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Many operations related optimization problems involve repeatedly solving similar mixed integer linear programming (MILP) instances with the same constraint matrix but differing objective coefficients and right-hand-side values. The goal of…
We characterize the maximum controlled invariant (MCI) set for discrete- as well as continuous-time nonlinear dynamical systems as the solution of an infinite-dimensional linear programming problem. For systems with polynomial dynamics and…
We consider the inverse optimization problem associated with the polynomial program f^*=\min \{f(x): x\in K\}$ and a given current feasible solution $y\in K$. We provide a systematic numerical scheme to compute an inverse optimal solution.…
A polynomial-time algorithm for 0-1 integer linear programmings has been proposed. This method continues the classic idea of solving ILP with its LP relaxation. The innovation is that every constraint in the LP is reconstructed into a…
Inverse problems arise in various scientific and engineering applications, necessitating robust numerical methods for their solution. In this work, we consider the effectiveness of Krylov subspace iterative methods, including GMRES, QMR,…
We study the integrality gap of convex mixed-integer programs, that is, the difference between the optimal value of such a problem and the optimal value of its continuous relaxation. We study classes of convex sets whose associated…
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The worst-case robust adaptive beamforming problem for general-rank signal model is considered. Its formulation is to maximize the worst-case signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR), incorporating a positive semidefinite constraint…
The reconstruction of an unknown quantity from noisy measurements is a mathematical problem relevant in most applied sciences, for example, in medical imaging, radar inverse scattering, or astronomy. This underlying mathematical problem is…
A linear programming (LP) based framework is presented for obtaining converses for finite blocklength lossy joint source-channel coding problems. The framework applies for any loss criterion, generalizes certain previously known converses,…
In this paper we will be concerned with a class of packing and covering problems which includes Vertex Cover and Independent Set. Typically, one can write an LP relaxation and then round the solution. In this paper, we explain why the…
We address the Interval Data Min-Max Regret 0-1 Integer Linear Programming problem (MMR-ILP), a variant of the 0-1 Integer Linear Programming problem where the objective function coefficients are uncertain. We solve MMR-ILP using a…
While most approaches to the problem of Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) focus on estimating a reward function that best explains an expert agent's policy or demonstrated behavior on a control task, it is often the case that such…
We study the general integer programming (IP) problem of optimizing a separable convex function over the integer points of a polytope: $\min \{f(\mathbf{x}) \mid A\mathbf{x} = \mathbf{b}, \, \mathbf{l} \leq \mathbf{x} \leq \mathbf{u}, \,…
The non-convex quadratic orogramming problem and the non-monotone linear complementarity problem are NP-complete problems. In this paper we first show taht the inverse problem of determinning a KKT point of the non-convex quadratic…
The present paper deals with the data-driven design of regularizers in the form of artificial neural networks, for solving certain inverse problems formulated as optimal control problems. These regularizers aim at improving accuracy,…
We propose a solution approach for the problem (P) of minimizing an unconstrained binary polynomial optimization problem. We call this method PQCR (Polynomial Quadratic Convex Reformulation). The resolution is based on a 3-phase method. The…
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