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Sequential quadratic programming and sequential convex programming efficiently solve nonlinear programs (NLPs) by linearizing inner nonlinearities while preserving the outer convex structure. This paper introduces a sequential mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Andrea Ghezzi , Wim Van Roy , Sebastian Sager , Moritz Diehl

Constrained non-convex optimization problems frequently arise in control applications. Solving such problems is inherently challenging, as existing methods often converge to suboptimal local minima or incur prohibitive computational costs.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Anran Li , John P. Swensen , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

The most important ingredient for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) to global epsilon-optimality with spatial branch and bound is a tight, computationally tractable relaxation. Due to both theoretical and practical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-03 Benjamin Müller , Gonzalo Muñoz , Maxime Gasse , Ambros Gleixner , Andrea Lodi , Felipe Serrano

Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) has seen a sharp rise in use for engineering optimization applications in recent years. Even for initially non-linear problems, it is often the method of choice. Then, the non-linear functions have to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Felix Birkelbach , David Huber , René Hofmann

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 study MINLO (mixed-integer nonlinear optimization) formulations of the disjunction $x\in\{0\}\cup[l,u]$, where $z$ is a binary indicatorof $x\in[l,u]$ ($u> \ell > 0$), and $y$ "captures" $f(x)$, which is assumed to be convex on its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Jon Lee , Daphne Skipper , Emily Speakman

Minimum distance constraints (minDCs) appear in many geometric optimization problems. They pose major challenges for mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) due to their reverse-convexity. We develop new algorithms for tightening…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Christopher Hojny , Leo Liberti

In this article, we dwell into the class of so-called ill-posed Linear Inverse Problems (LIP) which simply refers to the task of recovering the entire signal from its relatively few random linear measurements. Such problems arise in a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mohammed Rayyan Sheriff , Debasish Chatterjee

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

Given a nonlinear, univariate, bounded, and differentiable function $f(x)$, this article develops a sequence of Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Linear Programming (LP) relaxations that converge to the graph of $f(x)$ and its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Kaarthik Sundar , Sujeevraja Sanjeevi , Harsha Nagarajan

Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems are encountered in modeling a physical/industrial process consisting both nonlinearity and discrete selective parameters. There are variety of algorithms for solving MINLP problems most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Negin Bagherpour , Mahdi Sharifzadeh

This work proposes a novel convex-non-convex formulation of the image segmentation and the image completion problems. The proposed approach is based on the minimization of a functional involving two distinct regularization terms: one…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-01 Mohamed El Guide , Anas El Hachimi , Khalide Jbilou , Lothar Reichel

This paper presents a piecewise convexification method to approximate the whole approximate optimal solution set of non-convex optimization problems with box constraints. In the process of box division, we first classify the sub-boxes and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-30 Qiao Zhu , Liping Tang , Xinmin Yang

Solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) typically relies on constructing relaxations that are easier to tackle than the original problem. Recently, global parabolic (PARA) relaxations were introduced, featuring separable quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Adrian Göß

In optimization problems, often equations and inequalities are represented using if-else (implication) construct which is known to be equivalent to a disjunction. Such statements are modeled and incorporated in an optimization problem using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-08 Anshul Agarwal

We consider in this paper a class of semi-continuous quadratic programming problems which arises in many real-world applications such as production planning, portfolio selection and subset selection in regression. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-07 Baiyi Wu , Xiaoling Sun , Duan Li , Xiaojin Zheng

We consider robust combinatorial optimization problems where the decision maker can react to a scenario by choosing from a finite set of $k$ solutions. This approach is appropriate for decision problems under uncertainty where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz , Michael Poss

In this paper we aim to construct piecewise-linear (PWL) approximations for functions of multiple variables and to build compact mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulations to represent the resulting PWL function. On the one hand,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Péter Dobrovoczki , Tamás Kis

Current state-of-the-art methods for solving discrete optimization problems are usually restricted to convex settings. In this paper, we propose a general approach based on cutting planes for solving nonlinear, possibly nonconvex, binary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-21 Hoa T. Bui , Qun Lin , Ryan Loxton

We study mixed-integer programming formulations for the piecewise linear lower and upper bounds (in other words, piecewise linear relaxations) of nonlinear functions that can be modeled by a new class of combinatorial disjunctive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-05-01 Bochuan Lyu , Illya V. Hicks , Joey Huchette