Trade-Offs on Aayush Bajaj's Augmenting Infrastructurehttps://abaj.ai/tags/trade-offs/Recent content in Trade-Offs on Aayush Bajaj's Augmenting InfrastructureHugoen© 2026 Aayush BajajFri, 10 Jul 2026 08:15:51 +1000Multi-objectivehttps://abaj.ai/wiki/ccs/programming/paradigms/multi-objective/Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:43:56 +1000https://abaj.ai/wiki/ccs/programming/paradigms/multi-objective/<p>single-objective optimisation is a polite fiction. real decisions trade cost against quality, return against risk, speed against accuracy — and the objectives <em>disagree</em>, otherwise you would not have listed them separately.<span class="margin-note" data-note="the ordering is named for pareto (1896) though edgeworth had the idea in 1881 — hence the pedantic name edgeworth-pareto optimality"> <span class="margin-note-indicator">𐃏</span> </span> multi-objective optimisation refuses to mash them into one number prematurely. the price of that honesty: &ldquo;the optimum&rdquo; stops being a point and becomes a <em>set</em> — the pareto front — and half the subject is about how to trace it, the other half about how to pick from it.</p>