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Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

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We study physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) as numerical tools for the optimal control of semilinear partial differential equations. We first recall the classical direct and indirect viewpoints for optimal control of PDEs, and then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Shanqing Liu , Alessandro Alla , Jerome Darbon , George Em Karniadakis

We propose a moment relaxation for two problems, the separation and covering problem with semi-algebraic sets generated by a polynomial of degree d. We show that (a) the optimal value of the relaxation finitely converges to the optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-26 Jean-Bernard Lasserre , Victor Magron

We introduce tensor numerical techniques for solving optimal control problems constrained by elliptic operators in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d=2,3$, with variable coefficients, which can be represented in a low rank separable form. We construct a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Boris N. Khoromskij , Britta Schmitt , Volker Schulz

Distributionally robust control is a well-studied framework for optimal decision making under uncertainty, with the objective of minimizing an expected cost function over control actions, assuming the most adverse probability distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Lukas Fiechtner , Arec Jamgochian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Algebraic multigrid (AMG) methods derive their optimal efficiency from the interplay between a relaxation process and a corresponding coarse grid correction. In many standard formulations, relaxation and coarse-graining are analyzed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Rayan Moussa , Karsten Kahl

This study focuses on using direct methods (first-discretize-then-optimize) to solve optimal control problems for a class of nonsmooth dynamical systems governed by differential variational inequalities (DVI), called optimal control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Kangyu Lin , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

This is Part II of a study on mixed-integer programming (MIP) relaxation techniques for the solution of non-convex mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MIQCQPs). We set the focus on MIP relaxation methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-03 Benjamin Beach , Robert Burlacu , Andreas Barmann , Lukas Hager , Robert Hildebrand

We study the Optimal Control Problem (OCP) for regular linear differential-algebraic systems (DAEs). To this end, we introduce the input index, which allows, on the one hand, to characterize the space of consistent initial values in terms…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Achim Ilchmann , Leslie Leben , Jonas Witschel , Karl Worthmann

In this paper, optimal control problems governed by diffusion equations with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions are investigated in the framework of the gradient discretisation method. Gradient schemes are defined for the optimality…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Jerome Droniou , Neela Nataraj , Devika Shylaja

Underactuated robots are characterized by a larger number of degrees of freedom than actuators and if they are designed with a specific mass distribution, they can be controlled by means of differential flatness theory. This structural…

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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…

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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…

Mixed-integer model predictive control (MI-MPC) can be a powerful tool for modeling hybrid control systems. In case of a linear-quadratic objective in combination with linear or piecewise-linear system dynamics and inequality constraints,…

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We focus on modeling the relationship between an input feature vector and the predicted outcome of a trained decision tree using mixed-integer optimization. This can be used in many practical applications where a decision tree or tree…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Max Biggs , Georgia Perakis

This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. The proposed procedure has several features which distinguishes it from the other procedures for the problem. First of all a sliding…

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A new relaxed variant of interior point method for low-rank semidefinite programming problems is proposed in this paper. The method is a step outside of the usual interior point framework. In anticipation to converging to a low-rank primal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Stefania Bellavia , Jacek Gondzio , Margherita Porcelli

This paper presents a model predictive control (MPC) for dynamic systems whose nonlinearity and uncertainty are modelled by deep neural networks (NNs), under input and state constraints. Since the NN output contains a high-order complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Jianglin Lan

Correspondence problems are often modelled as quadratic optimization problems over permutations. Common scalable methods for approximating solutions of these NP-hard problems are the spectral relaxation for non-convex energies and the…

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