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We introduce a novel variant of cutting production planning problems named Integrated Cutting and Packing Heterogeneous Precast Beams Multiperiod Production Planning (ICP-HPBMPP). We propose an integer linear programming model for the…

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Mixed-integer programming (MIP) has emerged as a powerful framework for learning optimal decision trees. Yet, existing MIP approaches for regression tasks are either limited to purely binary features or become computationally intractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Cristobal Heredia , Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores , Kaixun Hua

In this paper, we propose an efficient numerical approach for solving a specific type of quartic inhomogeneous polynomial optimization problem inspired by practical applications. The primary contribution of this work lies in establishing an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Haibin Chen , Yixuan Chen , Chunyan Wang , Qi Fan

We transform join ordering into a mixed integer linear program (MILP). This allows to address query optimization by mature MILP solver implementations that have evolved over decades and steadily improved their performance. They offer…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Immanuel Trummer , Christoph Koch

We present a global optimization approach for solving the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) clustering problem under the Gaussian mixture model.Our approach can accommodate side constraints and it preserves the combinatorial structure of the MAP…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-18 Patrick Flaherty , Pitchaya Wiratchotisatian , Ji Ah Lee , Zhou Tang , Andrew C. Trapp

This paper investigates the problem of hybrid precoder and combiner design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems operating in millimeter-wave (mmWave) bands. We propose a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Wenfei Liu , Ming Li , Xiaowen Tian , Zihuan Wang , Qian Liu

Deep brain stimulation (DBS) programming remains a complex and time-consuming process, requiring manual selection of stimulation parameters to achieve therapeutic effects while minimizing adverse side-effects. This study explores…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Anna Franziska Frigge , Alexander Medvedev

Fluence map optimization for intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning can be formulated as a large-scale inverse problem with competing objectives and constraints associated with the tumors and organs-at-risk. Unfortunately,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-17 Kelsey Maass , Minsun Kim , Aleksandr Aravkin

Multicriteria optimization problems occur in many real life applications, for example in cancer radiotherapy treatment and in particular in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). In this work we focus on optimization problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Esther Bonacker , Aviv Gibali , Karl-Heinz Küfer , and Philipp Süss

In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm utilizing the proximal alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) in conjunction with sequential constraint tightening to address mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Viet-Anh Le , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Probing in mixed-integer programming (MIP) is a technique of temporarily fixing variables to discover implications that are useful to branch-and-cut solvers. Such fixing is typically performed one variable at a time -- this paper develops…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Yongzheng Dai , Chen Chen

Objective: We propose a semiautomatic pipeline for radiation therapy treatment planning, combining ideas from machine learning-automated planning and multicriteria optimization (MCO). Approach: Using knowledge extracted from historically…

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Treatment planning uncertainties are typically managed using margin-based or robust optimization. Margin-based methods expand the clinical target volume (CTV) to a planning target volume, generally unsuited for proton therapy. Robust…

Due to the very narrow beam used in millimeter wave communication (mmWave), beam alignment (BA) is a critical issue. In this work, we investigate the issue of mmWave BA and present a novel beam alignment scheme on the basis of a machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-29 Songjie Yang , Baojuan Liu , Zhiqin Hong , Zhongpei Zhang

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is widely employed for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. In practice, similar MILP instances with only coefficient variations are routinely solved, and machine learning (ML) algorithms are…

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In this paper we generalize the Interior Point-Proximal Method of Multipliers (IP-PMM) presented in [An Interior Point-Proximal Method of Multipliers for Convex Quadratic Programming, Computational Optimization and Applications, 78,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-09 Spyridon Pougkakiotis , Jacek Gondzio

We present a novel application of Tensor Network methods in cancer treatment as a potential tool to solve the dose optimization problem in radiotherapy. In particular, the Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) technique - that allows…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Samuele Cavinato , Timo Felser , Marco Fusella , Marta Paiusco , Simone Montangero

In this paper, we investigate a practical structure of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-based double spatial scattering modulation (DSSM) for millimeter-wave (mmWave) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. A suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xusheng Zhu , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Jun Li , Nan Cheng , Fangjiong Chen , Changle Li

In hybrid Model Predictive Control (MPC), a Mixed-Integer Quadratic Program (MIQP) is solved at each sampling time to compute the optimal control action. Although these optimizations are generally very demanding, in MPC we expect…

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