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Dantzig-Wolfe (DW) decomposition is a well-known technique in mixed-integer programming (MIP) for decomposing and convexifying constraints to obtain potentially strong dual bounds. We investigate cutting planes that can be derived using the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Rui Chen , Oktay Gunluk , Andrea Lodi

Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation is a widely used technique for obtaining stronger relaxations in the context of branch-and-bound methods for solving integer optimization problems. Arc-Flow reformulations are a lesser known technique related to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Daniel Yamin , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Ted K. Ralphs

The Dantzig selector has received popularity for many applications such as compressed sensing and sparse modeling, thanks to its computational efficiency as a linear programming problem and its nice sampling properties. Existing results…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-05-12 Yinfei Kong , Zemin Zheng , Jinchi Lv

This paper considers the clustering problem for large data sets. We propose an approach based on distributed optimization. The clustering problem is formulated as an optimization problem of maximizing the classification gain. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-12-10 Xudong Ma

In random allocation rules, typically first an optimal fractional point is calculated via solving a linear program. The calculated point represents a fractional assignment of objects or more generally packages of objects to agents. In order…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Salman Fadaei

The Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) problem presents formidable computational challenges due to its combinatorial complexity, large-scale network dimensions, and numerous security constraints. While conventional temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Jinxin Xiong , Linxin Yang , Yingxiao Wang , Yanting Huang , Jianghua Wu , Shunbo Lei , Akang Wang

The strengthening of linear relaxations and bounds of mixed integer linear programs has been an active research topic for decades. Enumeration-based methods for integer programming like linear programming-based branch-and-bound exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-29 François Lamothe , Alain Haït , Emmanuel Rachelson , Claudio Contardo , Bernard Gendron

The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Hubert Villuendas , Mathieu Besançon , Jérôme Malick

This paper studies disjunctive cutting planes in Mixed-Integer Conic Programming. Building on conic duality, we formulate a cut-generating conic program for separating disjunctive cuts, and investigate the impact of the normalization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Andrea Lodi , Mathieu Tanneau , Juan Pablo Vielma

This paper presents an algorithmic study of a class of covering mixed-integer linear programming problems which encompasses classic cover problems, including multidimensional knapsack, facility location and supplier selection problems. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Kobe Grobben , Phablo F. S. Moura , Hande Yaman

In the rank-constrained optimization problem (RCOP), it minimizes a linear objective function over a prespecified closed rank-constrained domain set and $m$ generic two-sided linear matrix inequalities. Motivated by the Dantzig-Wolfe (DW)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Yongchun Li , Weijun Xie

By applying some techniques of set-valued and variational analysis, we study solution stability of nonhomogeneous split equality problems and nonhomogeneous split feasibility problems, where the constraint sets need not be convex. Necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Vu Thi Huong , Hong-Kun Xu , Nguyen Dong Yen

The technique of semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation can be used to obtain a nontrivial bound on the optimal value of a nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic program (QCQP). We explore concave quadratic inequalities that hold…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-30 Jaehyun Park , Stephen Boyd

Correspondence problems are often modelled as quadratic optimization problems over permutations. Common scalable methods for approximating solutions of these NP-hard problems are the spectral relaxation for non-convex energies and the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Nadav Dym , Haggai Maron , Yaron Lipman

We study stochastic mixed integer programs with both first-stage and recourse decisions involving mixed integer variables. A new family of Lagrangian cuts, termed ``ReLU Lagrangian cuts," is introduced by reformulating the nonanticipativity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Haoyun Deng , Weijun Xie

Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition (DWD) is a classical algorithm for solving large-scale linear programs whose constraint matrix involves a set of independent blocks coupled with a set of linking rows. The algorithm decomposes such a model into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Mohamed El Tonbari , Shabbir Ahmed

We consider the global optimization of nonconvex mixed-integer quadratic programs with linear equality constraints. In particular, we present a new class of convex quadratic relaxations which are derived via quadratic cuts. To construct…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Carlos J. Nohra , Arvind U. Raghunathan , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

We propose an algorithm to solve quasi-variational inequality problems, based on the Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition paradigm. Our approach solves in the subproblems variational inequalities, which is a simpler problem, while restricting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-02 Manoel Jardim , Claudia Sagastizábal , Mikhail Solodov

In this paper we introduce Clause Cuts: linear inequalities obtained from clauses that are logically implied by a CNF formula, resembling strengthened no-good cuts. With these cuts, we tighten mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Max Engelhardt , Milan Adhikari , Jonasz Staszek , Alexander Martin

A tight continuous relaxation is a crucial factor in solving mixed integer formulations of many NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. The (weighted) max $k$-cut problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Ramin Fakhimi , Hamidreza Validi , Illya V. Hicks , Tamás Terlaky , Luis F. Zuluaga
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