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Deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming remains a complex and time-consuming process, requiring manual selection of stimulation parameters to achieve therapeutic effects while minimizing adverse side-effects. This study explores…

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Bringing together nonlinear optimization with polyhedral and integrality constraints enables versatile modeling, but poses significant computational challenges. We investigate a method to address these problems based on sequential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Alberto De Marchi

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP) are well known to be NP-hard (Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard) problems in general. Even though pure optimization-based methods, such as constraint generation, are guaranteed to provide an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

We introduce a new class of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxations for sparse box-constrained quadratic programs, obtained by a novel integration of the Reformulation Linearization Technique into standard SDP relaxations while…

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A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Bin Yu , John E. Mitchell , Jong-Shi Pang

This work attempts to combine the strengths of two major technologies that have matured over the last three decades: global mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and branch-and-price. We consider a class of generally nonconvex mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Andrew Allman , Qi Zhang

In numerical linear algebra, considerable effort has been devoted to obtaining faster algorithms for linear systems whose underlying matrices exhibit structural properties. A prominent success story is the method of generalized nested…

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We consider the relaxation of polyconvex functionals with linear growth with respect to the strict convergence in the space of functions of bounded variation. These functionals appears as relaxation of $F(u,\Omega):=\int_\Omega f(\nabla…

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This applied research article explores the application of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) to address line-balancing challenges in the garment industry, focusing on optimizing production processes under multiple constraints. By…

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We study a mixed integer linear program with m integer variables and k non-negative continuous variables in the form of the relaxation of the corner polyhedron that was introduced by Andersen, Louveaux, Weismantel and Wolsey [Inequalities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-07-27 Amitabh Basu , Robert Hildebrand , Matthias Köppe

In this paper, we consider a class of mixed integer programming problems (MIPs) whose objective functions are DC functions, that is, functions representable in terms of the difference of two convex functions. These MIPs contain a very wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Takayuki Okuno , Yoshiko T. Ikebe

The article deals with operations defined on convex polyhedra or polyhedral convex functions. Given two convex polyhedra, operations like Minkowski sum, intersection and closed convex hull of the union are considered. Basic operations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Daniel Ciripoi , Andreas Löhne , Benjamin Weißing

Machine learning components commonly appear in larger decision-making pipelines; however, the model training process typically focuses only on a loss that measures accuracy between predicted values and ground truth values. Decision-focused…

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Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are stochastic optimization problems that model situations where a decision maker controls a system based on its state. Partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are generalizations of MDPs where…

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Quadratic programs with box constraints involve minimizing a possibly nonconvex quadratic function subject to lower and upper bounds on each variable. This is a well-known NP-hard problem that frequently arises in various applications. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Yuzhou Qiu , E. Alper Yıldırım

An optimization problem considering AC power flow constraints and integer decision variables can usually be posed as a mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic program (MIQCQP) problem. In this paper, first, a set of valid linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Qifeng Li

We develop a general framework for MAP estimation in discrete and Gaussian graphical models using Lagrangian relaxation techniques. The key idea is to reformulate an intractable estimation problem as one defined on a more tractable graph,…

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This paper introduces a new global optimization algorithm for solving the generalized linear multiplicative problem (GLMP). The algorithm starts by introducing $\bar{p}$ new variables and applying a logarithmic transformation to convert the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Bo Zhang

In this paper, we develop a fast mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) framework for multi-robot navigation by combining graph attention networks and distributed optimization. We formulate a mixed-integer optimization problem for receding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Viet-Anh Le , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

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