Expensive multi-objective optimization is a prevalent and crucial concern in many real-world scenarios, where sample-efficiency is vital due to the limited evaluations to recover the true Pareto front for decision making. Existing works either involve repeatedly fitting Gaussian process surrogates from scratch for each newly encountered problem, or rely on computationally demanding hypervolume-oriented policy learning for amortized optimization, making it challenging to achieve scalable pre-training and efficient yet robust adaptation for diverse emerging real-world applications. To address these challenges, we propose FoMEMO (Foundation Models for Expensive Multi-objective Optimization), which adopts a decomposition-based training paradigm that converts multi-objective optimization into preference-wise aggregated posterior learning tasks, enabling scalable pre-training on hundreds of millions of diverse synthetic datasets without relying on extensive real-world domain experiments. At test time, given observed trajectories from unseen problems and user preferences, the foundation model performs in-context posterior prediction and optimizes the derived acquisition functions for efficient candidate generation, achieving strong generalization and optimization performance without any subsequent model training or updates.
Yiming Yao Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Jianwei Niu Beihang University, Bin Dai Beihang University, Tao Ren
原文摘要
Recent breakthroughs in Transformer-based large models, have driven widespread tasks, yet their reliance on centralized cloud deployment raises significant privacy risks due to sensitive data exposure. While edge-based collaborative inference offers a privacy-preserving alternative, existing methods face critical limitations: static model partitioning cannot adapt to dynamic edge resource fluctuations, and rigid multi-head attention handling overlooks semantic-critical prioritization and parallelism. We propose EdgeFormer, a latency-aware framework for distributed Transformer inference in resource-constrained edge networks. EdgeFormer dynamically allocates model blocks across devices via efficiency-storage trade-off optimization and introduces collaborative Multi-Head Attention (cMHA), which distributes semantic-critical attention heads across devices while pruning redundant ones under real-time constraints. We further develop LiScore, a composite metric integrating attention diversity and latency costs, alongside a similarity-based retrieval method to reduce recomputation overhead. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EdgeFormer achieves up to 2.01 \\times inference acceleration over state-of-the-art baselines with \\leq1.06% accuracy loss, maintaining robustness under varying edge conditions.
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Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2026 · 正式发表