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Decision trees are powerful tools for classification and regression that attract many researchers working in the burgeoning area of machine learning. One advantage of decision trees over other methods is their interpretability, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Brandon Alston , Hamidreza Validi , Illya V. Hicks

A common challenge in real-time operations is deciding whether to re-solve an optimization problem or continue using an existing solution. While modern data platforms may collect information at high frequencies, many real-time operations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Rui Ai , Hugo De Oliveira Barbalho , Sirui Li , Alexei Robsky , David Simchi-Levi , Ishai Menache

Inverse optimization is the problem of determining the values of missing input parameters for an associated forward problem that are closest to given estimates and that will make a given target vector optimal. This study is concerned with…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Aykut Bulut , Ted K. Ralphs

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP) are well known to be NP-hard (Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard) problems in general. Even though pure optimization-based methods, such as constraint generation, are guaranteed to provide an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

The analysis of infeasible subproblems plays an import role in solving mixed integer programs (MIPs) and is implemented in most major MIP solvers. There are two fundamentally different concepts to generate valid global constraints from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Jakob Witzig , Timo Berthold , Stefan Heinz

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

Optimization problems are pervasive in sectors from manufacturing and distribution to healthcare. However, most such problems are still solved heuristically by hand rather than optimally by state-of-the-art solvers because the expertise…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Ali AhmadiTeshnizi , Wenzhi Gao , Madeleine Udell

Finding the most probable (MAP) model in SRL frameworks such as Markov logic and Problog can, in principle, be solved by encoding the problem as a `grounded-out' mixed integer program (MIP). However, useful first-order structure disappears…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-14 James Cussens

We present a new solver for non-convex trajectory optimization problems that is specialized for robotics applications. CALIPSO, or the Conic Augmented Lagrangian Interior-Point SOlver, combines several strategies for constrained numerical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Taylor A. Howell , Simon Le Cleac'h , Kevin Tracy , Zachary Manchester

Multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs), one type of complex optimization problems, widely exist in various real applications. Although meta-heuristics have been successfully applied to address MOCOPs, the calculation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Le-yang Gao , Rui Wang , Chuang Liu , Zhao-hong Jia

Solving constrained nonlinear optimization problems (CNLPs) is a longstanding problem that arises in various fields, e.g., economics, computer science, and engineering. We propose optimization-informed neural networks (OINN), a deep…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Dawen Wu , Abdel Lisser

In this paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

In this paper, we consider 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 resources to meet diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

A standard tool for modelling real-world optimisation problems is mixed-integer programming (MIP). However, for many of these problems, information about the relationships between variables is either incomplete or highly complex, making it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Mark Turner , Antonia Chmiela , Thorsten Koch , Michael Winkler

Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization (MINLP) comprises a large class of problems that are challenging to solve and exhibit a wide range of structures. The Boscia framework Hendrych et al. (2025b) focuses on convex MINLP where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Wenjie Xiao , Deborah Hendrych , Mathieu Besançon , Sebastian Pokutta

We present a memory-bounded optimization approach for solving infinite-horizon decentralized POMDPs. Policies for each agent are represented by stochastic finite state controllers. We formulate the problem of optimizing these policies as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Christopher Amato , Daniel S Bernstein , Shlomo Zilberstein

Inspection planning is concerned with computing the shortest robot path to inspect a given set of points of interest (POIs) using the robot's sensors. This problem arises in a wide range of applications from manufacturing to medical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adir Morgan , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is one of the most widely used modeling techniques for combinatorial optimization problems. In many applications, a similar MIP model is solved on a regular basis, maintaining remarkable similarities in model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jian-Ya Ding , Chao Zhang , Lei Shen , Shengyin Li , Bing Wang , Yinghui Xu , Le Song

While mixed-integer linear programming and convex programming solvers have advanced significantly over the past several decades, solution technologies for general mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) have yet to reach the same level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi , Junyuan Qiu

Random forests are among the most famous algorithms for solving classification problems, in particular for large-scale data sets. Considering a set of labeled points and several decision trees, the method takes the majority vote to classify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Jan Pablo Burgard , Maria Eduarda Pinheiro , Martin Schmidt