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This two-part paper is concerned with the problem of minimizing a linear objective function subject to a bilinear matrix inequality (BMI) constraint. In this part, we first consider a family of convex relaxations which transform BMI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Mohsen Kheirandishfard , Fariba Zohrizadeh , Ramtin Madani

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

We propose a new algorithm for solving multistage stochastic mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with complete continuous recourse. In a similar way to cutting plane methods, we construct nonlinear Lipschitz cuts to build lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-24 Shabbir Ahmed , Filipe Goulart Cabral , Bernardo Freitas Paulo da Costa

We study mixed-integer programming (MIP) relaxation techniques for the solution of non convex mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MIQCQPs). We present MIP relaxation methods for non convex continuous variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Benjamin Beach , Robert Burlacu , Andreas Bärmann , Lukas Hager , Robert Hildebrand

For over ten years, the constraint integer programming framework SCIP has been extended by capabilities for the solution of convex and nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs). With the recently published version 8.0, these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Ksenia Bestuzheva , Antonia Chmiela , Benjamin Müller , Felipe Serrano , Stefan Vigerske , Fabian Wegscheider

Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) has been identified as a suitable approach for finding an optimal solution to the behavior planning problem with low runtimes. Logical constraints and continuous equations are optimized alongside.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Klemens Esterle , Tobias Kessler , Alois Knoll

This paper focuses on the study of a mathematical program with equilibrium constraints, where the objective and the constraint functions are all polynomials. We present a method for finding its global minimizers and global minimum using a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-25 Liguo Jiao , Jae Hyoung Lee , Tien-Son Pham

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…

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

Outer-approximation-based branch-and-bound is a common algorithmic framework for solving MINLPs (mixed-integer nonlinear programs) to global optimality, with branching variable selection critically influencing overall performance. In modern…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Timo Berthold , Fritz Geis

In this paper, we develop a unified framework able to certify both exponential and subexponential convergence rates for a wide range of iterative first-order optimization algorithms. To this end, we construct a family of parameter-dependent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-26 Mahyar Fazlyab , Alejandro Ribeiro , Manfred Morari , Victor M. Preciado

We consider a parametric convex quadratic programming, CQP, relaxation for the quadratic knapsack problem, QKP. This relaxation maintains partial quadratic information from the original QKP by perturbing the objective function to obtain a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Marcia Fampa , Daniela Cristina Lubke , Fei Wang , Henry Wolkowicz

This work solves suboptimal mixed-integer quadratic programs recursively for feedback control of dynamical systems. The proposed framework leverages parametric mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) and hybrid systems theory to model a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Luke Fina , Christopher Petersen

In view of solving nonsmooth and nonconvex problems involving complex constraints (like standard NLP problems), we study general maximization-minimization procedures produced by families of strongly convex sub-problems. Using techniques…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-31 Jérôme Bolte , Edouard Pauwels

Mixed-integer convex quadratic programs with indicator variables (MIQP) encompass a wide range of applications, from statistical learning to energy, finance, and logistics. The outer approximation (OA) algorithm has been proven efficient in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Linchuan Wei , Simge Küçükyavuz

In this paper, we consider a bilevel polynomial optimization problem where the objective and the constraint functions of both the upper and the lower level problems are polynomials. We present methods for finding its global minimizers and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-14 V. Jeyakumar , J. B. Lasserre , G. Li , T. S. Pham

The analysis of infeasible subproblems plays an import role in solving mixed integer programs (MIPs) and is implemented in most major MIP solvers. There are two fundamentally different concepts to generate valid global constraints from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-24 Jakob Witzig , Timo Berthold , Stefan Heinz

Motivated by applications in wireless communications, this paper develops semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation techniques for some mixed binary quadratically constrained quadratic programs (MBQCQP) and analyzes their approximation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Zi Xu , Mingyi Hong , Zhi-Quan Luo

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

Determining the maximum demand a water distribution network can satisfy is crucial for ensuring reliable supply and planning network expansion. This problem, typically formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear program (MINLP), is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Sai Krishna Kanth Hari , Russell Bent