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Combinatorial optimization problems are prevalent across a wide variety of domains. These problems are often nuanced, their optimal solutions might not be efficiently obtainable, and they may require lots of time and compute resources to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Akshay Sathiya , Rohit Pandey

We introduce log-log convex programs, which are optimization problems with positive variables that become convex when the variables, objective functions, and constraint functions are replaced with their logs, which we refer to as a log-log…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-22 Akshay Agrawal , Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

The task of generating code solutions for a given programming problem can benefit from the use of pre-trained language models such as Codex, which can produce multiple diverse samples. However, a major challenge for this task is to select…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Bei Chen , Fengji Zhang , Anh Nguyen , Daoguang Zan , Zeqi Lin , Jian-Guang Lou , Weizhu Chen

As the demand for computational power grows, optimizing code through compilers becomes increasingly crucial. In this context, we focus on fully automatic code optimization techniques that automate the process of selecting and applying code…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yacine Hakimi , Riyadh Baghdadi

Constrained optimization problems arise frequently in classical machine learning. There exist frameworks addressing constrained optimization, for instance, CVXPY and GENO. However, in contrast to deep learning frameworks, GPU support is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sören Laue , Mark Blacher , Joachim Giesen

We propose a new architecture for optimization modeling frameworks in which solvers are expressed as computation graphs in a framework like TensorFlow rather than as standalone programs built on a low-level linear algebra interface. Our new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Matt Wytock , Steven Diamond , Felix Heide , Stephen Boyd

This paper investigates the relation between sequential convex programming (SCP) as, e.g., defined in [24] and DC (difference of two convex functions) programming. We first present an SCP algorithm for solving nonlinear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-08-01 Tran Dinh Quoc , Moritz Diehl

Developing models that can automatically generate detailed code explanation can greatly benefit software maintenance and programming education. However, existing code-to-text generation models often produce only high-level summaries of code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Haotian Cui , Chenglong Wang , Junjie Huang , Jeevana Priya Inala , Todd Mytkowicz , Bo Wang , Jianfeng Gao , Nan Duan

We introduce a code generator that converts unoptimized C++ code operating on sparse data into vectorized and parallel CPU or GPU kernels. Our approach unrolls the computation into a massive expression graph, performs redundant expression…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Philipp Herholz , Xuan Tang , Teseo Schneider , Shoaib Kamil , Daniele Panozzo , Olga Sorkine-Hornung

Programming robots is a complicated and time-consuming task. A robot is essentially a real-time, distributed embedded system. Often, control and communication paths within the system are tightly coupled to the actual physical configuration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Thomas Buchmann , Johannes Baumgartl , Dominik Henrich , Bernhard Westfechtel

A multi-convex optimization problem is one in which the variables can be partitioned into sets over which the problem is convex when the other variables are fixed. Multi-convex problems are generally solved approximately using variations on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Xinyue Shen , Steven Diamond , Madeleine Udell , Yuantao Gu , Stephen Boyd

We develop an algorithmic theory of convex optimization over discrete sets. Using a combination of algebraic and geometric tools we are able to provide polynomial time algorithms for solving broad classes of convex combinatorial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-01-24 Shmuel Onn

This paper provides necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for abstract constrained mathematical programming problems in locally convex spaces under new qualification conditions. Our approach exploits the geometrical properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Rafael Correa , Marco A. López , Pedro Pérez-Aros

A polyhedral convex set optimization problem is given by a set-valued objective mapping from the $n$-dimensional to the $q$-dimensional Euclidean space whose graph is a convex polyhedron. This problem can be seen as the most elementary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Niklas Hey , Andreas Löhne

Program synthesis with language models (LMs) has unlocked a large set of reasoning abilities; code-tuned LMs have proven adept at generating programs that solve a wide variety of algorithmic symbolic manipulation tasks (e.g. word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Nathaniel Weir , Muhammad Khalifa , Linlu Qiu , Orion Weller , Peter Clark

Writing programs for heterogeneous platforms optimized for high performance is hard since this requires the code to be tuned at a low level with architecture-specific optimizations that are most times based on fundamentally differing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-31 M. Akif Özkan , Burak Ok , Bo Qiao , Jürgen Teich , Frank Hannig

Processor manufacturers build increasingly specialized processors to mitigate the effects of the power wall to deliver improved performance. Currently, database engines are manually optimized for each processor: A costly and error prone…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Sebastian Breß , Bastian Köcher , Henning Funke , Tilmann Rabl , Volker Markl

The paper considers the minimization of a separable convex function subject to linear ascending constraints. The problem arises as the core optimization in several resource allocation scenarios, and is a special case of an optimization of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Akhil P T , Rajesh Sundaresan

In this paper we present a new algorithmic realization of a projection-based scheme for general convex constrained optimization problem. The general idea is to transform the original optimization problem to a sequence of feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Aviv Gibali , Karl-Heinz Küfer , Daniel Reem , Philipp Süss

There is a growing need for computational tools to automatically design and verify autonomous systems, especially complex robotic systems involving perception, planning, control, and hardware in the autonomy stack. Differentiable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Charles Dawson , Chuchu Fan