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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

This work addresses a Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP) on a graph where the goal is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions from a start node to a destination in the graph. A family of approaches based on MOA* have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongqiang Ren , Richard Zhan , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

Many problems in machine learning and other fields can be (re)for-mulated as linearly constrained separable convex programs. In most of the cases, there are multiple blocks of variables. However, the traditional alternating direction method…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Zhouchen Lin , Risheng Liu , Huan Li

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have led to their popularity across multiple use-cases. However, prompt engineering, the process for optimally utilizing such models, remains approximation-driven and subjective. Most of the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Aashutosh Nema , Samaksh Gulati , Evangelos Giakoumakis , Bipana Thapaliya

Multi-objective optimization is central to many engineering and machine learning applications, where multiple objectives must be optimized in balance. While multi-gradient based optimization methods combine these objectives in each step,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Trang H. Tran , Luis Nunes Vicente

Multicriterion optimization and Pareto optimality are fundamental tools in economics. In this paper we propose a new relaxation method for solving multiple objective quadratic programming problems. Exploiting the technique of the linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-21 Yan-Qin Bai , Chuan-Hao Guo

We study optimal Multi-robot Path Planning (MPP) on graphs, in order to improve the efficiency of multi-robot system (MRS) in the warehouse-like environment. We propose a novel algorithm, OMRPP (One-way Multi-robot Path Planning) based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jiaxi Huo , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

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

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…

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are essential measuring devices for monitoring, control and protection of power systems. The objective of the optimal PMU placement (OPP) problem is to minimize the number of PMUs and select the bus locations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-08-25 Nikolaos Theodorakatos , Nikolaos Manousakis , George Korres

This study aims to optimize the evaluation metric of multimodal multi-objective optimization problems using a Regionalized Metric Framework, which provides a certain boost to research in this field. Existing evaluation metrics usually use…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jintai Chen , Fangqing Liu , Xueming Yan , Han Huang

Many interesting phenomena are characterized by the complex interaction of different physical processes, each often best modeled numerically via a specific approach. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of an…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Juan Michael Sargado

We propose in this paper a multilevel correction method to solve optimal control problems constrained by elliptic equations with the finite element method. In this scheme, solving optimization problem on the finest finite element space is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-31 Wei Gong , Hehu Xie , Ningning Yan

The matching of multiple objects (e.g. shapes or images) is a fundamental problem in vision and graphics. In order to robustly handle ambiguities, noise and repetitive patterns in challenging real-world settings, it is essential to take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Florian Bernard , Johan Thunberg , Paul Swoboda , Christian Theobalt

LP-type problems such as the Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB), Linear Support Vector Machine (SVM), Linear Programming (LP), and Semidefinite Programming (SDP) are fundamental combinatorial optimization problems, with many important…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-17 N. Efe Çekirge , William Gay , David P. Woodruff

In many applications, we need algorithms which can align partially overlapping point sets and are invariant to the corresponding transformations. In this work, a method possessing such properties is realized by minimizing the objective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Wei Lian , Wangmeng Zuo

We present an adaptive multilevel Monte Carlo (AMLMC) algorithm for approximating deterministic, real-valued, bounded linear functionals that depend on the solution of a linear elliptic PDE with a lognormal diffusivity coefficient and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Joakim Beck , Yang Liu , Erik von Schwerin , Raúl Tempone

Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD) has been widely employed to measure the distance between probability distributions. In this paper, we propose using MMD to solve continuous multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). For solving MOPs, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hao Wang , Chenyu Shi , Angel E. Rodriguez-Fernandez , Oliver Schütze

Decentralized planning in uncertain environments is a complex task generally dealt with by using a decision-theoretic approach, mainly through the framework of Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (DEC-POMDPs).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Raghav Aras , Alain Dutech

We propose an approach based on quadratic approximations for solving general Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems. Specifically, our approach entails the global approximation of the epigraphs of constraint functions by means…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Adrian Göß , Robert Burlacu , Alexander Martin