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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a foundational tool for complex decision-making problems. However, the NP-hard nature of MILP presents a significant computational challenge, motivating the development of machine learning-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongpei Li , Hui Yuan , Han Zhang , Jianghao Lin , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Yinyu Ye

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a fundamental tool for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, a growing body of research has used machine learning to accelerate MILP solving. Despite the increasing popularity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Weimin Huang , Taoan Huang , Aaron M Ferber , Bistra Dilkina

An important problem in optimization is the construction of mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations of disjunctive constraints that are both strong and small. Motivated by lower bounds on the number of integer variables that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-05 Joey Huchette , Juan Pablo Vielma

We present a batched first-order method for solving multiple linear programs in parallel on GPUs. Our approach extends the primal-dual hybrid gradient algorithm to efficiently solve batches of related linear programming problems that arise…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Nicolas Blin , Stefano Gualandi , Christopher Maes , Andrea Lodi , Bartolomeo Stellato

Recent work has shown potential in using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers to optimize certain aspects of neural networks (NNs). However the intriguing approach of training NNs with MIP solvers is under-explored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tómas Thorbjarnarson , Neil Yorke-Smith

We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Pierre Bonami , Sanjeeb Dash , Anton Derkach , Andrea Lodi

We consider a discrete optimization formulation for learning sparse classifiers, where the outcome depends upon a linear combination of a small subset of features. Recent work has shown that mixed integer programming (MIP) can be used to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Antoine Dedieu , Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

In this paper, we propose novel mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) formulations to model decision problems posed as influence diagrams. We also present a novel heuristic that can be employed to warm start the MIP solver, as well as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Helmi Hankimaa , Olli Herrala , Fabricio Oliveira , Jaan Tollander de Balsch

We present a new mixed-integer programming (MIP) approach for offline multiple change-point detection by casting the problem as a globally optimal piecewise linear (PWL) fitting problem. Our main contribution is a family of strengthened MIP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Apoorva Narula , Santanu S. Dey , Yao Xie

This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…

Mixed-integer optimization solvers often find optimal solutions early in the search, yet spend the majority of computation time proving optimality. We exploit this by learning when to terminate solvers early on distributions of similar…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Stefan Clarke , Bartolomeo Stellato

We propose a hierarchical architecture for efficiently computing high-quality solutions to structured mixed-integer programs (MIPs). To reduce computational effort, our approach decouples the original problem into a higher level problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Stefan Clarke , Bartolomeo Stellato

We propose an ML-based model that automates and expedites the solution of MIPs by predicting the values of variables. Our approach is motivated by the observation that many problem instances share salient features and solution structures…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Konstantinos Benidis , Ugo Rosolia , Syama Rangapuram , George Iosifidis , Georgios Paschos

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zayn Wang

This paper proposes a Heaviside composite optimization approach and presents a progressive (mixed) integer programming (PIP) method for solving multi-class classification and multi-action treatment problems with constraints. A Heaviside…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Yue Fang , Junyi Liu , Jong-Shi Pang

Several recent publications report advances in training optimal decision trees (ODT) using mixed-integer programs (MIP), due to algorithmic advances in integer programming and a growing interest in addressing the inherent suboptimality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Haoran Zhu , Pavankumar Murali , Dzung T. Phan , Lam M. Nguyen , Jayant R. Kalagnanam

In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Conflict learning algorithms are an important component of modern MIP and CP solvers. But strong conflict information is typically gained by depth-first search. While this is the natural mode for CP solving, it is not for MIP solving. Rapid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Timo Berthold , Peter J. Stuckey , Jakob Witzig

Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MIPs) are powerful and flexible tools for modeling a wide range of real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Predict-and-Search methods operate by using a predictive model to estimate promising variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junyang Cai , El Mehdi Er Raqabi , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Bistra Dilkina

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is essential for modeling complex decision-making problems but faces challenges in computational tractability and requires expert formulation. Current deep learning approaches for MILP focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sirui Li , Janardhan Kulkarni , Ishai Menache , Cathy Wu , Beibin Li