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With the increasing penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs), it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain the supply-demand balance of power systems by solely relying on the generation side. To combat the volatility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-25 Tian Liu , Bo Sun , Danny H. K. Tsang

As AI models expand in size, it has become increasingly challenging to deploy federated learning (FL) on resource-constrained edge devices. To tackle this issue, split federated learning (SFL) has emerged as an FL framework with reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zheng Lin , Wei Wei , Zhe Chen , Chan-Tong Lam , Xianhao Chen , Yue Gao , Jun Luo

With its privacy preservation and communication efficiency, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a learning framework that suits beyond 5G and towards 6G systems. This work looks into a future scenario in which there are multiple groups…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Tung T. Vu , Hien Quoc Ngo , Duy T. Ngo , Minh N Dao , Erik G. Larsson

Decarbonisation is driving dramatic growth in renewable power generation. This increases uncertainty in the load to be served by power plants and makes their efficient scheduling, known as the unit commitment (UC) problem, more difficult.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Cormac O'Malley , Patrick de Mars , Luis Badesa , Goran Strbac

Real-time hierarchical energy-sharing markets are promising to coordinate large numbers of prosumers. Still, most existing clearing methods rely on linearized or DC power-flow models and do not explicitly handle reactive power or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Tonghua Liu , Yifan Su , Zhaojian Wang , Feng Liu

Meshless methods approximate operators in a specific node as a weighted sum of values in its neighbours. Higher order approximations of derivatives provide more accurate solutions with better convergence characteristics, but they come at…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jon Vehovar , Miha Rot , Gregor Kosec

The Benders' decomposition algorithm is a technique in mathematical programming for complex mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems with a particular block structure. The strategy of Benders' decomposition can be described as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Zhongqi Zhao , Lei Fan , Zhu Han

Mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) arise in domains such as energy systems, process engineering, and transportation, and are notoriously difficult to solve at scale due to the interplay of discrete decisions and nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Bo Tang , Elias B. Khalil , Ján Drgoňa

Mean-field Langevin dynamics (MLFD) is a class of interacting particle methods that tackle convex optimization over probability measures on a manifold, which are scalable, versatile, and enjoy computational guarantees. However, some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Guillaume Wang , Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini , Lénaïc Chizat

We present in this paper a hybrid, Multi-Level Monte Carlo (MLMC) method for solving the neutral particle transport equation. MLMC methods, originally developed to solve parametric integration problems, work by using a cheap, low fidelity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Vincent N. Novellino , Dmitriy Y. Anistratov

Recent changes in the fuel mix for electricity generation and, in particular, the increase in Gas-Fueled Power Plants (GFPP), have created significant interdependencies between the electrical power and natural gas transmission systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-11 Geunyeong Byeon , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Model predictive control (MPC) has been widely used in many fields, often in hierarchical architectures that combine controllers and decision-making layers at different levels. However, when such architectures are cast as bilevel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Ryuta Moriyasu , Carmen Amo Alonso , Marco Pavone

LSMR is a widely recognized method for solving least squares problems via the double QR decomposition. Various preconditioning techniques have been explored to improve its efficiency. One issue that arises when implementing these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Mei Yang , Gul Karaduman , Ren-Cang Li

We investigate the sequential competitive facility location problem (SCFLP) under partially binary rule where two companies sequentially open a limited number of facilities to maximize their market shares, requiring customers to patronize,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Yu-Qi Guo , Yan-Ru Wang , Wei-Kun Chen , Yu-Hong Dai

The implementation of electricity markets based on locational marginal pricing in a multi-settlement process has allowed wholesale competition, with pricing mechanisms that incentivize the optimal allocation of generation, transmission, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Veronica R. Bosquezfoti , Andrew L. Liu

We tackle the problem of graph partitioning for image segmentation using correlation clustering (CC), which we treat as an integer linear program (ILP). We reformulate optimization in the ILP so as to admit efficient optimization via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Margret Keuper , Jovita Lukasik , Maneesh Singh , Julian Yarkony

Space mission planning and spacecraft design are tightly coupled and need to be considered together for optimal performance; however, this integrated optimization problem results in a large-scale Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Masafumi Isaji , Yuji Takubo , Koki Ho

The Mixed-Shelves Picker Routing Problem (MSPRP) is a fundamental challenge in warehouse logistics, where pickers must navigate a mixed-shelves environment to retrieve SKUs efficiently. Traditional heuristics and optimization-based…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Laurin Luttmann , Lin Xie

Bilevel programming can be used to formulate many problems in the field of power systems, such as strategic bidding. However, common reformulations of bilevel problems to mixed-integer linear programs make solving such problems hard, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Eléa Prat , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

In practical engineering and optimization, solving multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems typically involves scalarization methods that convert a multi-objective problem into a single-objective one. While effective, these methods often…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Ilgam Latypov , Yuriy Dorn