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Mixed-integer programming (MIP) extends linear programming by incorporating both continuous and integer decision variables, making it widely used in production planning, logistics scheduling, and resource allocation. However, MIP remains…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyu Zhang , Di Huang , Yue Liu , Shuo Wang , Zhenyu Pu , Zhiyuan Liu

This paper presents the integration of constraint propagation and dual proof analysis in an exact, roundoff-error-free MIP solver. The authors employ safe rounding methods to ensure that all results remain provably correct, while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Sander Borst , Leon Eifler , Ambros Gleixner

Presolving has become an essential component of modern MIP solvers both in terms of computational performance and numerical robustness. In this paper, we present PaPILO, a new C++ header-only library that provides a large set of presolving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Ambros Gleixner , Leona Gottwald , Alexander Hoen

A standard tool for modelling real-world optimisation problems is mixed-integer programming (MIP). However, for many of these problems, information about the relationships between variables is either incomplete or highly complex, making it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-24 Mark Turner , Antonia Chmiela , Thorsten Koch , Michael Winkler

Influence diagrams represent decision-making problems with interdependencies between random events, decisions, and consequences. Traditionally, they have been solved using algorithms that determine the expected utility-maximizing decision…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Topias Terho , Fabricio Oliveira , Ahti Salo , Pedro Munari

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) has been extensively applied in areas requiring mathematical solvers to address complex instances within tight time constraints. However, as the problem scale increases, the complexity of model formulation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Teng Wang , Wing-Yin Yu , Ruifeng She , Wenhan Yang , Taijie Chen , Jianping Zhang

Integer linear programming (ILP) models a wide range of practical combinatorial optimization problems and significantly impacts industry and management sectors. This work proposes new characterizations of ILP with the concept of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-04 Peng Lin , Shaowei Cai , Mengchuan Zou , Jinkun Lin

In this project, we aimed to improve the runtime of Minisat, a Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) solver that solves the Propositional Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) problem. We first used a logistic regression model to predict the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Haoze Wu

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is essential for modeling complex decision-making problems but faces challenges in computational tractability and requires expert formulation. Current deep learning approaches for MILP focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sirui Li , Janardhan Kulkarni , Ishai Menache , Cathy Wu , Beibin Li

Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MIPs) are powerful and flexible tools for modeling a wide range of real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Predict-and-Search methods operate by using a predictive model to estimate promising variable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Junyang Cai , El Mehdi Er Raqabi , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Bistra Dilkina

The state-of-the-art in optimal control from timed temporal logic specifications, including Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) and Signal Temporal Logic (STL), is based on Mixed-Integer Convex Programming (MICP). The standard MICP approach is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Vince Kurtz , Hai Lin

Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) is arguably the archetypical NP-complete decision problem. Progress in SAT solving algorithms has motivated an ever increasing number of practical applications in recent years. However, many practical uses of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-17 Joao Marques-Silva , Mikolas Janota

This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…

Numerous real-world decision-making problems can be formulated and solved using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models. However, the transformation of these problems into MILP models heavily relies on expertise in operations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Qingyang Li , Lele Zhang , Vicky Mak-Hau

In this paper, we explore model-based approach to training robust and interpretable binarized regression models for multiclass classification tasks using Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP). Our MIP model balances the optimization of prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sanjana Tule , Nhi Ha Lan Le , Buser Say

This work introduces a framework to address the computational complexity inherent in Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) models by harnessing the potential of deep learning. By employing deep learning, we construct problem-specific heuristics…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-13 Niki Triantafyllou , Maria M. Papathanasiou

The IDP knowledge base system currently uses MiniSAT(ID) as its backend Constraint Programming (CP) solver. A few similar systems have used a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solver as backend. However, so far little is known about when the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-09-06 San Pham , Jo Devriendt , Maurice Bruynooghe , Patrick De Causmaecker

We transform join ordering into a mixed integer linear program (MILP). This allows to address query optimization by mature MILP solver implementations that have evolved over decades and steadily improved their performance. They offer…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

Cutting planes (cuts) are crucial for solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. Advanced MILP solvers typically rely on manually designed heuristic algorithms for cut selection, which require much expert experience and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Xuefeng Zhang , Liangyu Chen , Zhengfeng Yang , Zhenbing Zeng

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) plays a crucial role in artificial intelligence, biochemistry, finance, cryptography, etc. Notwithstanding popular for decades, the researches of MILP solvers are still limited by the resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Hao Wang , Yu Pan , Wei Cui