提出优先约束下降法,让模型优化更符合目标重要性层级。
Not All Objectives Are Born Equal: Priority-Constrained Descent for Hierarchical Multi-Objective Optimization

- 基于梯度的优化框架,显式处理目标优先级
- 在保证主目标下降的前提下,最小化次级目标扰动
- 单一参数控制权衡,结果可解释且不受尺度影响
深度学习任务中各目标重要性不等,主目标决定方向,次级目标如稀疏性、压缩性或鲁棒性则限制解空间。现有方法存在对称性缺陷,忽视目标间的层次结构。本文提出优先约束下降(PCD),一种基于梯度的优化框架,能保留主目标下降方向,同时以最小扰动确保次级目标进展,由单个 τ∈[0,1] 控制扰动强度。该方法对目标尺度不变,且在二元与三元目标问题中可得闭式解。在结构化网络压缩、非结构化稀疏性与低秩性等设置下评估,PCD展现帕累托占优,次级目标进展更优,并提供可解释的 τ 与权衡关系。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Deep learning problems rarely involve objectives that are equal in importance. A primary objective defines the goal, whilst secondary objectives, such as sparsity, compression, or robustness constrain the solution. While existing multi-objective methods have proven effective in practice, they have a clear symmetry problem and neglect the inherent objective hierarchy built into these objective spaces. We introduce Priority-Constrained Descent (PCD), a gradient-based optimization framework designed to explicitly exploit hierarchical objective structures. PCD preserves the direction of primary descent whilst allowing for the minimal distortion necessary to guarantee progress on secondary objectives, controlled by a single $τ\in [0, 1]$ that dictates the strength of the distortion. The resulting formulation is invariant to objective scaling and admits exact closed-form solutions for problems with two and three objectives. We evaluate PCD within structured network compression settings, unstructured sparsity and low-rankness, and across a variety of synthetic experiments, showing Pareto dominance and better per-objective performance with secondary progress guarantees over existing methods, further exhibiting the interpretable trade-off that $τ$ provides.
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