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Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Giovanni Amendola , Carmine Dodaro , Marco Maratea

Integer programming (IP) is central to many combinatorial optimization tasks but remains challenging due to its NP-hard nature. A practical way to improve IP solvers is to manually design acceleration cuts, i.e., inequalities that speed up…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Milad Yazdani , Mahdi Mostajabdaveh , Samin Aref , Zirui Zhou

In this paper, we consider a class of mixed integer programming problems (MIPs) whose objective functions are DC functions, that is, functions representable in terms of the difference of two convex functions. These MIPs contain a very wide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-03 Takayuki Okuno , Yoshiko T. Ikebe

In-context learning (ICL) can significantly enhance the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), with the key lying in the selection and ordering of demonstration examples. Previous methods typically relied on simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xuetao Ma , Wenbin Jiang , Hua Huang

In-context learning (ICL) has proven highly effective across diverse large language model (LLM) tasks. However, its potential for enhancing tasks that demand step-by-step logical deduction, such as mathematical reasoning, remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ang Gao , Changshuo Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Deyang Li , Minjun Zhao , Fangchao Liu , Xinyu Zhang

Finding the most probable (MAP) model in SRL frameworks such as Markov logic and Problog can, in principle, be solved by encoding the problem as a `grounded-out' mixed integer program (MIP). However, useful first-order structure disappears…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-14 James Cussens

The last milestone achievement for the roundoff-error-free solution of general mixed integer programs over the rational numbers was a hybrid-precision branch-and-bound algorithm published by Cook, Koch, Steffy, and Wolter in 2013. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-25 Leon Eifler , Ambros Gleixner

Semi-continuous decision variables arise naturally in many real-world applications. They are defined to take either value zero or any value within a specified range, and occur mainly to prevent small nonzero values in the solution. One…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Katrin Halbig , Alexander Hoen , Ambros Gleixner , Jakob Witzig , Dieter Weninger

This paper presents a solver-friendly logic-based mixed-integer nonlinear programming model (LB-MINLP) to solve economic dispatch (ED) problems considering disjoint operating zones and valve-point effects. A simultaneous consideration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei , Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad , Jose Roberto Sanches Mantovani

The SCIP Optimization Suite provides a collection of software packages for mathematical optimization, centered around the constraint integer programming (CIP) framework SCIP. This report discusses the enhancements and extensions included in…

We propose ImitSAT, a branching policy for conflict-driven clause learning (CDCL) solvers based on imitation learning for the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT). Unlike previous methods that predict instance-level signals to improve CDCL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zewei Zhang , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu , Jun Chen , Xiangyu Xu

Symmetries are intrinsic to many combinatorial problems including Boolean Satisfiability (SAT) and Constraint Programming (CP). In SAT, the identification of symmetry breaking predicates (SBPs) is a well-known, often effective, technique…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Joao Marques-Silva , Ines Lynce , Vasco Manquinho

Risk assessment tools in healthcare commonly employ point-based scoring systems that map patients to ordinal risk categories via thresholds. While electronic health record (EHR) data presents opportunities for data-driven optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Emmett Springer , Erik H. Hoyer , Daniel L. Young , Kimia Ghobadi

A variant of the well-known Assignment Problem is studied in this paper, where pairs of assignments are conflicting, and cannot be selected at the same time. This configures a set of hard constraints. The problem, which models real…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

In project scheduling under processing times uncertainty, the Anchor-Robust Project Scheduling Problem is to find a baseline schedule of bounded makespan and a max-weight subset of jobs whose starting times are guaranteed. The problem was…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Pascale Bendotti , Philippe Chrétienne , Pierre Fouilhoux , Adèle Pass-Lanneau

It is well-known that by adding integrality constraints to the semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation of the max-cut problem, the resulting integer semidefinite program is an exact formulation of the problem. In this paper we show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Frank de Meijer , Renata Sotirov

Storyline drawings are a popular visualization of interactions of a set of characters over time, e.g., to show participants of scenes in a book or movie. Characters are represented as $x$-monotone curves that converge vertically for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Alexander Dobler , Michael Jünger , Paul J. Jünger , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Martin Nöllenburg

Promptly porting patches from a source codebase to its variants (e.g., forks and branches) is essential for mitigating propagated defects and vulnerabilities. Recent studies have explored automated patch porting to reduce manual effort and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shengyi Pan , Zhongxin Liu , Jiayuan Zhou , Xing Hu , Xin Xia , Shanping Li

The Semi-Implicit Root solver (SIR) is an iterative method for globally convergent solution of systems of nonlinear equations. Since publication, SIR has proven robustness for a great variety of problems. We here present MATLAB and MAPLE…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-14 Jan Scheffel , Kristoffer Lindvall

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) is a well-established framework for computer-aided molecular design (CAMD). By precisely encoding the molecular space and score functions, e.g., a graph neural network, the molecular design problem is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shiqiang Zhang , Christian W. Feldmann , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Juan S. Campos , Ruth Misener