FoMEMO: Towards Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization

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Autori principali: Yao, Yiming, Liu, Fei, Zhao, Liang, Lin, Xi, Liu, Yilu, Zhang, Qingfu
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Yao, Yiming
Liu, Fei
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Xi
Liu, Yilu
Zhang, Qingfu
author_facet Yao, Yiming
Liu, Fei
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Xi
Liu, Yilu
Zhang, Qingfu
contents Expensive multi-objective optimization is a prevalent and crucial concern in many real-world scenarios, where sample-efficiency is vital due to the limited evaluations to recover the true Pareto front for decision making. Existing works either involve rebuilding Gaussian process surrogates from scratch for each objective in each new problem encountered, or rely on extensive past domain experiments for pre-training deep learning models, making them hard to generalize and impractical to cope with various emerging applications in the real world. To address this issue, we propose a new paradigm named FoMEMO (Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization), which enables the establishment of a foundation model conditioned on any domain trajectory and user preference, and facilitates fast in-context optimization based on the predicted preference-wise aggregated posteriors. Rather than accessing extensive real-world domain experiments for training, we demonstrate that pre-training the foundation model with a diverse set of hundreds of millions of synthetic data can lead to superior generalization and optimization performance to unknown problems, without necessitating any subsequent model training or updates in the following optimization process.
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spellingShingle FoMEMO: Towards Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization
Yao, Yiming
Liu, Fei
Zhao, Liang
Lin, Xi
Liu, Yilu
Zhang, Qingfu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Expensive multi-objective optimization is a prevalent and crucial concern in many real-world scenarios, where sample-efficiency is vital due to the limited evaluations to recover the true Pareto front for decision making. Existing works either involve rebuilding Gaussian process surrogates from scratch for each objective in each new problem encountered, or rely on extensive past domain experiments for pre-training deep learning models, making them hard to generalize and impractical to cope with various emerging applications in the real world. To address this issue, we propose a new paradigm named FoMEMO (Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization), which enables the establishment of a foundation model conditioned on any domain trajectory and user preference, and facilitates fast in-context optimization based on the predicted preference-wise aggregated posteriors. Rather than accessing extensive real-world domain experiments for training, we demonstrate that pre-training the foundation model with a diverse set of hundreds of millions of synthetic data can lead to superior generalization and optimization performance to unknown problems, without necessitating any subsequent model training or updates in the following optimization process.
title FoMEMO: Towards Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03244