JoLEA
The twenty-third lecture takes place on the 18th of June 2025 at 4:30 PM (CEST), virtually.
The zoom link to attend the lecture is: https://cwi-nl-zoom.zoom.us/j/88929832334?pwd=tuGiIrmSBjjtNqGlaGByYNgbGjpDk4.1 The lecture will be held by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Branke, University of Warwick, UK.
To interact or not to interact in Bayesian multi-objective optimisation
After a brief introduction to Bayesian optimisation, this talk will start by discussing the potential benefits of interactively eliciting preference information in multi-objective optimisation. We demonstrate how to find knees in multi-objective optimisation, not requiring any involvement of the decision maker. Then we show that if we can ask the decision maker only once, it may be beneficial to let the decision maker choose from an approximated frontier instead of the final solution set. Finally, we propose a way to estimate the value of more frequent user interaction, thereby allowing Bayesian optimisation to decide when it should ask the decision maker for input rather than following a pre-set interaction scheme.
About the speaker
Jürgen Branke is Professor of Operational Research and Systems at the University of Warwick (UK). He has been working in the area of evolutionary computation since 1994 and has published over 300 peer-reviewed papers. His main research interests include metaheuristics and Bayesian optimisation applied to multi-objective problems, problems under uncertainty and dynamically changing problems. He is Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, Area Editor of the Journal of Heuristics and the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, and Associate Editor of the Evolutionary Computation Journal.
