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We present a new branch-and-bound type search method for mixed integer linear optimization problems based on the concept of offshoots (introduced in this paper). While similar to a classic branch-and-bound method, it allows for changing the…

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In this paper we consider general rank minimization problems with rank appearing in either objective function or constraint. We first establish that a class of special rank minimization problems has closed-form solutions. Using this result,…

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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to convert natural language descriptions into mathematical optimization formulations. Current evaluations often treat formulations as a whole, relying on coarse metrics like solution…

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Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted in mathematical optimization in scientific scenarios for their extensive knowledge and advanced reasoning capabilities. Existing methods mainly focus on utilizing LLMs to solve…

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In this paper we introduce an open-source software package written in C++ for efficiently finding solutions to quadratic programming problems with linear complementarity constraints. These problems arise in a wide range of applications in…

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In this paper, we study (noisy) linear systems, and their $\ell_0$-regularized optimization problems, coupled with general data fidelity terms. Recent approaches for solving this class of problems have proposed to consider non-convex exact…

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Graph-based machine learning has seen an increased interest over the last decade with many connections to other fields of applied mathematics. Learning based on partial differential equations, such as the phase-field Allen-Cahn equation,…

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This paper presents the first generic bi-objective binary linear branch-and-cut algorithm. Studying the impact of valid inequalities in solution and objective spaces, two cutting frameworks are proposed. The multi-point separation problem…

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This paper describes an approximate method for global optimization of polynomial programming problems with bounded variables. The method uses a reformulation and linearization technique to transform the original polynomial optimization…

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In compressed sensing, the l0-norm minimization of sparse signal reconstruction is NP-hard. Recent work shows that compared with the best convex relaxation (l1-norm), nonconvex penalties can better approximate the l0-norm and can…

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In this paper, we propose an efficient parallelization strategy for boundary element method (BEM) solvers that perform the electromagnetic analysis of structures with lossy conductors. The proposed solver is accelerated with the adaptive…

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A semidefinite programming (SDP) relaxation globally solves many optimal power flow (OPF) problems. For other OPF problems where the SDP relaxation only provides a lower bound on the objective value rather than the globally optimal decision…

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Large Language Models excel at code generation yet struggle with complex programming tasks that demand sophisticated reasoning. To bridge this gap, traditional process supervision relies on learned reward models requiring costly training…

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In many linear regression problems, including ill-posed inverse problems in image restoration, the data exhibit some sparse structures that can be used to regularize the inversion. To this end, a classical path is to use $\ell_{12}$ block…

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This paper introduces a novel algorithm for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems with multilinear interpolations of look-up tables. These problems arise when objective or constraints contain black-box functions only known at…

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We address the choice of the tuning parameter $\lambda$ in $\ell_1$-penalized M-estimation. Our main concern is models which are highly nonlinear, such as the Gaussian mixture model. The number of parameters $p$ is moreover large, possibly…

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We present a branch-and-bound algorithm for globally solving parabolic optimal control problems with binary switches that have bounded variation and possibly need to satisfy further combinatorial constraints. More precisely, for a given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Christoph Buchheim , Alexandra Grütering , Christian Meyer

While Branch and Bound based algorithms are a standard approach to solve single-objective (mixed-)integer optimization problems, multi-objective Branch and Bound methods are only rarely applied compared to the predominant objective space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Julius Bauß , Michael Stiglmayr

In this work we propose and analyze a weighted proper orthogonal decomposition method to solve elliptic partial differential equations depending on random input data, for stochastic problems that can be transformed into parametric systems.…

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