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We present a new and faster algorithm for the 4-block integer linear programming problem, overcoming the long-standing runtime barrier faced by previous algorithms that rely on Graver complexity or proximity bounds. The 4-block integer…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Alexandra Lassota , Koen Ligthart

In this paper, we present an exact algorithm for optimizing two linear fractional over the efficient set of a multi-objective integer quadratic problem. This type of problems arises when two decision-makers, such as firms, each have a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Ali Bencheikh , Mustapha Moulai , Ilies Badaoui

In this paper we generalize N-fold integer programs and two-stage integer programs with N scenarios to N-fold 4-block decomposable integer programs. We show that for fixed blocks but variable N, these integer programs are polynomial-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Raymond Hemmecke , Matthias Köppe , Robert Weismantel

We present a distributed anytime algorithm for performing MAP inference in graphical models. The problem is formulated as a linear programming relaxation over the edges of a graph. The resulting program has a constraint structure that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Joop van de Ven , Fabio Ramos

Multi-objective integer or mixed-integer programming problems typically have disconnected feasible domains, making the task of constructing an approximation of the Pareto front challenging. The present paper shows that certain algorithms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Regina S. Burachik , C. Yalçın Kaya , M. Mustafa Rizvi

In a wide range of applications, we are required to rapidly solve a sequence of convex multiparametric quadratic programs (mp-QPs) on resource-limited hardwares. This is a nontrivial task and has been an active topic for decades in control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Zhinan Hou , Keyou You

In this paper, we present an improved methodology to compute $\omega$-invariant of numerical semigroup. The approach is based on adapting a recent resolution method for optimizing a linear function over the set of efficient solutions of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Wissem Achour , Djamal Chaabane , Víctor Blanco

Integer programming (IP), as the name suggests is an integer-variable-based approach commonly used to formulate real-world optimization problems with constraints. Currently, quantum algorithms reformulate the IP into an unconstrained form…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

The main result of this paper is the decidability of the membership problem for $2\times 2$ nonsingular integer matrices. Namely, we will construct the first algorithm that for any nonsingular $2\times 2$ integer matrices $M_1,\dots,M_n$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Igor Potapov , Pavel Semukhin

Integer programming (IP) is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that is widely used to represent a diverse set of real-world problems spanning multiple fields, such as finance, engineering, logistics, and operations research. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

We propose a new exact approach for solving integer linear programming (ILP) problems which we will call projective splitting algorithms (PSAs). Unlike classical methods for solving ILP problems, PSAs conduct the search for the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-04-16 Federico Rodes , Isabel Mendez-Diaz , Paula Zabala

In this article, we discuss an exact algorithm for solving mixed integer concave minimization problems. A piecewise inner-approximation of the concave function is achieved using an auxiliary linear program that leads to a bilevel program,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-31 Ankur Sinha , Arka Das , Guneshwar Anand , Sachin Jayaswal

Many probabilistic inference tasks involve summations over exponentially large sets. Recently, it has been shown that these problems can be reduced to solving a polynomial number of MAP inference queries for a model augmented with randomly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Stefano Ermon , Carla P. Gomes , Ashish Sabharwal , Bart Selman

A theorem of N. Katz \cite{Ka} p.45, states that an irreducible differential operator $L$ over a suitable differential field $k$, which has an isotypical decomposition over the algebraic closure of $k$, is a tensor product $L=M\otimes_k N$…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Elie Compoint , Marius van der Put , Jacques-Arthur Weil

We study the reformulation of integer linear programs by means of a mixed integer linear program with fewer integer variables. Such reformulations can be solved efficiently with mixed integer linear programming techniques. We exhibit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-14 Jörg Bader , Robert Hildebrand , Robert Weismantel , Rico Zenklusen

This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP) problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-06-11 Li Wang , Feng Guo

Decision making needs to take an uncertain environment into account. Over the last decades, robust optimization has emerged as a preeminent method to produce solutions that are immunized against uncertainty. The main focus in robust…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-11 Marc Goerigk , Michael Hartisch

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

In this paper, we consider a bilevel polynomial optimization problem where the objective and the constraint functions of both the upper and the lower level problems are polynomials. We present methods for finding its global minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 V. Jeyakumar , J. B. Lasserre , G. Li , T. S. Pham

Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso