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Mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) are extensively used to model practical problems such as planning and scheduling. A prominent method for solving MILPs is large neighborhood search (LNS), which iteratively seeks improved solutions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Wenbo Liu , Akang Wang , Wenguo Yang , Qingjiang Shi

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

In many operational contexts, solutions to NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems, modeled by means of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP), may become infeasible due to unpredictable disruptions. Typically, reoptimizing by solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Mathieu Lerouge , Andrea Lodi , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci , Filippo Focacci

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP) are well known to be NP-hard (Non-deterministic Polynomial-time hard) problems in general. Even though pure optimization-based methods, such as constraint generation, are guaranteed to provide an optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

We propose a machine learning approach for quickly solving Mixed Integer Programs (MIP) by learning to prioritize a set of decision variables, which we call pseudo-backdoors, for branching that results in faster solution times.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Aaron Ferber , Jialin Song , Bistra Dilkina , Yisong Yue

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has been a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization. Conventional MILP solving mainly relies on carefully designed heuristics embedded in the branch-and-bound framework. Driven by the strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Siyuan Li , Yifan Yu , Zhihao Zhang , Mengjing Chen , Fangzhou Zhu , Tao Zhong , Peng Liu , Jianye Hao

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

Embedding deep neural networks (NNs) into mixed-integer programs (MIPs) is attractive for decision making with learned constraints, yet state-of-the-art monolithic linearisations blow up in size and quickly become intractable. In this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Shuli Zeng , Sijia Zhang , Feng Wu , Shaojie Tang , Xiang-Yang Li

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is widely employed for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. In practice, similar MILP instances with only coefficient variations are routinely solved, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Qingyu Han , Linxin Yang , Qian Chen , Xiang Zhou , Dong Zhang , Akang Wang , Ruoyu Sun , Xiaodong Luo

We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Pierre Bonami , Sanjeeb Dash , Anton Derkach , Andrea Lodi

In this paper, we propose two exact distributed algorithms to solve mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with multiple agents where data privacy is important for the agents. A key challenge is that, because of the non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Mohammad Javad Feizollahi

Recent work has shown potential in using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers to optimize certain aspects of neural networks (NNs). However the intriguing approach of training NNs with MIP solvers is under-explored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tómas Thorbjarnarson , Neil Yorke-Smith

This paper presents a new hybrid classical-quantum approach to solve Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) using neutral atom quantum computations. We apply Benders decomposition (BD) to segment MILPs into a master problem (MP) and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley da Silva Coelho

Model reduction, which aims to learn a simpler model of the original mixed integer linear programming (MILP), can solve large-scale MILP problems much faster. Most existing model reduction methods are based on variable reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiajun Li , Yixuan Li , Ran Hou , Yu Ding , Shisi Guan , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

Lagrangian relaxation stands among the most efficient approaches for solving a Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP) with difficult constraints. Given any duals for these constraints, called Lagrangian Multipliers (LMs), it returns a bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Francesco Demelas , Joseph Le Roux , Mathieu Lacroix , Axel Parmentier

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

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

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Xuan Lin , Gabriel I. Fernandez , Dennis W. Hong

Recently various optimization problems, such as Mixed Integer Linear Programming Problems (MILPs), have undergone comprehensive investigation, leveraging the capabilities of machine learning. This work focuses on learning-based solutions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhentao Tan , Yadong Mu