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Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

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

In this paper, we study linear programming based approaches to the maximum matching problem in the semi-streaming model. The semi-streaming model has gained attention as a model for processing massive graphs as the importance of such graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Kook Jin Ahn , Sudipto Guha

In this paper, we propose two exact distributed algorithms to solve mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with multiple agents where data privacy is important for the agents. A key challenge is that, because of the non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Mohammad Javad Feizollahi

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) plays an important role across a range of scientific disciplines and within areas of strategic importance to society. The MILP problems, however, suffer from combinatorial complexity. Because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Mikhail A. Bragin , Emily L. Tucker

This paper proposes a new algorithm for simultaneous graph matching and clustering. For the first time in the literature, these two problems are solved jointly and synergetically without relying on any training data, which brings advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maximilian Krahn , Florian Bernard , Vladislav Golyanik

Image matching is a key component of many tasks in computer vision and its main objective is to find correspondences between features extracted from different natural images. When images are represented as graphs, image matching boils down…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Nancy Xu , Giannis Nikolentzos , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Henrik Boström

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a pillar of mathematical optimization that offers a powerful modeling language for a wide range of applications. During the past decades, enormous algorithmic progress has been made in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Lara Scavuzzo , Karen Aardal , Andrea Lodi , Neil Yorke-Smith

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertex set is a set of points in the plane and whose edge set contains straight-line segments. A matching in a graph is a subset of edges of the graph with no shared vertices. A matching is called perfect…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmad Biniaz

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) technology offers a generic way of formulating and solving combinatorial optimization problems. While generally reliable, state-of-the-art MIP solvers base many crucial decisions on hand-crafted heuristics,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Elias B. Khalil , Christopher Morris , Andrea Lodi

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are essential tools for solving planning and scheduling problems across critical industries such as construction, manufacturing, and logistics. However, their widespread adoption is limited by long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaoke Wang , Batuhan Altundas , Zhaoxin Li , Aaron Zhao , Matthew Gombolay

Besides training, mathematical optimization is also used in deep learning to model and solve formulations over trained neural networks for purposes such as verification, compression, and optimization with learned constraints. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Jiatai Tong , Junyang Cai , Thiago Serra

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-10 Ray Wai Man Kong , Ding Ning , Theodore Ho Tin Kong

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) stands as a notable NP-hard problem pivotal to numerous crucial industrial applications. The development of effective algorithms, the tuning of solvers, and the training of machine learning models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Haoyu Wang , Jialin Liu , Xiaohan Chen , Xinshang Wang , Pan Li , Wotao Yin

Partial graph matching extends traditional graph matching by allowing some nodes to remain unmatched, enabling applications in more complex scenarios. However, this flexibility introduces additional complexity, as both the subset of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gathika Ratnayaka , James Nichols , Qing Wang

This paper addresses the Graph Matching problem, which consists of finding the best possible alignment between two input graphs, and has many applications in computer vision, network deanonymization and protein alignment. A common approach…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-12 Ernesto Araya Valdivia , Hemant Tyagi

This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…

In this paper we solve mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) via distributed asynchronous saddle point computation. This work is motivated by the MILPs being able to model problems in multi-agent autonomy, such as task assignment problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Luke Fina , Christopher Petersen , Matthew Hale

We consider the incomplete multi-graph matching problem, which is a generalization of the NP-hard quadratic assignment problem for matching multiple finite sets. Multi-graph matching plays a central role in computer vision, e.g., for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Max Kahl , Sebastian Stricker , Lisa Hutschenreiter , Florian Bernard , Bogdan Savchynskyy

A large number of applications such as querying sensor networks, and analyzing protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks, rely on mining uncertain graph and hypergraph databases. In this work we study the following problem: given an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Charalampos E. Tsourakakis , Shreyas Sekar , Johnson Lam , Liu Yang