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In this paper, we provide an affirmative answer to the long-standing question: Are GPUs useful in solving linear programming? We present cuPDLP.jl, a GPU implementation of restarted primal-dual hybrid gradient (PDHG) for solving linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Haihao Lu , Jinwen Yang

We consider the embedding of piecewise-linear deep neural networks (ReLU networks) as surrogate models in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems. A MILP formulation of ReLU networks has recently been applied by many authors to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Bjarne Grimstad , Henrik Andersson

Mixed integer convex and nonlinear programs, MICP and MINLP, are expressive but require long solving times. Recent work that combines learning methods on solver heuristics has shown potential to overcome this issue allowing for applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

We study the continuous set covering problem on networks and propose several new MILP formulations and valid inequalities. In contrast to state-of-the-art formulations, the new formulations only use edges to index installed points, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Liding Xu , Claudia D'Ambrosio

Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solvers expose hundreds of parameters that have an outsized impact on performance but are difficult to configure for all but expert users. Existing machine learning (ML) approaches require training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Yingxi Li , Anders Wikum , Madeleine Udell , Ellen Vitercik

InvertibleNetworks.jl is a Julia package designed for the scalable implementation of normalizing flows, a method for density estimation and sampling in high-dimensional distributions. This package excels in memory efficiency by leveraging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Rafael Orozco , Philipp Witte , Mathias Louboutin , Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Bas Peters , Felix J. Herrmann

While mixed-integer linear programming and convex programming solvers have advanced significantly over the past several decades, solution technologies for general mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) have yet to reach the same level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi , Junyuan Qiu

Nested logic programs have recently been introduced in order to allow for arbitrarily nested formulas in the heads and the bodies of logic program rules under the answer sets semantics. Nested expressions can be formed using conjunction,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Pearce , Vladimir Sarsakov , Torsten Schaub , Hans Tompits , Stefan Woltran

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) has a broad range of applications in various areas of artificial intelligence. Yet in spite of recent advances, we still lack a thorough understanding of which structural restrictions make ILP tractable.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Pavel Dvořák , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Dušan Knop , Sebastian Ordyniak

The day-ahead electricity market clearing with nonconvex order types can be formulated as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP), but its LP relaxation may provide weak bounds, and exact solutions can become computationally intractable in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Shudian Zhao , Mohammad Reza Karimi Gharigh , Jan Kronqvist , Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh

This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We present an ideal mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation for a rectified linear unit (ReLU) appearing in a trained neural network. Our formulation requires a single binary variable and no additional continuous variables beyond the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Ross Anderson , Joey Huchette , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Juan Pablo Vielma

A standard approach to solving optimistic bilevel linear programs (BLPs) is to replace the lower-level problem with its Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions and reformulate the resulting complementarity constraints using auxiliary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Sergey S. Ketkov , Oleg A. Prokopyev

Lagrangian duality in mixed integer optimization is a useful framework for problems decomposition and for producing tight lower bounds to the optimal objective, but in contrast to the convex counterpart, it is generally unable to produce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-10 Robin Vujanic , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Paul Goulart , Sebastien Mariethoz , Manfred Morari

We present a new mixed-integer programming (MIP) approach for offline multiple change-point detection by casting the problem as a globally optimal piecewise linear (PWL) fitting problem. Our main contribution is a family of strengthened MIP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Apoorva Narula , Santanu S. Dey , Yao Xie

Indefinite quadratic programs (QPs) are known to be very difficult to be solved to global optimality, so are linear programs with linear complementarity constraints. Treating the former as a subclass of the latter, this paper presents a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Xinyao Zhang , Shaoning Han , Jong-Shi Pang

Answer set programming is a declarative programming paradigm oriented towards difficult combinatorial search problems. A fundamental task in answer set programming is to compute stable models, i.e., solutions of logic programs. Answer set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Remi Brochenin , Yuliya Lierler , Marco Maratea

In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Proprietary closed-source software is still the norm in advanced process control. Transparency and reproducibility are key aspects of scientific research. Free and open-source toolkit can contribute to the development, sharing and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Francis Gagnon , Alex Thivierge , André Desbiens , Fredrik Bagge Carlson

DiffEqFlux.jl is a library for fusing neural networks and differential equations. In this work we describe differential equations from the viewpoint of data science and discuss the complementary nature between machine learning models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Chris Rackauckas , Mike Innes , Yingbo Ma , Jesse Bettencourt , Lyndon White , Vaibhav Dixit