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This paper considers an inexact primal-dual algorithm for semi-infinite programming (SIP) for which it provides general error bounds. To implement the dual variable update, we create a new prox function for nonnegative measures which turns…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Bo Wei , William B. Haskell , Sixiang Zhao

Discrete-time robust optimal control problems generally take a min-max structure over continuous variable spaces, which can be difficult to solve in practice. In this paper, we extend the class of such problems that can be solved through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Jad Wehbeh , Eric C. Kerrigan

We present a coordinate ascent method for a class of semidefinite programming problems that arise in non-convex quadratic integer optimization. These semidefinite programs are characterized by a small total number of active constraints and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Christoph Buchheim , Maribel Montenegro , Angelika Wiegele

This paper surveys the trend of leveraging machine learning to solve mixed integer programming (MIP) problems. Theoretically, MIP is an NP-hard problem, and most of the combinatorial optimization (CO) problems can be formulated as the MIP.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jiayi Zhang , Chang Liu , Junchi Yan , Xijun Li , Hui-Ling Zhen , Mingxuan Yuan

We propose a hierarchical architecture for efficiently computing high-quality solutions to structured mixed-integer programs (MIPs). To reduce computational effort, our approach decouples the original problem into a higher level problem and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Stefan Clarke , Bartolomeo Stellato

Propagation of linear constraints has become a crucial sub-routine in modern Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) solvers. In practice, iterative algorithms with tolerance-based stopping criteria are used to avoid problems with slow or infinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-25 Boro Sofranac , Ambros Gleixner , Sebastian Pokutta

In this paper, we study a bivariate distributionally robust optimization problem with mean-covariance ambiguity set and half-space support. Under a conventional type of objective function widely adopted in inventory management, option…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-12 Jiayi Guo , Hao Qiu , Zhen Wang , Zizhuo Wang , Xinxin Zhang

Maritime Inventory Routing Problem (MIRP) plays a crucial role in the integration of global maritime commerce levels. However, there are still no well-established methodologies capable of efficiently solving large MIRP instances or their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Nathalie Sanghikian , Rafael Meirelles , Rafael Martinelli , Anand Subramanian

This paper presents a first-order distributed algorithm for solving a convex semi-infinite program (SIP) over a time-varying network. In this setting, the objective function associated with the optimization problem is a summation of a set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Ashwin Aravind , Debasish Chatterjee , Ashish Cherukuri

This paper discusses the computational resolution and presents numerical results for solving affine combinations of Heaviside composite optimization problems (abbreviated as A-HSCOPs) by a progressive integer programming (abbreviated as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ke Zheng , Junyi Liu , Yurui Wang , Jong-Shi Pang

Conventional stochastic control methods have several limitations. They focus on optimizing the average performance and, in some cases, performance variability; however, their problem settings still require an explicit specification of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Yuma Shida , Yuji Ito

Mean-variance portfolio optimization problems often involve separable nonconvex terms, including penalties on capital gains, integer share constraints, and minimum position and trade sizes. We propose a heuristic algorithm for such problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Nicholas Moehle , Jack Gindi , Stephen Boyd , Mykel Kochenderfer

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

Primal heuristics play a crucial role in quickly finding feasible solutions for NP-hard integer linear programming (ILP). Although $\textit{end-to-end learning}$-based primal heuristics (E2EPH) have recently been proposed, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Tae-Hoon Lee , Min-Soo Kim

Production systems use heuristics because they are faster or scale better than their optimal counterparts. Yet, practitioners are often unaware of the performance gap between a heuristic and the optimum or between two heuristics in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Pooria Namyar , Behnaz Arzani , Ryan Beckett , Santiago Segarra , Himanshu Raj , Umesh Krishnaswamy , Ramesh Govindan , Srikanth Kandula

Hydro unit commitment is the problem of maximizing water use efficiency while minimizing start-up costs in the daily operation of multiple hydro plants, subject to constraints on short-term reservoir operation, and long-term goals. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-11-17 M. Paredes , L. S. A. Martins

Bilevel optimization is a mathematical modeling formulation for hierarchical systems and two-player interactions, with wide-ranging applications in environmental, energy, and control engineering. Despite its utility, the mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Meng-Lin Tsai , Parth Brahmbhatt , Styliani Avraamidou

Current state-of-the-art solvers for mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems are designed to perform well on a wide range of problems. However, for many real-world use cases, problem instances come from a narrow distribution. This has…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Charly Robinson La Rocca , Emma Frejinger , Jean-François Cordeau

In this paper, we consider an approach to the parallelizing of the algorithms realizing the modified probability changigng method with adaptation and partial rollback procedure for constrained pseudo-Boolean optimization problems. Existing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

We present two novel applications of symmetries for mixed-integer linear programming. First we propose two variants of a new heuristic to improve the objective value of a feasible solution using symmetries. These heuristics can use either…

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