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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

In this paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Leveraging machine learning (ML) to predict an initial solution for mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) has gained considerable popularity in recent years. These methods predict a solution and fix a subset of variables to reduce the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoyang Liu , Jie Wang , Zijie Geng , Xijun Li , Yuxuan Zong , Fangzhou Zhu , Jianye Hao , Feng Wu

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) plays an important role across a range of scientific disciplines and within areas of strategic importance to society. The MILP problems, however, suffer from combinatorial complexity. Because of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-06 Mikhail A. Bragin , Emily L. Tucker

In this letter, we consider the Multi-Robot Efficient Search Path Planning (MESPP) problem, where a team of robots is deployed in a graph-represented environment to capture a moving target within a given deadline. We prove this problem to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Beatriz A. Asfora , Jacopo Banfi , Mark Campbell

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a pillar of mathematical optimization that offers a powerful modeling language for a wide range of applications. During the past decades, enormous algorithmic progress has been made in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Lara Scavuzzo , Karen Aardal , Andrea Lodi , Neil Yorke-Smith

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) is one of the most widely used modeling techniques for combinatorial optimization problems. In many applications, a similar MIP model is solved on a regular basis, maintaining remarkable similarities in model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Jian-Ya Ding , Chao Zhang , Lei Shen , Shengyin Li , Bing Wang , Yinghui Xu , Le Song

This paper presents a novel approach to the joint optimization of job scheduling and data allocation in grid computing environments. We formulate this joint optimization problem as a mixed integer quadratically constrained program. To…

In this paper we deal with a network of agents seeking to solve in a distributed way Mixed-Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with a coupling constraint (modeling a limited shared resource) and local constraints. MILPs are NP-hard problems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers rely on an array of sophisticated heuristics developed with decades of research to solve large-scale MIP instances encountered in practice. Machine learning offers to automatically construct better…

Mixed-integer optimization is at the core of many online decision-making systems that demand frequent updates of decisions in real time. However, due to their combinatorial nature, mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) can be difficult to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Shivi Dixit , Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang

This paper focuses on the problem of supplying the workstations of assembly lines with components during the production process. For that specific problem, this paper presents a Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) that aims at minimizing…

Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP), particularly Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) and Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP), has found extensive applications in domains such as portfolio optimization and network flow control, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Zayn Wang

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is widely used in fields such as scheduling, logistics, and planning. Enhancing the performance of MILP solvers, particularly learning-based solvers, requires substantial amounts of high-quality data.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Tianxing Yang , Huigen Ye , Hua Xu

Cutting planes (cuts) are crucial for solving Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems. Advanced MILP solvers typically rely on manually designed heuristic algorithms for cut selection, which require much expert experience and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Xuefeng Zhang , Liangyu Chen , Zhengfeng Yang , Zhenbing Zeng

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is one of the most popular mathematical formulations with numerous applications. In practice, improving the performance of MILP solvers often requires a large amount of high-quality data, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Haoyang Liu , Jie Wang , Wanbo Zhang , Zijie Geng , Yufei Kuang , Xijun Li , Bin Li , Yongdong Zhang , Feng Wu

Model reduction, which aims to learn a simpler model of the original mixed integer linear programming (MILP), can solve large-scale MILP problems much faster. Most existing model reduction methods are based on variable reduction, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jiajun Li , Yixuan Li , Ran Hou , Yu Ding , Shisi Guan , Jiahui Duan , Xiongwei Han , Tao Zhong , Vincent Chau , Weiwei Wu , Wanyuan Wang

Over the past few decades, neuroscience experiments have become increasingly complex and naturalistic. Experimental design has in turn become more challenging, as experiments must conform to an ever-increasing diversity of design…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-07 Storm Slivkoff , Jack L. Gallant

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) plays a crucial role in artificial intelligence, biochemistry, finance, cryptography, etc. Notwithstanding popular for decades, the researches of MILP solvers are still limited by the resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Hao Wang , Yu Pan , Wei Cui