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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

Lagrangian decomposition (LD) is a relaxation method that provides a dual bound for constrained optimization problems by decomposing them into more manageable sub-problems. This bound can be used in branch-and-bound algorithms to prune the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Swann Bessa , Darius Dabert , Max Bourgeat , Louis-Martin Rousseau , Quentin Cappart

We consider regularized cutting-plane methods to minimize a convex function that is the sum of a large number of component functions. One important example is the dual problem obtained from Lagrangian relaxation on a decomposable problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-26 Nagisa Sugishita , Andreas Grothey , Ken McKinnon

Discrete optimization belongs to the set of $\mathcal{NP}$-hard problems, spanning fields such as mixed-integer programming and combinatorial optimization. A current standard approach to solving convex discrete optimization problems is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Kyle Mana , Fernando Acero , Stephen Mak , Parisa Zehtabi , Michael Cashmore , Daniele Magazzeni , Manuela Veloso

Emerging quantum computing technologies, such as Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, offer potential advancements in solving mathematical optimization problems. However, limitations in qubit availability, noise, and errors pose…

We present a technique for producing valid dual bounds for nonconvex quadratic optimization problems. The approach leverages an elegant piecewise linear approximation for univariate quadratic functions due to Yarotsky, formulating this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Ben Beach , Robert Hildebrand , Joey Huchette

We propose a new algorithm for solving multistage stochastic mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with complete continuous recourse. In a similar way to cutting plane methods, we construct nonlinear Lipschitz cuts to build lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Shabbir Ahmed , Filipe Goulart Cabral , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa

In this paper, a double-pivot simplex method is proposed. Two upper bounds of iteration numbers are derived. Applying one of the bounds to some special linear programming (LP) problems, such as LP with a totally unimodular matrix and Markov…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Yaguang Yang

Packing rings into a minimum number of rectangles is an optimization problem which appears naturally in the logistics operations of the tube industry. It encompasses two major difficulties, namely the positioning of rings in rectangles and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Ambros Gleixner , Stephen Maher , Benjamin Müller , João Pedro Pedroso

Cutting plane methods are a fundamental approach for solving integer linear programs (ILPs). In each iteration of such methods, additional linear constraints (cuts) are introduced to the constraint set with the aim of excluding the previous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-28 Pol Puigdemont , Stratis Skoulakis , Grigorios Chrysos , Volkan Cevher

The Maximum Cut (MaxCut) problem is NP-Complete, and obtaining its optimal solution is NP-hard in the worst case. As a result, heuristic-based algorithms are commonly used, though their design often requires significant domain expertise.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Gabriel Maliakal , Ismail Alkhouri , Alvaro Velasquez , Adam M Alessio , Saiprasad Ravishankar

Cutting planes for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are typically computed in rounds by iteratively solving optimization problems, the so-called separation. Instead, we reframe the problem of finding good cutting planes as a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Didier Chételat , Andrea Lodi

This work recasts time-dependent optimal control problems governed by partial differential equations in a Dynamic Mode Decomposition with control framework. Indeed, since the numerical solution of such problems requires a lot of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Eleonora Donadini , Maria Strazzullo , Marco Tezzele , Gianluigi Rozza

The main outcomes of the paper are divided into two parts. First, we present a new dual for quadratic programs, in which, the dual variables are affine functions, and we prove strong duality. Since the new dual is intractable, we consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-31 Moslem Zamani

Starting from a classic financial optimization problem, we first propose a cutting plane algorithm for this problem. Then we use spectral decomposition to tranform the problem into an equivalent D.C. programming problem, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-27 Huang Yin

Cutting plane methods, particularly outer approximation, are a well-established approach for solving nonlinear discrete optimization problems without relaxing the integrality of decision variables. While powerful in theory, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Hòa T. Bùi , Alberto De Marchi

We study a class of integer bilevel programs with second-order cone constraints at the upper-level and a convex-quadratic objective function and linear constraints at the lower-level. We develop disjunctive cuts (DCs) to separate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Elisabeth Gaar , Jon Lee , Ivana Ljubić , Markus Sinnl , Kübra Tanınmış

By introducing a quadratic perturbation to the canonical dual of the maxcut problem, we transform the integer programming problem into a concave maximization problem over a convex positive domain under some circumstances, which can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-10-16 Xiaojun Zhou

We consider convex optimization problems formulated using dynamic programming equations. Such problems can be solved using the Dual Dynamic Programming algorithm combined with the Level 1 cut selection strategy or the Territory algorithm to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-26 Vincent Guigues

We consider the problem of decomposing a multivariate polynomial as the difference of two convex polynomials. We introduce algebraic techniques which reduce this task to linear, second order cone, and semidefinite programming. This allows…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Amir Ali Ahmadi , Georgina Hall