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In Machine Translation, Large Language Models (LLMs) have generally underperformed compared to conventional encoder-decoder systems and thus see limited adoption. However, LLMs excel at modeling contextual information, making them a natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Ireh Kim , Tesia Sker , Chanwoo Kim

We consider continuous linear programs over a continuous finite time horizon $T$, with a constant coefficient matrix, linear right hand side functions and linear cost coefficient functions, where we search for optimal solutions in the space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-02 Evgeny Shindin , Gideon Weiss

Single-objective bilevel optimization is a specialized form of constraint optimization problems where one of the constraints is an optimization problem itself. These problems are typically non-convex and strongly NP-Hard. Recently, there…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Anuraganand Sharma

In this article we intend to develop a simple and implementable algorithm for minimizing a convex function over the solution set of another convex optimization problem. Such a problem is often referred to as a simple bilevel programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Stephan Dempe , Joydeep Duta , Tanushree Pandit , K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao

Bilevel optimization, a well-established field for modeling hierarchical decision-making problems, has recently intersected with sustainability studies and practices, resulting in a series of works focusing on bilevel optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Giulia Caselli , Manuel Iori , Ivana Ljubić

This work uniquely combines an affine linear decision rule known from adjustable robustness with min-max-regret robustness. By doing so, the advantages of both concepts can be obtained with an adjustable solution that is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Kerstin Schneider , Helene Krieg , Dimitri Nowak , Karl-Heinz Küfer

Inverse problems occur in a variety of parameter identification tasks in engineering. Such problems are challenging in practice, as they require repeated evaluation of computationally expensive forward models. We introduce a unifying…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-02 Simon Weissmann , Ashia Wilson , Jakob Zech

Bilinear systems of equations are defined, motivated and analyzed for solvability. Elementary structure is mentioned and it is shown that all solutions may be obtained as rank one completions of a linear matrix polynomial derived from…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2013-03-21 Charles R. Johnson , Helena Šmigoc , Dian Yang

This paper studies simple bilevel problems, where a convex upper-level function is minimized over the optimal solutions of a convex lower-level problem. We first show the fundamental difficulty of simple bilevel problems, that the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Huaqing Zhang , Lesi Chen , Jing Xu , Jingzhao Zhang

In this work we propose an improvement of the $x$-space algorithm developed for solving a class of min--max bilevel optimization problems (Tang Y., Richard J.P.P., Smith J.C. (2016), A class of algorithms for mixed-integer bilevel min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Kübra Tanınmış , Necati Aras , İ. Kuban Altınel

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Andreas Löhne , Carola Schrage

Bilevel optimization problems involve two nested objectives, where an upper-level objective depends on a solution to a lower-level problem. When the latter is non-convex, multiple critical points may be present, leading to an ambiguous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Michael Arbel , Julien Mairal

Optimization problems are pervasive in sectors from manufacturing and distribution to healthcare. However, most such problems are still solved heuristically by hand rather than optimally by state-of-the-art solvers because the expertise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Ali AhmadiTeshnizi , Wenzhi Gao , Herman Brunborg , Shayan Talaei , Connor Lawless , Madeleine Udell

Bi-level optimization, especially the gradient-based category, has been widely used in the deep learning community including hyperparameter optimization and meta-knowledge extraction. Bi-level optimization embeds one problem within another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Can Chen , Xi Chen , Chen Ma , Zixuan Liu , Xue Liu

In the development of industrial digital twins, the optimization problem of technological and business processes often arises. In many cases, this problem can be reduced to a large-scale linear programming (LP) problem. The article is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Leonid B. Sokolinsky , Irina M. Sokolinskaya

A type of adaptive finite element method for the eigenvalue problems is proposed based on the multilevel correction scheme. In this method, adaptive finite element method to solve eigenvalue problems involves solving associated boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-12 Hehu Xie

Discretizations of infinite-dimensional variational inequalities lead to linear and nonlinear complementarity problems with many degrees of freedom. To solve these problems in a parallel computing environment, we propose two active-set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steven J. Benson , Todd S. Munson

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and the potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the underlying LP problem. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi , Paul H. Siegel

Bilevel optimization recently has attracted increased interest in machine learning due to its many applications such as hyper-parameter optimization and meta learning. Although many bilevel methods recently have been proposed, these methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-21 Feihu Huang , Junyi Li , Shangqian Gao

Energy minimization methods are a classical tool in a multitude of computer vision applications. While they are interpretable and well-studied, their regularity assumptions are difficult to design by hand. Deep learning techniques on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Jonas Geiping , Michael Moeller