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A standard approach to solving optimistic bilevel linear programs (BLPs) is to replace the lower-level problem with its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions and reformulate the resulting complementarity constraints using auxiliary…

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This paper considers a bilevel program. To solve this bilevel program, it is generally necessary to transform it into some single-level optimization problem. One approach is to replace the lower-level program by its KKT conditions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Yu-Wei Li , Gui-Hua Lin , Xide Zhu

In this work we propose an improvement of the $x$-space algorithm developed for solving a class of min--max bilevel optimization problems (Tang Y., Richard J.P.P., Smith J.C. (2016), A class of algorithms for mixed-integer bilevel min--max…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Kübra Tanınmış , Necati Aras , İ. Kuban Altınel

With the push towards Exascale computing and data-driven methods, problem sizes have increased dramatically, increasing the computational requirements of the underlying algorithms. This has led to a push to offload computations to general…

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In this paper, we present a bilevel optimal motion planning (BOMP) model for autonomous parking. The BOMP model treats motion planning as an optimal control problem, in which the upper level is designed for vehicle nonlinear dynamics, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Shenglei Shi , Youlun Xiong , Jiankui Chen , Caihua Xiong

In this paper, we study a class of bilevel programming problem where the inner objective function is strongly convex. More specifically, under some mile assumptions on the partial derivatives of both inner and outer objective functions, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-08 Saeed Ghadimi , Mengdi Wang

We present a suite of packages in R, Python, Julia, and C++ that efficiently solve the Sorted L-One Penalized Estimation (SLOPE) problem. The packages feature a highly efficient hybrid coordinate descent algorithm that fits generalized…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-18 Johan Larsson , Malgorzata Bogdan , Krystyna Grzesiak , Mathurin Massias , Jonas Wallin

Bilevel programming has recently received attention in the literature due to its wide range of applications, including reinforcement learning and hyper-parameter optimization. However, it is widely assumed that the underlying bilevel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Parvin Nazari , Ahmad Mousavi , Davoud Ataee Tarzanagh , George Michailidis

Generalized sampling is a numerically stable framework for obtaining reconstructions of signals in different bases and frames from their samples. In this paper, we will introduce a carefully documented toolbox for performing generalized…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Robert Dahl Jacobsen , Morten Nielsen , Morten Grud Rasmussen

Stochastic bilevel optimization generalizes the classic stochastic optimization from the minimization of a single objective to the minimization of an objective function that depends the solution of another optimization problem. Recently,…

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Simulation of non-adiabatic dynamics of a quantum system coupled to dissipative environments poses significant challenges. New sophisticated methods are regularly being developed with an eye towards moving to larger systems and more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Amartya Bose

In this paper, we study multi-block min-max bilevel optimization problems, where the upper level is non-convex strongly-concave minimax objective and the lower level is a strongly convex objective, and there are multiple blocks of dual…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Quanqi Hu , Yongjian Zhong , Tianbao Yang

DiffEqFlux.jl is a library for fusing neural networks and differential equations. In this work we describe differential equations from the viewpoint of data science and discuss the complementary nature between machine learning models and…

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We consider a bilevel optimization problem in which the ground set is partitioned between two decision makers, a leader and a follower, whose optimization problems are interleaved. We study the Bilevel Independent Set problem, and its…

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Bilevel optimization has found extensive applications in modern machine learning problems such as hyperparameter optimization, neural architecture search, meta-learning, etc. While bilevel problems with a unique inner minimal point (e.g.,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-09 Daouda Sow , Kaiyi Ji , Ziwei Guan , Yingbin Liang

This paper investigates simple bilevel optimization problems where we minimize an upper-level objective over the optimal solution set of a convex lower-level objective. Existing methods for such problems either only guarantee asymptotic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Pengyu Chen , Xu Shi , Rujun Jiang , Jiulin Wang

Bilevel optimization minimizes an objective function, defined by an upper-level problem whose feasible region is the solution of a lower-level problem. We study the oracle complexity of finding an $\epsilon$-stationary point with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Lesi Chen , Jingzhao Zhang

MacroEnergy.jl (aka Macro) is an open-source framework for multi-sector capacity expansion modeling and analysis of macro-energy systems. It is written in Julia and uses the JuMP package to interface with a wide range of mathematical…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-28 Ruaridh Macdonald , Filippo Pecci , Luca Bonaldo , Jun Wen Law , Yu Weng , Dharik Mallapragada , Jesse Jenkins

This paper introduces the algorithmic design and implementation of Tulip, an open-source interior-point solver for linear optimization. It implements a regularized homogeneous interior-point algorithm with multiple centrality corrections,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-04 Miguel F. Anjos , Andrea Lodi , Mathieu Tanneau

We consider the convex bilevel optimization problem, also known as simple bilevel programming. There are two challenges in solving convex bilevel optimization problems. Firstly, strong duality is not guaranteed due to the lack of Slater…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Khanh-Hung Giang-Tran , Nam Ho-Nguyen , Fatma Kılınç-Karzan , Lingqing Shen