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Classical graph algorithms work well for combinatorial problems that can be thoroughly formalized and abstracted. Once the algorithm is derived, it generalizes to instances of any size. However, developing an algorithm that handles complex…

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Flexible duplex networks allow users to dynamically employ uplink and downlink channels without static time scheduling, thereby utilizing the network resources efficiently. This work investigates the sum-rate maximization of flexible duplex…

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Optimization over trained machine learning models has applications including: verification, minimizing neural acquisition functions, and integrating a trained surrogate into a larger decision-making problem. This paper formulates and solves…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Shiqiang Zhang , Juan S. Campos , Christian Feldmann , David Walz , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Calvin Tsay , Ruth Misener

Graph learning from data represents a canonical problem that has received substantial attention in the literature. However, insufficient work has been done in incorporating prior structural knowledge onto the learning of underlying…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Sandeep Kumar , Jiaxi Ying , José Vinícius de M. Cardoso , Daniel Palomar

Combinatorial optimization is a well-established area in operations research and computer science. Until recently, its methods have focused on solving problem instances in isolation, ignoring that they often stem from related data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Quentin Cappart , Didier Chételat , Elias Khalil , Andrea Lodi , Christopher Morris , Petar Veličković

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have become increasingly popular for solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization (CO) problems, such as maximum cut and maximum independent set. The core idea behind these methods is to represent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Liu , Peng Zhang , Yang Gao , Chuan Zhou , Zhao Li , Hongyang Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have made significant advances on several fundamental inference tasks. As a result, there is a surge of interest in using these models for making potentially important decisions in high-regret applications.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Kaidi Xu , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Mengshu Sun , Caiwen Ding , Bhavya Kailkhura , Xue Lin

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in using learning-based approaches for solving combinatorial problems, either in an end-to-end manner or in conjunction with traditional optimization algorithms. In both scenarios, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Léo Boisvert , Hélène Verhaeghe , Quentin Cappart

Recently, message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have shown potential for solving combinatorial and continuous optimization problems due to their ability to capture variable-constraint interactions. While existing approaches leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Chendi Qian , Christopher Morris

Optimization problems over dynamic networks have been extensively studied and widely used in the past decades to formulate numerous real-world problems. However, (1) traditional optimization-based approaches do not scale to large networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Daniele Gammelli , James Harrison , Kaidi Yang , Marco Pavone , Filipe Rodrigues , Francisco C. Pereira

Graph neural networks have become a staple in problems addressing learning and analysis of data defined over graphs. However, several results suggest an inherent difficulty in extracting better performance by increasing the number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Diego Valsesia , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli

This study focuses on the problem of user satisfaction classification and proposes a framework based on graph neural networks to address the limitations of traditional methods in handling complex interaction relationships and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Rui Liu , Runsheng Zhang , Shixiao Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become powerful tools for learning from graph-structured data, finding applications across diverse domains. However, as graph sizes and connectivity increase, standard GNN training methods face significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Ivan I. Kyrchei , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

This note explores the applicability of unsupervised machine learning techniques towards hard optimization problems on random inputs. In particular we consider Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) -- a class of neural networks designed to learn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Weichi Yao , Afonso S. Bandeira , Soledad Villar

Graphs are a natural representation for systems based on relations between connected entities. Combinatorial optimization problems, which arise when considering an objective function related to a process of interest on discrete structures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous throughout natural and social sciences, and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been shown to be effective at solving prediction and inference problems on graph data. In this paper, we propose and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Victoria M. Dax , Jiachen Li , Kevin Leahy , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

In recent years, there has been notable interest in investigating combinatorial optimization (CO) problems by neural-based framework. An emerging strategy to tackle these challenging problems involves the adoption of graph neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yang Liu , Chuan Zhou , Peng Zhang , Shirui Pan , Zhao Li , Hongyang Chen

Performing analytical tasks over graph data has become increasingly interesting due to the ubiquity and large availability of relational information. However, unlike images or sentences, there is no notion of sequence in networks. Nodes…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Matheus Nunes , Gisele L. Pappa

Scalable addressing of high dimensional constrained combinatorial optimization problems is a challenge that arises in several science and engineering disciplines. Recent work introduced novel application of graph neural networks for solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-20 Nasimeh Heydaribeni , Xinrui Zhan , Ruisi Zhang , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Farinaz Koushanfar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are the predominant approach for graph-based machine learning. While neural networks have shown great performance at learning useful representations, they are often criticized for their limited high-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Markus Zopf , Francesco Alesiani