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This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

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

Nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) represent a challenging class of optimization problems that often arise in engineering and scientific applications. Because of nonconvexities, these programs are typically solved with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Ole Kröger , Carleton Coffrin , Hassan Hijazi , Harsha Nagarajan

This paper investigates linear programming based branch-and-bound using general disjunctions, also known as stabbing planes, for solving integer programs. We derive the first sub-exponential lower bound (in the encoding length $L$ of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Max Gläser , Marc E. Pfetsch

We consider range minimization problems featuring exponentially many variables, as frequently arising in fairness-oriented or bi-objective optimization. While branch and price is successful at solving cost-oriented problems with many…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-08 Bart van Rossum , Rui Chen , Andrea Lodi

In this paper, we propose BPGrad, a novel approximate algorithm for deep nueral network training, based on adaptive estimates of feasible region via branch-and-bound. The method is based on the assumption of Lipschitz continuity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Yuanwei Wu , Ziming Zhang , Guanghui Wang

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

Resource allocation in wireless networks, such as device-to-device (D2D) communications, is usually formulated as mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, which are generally NP-hard and difficult to get the optimal solutions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Mengyuan Lee , Guanding Yu , Geoffrey Ye Li

We propose a novel Branch-and-Bound method for reachability analysis of neural networks in both open-loop and closed-loop settings. Our idea is to first compute accurate bounds on the Lipschitz constant of the neural network in certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Taha Entesari , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab

We show that one can approximate the least fixed point solution for a multivariate system of monotone probabilistic max(min) polynomial equations, referred to as maxPPSs (and minPPSs, respectively), in time polynomial in both the encoding…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-02-24 Kousha Etessami , Alistair Stewart , Mihalis Yannakakis

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…

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When implementing model predictive control (MPC) for hybrid systems with a linear or a quadratic performance measure, a mixed-integer linear program (MILP) or a mixed-integer quadratic program (MIQP) needs to be solved, respectively, at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-11 Shamisa Shoja , Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

The full strong branching (FSB) rule is well known to produce extremely small branch-and-bound trees. This rule guides branching decisions based exclusively on the information regarding local gains in the linear programming (LP) bounds. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Prachi Shah , Santanu S. Dey

We propose a supervised learning framework for computing solutions of multi-parametric Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) that arise in Model Predictive Control. Our approach also quantifies sub-optimality for the computed solutions.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-24 Luigi Russo , Siddharth H. Nair , Luigi Glielmo , Francesco Borrelli

Optimal planning with respect to learned neural network (NN) models in continuous action and state spaces using mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is a challenging task for branch-and-bound solvers due to the poor linear relaxation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Buser Say , Scott Sanner , Sylvie Thiébaux

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are highly flexible and powerful tools for modeling and solving complex real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, machine learning (ML)-guided approaches have demonstrated significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Junyang Cai , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina

Mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are extensively used to model practical problems such as planning and scheduling. A prominent method for solving MILPs is large neighborhood search (LNS), which iteratively seeks improved solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Wenbo Liu , Akang Wang , Wenguo Yang , Qingjiang Shi

Optimal control problems including partial differential equation (PDE) as well as integer constraints merge the combinatorial difficulties of integer programming and the challenges related to large-scale systems resulting from discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Dominik Garmatter , Margherita Porcelli , Francesco Rinaldi , Martin Stoll

We prove new bounds on the additive gap between the value of a random integer program $\max c^Tx,\ Ax\leq b,\ x\in\{0,1\}^n$ with $m$ constraints and that of its linear programming relaxation for a wide range of distributions on $(A,b,c)$ .…

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