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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

Maximum likelihood estimation of mixture proportions has a long history, and continues to play an important role in modern statistics, including in development of nonparametric empirical Bayes methods. Maximum likelihood of mixture…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-10 Youngseok Kim , Peter Carbonetto , Matthew Stephens , Mihai Anitescu

This paper presents an efficient Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) formulation for systems with discrete control inputs under dwell time constraints. By viewing such systems as a switched system, the problem is decomposed into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Ramin Abbasi-Esfeden , Armin Nurkanovic , Moritz Diehl , Panagiotis Patrinos , Jan Swevers

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

This paper presents a method to certify the computational complexity of a standard Branch and Bound method for solving Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) problems defined as instances of a multi-parametric MIQP. Beyond previous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-06 Shamisa Shoja , Daniel Arnström , Daniel Axehill

We present a novel relaxation framework for general mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) grounded in computational geometry. Our approach constructs polyhedral relaxations by convexifying finite sets of strategically chosen points,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Haisheng Zhu , Taotao He , Mohit Tawarmalani

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

While mixed-integer linear programming and convex programming solvers have advanced significantly over the past several decades, solution technologies for general mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) have yet to reach the same level of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Danial Davarnia , Mohammadreza Kiaghadi , Junyuan Qiu

We propose an extended variant of the reformulation and decomposition algorithm for solving a special class of mixed-integer bilevel linear programs (MIBLPs) where continuous and integer variables are involved in both upper- and lower-level…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Dajun Yue , Jiyao Gao , Bo Zeng , Fengqi You

Our study is motivated by the solution of Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming (MINLP) problems with separable non-convex functions via the Sequential Convex MINLP technique, an iterative method whose main characteristic is that of solving,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Renan Spencer Trindade , Claudia D'Ambrosio , Antonio Frangioni , Claudio Gentile

We study the ternary quadratic problem (TQP), a quadratic optimization problem with linear constraints where the variables take values in $\{0, \pm 1\}$. While semidefinite programming (SDP) techniques are well established for $\{0,1\}$-…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Frank de Meijer , Veronica Piccialli , Renata Sotirov , Antonio M. Sudoso

Mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) arise in domains such as energy systems, process engineering, and transportation, and are notoriously difficult to solve at scale due to the interplay of discrete decisions and nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bo Tang , Elias B. Khalil , Ján Drgoňa

In this paper, we propose a new sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for solving degenerate nonlinear semidefinite programs (NSDPs), in which we produce iteration points by solving a sequence of stabilized quadratic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-09 Yuya Yamakawa , Takayuki Okuno

Solving real-time quadratic programming (QP) is a ubiquitous task in control engineering, such as in model predictive control and control barrier function-based QP. In such real-time scenarios, certifying that the employed QP algorithm can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Liang Wu , Wei Xiao , Richard D. Braatz

In this paper, we present a stabilized sequential quadratic semidefinite programming (SQSDP) method for nonlinear semidefinite programming (NSDP) problems and prove its local convergence. The stabilized SQSDP method is originally developed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yuya Yamakawa

In this paper we present a novel numerical method for computing local minimizers of twice smooth differentiable non-linear programming (NLP) problems. So far all algorithms for NLP are based on either of the following three principles:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 Martin Neuenhofen

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

In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm utilizing the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in conjunction with sequential constraint tightening to address mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Decades of advances in mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) and recent development in mixed-integer second-order-cone programming (MISOCP) have translated very mildly to progresses in global solving nonconvex mixed-integer quadratically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Hongbo Dong , Yunqi Luo