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Mixed-integer rounding (MIR) cutting planes (cuts) are effective at improving the strength of a linear relaxation for mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) problems. The cuts in this family are derived by aggregating constraints then…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Oscar Guaje , Arnaud Deza , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov , Elias B. Khalil

Finding the most probable (MAP) model in SRL frameworks such as Markov logic and Problog can, in principle, be solved by encoding the problem as a `grounded-out' mixed integer program (MIP). However, useful first-order structure disappears…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-14 James Cussens

Integer programming (IP) is an important and challenging problem. Approximate methods have shown promising performance on both effectiveness and efficiency for solving the IP problem. However, we observed that a large fraction of variables…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Longkang Li , Baoyuan Wu

Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

In this paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

Primal heuristics play a crucial role in exact solvers for Mixed Integer Programming (MIP). While solvers are guaranteed to find optimal solutions given sufficient time, real-world applications typically require finding good solutions early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Antonia Chmiela , Elias B. Khalil , Ambros Gleixner , Andrea Lodi , Sebastian Pokutta

Modern Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) solvers use the Branch-and-Bound algorithm together with a plethora of auxiliary components that speed up the search. In recent years, there has been an explosive development in the use of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-28 Lara Scavuzzo , Karen Aardal , Neil Yorke-Smith

Influence diagrams represent decision-making problems with interdependencies between random events, decisions, and consequences. Traditionally, they have been solved using algorithms that determine the expected utility-maximizing decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Topias Terho , Fabricio Oliveira , Ahti Salo , Pedro Munari

Binary (0-1) integer programming (BIP) is pivotal in scientific domains requiring discrete decision-making. As the advance of AI computing, recent works explore neural network-based solvers for integer linear programming (ILP) problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sen Bai , Chunqi Yang , Xin Bai , Xin Zhang , Zhengang Jiang

Piecewise regression is a versatile approach used in various disciplines to approximate complex functions from limited, potentially noisy data points. In control, piecewise regression is, e.g., used to approximate the optimal control law of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Dieter Teichrib , Moritz Schulze Darup

In this paper, we explore model-based approach to training robust and interpretable binarized regression models for multiclass classification tasks using Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP). Our MIP model balances the optimization of prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sanjana Tule , Nhi Ha Lan Le , Buser Say

For almost two decades, mixed integer programming (MIP) solvers have used graph-based conflict analysis to learn from local infeasibilities during branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we improve MIP conflict analysis by instead using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gioni Mexi , Felipe Serrano , Timo Berthold , Ambros Gleixner , Jakob Nordström

The Sparse Approximation problem asks to find a solution $x$ such that $||y - Hx|| < \alpha$, for a given norm $||\cdot||$, minimizing the size of the support $||x||_0 := \#\{j \ |\ x_j \neq 0 \}$. We present valid inequalities for Mixed…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Diego Delle Donne , Matthieu Kowalski , Leo Liberti

We present an ideal mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation for a rectified linear unit (ReLU) appearing in a trained neural network. Our formulation requires a single binary variable and no additional continuous variables beyond the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Ross Anderson , Joey Huchette , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Juan Pablo Vielma

This paper addresses a mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation for the multi-item uncapacitated lot-sizing problem that is inspired from the trailer manufacturer. The proposed MIP model has been utilized to find out the optimum order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-01 Maryam Mohammadi , Masine Md. Tap

In this paper, we describe a novel unsupervised learning scheme for accelerating the solution of a family of mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Distinct substantially from existing learning-to-optimize methods, our proposal seeks to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Shiyuan Qu , Fenglian Dong , Zhiwei Wei , Chao Shang

We introduce a mixed integer program (MIP) for assigning importance scores to each neuron in deep neural network architectures which is guided by the impact of their simultaneous pruning on the main learning task of the network. By…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Mostafa ElAraby , Guy Wolf , Margarida Carvalho

Mixed Integer programs (MIPs) are typically solved by the Branch-and-Bound algorithm. Recently, Learning to imitate fast approximations of the expert strong branching heuristic has gained attention due to its success in reducing the running…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Sahil Manchanda , Sayan Ranu

By exploiting the correlation between the structure and the solution of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP), Machine Learning (ML) has become a promising method for solving large-scale MILP problems. Existing ML-based MILP solvers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixuan Li , Can Chen , Jiajun Li , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

We present a solver for Mixed Integer Programs (MIP) developed for the MIP competition 2022. Given the 10 minutes bound on the computational time established by the rules of the competition, our method focuses on finding a feasible solution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Warley Almeida Silva , Federico Bobbio , Flore Caye , Defeng Liu , Justine Pepin , Carl Perreault-Lafleur , William St-Arnaud