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Finding a feasible and prompt solution to the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is a prerequisite for efficient freight transportation, seamless logistics, and sustainable mobility. Traditional optimization methods reach their limits when…

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Computational design problems arise in a number of settings, from synthetic biology to computer architectures. In this paper, we aim to solve data-driven model-based optimization (MBO) problems, where the goal is to find a design input that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Brandon Trabucco , Aviral Kumar , Xinyang Geng , Sergey Levine

In recent years, deep learning has been connected with optimal control as a way to define a notion of a continuous underlying learning problem. In this view, neural networks can be interpreted as a discretization of a parametric Ordinary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Joubine Aghili , Olga Mula

Leveraging quantum computers for optimization problems holds promise across various application domains. Nevertheless, utilizing respective quantum computing solvers requires describing the optimization problem according to the Quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Deborah Volpe , Nils Quetschlich , Mariagrazia Graziano , Giovanna Turvani , Robert Wille

We introduce Neural Optimal Design of Experiments, a learning-based framework for optimal experimental design in inverse problems that avoids classical bilevel optimization and indirect sparsity regularization. NODE jointly trains a neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 John E. Darges , Babak Maboudi Afkham , Matthias Chung

We present an end-to-end framework for generating solutions to combinatorial optimization problems with unknown components using transformer-based sequence-to-sequence neural networks. Our framework learns directly from past solutions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Macarena Navarro , Willem-Jan van Hoeve , Karan Singh

Combinatorial optimization problems can be solved by heuristic algorithms such as simulated annealing (SA) which aims to find the optimal solution within a large search space through thermal fluctuations. The algorithm generates new…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-30 Shoummo Ahsan Khandoker , Jawaril Munshad Abedin , Mohamed Hibat-Allah

Over the past years, inverse problems in partial differential equations have garnered increasing interest among scientists and engineers. However, due to the lack of conventional stability, nonlinearity and non-convexity, these problems are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Feng Chen , Kegan Li , Yiran Meng , Zhiyi Xiao , Pengqi Wu

In this paper, we use composite optimization algorithms to solve sigmoid networks. We equivalently transfer the sigmoid networks to a convex composite optimization and propose the composite optimization algorithms based on the linearized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Huixiong Chen , Qi Ye

In this paper, the compact linearization approach originally proposed for binary quadratic programs with assignment constraints is generalized to such programs with arbitrary linear equations and inequalities that have positive coefficients…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-28 Sven Mallach

Constrained Optimization solution algorithms are restricted to point based solutions. In practice, single or multiple objectives must be satisfied, wherein both the objective function and constraints can be non-convex resulting in multiple…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Gurpreet Singh , Soumyajit Gupta , Matthew Lease

Combinatorial optimization (CO) on graphs is a classic topic that has been extensively studied across many scientific and industrial fields. Recently, solving CO problems on graphs through learning methods has attracted great attention.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Ruibin Zeng , Minglong Lei , Lingfeng Niu , Lan Cheng

Solving Constraint Optimization Problems (COPs) can be dramatically simplified by boundary estimation, that is, providing tight boundaries of cost functions. By feeding a supervised Machine Learning (ML) model with data composed of known…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Helge Spieker , Arnaud Gotlieb

Neural networks with physical governing equations as constraints have recently created a new trend in machine learning research. In line with such efforts, a deep learning model for one-dimensional consolidation where the governing equation…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Yared W. Bekele

Many computer vision problems are formulated as the optimization of a cost function. This approach faces two main challenges: (i) designing a cost function with a local optimum at an acceptable solution, and (ii) developing an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jayakorn Vongkulbhisal , Fernando De la Torre , João P. Costeira

Oftentimes, machine learning applications using neural networks involve solving discrete optimization problems, such as in pruning, parameter-isolation-based continual learning and training of binary networks. Still, these discrete problems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Hugo Silva , Martha White

This paper presents a novel convex optimization-based method for finding the globally optimal solutions of a class of mixed-integer non-convex optimal control problems. We consider problems with non-convex constraints that restrict the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Danylo Malyuta , Behcet Acikmese

Continual learning aims to learn multiple tasks sequentially while preserving prior knowledge, but faces the challenge of catastrophic forgetting when adapting to new tasks. Recently, approaches leveraging pre-trained models have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Quan Cheng , Yuanyu Wan , Lingyu Wu , Chenping Hou , Lijun Zhang

In many optimization problems in wireless communications, the expressions of objective function or constraints are hard or even impossible to derive, which makes the solutions difficult to find. In this paper, we propose a model-free…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Chengjian Sun , Dong Liu , Chenyang Yang

Combinatorial Optimisation problems arise in several application domains and are often formulated in terms of graphs. Many of these problems are NP-hard, but exact solutions are not always needed. Several heuristics have been developed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 David Ireland , Giovanni Montana
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