation on both synthetically generated and real-world data sets reveals that our new algorithms outperform state-of-art techniques for dominance-filtering of unions and Minkowski sums of Pareto sets, and scale well w.r.t. the number of $d\ge 3$ criteria and the sets' sizes.
title Improved Dominance Filtering for Unions and Minkowski Sums of Pareto Sets
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20689