Smoothed Analysis of Multiobjective Optimization

  • Authors:
  • Heiko Röglin;Shang-Hua Teng

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 50th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We prove that the number of Pareto-optimal solutions in any multiobjective binary optimization problem with a finite number of linear objective functions is polynomial in the model of smoothed analysis. This resolves a conjecture of Rene Beier. Moreover, we give polynomial bounds on all finite moments of the number of Pareto-optimal solutions, which yields the first non-trivial concentration bound for this quantity. Using our new technique, we give a complete characterization of polynomial smoothed complexity for binary optimization problems, which strengthens an earlier result due to Beier and Vöcking.