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Optimization solvers routinely utilize presolve techniques, including model simplification, reformulation and domain reduction techniques. Domain reduction techniques are especially important in speeding up convergence to the global optimum…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Yash Puranik , Nikolaos V. Sahinidis

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) research is both mathematically sophisticated and engineering-intensive: testing an algorithmic hypothesis within a branch-and-cut solver requires substantial implementation, debugging, tuning, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liding Xu , Yugeng Zhou , Sebastian Pokutta

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

This paper explores reoptimization techniques for solving sequences of similar mixed integer programs (MIPs) more effectively. Traditionally, these MIPs are solved independently, without capitalizing on information from previously solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Krunal Kishor Patel

Recent work has shown potential in using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers to optimize certain aspects of neural networks (NNs). However the intriguing approach of training NNs with MIP solvers is under-explored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tómas Thorbjarnarson , Neil Yorke-Smith

In this paper, we consider solving nonconvex quadratic programming problems using modern solvers such as Gurobi and SCIP. It is well-known that the classical techniques of quadratic convex reformulation can improve the computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Cheng Lu , Yu Fei , Gaojian Kang , Guangai Qu , Zhibin Deng , Qingwei Jin , Shu-Cherng Fang

Outer-approximation-based branch-and-bound is a common algorithmic framework for solving MINLPs (mixed-integer nonlinear programs) to global optimality, with branching variable selection critically influencing overall performance. In modern…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Timo Berthold , Fritz Geis

This paper addresses the single-item single-stocking location stochastic lot sizing problem under the $(s, S) $ policy. We first present a mixed integer non-linear programming (MINLP) formulation for determining near-optimal $(s, S)$ policy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-17 Mengyuan Xiang , Roberto Rossi , Belen Martin-Barragan , S. Armagan Tarim

Binary (0-1) integer programming (BIP) is pivotal in scientific domains requiring discrete decision-making. As the advance of AI computing, recent works explore neural network-based solvers for integer linear programming (ILP) problems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sen Bai , Chunqi Yang , Xin Bai , Xin Zhang , Zhengang Jiang

Mixed integer bilinear programs (MIBLPs) offer tools to resolve robotics motion planning problems with orthogonal rotation matrices or static moment balance, but require long solving times. Recent work utilizing data-driven methods has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xuan Lin , Gabriel Ikaika Fernandez , Dennis Hong

Software for mixed-integer linear programming can return incorrect results for a number of reasons, one being the use of inexact floating-point arithmetic. Even solvers that employ exact arithmetic may suffer from programming or algorithmic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Kevin K. H. Cheung , Ambros Gleixner , Daniel E. Steffy

We propose a novel global solution algorithm for the network-constrained unit commitment problem incorporating a nonlinear alternating current model of the transmission network, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Jianfeng Liu , Anya Castillo , Jean-Paul Watson , Carl D. Laird

This paper proposes an open-source distributed solver for solving Sparse Convex Optimization (SCO) problems over computational networks. Motivated by past algorithmic advances in mixed-integer optimization, the Sparse Convex Optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-01 Alireza Olama , Eduardo Camponogara , Jan Kronqvist

While Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is NP-hard in general, practical MILP has received roughly 100--fold speedup in the past twenty years. Still, many classes of MILPs quickly become unsolvable as their sizes increase, motivating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Ziang Chen , Jialin Liu , Xinshang Wang , Jianfeng Lu , Wotao Yin

We consider a discrete optimization formulation for learning sparse classifiers, where the outcome depends upon a linear combination of a small subset of features. Recent work has shown that mixed integer programming (MIP) can be used to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Antoine Dedieu , Hussein Hazimeh , Rahul Mazumder

The recent performance improvements in mixed-integer programming (MIP) have been accompanied by a significantly increased complexity of the codes of MIP solvers, which poses challenges in fixing implementation errors. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Alexander Hoen , Dominik Kamp , Ambros Gleixner

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zayn Wang

Given the limitations of current hardware, the theoretical gains promised by quantum computing remain unrealized across practical applications. But the gap between theory and hardware is closing, assisted by developments in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Elena R. Henderson , Harsha Nagarajan , Carleton Coffrin

We present novel mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulations for optimization over nonconvex piecewise linear functions. We exploit recent advances in the systematic construction of MIP formulations to derive new formulations for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-09 Joey Huchette , Juan Pablo Vielma

The floor layout problem (FLP) tasks a designer with positioning a collection of rectangular boxes on a fixed floor in such a way that minimizes total communication costs between the components. While several mixed integer programming (MIP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Joey Huchette , Santanu S. Dey , Juan Pablo Vielma