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Reversibility is a key issue in the interface between computation and physics, and of growing importance as miniaturization progresses towards its physical limits. Most foundational work on reversible computing to date has focussed on…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Samson Abramsky

While Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is NP-hard in general, practical MILP has received roughly 100--fold speedup in the past twenty years. Still, many classes of MILPs quickly become unsolvable as their sizes increase, motivating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ziang Chen , Jialin Liu , Xinshang Wang , Jianfeng Lu , Wotao Yin

Two-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming (SMIP) problems with general integer variables in the second-stage are generally difficult to solve. This paper develops the theory of integer set reduction for characterizing the subset of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-04 Saravanan Venkatachalam , Lewis Ntaimo

We study the parameterized complexity of algorithmic problems whose input is an integer set $A$ in terms of the doubling constant $C := |A + A|/|A|$, a fundamental measure of additive structure. We present evidence that this new…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Tim Randolph , Karol Węgrzycki

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

This paper presents a hybrid CPU-GPU framework for solving combinatorial scheduling problems formulated as Integer Linear Programming (ILP). While scheduling underpins many optimization tasks in computing systems, solving these problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Mingju Liu , Jiaqi Yin , Alvaro Velasquez , Cunxi Yu

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is a powerful tool for addressing a wide range of real-world problems, but it lacks a clear structure for comparing instances. A reliable similarity metric could establish meaningful relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Gwen Maudet , Grégoire Danoy

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

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

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a foundational tool for complex decision-making problems. However, the NP-hard nature of MILP presents a significant computational challenge, motivating the development of machine learning-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongpei Li , Hui Yuan , Han Zhang , Jianghao Lin , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Yinyu Ye

The IPARC Challenge, inspired by ARC, provides controlled program synthesis tasks over synthetic images to evaluate automatic program construction, focusing on sequence, selection, and iteration. This set of 600 tasks has resisted automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shraddha Surana , Ashwin Srinivasan , Michael Bain

Mixed integer predictive control deals with optimizing integer and real control variables over a receding horizon. The mixed integer nature of controls might be a cause of intractability for instances of larger dimensions. To tackle this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-16 Dario Bauso

Bridging logical and algorithmic reasoning with modern machine learning techniques is a fundamental challenge with potentially transformative impact. On the algorithmic side, many NP-hard problems can be expressed as integer programs, in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Anselm Paulus , Michal Rolínek , Vít Musil , Brandon Amos , Georg Martius

We present a technique to infer lower bounds on the worst-case runtime complexity of integer programs, where in contrast to earlier work, our approach is not restricted to tail-recursion. Our technique constructs symbolic representations of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Florian Frohn , Matthias Naaf , Marc Brockschmidt , Jürgen Giesl

Inductive programming (IP) is a field whose main goal is synthesising programs that respect a set of examples, given some form of background knowledge. This paper is concerned with a subfield of IP, inductive functional programming (IFP).…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Andrei Diaconu

We consider the class of packing integer programs (PIPs) that are column sparse, i.e. there is a specified upper bound k on the number of constraints that each variable appears in. We give an (ek+o(k))-approximation algorithm for k-column…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Nikhil Bansal , Nitish Korula , Viswanath Nagarajan , Aravind Srinivasan

We consider the problem of solving a family of parametric mixed-integer linear optimization problems where some entries in the input data change. We introduce the concept of cutting-plane layer (CPL), i.e., a differentiable cutting-plane…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-10 Gabriele Dragotto , Stefan Clarke , Jaime Fernández Fisac , Bartolomeo Stellato

Recent research in information extraction (IE) focuses on utilizing code-style inputs to enhance structured output generation. The intuition behind this is that the programming languages (PLs) inherently exhibit greater structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Bo Li , Gexiang Fang , Wei Ye , Zhenghua Xu , Jinglei Zhang , Hao Cheng , Shikun Zhang

Inverse optimization is the problem of determining the values of missing input parameters for an associated forward problem that are closest to given estimates and that will make a given target vector optimal. This study is concerned with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Aykut Bulut , Ted K. Ralphs

Linear programming (LP) relaxations are widely employed in exact solution methods for multilinear programs (MLP). One example is the family of Recursive McCormick Linearization (RML) strategies, where bilinear products are substituted for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Arvind U Raghunathan , Carlos Cardonha , David Bergman , Carlos J Nohra

A factored Nonlinear Program (Factored-NLP) explicitly models the dependencies between a set of continuous variables and nonlinear constraints, providing an expressive formulation for relevant robotics problems such as manipulation planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess , Erez Karpas , Marc Toussaint