English
Related papers

Related papers: Limeade: Let integer molecular encoding aid

200 papers

Mixed Integer programs (MIPs) are typically solved by the Branch-and-Bound algorithm. Recently, Learning to imitate fast approximations of the expert strong branching heuristic has gained attention due to its success in reducing the running…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Sahil Manchanda , Sayan Ranu

In this paper we provide a computation algorithm to get a global solution for the maximum rank correlation estimator using the mixed integer programming (MIP) approach. We construct a new constrained optimization problem by transforming all…

Econometrics · Economics 2022-08-11 Youngki Shin , Zvezdomir Todorov

We propose a scheme for solving mixed-integer programming problems in which the optimization problem is translated to a ground-state preparation problem on a set of bosonic quantum field modes (qumodes). We perform numerical demonstrations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 Farhad Khosravi , Artur Scherer , Pooya Ronagh

Mixed-integer optimisation problems can be computationally challenging. Here, we introduce and analyse two efficient algorithms with a specific sequential design that are aimed at dealing with sampled problems within this class. At each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Mohammadreza Chamanbaz , Roland Bouffanais

Many problems of interest for cyber-physical network systems can be formulated as Mixed-Integer Linear Programs in which the constraints are distributed among the agents. In this paper we propose a distributed algorithmic framework to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Andrea Testa , Alessandro Rucco , Giuseppe Notarstefano

By exploiting the correlation between the structure and the solution of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP), Machine Learning (ML) has become a promising method for solving large-scale MILP problems. Existing ML-based MILP solvers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yixuan Li , Can Chen , Jiajun Li , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

Mixed integer predictive control deals with optimizing integer and real control variables over a receding horizon. The mixed integer nature of controls might be a cause of intractability for instances of larger dimensions. To tackle this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-03-16 Dario Bauso

In distributed computing systems, reducing the communication load during the data shuffling phase is a critical challenge, as excessive inter-node transmissions are a major performance bottleneck. One promising approach to alleviate this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Heekang Song , Wan Choi

Recent advances in mathematical programming have made Mixed Integer Optimization a competitive alternative to popular regularization methods for selecting features in regression problems. The approach exhibits unquestionable foundational…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-01 Ana Kenney , Francesca Chiaromonte , Giovanni Felici

Solving (mixed) integer linear programs, (M)ILPs for short, is a fundamental optimization task. While hard in general, recent years have brought about vast progress for solving structurally restricted, (non-mixed) ILPs: $n$-fold, tree-fold,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Cornelius Brand , Martin Koutecký , Sebastian Ordyniak

Oil products are the main source of energy in the world today. Distribution of these products is one of the main issues in the industry. The main tools for this work are pipelines, and along with it, railways, shipping and roads are also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Seyyed Hamed Moghimi , Jafar Habibi , Hamid Jahad , Mohammad Amin Fazli

Discrete black-box optimization problems are challenging for model-based optimization (MBO) algorithms, such as Bayesian optimization, due to the size of the search space and the need to satisfy combinatorial constraints. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Theodore Papalexopoulos , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Ross Anderson , Juan Pablo Vielma , David Belanger

A covering integer program (CIP) is a mathematical program of the form: min {c^T x : Ax >= 1, 0 <= x <= u, x integer}, where A is an m x n matrix, and c and u are n-dimensional vectors, all having non-negative entries. In the online…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Anupam Gupta , Viswanath Nagarajan

In recent years, numerous vision and learning tasks have been (re)formulated as nonconvex and nonsmooth programmings(NNPs). Although some algorithms have been proposed for particular problems, designing fast and flexible optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Yiyang Wang , Risheng Liu , Xiaoliang Song , Zhixun Su

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

Path Integral Molecular Dynamics (PIMD) is a well established simulation technique to compute exact equilibrium properties for a quantum system using classical trajectories in an extended phase space. Standard PIMD simulations are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-20 Britta A. Johnson , Siyu Bu , Christopher J. Mundy , Nandini Ananth

Accounting for nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) can significantly alter material properties at finite temperatures. Atomic modeling using the path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) method can fully account for such effects, but requires…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-21 A. A. Solovykh , N. E. Rybin , I. S. Novikov , A. V. Shapeev

In this letter, we consider the Multi-Robot Efficient Search Path Planning (MESPP) problem, where a team of robots is deployed in a graph-represented environment to capture a moving target within a given deadline. We prove this problem to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Beatriz A. Asfora , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

Model reduction, which aims to learn a simpler model of the original mixed integer linear programming (MILP), can solve large-scale MILP problems much faster. Most existing model reduction methods are based on variable reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiajun Li , Yixuan Li , Ran Hou , Yu Ding , Shisi Guan , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

The goal of survey design is often to minimize the errors associated with inference: the total of bias and variance. Random surveys are common because they allow the use of theoretically unbiased estimators. In practice however, such…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-14 Connie Okasaki , Sándor F. Tóth , Andrew M. Berdahl