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Robust optimization is a framework for modeling optimization problems involving data uncertainty and during the last decades has been an area of active research. If we focus on linear programming (LP) problems with i) uncertain data, ii)…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-02-15 Roberto Mínguez , Víctor Casero-Alonso

In this paper, we consider the cardinality-constrained optimization problems and propose a new sequential optimality condition for the continuous relaxation reformulation which is popular recently. It is stronger than the existing results…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Liping Pang , Menglong Xue , Na Xu

We propose an approach to design a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained Linear Time Invariant systems performing an iterative task. The system is subject to an additive disturbance, and the goal is to learn to satisfy state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Akhil Shetty , Kameshwar Poolla , Francesco Borrelli

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

In distributed model predictive control (DMPC), where a centralized optimization problem is solved in distributed fashion using dual decomposition, it is important to keep the number of iterations in the solution algorithm, i.e. the amount…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Pontus Giselsson , Anders Rantzer

Constraint programming is used for a variety of real-world optimisation problems, such as planning, scheduling and resource allocation problems. At the same time, one continuously gathers vast amounts of data about these problems. Current…

We propose a flexible gradient-based framework for learning linear programs from optimal decisions. Linear programs are often specified by hand, using prior knowledge of relevant costs and constraints. In some applications, linear programs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Yingcong Tan , Daria Terekhov , Andrew Delong

Generalized Disjunctive Programming (GDP) provides an alternative framework to model optimization problems with both discrete and continuous variables. The key idea behind GDP involves the use of logical disjunctions to represent discrete…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Arnab Bhattacharya , Xu Ma , Draguna Vrabie

We introduce Grade School Math with Distracting Context (GSM-DC), a synthetic benchmark to evaluate Large Language Models' (LLMs) reasoning robustness against systematically controlled irrelevant context (IC). GSM-DC constructs symbolic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Minglai Yang , Ethan Huang , Liang Zhang , Mihai Surdeanu , William Wang , Liangming Pan

Recent successes of game-theoretic formulations in ML have caused a resurgence of research interest in differentiable games. Overwhelmingly, that research focuses on methods and upper bounds on their speed of convergence. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Adam Ibrahim , Waïss Azizian , Gauthier Gidel , Ioannis Mitliagkas

This letter is devoted to the concept of ``instant'' model predictive control (iMPC) for linear systems. An optimization problem is formulated to express the finite-time constrained optimal regulation control, like conventional MPC. Then,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Keisuke Yoshida , Masaki Inoue , Takeshi Hatanaka

This article is devoted to the analysis of necessary and/or sufficient conditions for metric regularity in terms of Demyanov-Rubinov-Polyakova quasidifferentials. We obtain new necessary and sufficient conditions for the local metric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 M. V. Dolgopolik

In this article we study control problems with systems that are governed by ordinary differential equations whose vector fields depend linearly in the time derivatives of some components of the control. The remaining components are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Maria Soledad Aronna , Franco Rampazzo

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

We study the continuous set covering problem on networks and propose several new MILP formulations and valid inequalities. In contrast to state-of-the-art formulations, the new formulations only use edges to index installed points, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Liding Xu , Claudia D'Ambrosio

Logistic regression is one of the most popular methods in binary classification, wherein estimation of model parameters is carried out by solving the maximum likelihood (ML) optimization problem, and the ML estimator is defined to be the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-23 Robert M. Freund , Paul Grigas , Rahul Mazumder

This paper build on our recent work where we presented a dual stochastic optimal control formulation of the nonlinear filtering problem [1]. The constraint for the dual problem is a backward stochastic differential equations (BSDE). The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Jin Won Kim , Prashant G. Mehta

The question of defining unique, generally applicable constrained second, and higher-order, derivatives is investigated. It is shown that second-order constrained derivatives obtained via two successive constrained differentiations provide…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Tamas Gal

In a wide range of applications, we are required to rapidly solve a sequence of convex multiparametric quadratic programs (mp-QPs) on resource-limited hardwares. This is a nontrivial task and has been an active topic for decades in control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Zhinan Hou , Keyou You

This work proposes an approach that integrates reinforcement learning and model predictive control (MPC) to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems in mixed-logical dynamical systems efficiently. Optimization-based control of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter