arXiv (Cornell University)
Three-Way Trade-Off in Multi-Objective Learning: Optimization, Generalization and Conflict-Avoidance
May 2023 • Lisha Chen, Heshan Fernando, Yiming Ying, Tianyi Chen
Multi-objective learning (MOL) problems often arise in emerging machine learning problems when there are multiple learning criteria, data modalities, or learning tasks. Different from single-objective learning, one of the critical challenges in MOL is the potential conflict among different objectives during the iterative optimization process. Recent works have developed various dynamic weighting algorithms for MOL such as MGDA and its variants, where the central idea is to find an update direction that avoids conf…