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Robin van der Laag
dblp:423/4950
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0007-3250-064XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization
multi-objective optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimisation · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization
stochastic dominance |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimisation · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization › multi-objective optimization › evolutionary algorithm
evolutionary multi-objective optimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimisation · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization › optimization for machine learning
hyperparameter optimization |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective Optimisation · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
optimal transport · 1.0empirical test procedure · 1.0center-outward q-dominance · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Center-Outward q-Dominance: A Sample-Computable Proxy for Strong Stochastic Dominance in Stochastic Multi-Objective OptimisationabstractStochastic multi-objective optimization (SMOOP) requires ranking multivariate distributions; yet, most empirical studies perform scalarization, which loses information and is unreliable. Based on the optimal transport theory, we introduce the center-outward q-dominance relation and prove it implies strong first-order stochastic dominance (FSD). Also, we develop an empirical test procedure based on q-dominance, and derive an explicit sample size threshold, n(δ), to control the Type I error. We verify the usefulness of our approach in two scenarios: (1) as a ranking method in hyperparameter tuning; (2) as a selection method in multi-objective optimization algorithms. For the former, we analyze the final stochastic Pareto sets of seven multi-objective hyperparameter tuners on the YAHPO-MO benchmark tasks with q-dominance, which allows us to compare these tuners when the expected hypervolume indicator (HVI, the most common performance metric) of the Pareto sets becomes indistinguishable. For the latter, we replace the mean value-based selection in the NSGA-II algorithm with q-dominance, which shows a superior convergence rate on noise-augmented ZDT benchmark problems. These results establish center-outward q-dominance as a principled, tractable foundation for seeking truly stochastically dominant solutions for SMOOPs. Robin van der Laag, Hao Wang 0025, Thomas Bäck, Yingjie Fan 0002 |
AAAI | 1 |