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Numerous real-world decision-making problems can be formulated and solved using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models. However, the transformation of these problems into MILP models heavily relies on expertise in operations…

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The uniform quadratic optimizatin problem (UQ) is a nonconvex quadratic constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) sharing the same Hessian matrix. Based on the second-order cone programming (SOCP) relaxation, we establish a new sufficient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Shu Wang , Yong Xia

In model predictive control (MPC) for hybrid systems, solving optimization problems efficiently and with guarantees on worst-case computational complexity is critical to satisfy the real-time constraints in these applications. These…

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It is well-known that the quadratic convex reformulation (QCR) technique can speed up some general-purpose solvers such as CPLEX and Gurobi. Recently, the method of quadratic nonconvex reformulation (QNR) was proposed, which provides an…

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This paper presents a computationally-efficient method for evaluating the feasibility of Quadratic Programs (QPs) for online constrained control. Based on the duality principle, we first show that the feasibility of a QP can be determined…

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Recent years have seen significant advances in quantum/quantum-inspired technologies capable of approximately searching for the ground state of Ising spin Hamiltonians. The promise of leveraging such technologies to accelerate the solution…

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In many applications, it makes sense to solve the least square problems with nonnegative constraints. In this article, we present a new multiplicative iteration that monotonically decreases the value of the nonnegative quadratic programming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-05 Xiao Xiao , Donghui Chen

Bayesian optimization relies on iteratively constructing and optimizing an acquisition function. The latter turns out to be a challenging, non-convex optimization problem itself. Despite the relative importance of this step, most algorithms…

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We present a new method that efficiently solves TO problems and provides a practical pathway to leverage quantum computing to exploit potential quantum advantages. This work targets on large-scale, multi-material TO challenges for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Zisheng Ye , Wenxiao Pan

Multicriterion optimization and Pareto optimality are fundamental tools in economics. In this paper we propose a new relaxation method for solving multiple objective quadratic programming problems. Exploiting the technique of the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Yan-Qin Bai , Chuan-Hao Guo

We present algorithm MIQCR-CB that is an advancement of method MIQCR~(Billionnet, Elloumi and Lambert, 2012). MIQCR is a method for solving mixed-integer quadratic programs and works in two phases: the first phase determines an equivalent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Alain Billionnet , Sourour Elloumi , Amélie Lambert , Angelika Wiegele

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

In this paper, we consider the nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programming (QCQP) with one quadratic constraint. By employing the conjugate gradient method, an efficient algorithm is proposed to solve QCQP that exploits the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Akram Taati , Maziar Salahi

We investigate the possibility of solving continuous non-convex optimization problems using a network of interacting quantum optical oscillators. We propose a native encoding of continuous variables in analog signals associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-10 Farhad Khosravi , Ugur Yildiz , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

A new approach to solving a large class of factorable nonlinear programming (NLP) problems to global optimality is presented in this paper. Unlike the traditional strategy of partitioning the decision-variable space employed in many…

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Reinforcement learning methods typically use Deep Neural Networks to approximate the value functions and policies underlying a Markov Decision Process. Unfortunately, DNN-based RL suffers from a lack of explainability of the resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Shambhuraj Sawant , Sebastien Gros

This paper mainly concerns with the primal superlinear convergence of the quasi-Newton sequential quadratic programming (SQP) method for piecewise linear-quadratic composite optimization problems. We show that the latter primal superlinear…

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The Quadratic Assignment Problem (QAP) is an important discrete optimization instance that encompasses many well-known combinatorial optimization problems, and has applications in a wide range of areas such as logistics and computer vision.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Junyu Chen , Yong Sheng Soh

Mixed-integer linear programming problems are extensively used in industry for a wide range of optimization tasks. However, as they get larger, they present computational challenges for classical solvers within practical time limits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sergio López-Baños , Elisabeth Lobe , Ontje Lünsdorf , Oriol Raventós