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We present a simple and at the same time fficient algorithm to compute all nondominated extreme points in the outcome set of multi-objective mixed integer linear programmes in any dimension. The method generalizes the well-known dichotomic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Anthony Przybylski , Kathrin Klamroth , Renaud Lacour

This article focuses on the optimization of a complex system which is composed of several subsystems. On the one hand, these subsystems are subject to multiple objectives, local constraints as well as local variables, and they are…

In this note, we consider the problem of robust learning mixtures of linear regressions. We connect mixtures of linear regressions and mixtures of Gaussians with a simple thresholding, so that a quasi-polynomial time algorithm can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-25 Ying Huang , Liang Chen

Mixed-integer quadratic programming is the problem of optimizing a quadratic function over points in a polyhedral set where some of the components are restricted to be integral. In this paper, we prove that the decision version of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-21 Alberto Del Pia , Santanu S. Dey , Marco Molinaro

This is the first of a series of papers in which we study deep computations (ultracomputations) and deep iterates, formalizing the ideas of "asymptotic limit" of computations and compositional iterates, respectively. In this first paper of…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-01-28 Samson Alva , Eduardo Dueñez , Jose Iovino , Claire Walton

Discrete black-box optimization problems are challenging for model-based optimization (MBO) algorithms, such as Bayesian optimization, due to the size of the search space and the need to satisfy combinatorial constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Theodore Papalexopoulos , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Ross Anderson , Juan Pablo Vielma , David Belanger

This paper discusses a special kind of convex constrained optimization problem, whose constraints consist of box inequalities and linear equalities. For this problem, in addition to general optimization algorithms such as exact penalty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Yue Sun

Bridging logical and algorithmic reasoning with modern machine learning techniques is a fundamental challenge with potentially transformative impact. On the algorithmic side, many NP-hard problems can be expressed as integer programs, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Anselm Paulus , Michal Rolínek , Vít Musil , Brandon Amos , Georg Martius

Mixed-integer optimization is at the core of many online decision-making systems that demand frequent updates of decisions in real time. However, due to their combinatorial nature, mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) can be difficult to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Shivi Dixit , Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang

A popular approach in combinatorial optimization is to model problems as integer linear programs. Ideally, the relaxed linear program would have only integer solutions, which happens for instance when the constraint matrix is totally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Christoph Durr , Mathilde Hurand

Nonlinear programming targets nonlinear optimization with constraints, which is a generic yet complex methodology involving humans for problem modeling and algorithms for problem solving. We address the particularly hard challenge of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 David Hägele , Moataz Abdelaal , Ozgur S. Oguz , Marc Toussaint , Daniel Weiskopf

For three decades, carrier-phase observations have been used to obtain the most accurate location estimates using global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). These estimates are computed by minimizing a nonlinear mixed-integer least-squares…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Ophir Uziel , Efi Fogel , Dan Halperin , Sivan Toledo

Many nonlinear optimal control and optimization problems involve constraints that combine continuous dynamics with discrete logic conditions. Standard approaches typically rely on mixed-integer programming, which introduces scalability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We consider the problem of directly optimizing a non-linear function of an outcome, where this outcome itself is the sum of many small contributions. The non-linearity of the function means that the problem is not equivalent to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-04 Benjamin Heymann , Otmane Sakhi

We study the conditions under which the convex relaxation of a mixed-integer linear programming formulation for ordered optimization problems, where sorting is part of the decision process, yields integral optimal solutions. Thereby solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Víctor Blanco , Diego Laborda , Miguel Martínez-Antón

This paper introduces a novel algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems with multilinear interpolations of look-up tables. These problems arise when objective or constraints contain black-box functions only known at…

In this note, we extend the result of \cite{PoulyG16} about the complexity of solving polynomial differential equations over unbounded domains to work with non-rational input. In order to deal with arbitrary input, we phrase the result in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Amaury Pouly

In this paper, a class of optimization problems with nonlinear inequality constraints is discussed. Based on the ideas of sequential quadratic programming algorithm and the method of strongly sub-feasible directions, a new superlinearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-28 Jin-Bao Jian , Chuan-Hao Guo , Chun-Ming Tang , Yan-Qin Bai

It is a well-known result that bilevel linear optimization is NP-hard. In many publications, reformulations as mixed-integer linear optimization problems are proposed, which suggests that the decision version of the problem belongs to NP.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Christoph Buchheim

Kernelization algorithms in the context of Parameterized Complexity are often based on a combination of reduction rules and combinatorial insights. We will expose in this paper a similar strategy for obtaining polynomial-time approximation…

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