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We introduce StoDCuP (Stochastic Dynamic Cutting Plane), an extension of the Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming (SDDP) algorithm to solve multistage stochastic convex optimization problems. At each iteration, the algorithm builds lower…

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In this paper, we study a class of nonconvex and nonsmooth structured difference-of-convex (DC) programs, which contain in the convex part the sum of a nonsmooth linearly composed convex function and a differentiable function, and in the…

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In this paper we propose a new inexact dual decomposition algorithm for solving separable convex optimization problems. This algorithm is a combination of three techniques: dual Lagrangian decomposition, smoothing and excessive gap. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-11 Quoc Tran Dinh , Ion Necoara , Moritz Diehl

This paper proposes an algorithm to efficiently solve multistage stochastic programs with block separable recourse where each recourse problem is a multistage stochastic program with stage-wise independent uncertainty. The algorithm first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nicolò Mazzi , Ken Mckinnon , Hongyu Zhang

We propose an enhancement to Benders decomposition (BD) that generates valid inequalities for the convex hull of the Benders reformulation, addressing the limitation that classical BD cuts are typically tight only for the continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Kaiwen Fang , Inho Sin , Geunyeong Byeon

Quadratic constrained quadratic programming problems often occur in various fields such as engineering practice, management science, and network communication. This article mainly studies a non convex quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-29 Bo Zhang , YueLin Gao , Xia Liu , XiaoLi Huang

Recent years have seen significant advances in quantum/quantum-inspired technologies capable of approximately searching for the ground state of Ising spin Hamiltonians. The promise of leveraging such technologies to accelerate the solution…

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Clustering is one of the most fundamental tools in data science and machine learning, and k-means clustering is one of the most common such methods. There is a variety of approximate algorithms for the k-means problem, but computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Martin Ryner , Jan Kronqvist , Johan Karlsson

We introduce a stochastic version of the cutting-plane method for a large class of data-driven Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization (MINLO) problems. We show that under very weak assumptions the stochastic algorithm is able to converge to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Michael Lingzhi Li

Recently, Kronqvist et al.~\cite{KronqvistLundellWesterlund2016} rediscovered the supporting hyperplane algorithm of Veinott~\cite{Veinott1967} and demonstrated its computational benefits for solving convex mixed-integer nonlinear programs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-21 Felipe Serrano , Robert Schwarz , Ambros Gleixner

Cut-generating linear programs (CGLPs) play a key role as a separation oracle to produce valid inequalities for the feasible region of mixed-integer programs. When incorporated inside branch-and-bound, the cutting planes obtained from CGLPs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-01 Atefeh Rajabalizadeh , Danial Davarnia

Convex separable quadratic optimization problems occur in many practical applications. In this paper, based on an iterative resolution scheme of the KKT system, we develop an efficient method for solving a quadratic programming problem with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Shaoze Li , Junhao Wu , Cheng Lu , Zhibin Deng , Shu-Cherng Fang

The benefits of cutting planes based on the perspective function are well known for many specific classes of mixed-integer nonlinear programs with on/off structures. However, we are not aware of any empirical studies that evaluate their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-18 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Ambros Gleixner , Stefan Vigerske

In this paper, we mainly study one class of mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with vector conic constraint in Banach spaces. Duality theory of convex vector optimization problems applied to this class of MINLPs is deeply…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-15 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

We propose an extended variant of the reformulation and decomposition algorithm for solving a special class of mixed-integer bilevel linear programs (MIBLPs) where continuous and integer variables are involved in both upper- and lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Dajun Yue , Jiyao Gao , Bo Zeng , Fengqi You

In this paper, we have studied a decomposition method for solving a class of nonconvex two-stage stochastic programs, where both the objective and constraints of the second-stage problem are nonlinearly parameterized by the first-stage…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Hanyang Li , Ying Cui

This paper aims to develop distributed algorithms for nonconvex optimization problems with complicated constraints associated with a network. The network can be a physical one, such as an electric power network, where the constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Kaizhao Sun , X. Andy Sun

We introduce a cutting-plane framework for nonconvex quadratic programs (QPs) that progressively tightens convex relaxations. Our approach leverages the doubly nonnegative (DNN) relaxation to compute strong lower bounds and generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Zheng Qu , Defeng Sun , Jintao Xu

Cutting planes and branching are two of the most important algorithms for solving mixed-integer linear programs. For both algorithms, disjunctions play an important role, being used both as branching candidates and as the foundation for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Mark Turner , Timo Berthold , Mathieu Besançon , Thorsten Koch

There is an increasing interest in quantum algorithms for optimization problems. Within convex optimization, interior-point methods and other recently proposed quantum algorithms are non-trivial to implement on noisy quantum devices. Here,…

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