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JuMP is an open-source modeling language that allows users to express a wide range of optimization problems (linear, mixed-integer, quadratic, conic-quadratic, semidefinite, and nonlinear) in a high-level, algebraic syntax. JuMP takes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Iain Dunning , Joey Huchette , Miles Lubin

Mixed integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) are arguably among the hardest optimization problems, with a wide range of applications. MINLP solvers that are based on linear relaxations and spatial branching work similar as mixed integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Jakob Witzig , Timo Berthold , Stefan Heinz

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

While mixed-integer linear programming and convex programming solvers have advanced significantly over the past several decades, solution technologies for general mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) have yet to reach the same level of…

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In this paper we present BilevelJuMP, a new Julia package to support bilevel optimization within the JuMP framework. The package is a Julia library that enables the user to describe both upper and lower-level optimization problems using the…

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This paper presents a solver-friendly logic-based mixed-integer nonlinear programming model (LB-MINLP) to solve economic dispatch (ED) problems considering disjoint operating zones and valve-point effects. A simultaneous consideration of…

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For over ten years, the constraint integer programming framework SCIP has been extended by capabilities for the solution of convex and nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs). With the recently published version 8.0, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Antonia Chmiela , Benjamin Müller , Felipe Serrano , Stefan Vigerske , Fabian Wegscheider

In this work, we develop an adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with multi-linear terms to global optimality. This iterative algorithm primarily exploits the advantages of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Harsha Nagarajan , Mowen Lu , Site Wang , Russell Bent , Kaarthik Sundar

This paper presents a novel outer approximation algorithm for nonsmooth mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems. The method proceeds by fixing the integer variables and solving the resulting nonlinear convex subproblem. When…

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This paper introduces the algorithmic design and implementation of Tulip, an open-source interior-point solver for linear optimization. It implements a regularized homogeneous interior-point algorithm with multiple centrality corrections,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Miguel F. Anjos , Andrea Lodi , Mathieu Tanneau

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

Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization (MINLP) comprises a large class of problems that are challenging to solve and exhibit a wide range of structures. The Boscia framework Hendrych et al. (2025b) focuses on convex MINLP where the…

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We present MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl, an open-source Julia library for solving multi-objective optimization problems written in JuMP. MultiObjectiveAlgorithms.jl implements a number of different solution algorithms, which all rely on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Oscar Dowson , Xavier Gandibleux , Gökhan Kof

Outer-approximation-based branch-and-bound is a common algorithmic framework for solving MINLPs (mixed-integer nonlinear programs) to global optimality, with branching variable selection critically influencing overall performance. In modern…

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We present NEP-PACK a novel open-source library for the solution of nonlinear eigenvalue problems (NEPs). The package provides a framework to represent NEPs, as well as efficient implementations of many state-of-the-art algorithms. The…

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We present novel mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations for optimization over nonconvex piecewise linear functions. We exploit recent advances in the systematic construction of MIP formulations to derive new formulations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Joey Huchette , Juan Pablo Vielma

Local branching is an improvement heuristic, developed within the context of branch-and-bound algorithms for MILPs, which has proved to be very effective in practice. For the binary case, it is based on defining a neighbourhood of the…

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This paper proposes a joint decomposition method that combines La- grangian decomposition and generalized Benders decomposition, to efficiently solve multiscenario nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems to global…

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