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This paper studies, for the first time, a bilevel polynomial program whose constraints involve uncertain linear constraints and another uncertain linear optimization problem. In the case of box data uncertainty, we present a sum of squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-26 T. D. Chuong , V. Jeyakumar

Strongly motivated from use in various fields including machine learning, the methodology of sparse optimization has been developed intensively so far. Especially, the recent advance of algorithms for solving problems with nonsmooth…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-21 Jan Harold Alcantara , Chieu Thanh Nguyen , Takayuki Okuno , Akiko Takeda , Jein-Shan Chen

It is well-known that coupling constraints in linear bilevel optimization can lead to disconnected feasible sets, which is not possible without coupling constraints. However, there is no difference between linear bilevel problems with and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Dorothee Henke , Henri Lefebvre , Martin Schmidt , Johannes Thürauf

We consider discrete bilevel optimization problems where the follower solves an integer program with a fixed number of variables. Using recent results in parametric integer programming, we present polynomial time algorithms for pure and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Matthias Köppe , Maurice Queyranne , Christopher Thomas Ryan

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

In this paper, we give a numerical analysis for the transmission eigenvalue problem by the finite element method. A type of multilevel correction method is proposed to solve the transmission eigenvalue problem. The multilevel correction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Hehu Xie , Xinming Wu

Multilevel programming is the standard framework for modeling hierarchical decision-making. In this paper, we characterize the computational complexity of deciding the existence of feasible and optimal solutions, as well as computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nagisa Sugishita , Margarida Carvalho

A simple bilevel variational problem where the lower level is a variational inequality while the upper level is an optimization problem is studied. We consider an inexact version of the lower problem, which guarantees enough regularity to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Giancarlo Bigi , Riccardo Tomassini

We define and solve classes of sparse matrix problems that arise in multilevel modeling and data analysis. The classes are indexed by the number of nested units, with two-level problems corresponding to the common situation in which data on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Tui H. Nolan , Matt P. Wand

Bilevel optimization is defined as a mathematical program, where an optimization problem contains another optimization problem as a constraint. These problems have received significant attention from the mathematical programming community.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Ankur Sinha , Pekka Malo , Kalyanmoy Deb

We consider the central role of improving directions in solution methods for mixed integer bilevel linear optimization problems (MIBLPs). Current state-of-the-art methods for solving MIBLPs employ the branch-and-cut framework originally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Federico Battista , Ted K. Ralphs

Practical optimization problems may contain different kinds of difficulties that are often not tractable if one relies on a particular optimization method. Different optimization approaches offer different strengths that are good at…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ankur Sinha , Dhaval Pujara , Hemant Kumar Singh

Current state-of-the-art solution techniques for solving bilevel optimization problems either assume strong problem regularity criteria or are computationally intractable. In this paper we address power system problems of bilevel structure,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Domagoj Vlah , Karlo Šepetanc , Hrvoje Pandžić

The goal of coreset selection in supervised learning is to produce a weighted subset of data, so that training only on the subset achieves similar performance as training on the entire dataset. Existing methods achieved promising results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Xiao Zhou , Renjie Pi , Weizhong Zhang , Yong Lin , Tong Zhang

Recent advancements in quantum computing and quantum-inspired algorithms have sparked renewed interest in binary optimization. These hardware and software innovations promise to revolutionize solution times for complex problems. In this…

A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

In this paper, we propose a procedure for designing controlled test problems for single-objective bilevel optimization. The construction procedure is flexible and allows its user to control the different complexities that are to be included…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-08-17 Ankur Sinha , Pekka Malo , Kalyanmoy Deb

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast approximator of solutions to constrained optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 James Kotary , Himanshu Sharma , Ethan King , Draguna Vrabie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

We first show a simple but striking result in bilevel optimization: unconstrained $C^\infty$ smooth bilevel programming is as hard as general extended-real-valued lower semicontinuous minimization. We then proceed to a worst-case analysis…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Jérôme Bolte , Quoc-Tung Le , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

Bilevel optimization has witnessed a resurgence of interest, driven by its critical role in trustworthy and efficient AI applications. While many recent works have established convergence to stationary points or local minima, obtaining the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen