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Quantum computing is emerging as a new computing resource that could be superior to conventional computing for certain classes of optimization problems. However, in principle, most existing approaches to quantum optimization are intended to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Chin-Yao Chang , Eric Jones , Yiyun Yao , Peter Graf , Rishabh Jain

Polynomial optimization problems over binary variables can be expressed as integer programs using a linearization with extra monomials in addition to those arising in the given polynomial. We characterize when such a linearization yields an…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Christopher Hojny , Marc E. Pfetsch , Matthias Walter

We consider integer-restricted optimal control of systems governed by abstract semilinear evolution equations. This includes the problem of optimal control design for certain distributed parameter systems endowed with multiple actuators,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-04-23 Falk M. Hante , Sebastian Sager

Min-plus matrix multiplication is used in many problems operating on distances in graphs or solvable by dynamic programming. Assuming the APSP hypothesis, there is no subcubic-time algorithm for the min-plus product of two general $n\times…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paweł Gawrychowski , Egor Gorbachev , Tomasz Kociumaka

Many problems in nonlinear analysis and optimization, among them variational inequalities and minimization of convex functions, can be reduced to finding zeros (namely, roots) of set-valued operators. Hence numerous algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Daniel Reem , Simeon Reich

The strengthening of linear relaxations and bounds of mixed integer linear programs has been an active research topic for decades. Enumeration-based methods for integer programming like linear programming-based branch-and-bound exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 François Lamothe , Alain Haït , Emmanuel Rachelson , Claudio Contardo , Bernard Gendron

Mixed Hamming packings are considered: the maximal cardinality given a minimum codeword Hamming distance of mixed codes is addressed via mixed integer programming models. Adopting the concept of contact graph from classical continuous…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Péter Naszvadi , Mátyás Koniorczyk

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

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

Many probabilistic inference tasks involve summations over exponentially large sets. Recently, it has been shown that these problems can be reduced to solving a polynomial number of MAP inference queries for a model augmented with randomly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Stefano Ermon , Carla P. Gomes , Ashish Sabharwal , Bart Selman

We propose a novel solution framework for inverse mixed-integer optimization based on analytic center concepts from interior point methods. We characterize the optimality gap of a given solution, provide structural results, and propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Samir Elhedhli , Göksu Ece Okur

This document introduces a strategy to solve linear optimization problems. The strategy is based on the bounding condition each constraint produces on each one of the problem's dimension. The solution of a linear optimization problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-24 Gerardo L. Febres

Many nonlinear optimal control and optimization problems involve constraints that combine continuous dynamics with discrete logic conditions. Standard approaches typically rely on mixed-integer programming, which introduces scalability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-08 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

Mixed-integer convex quadratic programs with indicator variables (MIQP) encompass a wide range of applications, from statistical learning to energy, finance, and logistics. The outer approximation (OA) algorithm has been proven efficient in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Linchuan Wei , Simge Küçükyavuz

This paper presents a novel partially distributed outer approximation algorithm, named PaDOA, for solving a class of structured mixed integer convex programming (MICP) problems to global optimality. The proposed scheme uses an iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-20 Alexander Murray , Timm Faulwasser , Veit Hagenmeyer , Mario E. Villanueva , Boris Houska

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

This paper considers an optimization problem for a dynamical system whose evolution depends on a collection of binary decision variables. We develop scalable approximation algorithms with provable suboptimality bounds to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-31 Insoon Yang , Samuel A. Burden , Ram Rajagopal , S. Shankar Sastry , Claire J. Tomlin

Bilevel linear programming (LP) is one of the simplest classes of bilevel optimization problems, yet it is known to be NP-hard in general. Specifically, determining whether the optimal objective value of a bilevel LP is at least as good as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Nagisa Sugishita , Margarida Carvalho

Initially developed for the min-knapsack problem, the knapsack cover inequalities are used in the current best relaxations for numerous combinatorial optimization problems of covering type. In spite of their widespread use, these…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Abbas Bazzi , Samuel Fiorini , Sangxia Huang , Ola Svensson

Positive linear programs (LP), also known as packing and covering linear programs, are an important class of problems that bridges computer science, operations research, and optimization. Despite the consistent efforts on this problem, all…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Lorenzo Orecchia

Seeking tighter relaxations of combinatorial optimization problems, semidefinite programming is a generalization of linear programming that offers better bounds and is still polynomially solvable. Yet, in practice, a semidefinite program is…

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