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Polynomial optimization encompasses a broad class of problems in which both the objective function and constraints are polynomial functions of the decision variables. In recent years, a substantial body of research has focused on…

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Optimization of mixed categorical-continuous variables is prevalent in real-world applications of black-box optimization. Recently, CatCMA has been proposed as a method for optimizing such variables and has demonstrated success in…

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A particularly important substructure in modeling joint linear chance-constrained programs with random right-hand sides and finite sample space is the intersection of mixing sets with common binary variables (and possibly a knapsack…

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