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Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a powerful framework used to address a wide range of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, often solved by Branch and Bound (B&B). A key factor influencing the performance of B&B solvers is…

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Tree-based models are widely recognized for their interpretability and have proven effective in various application domains, particularly in high-stakes domains. However, learning decision trees (DTs) poses a significant challenge due to…

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Mixed-integer convex quadratic programs with indicator variables (MIQP) encompass a wide range of applications, from statistical learning to energy, finance, and logistics. The outer approximation (OA) algorithm has been proven efficient in…

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Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are a powerful abstraction for tasks that require decision making under uncertainty, and capture a wide range of real world tasks. Today, effective planning approaches exist that…

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Optimal Transport (OT) naturally arises in many machine learning applications, yet the heavy computational burden limits its wide-spread uses. To address the scalability issue, we propose an implicit generative learning-based framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Yujia Xie , Minshuo Chen , Haoming Jiang , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

Mixed integer convex and nonlinear programs, MICP and MINLP, are expressive but require long solving times. Recent work that combines data-driven methods on solver heuristics has shown potential to overcome this issue allowing for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

In this paper, we propose a Pre-trained Mixed Integer Optimization framework (PreMIO) that accelerates online mixed integer program (MIP) solving with offline datasets and machine learning models. Our method is based on a data-driven…

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This paper is a follow-up to a previous work where we defined and generated the set of all possible compromises of multilevel multiobjective linear programming problems (ML-MOLPP). In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Mustapha Kaci , Sonia Radjef

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) is a powerful paradigm for modeling and solving various important combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, learning-based approaches have shown a potential to speed up MIP solving via offline training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Junyang Cai , Serdar Kadioglu , Bistra Dilkina

The goal to decarbonize the energy sector has led to increased research in modeling and optimizing multi-energy systems. One of the most promising techniques for modeling (multi-)energy optimization problems is mixed-integer programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Stephanie Riedmüller , Annika Buchholz , Janina Zittel

State-of-the-art Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) solvers combine systematic tree search with a plethora of hard-coded heuristics, such as the branching rule. The idea of learning branching rules from data has received increasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Lara Scavuzzo , Feng Yang Chen , Didier Chételat , Maxime Gasse , Andrea Lodi , Neil Yorke-Smith , Karen Aardal

In this paper, we propose a Bi-layer Predictionbased Reduction Branch (BP-RB) framework to speed up the process of finding a high-quality feasible solution for Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) problems. A graph convolutional network (GCN) is…

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As rapidly growing AI computational demands accelerate the need for new hardware installation and maintenance, this work explores optimal data center resource management by balancing operational efficiency with fault tolerance through…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chang-Lin Chen , Jiayu Chen , Tian Lan , Zhaoxia Zhao , Hongbo Dong , Vaneet Aggarwal

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

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…

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Leveraging high-quality joint representations from multimodal data can greatly enhance model performance in various machine-learning based applications. Recent multimodal learning methods, based on the multimodal information bottleneck…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qilong Wu , Yiyang Shao , Jun Wang , Xiaobo Sun

The study of optimal decision trees has gained increasing attention in recent years; however, despite substantial progress, it still suffers from two major challenges: First, trees constructed by existing optimal decision tree (ODT)…

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We study optimal Multi-robot Path Planning (MPP) on graphs, in order to improve the efficiency of multi-robot system (MRS) in the warehouse-like environment. We propose a novel algorithm, OMRPP (One-way Multi-robot Path Planning) based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jiaxi Huo , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to find an optimal policy for Markov decision processes (MDPs) using a pre-collected dataset. In this work, we revisit the linear programming (LP) reformulation of Markov decision processes for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Asuman Ozdaglar , Sarath Pattathil , Jiawei Zhang , Kaiqing Zhang

We transform join ordering into a mixed integer linear program (MILP). This allows to address query optimization by mature MILP solver implementations that have evolved over decades and steadily improved their performance. They offer…

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