Integrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples

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dc.authorscopusidWitold Pedrycz / 58861905800
dc.authorwosidWitold Pedrycz / HJZ-2779-2023
dc.contributor.authorLi, Zhuolin
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Zhen
dc.contributor.authorPedrycz, Witold
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-18T10:49:44Z
dc.date.available2025-04-18T10:49:44Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentİstinye Üniversitesi, Mühendislik ve Doğa Bilimleri Fakültesi, Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
dc.description.abstractLearning preferences from assignment examples has attracted considerable attention in the field of multi-criteria sorting (MCS). However, traditional MCS methods, designed to infer decision makers’ preferences from small-scale assignment examples, encounter limitations when confronted with large-scale data sets. Additionally, the presence of decision makers’ non-monotonic preferences for certain criteria in MCS problems necessitates accounting for potential non-monotonicity when devising preference learning methods. To address this, this paper proposes some new models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for MCS problems from large-scale assignment examples by leveraging machine learning models. Specifically, we first introduce the Piecewise-Linear Neural Network (PLNN) model, which leverages the threshold-based value-driven sorting procedure as the underlying sorting model and integrates a perceptron-based model to establish piecewise-linear marginal value functions to approximate real ones. On this basis, we address MCS problems with criteria interactions and extend the PLNN model to develop the Piecewise-Linear Factorization Machine-based Neural Network (PLFMNN) model by incorporating the factorization machine to factorize interaction coefficients. Training these models allows us to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences of decision makers. To illustrate the proposed models, we apply them to a red wine quality classification problem. Furthermore, we assess the performance of the proposed models through computational experiments on both artificial and real-world data sets. Additionally, we conduct statistical tests to ascertain the significance of the performance differences. Experimental results reveal that the proposed models are comparable to the multilayer perceptron model and outperform other baseline models on most data sets, thus affirming their efficacy. Finally, we conduct some sensitivity analysis to assess the impact of certain parameters on the performance of the proposed models and compare them with existing studies from a theoretical perspective, further demonstrating their effectiveness. © 2024 Elsevier Ltd
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding text 1 This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 72371049 and 71971039 , the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant No. 2024-MSBA-26 , the Funds for Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No. 23YJC630219 , the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. DUT23RW406 , and the China Scholarship Council program under grant No. 202306060150 . Funding text 2 This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 72371049 and 71971039, the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province under Grant No. 2024-MSBA-26, the Funds for Humanities and Social Sciences of Ministry of Education of China under Grant No. 23YJC630219, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China under Grant No. DUT23RW406, and the Scientific Research Fund of Liaoning Provincial Education Department under Grant No. JYTMS20230667, and the China Scholarship Council program under Grant No. 202306060150.
dc.identifier.citationLi, Z., Zhang, Z., & Pedrycz, W. (2025). Integrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples. Omega, 131, 103219.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.omega.2024.103219
dc.identifier.issn03050483
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85207691440
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2024.103219
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12713/7204
dc.identifier.volume131
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.institutionauthorPedrycz, Witold
dc.institutionauthoridWitold Pedrycz / 0000-0002-9335-9930
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd.
dc.relation.ispartofOmega (United Kingdom)
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectData-Driven Decision Analysis
dc.subjectLarge-Scale Assignment Examples
dc.subjectMulti-Criteria Sorting
dc.subjectNon-monotonic Preferences
dc.subjectPreference Learning
dc.titleIntegrating machine learning models to learn potentially non-monotonic preferences for multi-criteria sorting from large-scale assignment examples
dc.typeArticle

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