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Binary (0-1) integer programming (BIP) is pivotal in scientific domains requiring discrete decision-making. As the advance of AI computing, recent works explore neural network-based solvers for integer linear programming (ILP) problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sen Bai , Chunqi Yang , Xin Bai , Xin Zhang , Zhengang Jiang

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) serves as a versatile framework for modeling a wide range of combinatorial optimization problems, typically addressed by sophisticated exact solvers or heuristics. While learning-based approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kyuil Sim , Sanghyeok Choi , Jinkyoo Park

We present novel mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations for optimization over nonconvex piecewise linear functions. We exploit recent advances in the systematic construction of MIP formulations to derive new formulations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Joey Huchette , Juan Pablo Vielma

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

We present two novel applications of symmetries for mixed-integer linear programming. First we propose two variants of a new heuristic to improve the objective value of a feasible solution using symmetries. These heuristics can use either…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Philipp M. Christophel , Menal Güzelsoy , Imre Pólik

This paper revisits the classic iterative proportional scaling (IPS) from a modern optimization perspective. In contrast to the criticisms made in the literature, we show that based on a coordinate descent characterization, IPS can be…

Computation · Statistics 2018-07-04 Yiyuan She , Shao Tang

Decentralized planning in uncertain environments is a complex task generally dealt with by using a decision-theoretic approach, mainly through the framework of Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (DEC-POMDPs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Raghav Aras , Alain Dutech

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

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

We consider integer and linear programming problems for which the linear constraints exhibit a (recursive) block-structure: The problem decomposes into independent and efficiently solvable sub-problems if a small number of constraints is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jana Cslovjecsek , Friedrich Eisenbrand , Christoph Hunkenschröder , Lars Rohwedder , Robert Weismantel

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

Integer linear programming (ILP) is an elegant approach to solve linear optimization problems, naturally described using integer decision variables. Within the context of physics-inspired machine learning applied to chemistry, we…

Circuit-augmentation algorithms are generalizations of the Simplex method, where in each step one is allowed to move along a fixed set of directions, called circuits, that is a superset of the edges of a polytope. We show that in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-23 Jesús A. De Loera , Sean Kafer , Laura Sanità

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and its potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the LP problem. In this paper, we make a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi N. , Paul H. Siegel

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

For several decades the dominant techniques for integer linear programming have been branching and cutting planes. Recently, several authors have developed core point methods for solving symmetric integer linear programs (ILPs). An integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-07 Naghmeh Shahverdi , Seyyedmahsa Banihashemi , David Bremner

Quantified Integer Programming (QIP) bridges multiple domains by extending Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) to incorporate general integer variables and linear constraints while also generalizing Integer Programming through variable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Michael Hartisch , Leroy Chew

We review the simplex method and two interior-point methods (the affine scaling and the primal-dual) for solving linear programming problems for checking avoiding sure loss, and propose novel improvements. We exploit the structure of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Nawapon Nakharutai , Matthias C. M. Troffaes , Camila C. S. Caiado

In this paper we consider bound-constrained mixed-integer optimization problems where the objective function is differentiable w.r.t.\ the continuous variables for every configuration of the integer variables. We mainly suggest to exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Matteo Lapucci , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi , Pierluigi Mansueto

This is a survey on the computational complexity of nonlinear mixed-integer optimization. It highlights a selection of important topics, ranging from incomputability results that arise from number theory and logic, to recently obtained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-06-28 Matthias Köppe