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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), a widely used modeling framework for combinatorial optimization, are central to many scientific and engineering applications, yet remains computationally challenging at scale. Recent advances in deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Peixin Huang , Yaoxin Wu , Yining Ma , Cathy Wu , Wen Song , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model ontology and a novel constraint typology of MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Bahadorreza Ofoghi , Vicky Mak , John Yearwood

The use of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models to represent neural networks with Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activations has become increasingly widespread in the last decade. This has enabled the use of MILP technology to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Fabian Badilla , Marcos Goycoolea , Gonzalo Muñoz , Thiago Serra

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

Leveraging machine learning (ML) to predict an initial solution for mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has gained considerable popularity in recent years. These methods predict a solution and fix a subset of variables to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyang Liu , Jie Wang , Zijie Geng , Xijun Li , Yuxuan Zong , Fangzhou Zhu , Jianye Hao , Feng Wu

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

This paper introduces $\Delta$-MILP, a powerful variant of the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimization framework to solve NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scheduling problem. This work is an extension of our original MILP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Thomas Claudet , Ryan Alimo , Edwin Goh , Mark Johnston , Ramtin Madani , Brian Wilson

Cutting planes (cuts) are crucial for solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. Advanced MILP solvers typically rely on manually designed heuristic algorithms for cut selection, which require much expert experience and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Xuefeng Zhang , Liangyu Chen , Zhengfeng Yang , Zhenbing Zeng

This paper addresses the problem of tightening the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation for continuous piecewise linear (CPWL) approximations of data sets in arbitrary dimensions. The MILP formulation leverages the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Quentin Ploussard , Xiang Li , Matija Pavičević

In transmission networks, power flows and network topology are deeply intertwined due to power flow physics. Recent literature shows that a specific more hierarchical network structure can effectively inhibit the propagation of line…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Leon Lan , Alessandro Zocca

The irregular strip-packing problem consists of the computation of a non-overlapping placement of a set of polygons onto a rectangular strip of fixed width and the minimal length possible. Recent performance gains of the Mixed-Integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Juan J. Lastra-Díaz , M. Teresa Ortuño

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a fundamental tool for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, a growing body of research has used machine learning to accelerate MILP solving. Despite the increasing popularity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Weimin Huang , Taoan Huang , Aaron M Ferber , Bistra Dilkina

Mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are widely used in artificial intelligence and operations research to model complex decision problems like scheduling and routing. Designing such programs however requires both domain and modelling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Mohit Kumar , Samuel Kolb , Luc De Raedt , Stefano Teso

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Fan Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

This paper considers the generalized maximal covering location problem (GMCLP) which establishes a fixed number of facilities to maximize the weighted sum of the covered customers, allowing customer weights to be positive or negative. Due…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Wei Lv , Cheng-Yang Yu , Jie Liang , Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

In this letter, we consider the Multi-Robot Efficient Search Path Planning (MESPP) problem, where a team of robots is deployed in a graph-represented environment to capture a moving target within a given deadline. We prove this problem to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Beatriz A. Asfora , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has been a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. Conventional MILP solving mainly relies on carefully designed heuristics embedded in the branch-and-bound framework. Driven by the strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Siyuan Li , Yifan Yu , Zhihao Zhang , Mengjing Chen , Fangzhou Zhu , Tao Zhong , Peng Liu , Jianye Hao

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

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