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We propose new optimal estimators for the Lipschitz frontier of a set of points. They are defined as kernel estimators being sufficiently regular, covering all the points and whose associated support is of smallest surface. The estimators…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-03-31 Stéphane Girard , Anatoli Iouditski , Alexander Nazin

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

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), a widely used modeling framework for combinatorial optimization, are central to many scientific and engineering applications, yet remains computationally challenging at scale. Recent advances in deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Peixin Huang , Yaoxin Wu , Yining Ma , Cathy Wu , Wen Song , Wei Zhang

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are highly flexible and powerful tools for modeling and solving complex real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, machine learning (ML)-guided approaches have demonstrated significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Junyang Cai , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina

Mixed-integer optimization is at the core of many online decision-making systems that demand frequent updates of decisions in real time. However, due to their combinatorial nature, mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) can be difficult to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Shivi Dixit , Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang

In this paper, we propose a new mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model ontology and a novel constraint typology of MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Bahadorreza Ofoghi , Vicky Mak , John Yearwood

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

Semi-lagrangian schemes for discretization of the dynamic programming principle are based on a time discretization projected on a state-space grid. The use of a structured grid makes this approach not feasible for high-dimensional problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Alessandro Alla , Hugo Oliveira , Gabriele Santin

In this work, we deal with the problem of computing a comprehensive front of efficient solutions in multi-objective portfolio optimization problems in presence of sparsity constraints. We start the discussion pointing out some weaknesses of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Arturo Annunziata , Matteo Lapucci , Pieluigi Mansueto , Davide Pucci

When solving multi-objective programs, the number of objectives essentially determines the computing time. This can even lead to practically unsolvable problems. Consequently, it is worthwhile to reduce the number of objectives without…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-29 Andreas Löhne , Pascal Zillmann

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

Solving (mixed) integer linear programs, (M)ILPs for short, is a fundamental optimization task. While hard in general, recent years have brought about vast progress for solving structurally restricted, (non-mixed) ILPs: $n$-fold, tree-fold,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Cornelius Brand , Martin Koutecký , Sebastian Ordyniak

Planning in hybrid systems with both discrete and continuous control variables is important for dealing with real-world applications such as extra-planetary exploration and multi-vehicle transportation systems. Meanwhile, generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jingkai Chen , Brian Williams , Chuchu Fan

A novel two-phase molecule inference framework, mol-infer, has recently been developed to infer chemical graphs with prescribed abstract structures and desired property values through mixed integer linear programming (MILP) under the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-29 Jianshen Zhu , Raveena Rai , Taiyo Sohkawa , Naveed Ahmed Azam , Kazuya Haraguchi , Liang Zhao , Tatsuya Akutsu

We study the mixed-integer optimization (MIO) approach to feature subset selection in nonlinear kernel support vector machines (SVMs) for binary classification. First proposed for linear regression in the 1970s, this approach has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ryuta Tamura , Yuichi Takano , Ryuhei Miyashiro

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

We consider the problem of finding an n-agent joint-policy for the optimal finite-horizon control of a decentralized Pomdp (Dec-Pomdp). This is a problem of very high complexity (NEXP-hard in n >= 2). In this paper, we propose a new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-03-28 Raghav Aras , Alain Dutech , François Charpillet

Many convex optimization problems with important applications in machine learning are formulated as empirical risk minimization (ERM). There are several examples: linear and logistic regression, LASSO, kernel regression, quantile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Song Bian , Zhao Song , Junze Yin

Linear interpolation between fine-tuned checkpoints has been shown to trace the Pareto front between competing objectives, but whether extrapolative weight averaging can extend such frontiers to new checkpoints useful at inference time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kunhao Zheng , Pierre Chambon , Juliette Decugis , Jonas Gehring , Taco Cohen , Benjamin Negrevergne , Gabriel Synnaeve

Value iteration is a fundamental algorithm for solving Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). It computes the maximal $n$-step payoff by iterating $n$ times a recurrence equation which is naturally associated to the MDP. At the same time, value…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Nikhil Balaji , Stefan Kiefer , Petr Novotný , Guillermo A. Pérez , Mahsa Shirmohammadi