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A greedy hypervolume polychotomic scheme for multiobjective combinatorial optimization

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Gonçalo Lopes *
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Kathrin Klamroth
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Luís Paquete
DOI:10.1016/j.cor.2025.107140delete
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The usual goal in multiobjective combinatorial optimization is to find the complete set of nondominated points. However, in general, the nondominated set may be too large to be enumerated under a tight time budget. In these cases, it is preferable to rapidly obtain a concise representation of the nondominated set that satisfies a given property of interest. This work describes a generic greedy approach to compute a representation of the nondominated set for multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems that approximately maximizes the dominated hypervolume. The representation is built iteratively by solving a sequence of hypervolume scalarized problems, each of which with respect to k reference points, which is a parameter of our approach. We present a mixed-integer formulation of the hypervolume scalarization function for k reference points as well as a combinatorial branch-and-bound for the m-objective knapsack problem. We empirically analyse the functional relationship between k and its running-time and representation quality. Our results indicate that the branch-and-bound is a much more efficient approach and that increasing k does not directly translate into much better representation quality.
Keywords:
Multiobjective combinatorial optimization
Hypervolume scalarization
Representation of the nondominated set
Greedy hypervolume algorithm
Local bounds

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Computers and Operations Research
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University of Coimbra
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