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This paper presents the first generic bi-objective binary linear branch-and-cut algorithm. Studying the impact of valid inequalities in solution and objective spaces, two cutting frameworks are proposed. The multi-point separation problem…

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Binary (0-1) integer programming (BIP) is pivotal in scientific domains requiring discrete decision-making. As the advance of AI computing, recent works explore neural network-based solvers for integer linear programming (ILP) problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sen Bai , Chunqi Yang , Xin Bai , Xin Zhang , Zhengang Jiang

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) extends linear programming by incorporating both continuous and integer decision variables, making it widely used in production planning, logistics scheduling, and resource allocation. However, MIP remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyu Zhang , Di Huang , Yue Liu , Shuo Wang , Zhenyu Pu , Zhiyuan Liu

This paper explores reoptimization techniques for solving sequences of similar mixed integer programs (MIPs) more effectively. Traditionally, these MIPs are solved independently, without capitalizing on information from previously solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Krunal Kishor Patel

We propose an enhancement to Benders decomposition (BD) that generates valid inequalities for the convex hull of the Benders reformulation, addressing the limitation that classical BD cuts are typically tight only for the continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kaiwen Fang , Inho Sin , Geunyeong Byeon

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…

There is often a significant trade-off between formulation strength and size in mixed integer programming (MIP). When modeling convex disjunctive constraints (e.g. unions of convex sets), adding auxiliary continuous variables can sometimes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Juan Pablo Vielma

We propose a hierarchical architecture for efficiently computing high-quality solutions to structured mixed-integer programs (MIPs). To reduce computational effort, our approach decouples the original problem into a higher level problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Stefan Clarke , Bartolomeo Stellato

We propose a unified framework to address a family of classical mixed-integer optimization problems with logically constrained decision variables, including network design, facility location, unit commitment, sparse portfolio selection,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

We propose the formulation of convex Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) problems using conic inequalities leading to conic GDP problems. We then show the reformulation of conic GDPs into Mixed-Integer Conic Programming (MICP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-20 David E. Bernal Neira , Ignacio E. Grossmann

Cutting planes are crucial for the performance of branch-and-cut algorithms for solving mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems, and linear row aggregation has been successfully applied to better leverage the potential of several major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Liding Xu , Gioni Mexi , Ksenia Bestuzheva

The most important ingredient for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) to global epsilon-optimality with spatial branch and bound is a tight, computationally tractable relaxation. Due to both theoretical and practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Benjamin Müller , Gonzalo Muñoz , Maxime Gasse , Ambros Gleixner , Andrea Lodi , Felipe Serrano

Deriving a good variable selection strategy in branch-and-bound is essential for the efficiency of modern mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers. With MIP branching data collected during the previous solution process, learning to branch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Zeren Huang , Wenhao Chen , Weinan Zhang , Chuhan Shi , Furui Liu , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan , Jianye Hao , Yong Yu , Jun Wang

Many applications require solving sequences of related mixed-integer linear programs. We introduce a class of parametric disjunctive inequalities (PDIs), obtained by reusing the disjunctive proofs of optimality from prior solves to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Shannon Kelley , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov , Ted Ralphs

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) research is both mathematically sophisticated and engineering-intensive: testing an algorithmic hypothesis within a branch-and-cut solver requires substantial implementation, debugging, tuning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liding Xu , Yugeng Zhou , Sebastian Pokutta

Linear Programming (LP) is widely applied in industry and is a key component of various other mathematical problem-solving techniques. Recent work introduced an LP compiler translating polynomial-time, polynomial-space algorithms into…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Shermin Khosravi , David Bremner

Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) provides a powerful framework for combining algebraic constraints with logical disjunctions. To solve these problems, mixed-integer reformulations are required, but traditional reformulation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Albert Joon Lee , David E. Bernal Neira

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

Influence diagrams represent decision-making problems with interdependencies between random events, decisions, and consequences. Traditionally, they have been solved using algorithms that determine the expected utility-maximizing decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Topias Terho , Fabricio Oliveira , Ahti Salo , Pedro Munari