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Despite the success of branch-and-cut methods for solving mixed integer bilevel linear optimization problems (MIBLPs) in practice, there are still gaps in both the theory and practice surrounding these methods. In the first part of this…

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This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

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We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

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Mixed integer convex and nonlinear programs, MICP and MINLP, are expressive but require long solving times. Recent work that combines learning methods on solver heuristics has shown potential to overcome this issue allowing for applications…

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A standard approach to solving optimistic bilevel linear programs (BLPs) is to replace the lower-level problem with its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions and reformulate the resulting complementarity constraints using auxiliary…

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In this paper, we study a class of bilevel optimization problems where the lower-level problem is a convex composite optimization model, which arises in various applications, including bilevel hyperparameter selection for regularized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Xiaoning Bai , Shangzhi Zeng , Jin Zhang , Lezhi Zhang

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…

A standard quadratic program is an optimization problem that consists of minimizing a (nonconvex) quadratic form over the unit simplex. We focus on reformulating a standard quadratic program as a mixed integer linear programming problem. We…

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Our study is motivated by the solution of Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems with separable non-convex functions via the Sequential Convex MINLP technique, an iterative method whose main characteristic is that of solving,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Renan Spencer Trindade , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Antonio Frangioni , Claudio Gentile

We investigate relaxations for a class of discrete bilevel programs where the interaction constraints linking the leader and the follower are linear. Our approach reformulates the upper-level optimality constraints by projecting the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Leonardo Lozano , David Bergman , Andre Augusto Cire

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

A bilevel program is an optimization problem whose constraints involve another optimization problem. This paper studies bilevel polynomial programs (BPPs), i.e., all the functions are polynomials. We reformulate BPPs equivalently as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Jiawang Nie , Li Wang , Jane Ye

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

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Image restoration is typically addressed through non-convex inverse problems, which are often solved using first-order block-wise splitting methods. In this paper, we consider a general type of non-convex optimisation model that captures…

Bilevel optimization has found successful applications in various machine learning problems, including hyper-parameter optimization, data cleaning, and meta-learning. However, its huge computational cost presents a significant challenge for…

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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

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

Cutting planes for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are typically computed in rounds by iteratively solving optimization problems, the so-called separation. Instead, we reframe the problem of finding good cutting planes as a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

In this paper, we consider bilevel optimization problem where the lower-level has coupled constraints, i.e. the constraints depend both on the upper- and lower-level variables. In particular, we consider two settings for the lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Xiaotian Jiang , Jiaxiang Li , Mingyi Hong , Shuzhong Zhang