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A linear program with linear complementarity constraints (LPCC) requires the minimization of a linear objective over a set of linear constraints together with additional linear complementarity constraints. This class has emerged as a…

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Linear bilevel programs (linear BLPs) have been widely used in computational mathematics and optimization in several applications. Single-level reformulation for linear BLPs replaces the lower-level linear program with its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-18 Saeed Mohammadi , Mohammad Reza Hesamzadeh , Steven A. Gabriel , Dina Khastieva

This paper is concerned with the value function approach to multiobjective bilevel optimization which exploits a lower level frontier-type mapping in order to replace the hierarchical model of two interdependent multiobjective optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Daniel Hoff , Patrick Mehlitz

We study Frank-Wolfe (FW) methods for constrained bilevel optimization when the lower-level problem is solved only approximately, yielding biased and inexact hypergradients. We analyze inexact variants of vanilla FW as well as away-step and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Anthony Palmieri , Francesco Rinaldi , Saverio Salzo , Sara Venturini

In this paper, we study multistage stochastic mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MS-MINLP). This general class of problems encompasses, as important special cases, multistage stochastic convex optimization with non-Lipschitzian value…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-23 Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun

Our aim is to explain mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (MPECs), motivate them through applications, present the main equivalent formulations of equilibrium constraints, and summarize the basic existence theory for optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-04 Louis Shuo Wang

Bilevel optimization problems embed the optimality of a subproblem as a constraint of another optimization problem. We introduce the concept of near-optimality robustness for bilevel optimization, protecting the upper-level solution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Mathieu Besançon , Miguel F. Anjos , Luce Brotcorne

Bilevel programs model sequential decision interactions between two sets of players and find wide applications in real-world complex systems. In this paper, we consider a bilevel mixed-integer linear program with binary tender, wherein the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Bo Zhou , Ruiwei Jiang , Siqian Shen

Bilevel optimization has found successful applications in various machine learning problems, including hyper-parameter optimization, data cleaning, and meta-learning. However, its huge computational cost presents a significant challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Xiaoyu Wang , Rui Pan , Renjie Pi , Jipeng Zhang

This manuscript presents a framework for using multilevel quadrature formulae to compute the solution of optimal control problems constrained by random partial differential equations. Our approach consists in solving a sequence of optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Fabio Nobile , Tommaso Vanzan

Multilevel programming is the standard framework for modeling hierarchical decision-making. In this paper, we characterize the computational complexity of deciding the existence of feasible and optimal solutions, as well as computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Nagisa Sugishita , Margarida Carvalho

In this paper we begin by discussing the simple bilevel programming problem (SBP) and its extension the simple mathematical programming problem under equilibrium constraints (SMPEC). Here we first define both these problems and study their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-16 Stephan Dempe , Nguyen Dinh , Joydeep Dutta , Tanushree Pandit

We consider lexicographic bi-objective problems on Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), where we optimize one objective while guaranteeing optimality of another. We propose a two-stage technique for solving such problems when the objectives…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Damien Busatto-Gaston , Debraj Chakraborty , Anirban Majumdar , Sayan Mukherjee , Guillermo A. Pérez , Jean-François Raskin

Motivated by applications in wireless communications, this paper develops semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for some mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

This paper presents an algorithmic study and complexity analysis for solving distributionally robust multistage convex optimization (DR-MCO). We generalize the usual consecutive dual dynamic programming (DDP) algorithm to DR-MCO and propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shixuan Zhang , Xu Andy Sun

Robust Markov decision processes (RMDPs) extend standard Markov decision processes (MDPs) to account for uncertainty in the transition probabilities. RMDPs have an uncertainty set that defines a set of possible transition functions, each of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Marnix Suilen , Guillermo A. Pérez

We introduce the Morse parametric qualification condition for bilevel programming. Generic semi-algebraic functions are Morse parametric in a piecewise sense. Thus, bilevel programs with a Morse parametric lower level constitute a relevant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Jérôme Bolte , Quoc-Tung Le , Edouard Pauwels , Samuel Vaiter

This paper presents a canonical duality approach for solving a general topology optimization problem of nonlinear elastic structures. By using finite element method, this most challenging problem can be formulated as a mixed integer…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-06-29 David Yang Gao

An optimization problem considering AC power flow constraints and integer decision variables can usually be posed as a mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic program (MIQCQP) problem. In this paper, first, a set of valid linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-18 Qifeng Li

The Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model serves as a common abstraction of many modern large-scale data processing frameworks, and has been receiving increasingly more attention over the past few years, especially in the context of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Danupon Nanongkai , Michele Scquizzato