English
Related papers

Related papers: Nonconvex piecewise linear functions: Advanced for…

200 papers

Given a nonlinear, univariate, bounded, and differentiable function $f(x)$, this article develops a sequence of Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Linear Programming (LP) relaxations that converge to the graph of $f(x)$ and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Kaarthik Sundar , Sujeevraja Sanjeevi , Harsha Nagarajan

We present a Julia package, DisjunctiveProgramming.jl, that extends the functionality in JuMP.jl to allow modeling problems via logical propositions and disjunctive constraints. Such models can then be reformulated into Mixed-Integer…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Hector D. Perez , Shivank Joshi , Ignacio E. Grossmann

This paper addresses the problem of tightening the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for continuous piecewise linear (CPWL) approximations of data sets in arbitrary dimensions. The MILP formulation leverages the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Quentin Ploussard , Xiang Li , Matija Pavičević

In this paper, we propose novel mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) formulations to model decision problems posed as influence diagrams. We also present a novel heuristic that can be employed to warm start the MIP solver, as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Helmi Hankimaa , Olli Herrala , Fabricio Oliveira , Jaan Tollander de Balsch

Nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) represent a challenging class of optimization problems that often arise in engineering and scientific applications. Because of nonconvexities, these programs are typically solved with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Ole Kröger , Carleton Coffrin , Hassan Hijazi , Harsha Nagarajan

We present a unifying framework for generating extended formulations for the polyhedral outer approximations used in algorithms for mixed-integer convex programming (MICP). Extended formulations lead to fewer iterations of outer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Miles Lubin , Emre Yamangil , Russell Bent , Juan Pablo Vielma

We present a new approach for modeling avoidance constraints in 2D environments, in which waypoints are assigned to obstacle-free polyhedral regions. Constraints of this form are often formulated as mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Raul Garcia , Illya V. Hicks , Joey Huchette

A piecewise function of a real variable x returns a value computed from a rule that can be different in each interval of the values of x. The Julia module Piecewise provides an implementation of piecewise functions, where the user is free…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Christophe Berthod

We give an explicit geometric way to build mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations for unions of polyhedra. The construction is simply described in terms of spanning hyperplanes in an r-dimensional linear space. The resulting MIP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-11 Joey Huchette , Juan Pablo Vielma

Decades of advances in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and recent development in mixed-integer second-order-cone programming (MISOCP) have translated very mildly to progresses in global solving nonconvex mixed-integer quadratically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Hongbo Dong , Yunqi Luo

In this paper, we consider a class of mixed integer programming problems (MIPs) whose objective functions are DC functions, that is, functions representable in terms of the difference of two convex functions. These MIPs contain a very wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Takayuki Okuno , Yoshiko T. Ikebe

We propose the first linear-time algorithm to compute the conjugate of (nonconvex) bivariate piecewise linear-quadratic (PLQ) functions (bivariate quadratic functions defined on a polyhedral subdivision). Our algorithm starts with computing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-13 Tanmaya Karmarkar , Yves Lucet

We consider the problem of learning optimal binary classification trees. Literature on the topic has burgeoned in recent years, motivated both by the empirical suboptimality of heuristic approaches and the tremendous improvements in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-14 Sina Aghaei , Andres Gomez , Phebe Vayanos

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is widely employed for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. In practice, similar MILP instances with only coefficient variations are routinely solved, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Qingyu Han , Linxin Yang , Qian Chen , Xiang Zhou , Dong Zhang , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo

This paper proposes a Heaviside composite optimization approach and presents a progressive (mixed) integer programming (PIP) method for solving multi-class classification and multi-action treatment problems with constraints. A Heaviside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yue Fang , Junyi Liu , Jong-Shi Pang

This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…

We present a convex mixed-integer programming formulation for non-rigid shape matching. To this end, we propose a novel shape deformation model based on an efficient low-dimensional discrete model, so that finding a globally optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Florian Bernard , Zeeshan Khan Suri , Christian Theobalt

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is one of the most widely used modeling techniques for combinatorial optimization problems. In many applications, a similar MIP model is solved on a regular basis, maintaining remarkable similarities in model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jian-Ya Ding , Chao Zhang , Lei Shen , Shengyin Li , Bing Wang , Yinghui Xu , Le Song

Computing the closed convex envelope or biconjugate is the core operation that bridges the domain of nonconvex with convex analysis. We focus here on computing the conjugate of a bivariate piecewise quadratic function defined over a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Deepak Kumar , Yves Lucet

This article presents the first mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based iterative algorithm to solve factorable mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) with bounded, differentiable periodic functions to global optimality with an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Christopher Montez , Sujeevraja Sanjeevi , Kaarthik Sundar