Agreement on a single objective function enables a more rational, linear way of ratcheting up everyone’s best current thinking, minimizing the time spent on individuals’ emotions and personal ...

For industrial organizations serious about AI value, objective functions can provide the critical link between technical capabilities and business outcomes.

Kenneth Lange, David R. Hunter, Ilsoon Yang, Optimization Transfer Using Surrogate Objective Functions, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Vol. 9, No ...