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We study a two-stage mixed-integer linear program (MILP) with more than 1 million binary variables in the second stage. We develop a two-level approach by constructing a semi-coarse model (coarsened with respect to variables) and a coarse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Fu Lin , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

With the advances in customized hardware for quantum annealing and digital/CMOS Annealing, Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) models have received growing attention in the optimization literature. Motivated by an existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Oksana Pichugina , Yingcong Tan , Christopher Beck

In this work, we develop an adaptive, multivariate partitioning algorithm for solving mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLP) with multi-linear terms to global optimality. This iterative algorithm primarily exploits the advantages of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-05 Harsha Nagarajan , Mowen Lu , Site Wang , Russell Bent , Kaarthik Sundar

Benders decomposition with adaptive oracles was proposed to solve large-scale optimisation problems with a column bounded block-diagonal structure, where subproblems differ on the right-hand side and cost coefficients. Adaptive Benders…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-09 Hongyu Zhang , Nicolò Mazzi , Ken McKinnon , Rodrigo Garcia Nava , Asgeir Tomasgard

In this paper, we introduce a mixed integer quadratic formulation for the congested variant of the partial set covering location problem, which involves determining a subset of facility locations to open and efficiently allocating customers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Alice Calamita , Ivana Ljubić , Laura Palagi

Mixed-integer optimization problems arise in a wide range of control applications. Benders decomposition is a widely used algorithm for solving such problems by decomposing them into a mixed-integer master problem and a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Bernard T. Agyeman , Zhe Li , Ilias Mitrai , Prodromos Daoutidis

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework and a suite of highly efficient, parallelizable algorithms for solving the large-scale multicommodity flow (MCF) feasibility problem. We reframe the classical constraint-satisfaction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Pengfei Liu

This paper is a follow-up to a previous work where we defined and generated the set of all possible compromises of multilevel multiobjective linear programming problems (ML-MOLPP). In this paper, we introduce a new algorithm to solve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Mustapha Kaci , Sonia Radjef

Learning classifier systems (LCSs) originated from cognitive-science research but migrated such that LCS became powerful classification techniques. Modern LCSs can be used to extract building blocks of knowledge to solve more difficult…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Isidro M. Alvarez , Trung B. Nguyen , Will N. Browne , Mengjie Zhang

We present a novel method for mixed-integer optimization problems with multivariate and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. In particular, we do not assume that the nonlinear constraints are explicitly given but that we can only evaluate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Julia Grübel , Richard Krug , Martin Schmidt , Winnifried Wollner

Scenario-based optimization problems can be solved via Benders decomposition, which separates first-stage (master problem) decisions from second-stage (subproblem) recourse actions and iteratively refines the master problem with Benders…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Tim Donkiewicz

Unit commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in the day-ahead electricity market, and it is critical to solve UC problems efficiently. Mathematical optimization techniques like dynamic programming, Lagrangian relaxation, and mixed-integer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Jingtao Qin , Yuanqi Gao , Mikhail Bragin , Nanpeng Yu

We present an integrated prediction-optimization (PredOpt) framework to efficiently solve sequential decision-making problems by predicting the values of binary decision variables in an optimal solution. We address the key issues of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Dogacan Yilmaz , İ. Esra Büyüktahtakın

Embedded systems have proliferated in various consumer and industrial applications with the evolution of Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things. These systems are subjected to stringent constraints so that embedded software must…

High penetration of renewable resources results in a power system with lower inertia and higher frequency sensitivity to power imbalances. Such systems are becoming increasingly susceptible to frequency collapse during extreme disturbances.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-11 Waheed Owonikoko , Mazen Elsaadany , Amritanshu Pandey , Mads R. Almassalkhi

Security-Constrained Unit Commitment (SCUC) is a fundamental problem in power systems and electricity markets. In practical settings, SCUC is repeatedly solved via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming, sometimes multiple times per day, with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alinson S. Xavier , Feng Qiu , Shabbir Ahmed

This paper proposes an algorithm to efficiently solve multistage stochastic programs with block separable recourse where each recourse problem is a multistage stochastic program with stage-wise independent uncertainty. The algorithm first…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Nicolò Mazzi , Ken Mckinnon , Hongyu Zhang

This paper studies the joint optimization of edge node activation and resource pricing in edge computing, where an edge computing platform provides heterogeneous resources to accommodate multiple services with diverse preferences. We cast…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Duong Thuy Anh Nguyen , Tarannum Nisha , Ni Trieu , Duong Tung Nguyen

Adaptive multilevel finite element methods are developed and analyzed for certain elliptic systems arising in geometric analysis and general relativity. This class of nonlinear elliptic systems of tensor equations on manifolds is first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-12 Michael Holst

This paper presents key enhancements to our previous work~\cite{naghmouchi2024mixed} on a hybrid Benders decomposition (HBD) framework for solving mixed integer linear programs (MILPs). In our approach, the master problem is reformulated as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Anna Joliot , M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley Coelho