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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) lies at the core of many real-world combinatorial optimization (CO) problems, traditionally solved by branch-and-bound (B&B). A key driver influencing B&B solvers efficiency is the variable selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Paul Strang , Zacharie Alès , Côme Bissuel , Olivier Juan , Safia Kedad-Sidhoum , Emmanuel Rachelson

In multi-agent tasks, the central challenge lies in the dynamic adaptation of strategies. However, directly conditioning on opponents' strategies is intractable in the prevalent deep reinforcement learning paradigm due to a fundamental…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Yue Lin , Shuhui Zhu , Wenhao Li , Ang Li , Dan Qiao , Pascal Poupart , Hongyuan Zha , Baoxiang Wang

The problem of Multi-agent Path Finding (MAPF) consists in providing agents with efficient paths while preventing collisions. Numerous solvers have been developed so far since MAPF is critical for practical applications such as automated…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Keisuke Okumura , Yasumasa Tamura , Xavier Défago

We address the solution of Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models with strong relaxations that are derived from Dantzig-Wolfe decompositions and allow a pseudo-polynomial pricing algorithm. We exploit their network-flow…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Vinícius L. de Lima , Manuel Iori , Flávio K. Miyazawa

Several recently developed Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) solvers scale to large MAPF instances by searching for MAPF plans on 2 levels: The high-level search resolves collisions between agents, and the low-level search plans paths for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Hang Ma , T. K. Satish Kumar , Sven Koenig

Sequential quadratic programming and sequential convex programming efficiently solve nonlinear programs (NLPs) by linearizing inner nonlinearities while preserving the outer convex structure. This paper introduces a sequential mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Andrea Ghezzi , Wim Van Roy , Sebastian Sager , Moritz Diehl

Leveraging machine learning (ML) to predict an initial solution for mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has gained considerable popularity in recent years. These methods predict a solution and fix a subset of variables to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyang Liu , Jie Wang , Zijie Geng , Xijun Li , Yuxuan Zong , Fangzhou Zhu , Jianye Hao , Feng Wu

In multi-objective optimization, several potentially conflicting objective functions need to be optimized. Instead of one optimal solution, we look for the set of so called non-dominated solutions. An important subset is the set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Fritz Bökler , Levin Nemesch , Mirko H. Wagner

Many high-level multi-agent planning problems, including multi-robot navigation and path planning, can be effectively modeled using deterministic actions and observations. In this work, we focus on such domains and introduce the class of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Yang You , Alex Schutz , Zhikun Li , Bruno Lacerda , Robert Skilton , Nick Hawes

Quadratic programming (QP) is a well-studied fundamental NP-hard optimization problem which optimizes a quadratic objective over a set of linear constraints. In this paper, we reformulate QPs as a mixed-integer linear problem (MILP). This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Wei Xia , Juan Vera , Luis F. Zuluaga

In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised learning scheme for accelerating the solution of a family of mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Distinct substantially from existing learning-to-optimize methods, our proposal seeks to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Shiyuan Qu , Fenglian Dong , Zhiwei Wei , Chao Shang

Machine learning components commonly appear in larger decision-making pipelines; however, the model training process typically focuses only on a loss that measures accuracy between predicted values and ground truth values. Decision-focused…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Aaron Ferber , Bryan Wilder , Bistra Dilkina , Milind Tambe

We analyze integer linear programs which we obtain after discretizing two-dimensional subproblems arising from a trust-region algorithm for mixed integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization. We discuss NP-hardness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Paul Manns , Marvin Severitt

In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm utilizing the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in conjunction with sequential constraint tightening to address mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

This article presents the state-of-the-art in optimal solution methods for decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes (Dec-POMDPs), which are general models for collaborative multiagent planning under uncertainty. Building…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Frans Adriaan Oliehoek , Matthijs T. J. Spaan , Christopher Amato , Shimon Whiteson

Exactly solving multi-objective integer programming (MOIP) problems is often a very time consuming process, especially for large and complex problems. Parallel computing has the potential to significantly reduce the time taken to solve such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 William Pettersson , Melih Ozlen

In this paper, we introduce a nonlinear distributed model predictive control (DMPC) algorithm, which allows for dissimilar and time-varying control horizons among agents, thereby addressing a common limitation in current DMPC schemes. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-15 Paula Chanfreut , José M. Maestre , Quanyan Zhu , W. P. M. H. Heemels

The mathematical framework of hybrid system is a recent and general tool to treat control systems involving control action of heterogeneous nature. In this paper, we construct and test a semi-Lagrangian numerical scheme for solving the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Roberto Ferretti , Achille Sassi

Machine Reassignment is a challenging problem for constraint programming (CP) and mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) approaches, especially given the size of data centres. The multi-objective version of the Machine Reassignment Problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Takfarinas Saber , Anthony Ventresque , Joao Marques-Silva , James Thorburn , Liam Murphy

Enhancing existing transmission lines is a useful tool to combat transmission congestion and guarantee transmission security with increasing demand and boosting the renewable energy source. This study concerns the selection of lines whose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Jian Liu , Rui Bo , Siyuan Wang