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Combinatorial sequential decision making problems are typically modeled as mixed integer linear programs (MILPs) and solved via branch and bound (B&B) algorithms. The inherent difficulty of modeling MILPs that accurately represent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Akhil S Anand , Elias Aarekol , Martin Mziray Dalseg , Magnus Stalhane , Sebastien Gros

Branch-and-Bound (B\&B) is the dominant exact solution method for Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP), yet its exponential time complexity poses significant challenges for large-scale instances. The growing capabilities of machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Abdelouahed Ben Mhamed , Assia Kamal-Idrissi , Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

Lagrangian relaxation stands among the most efficient approaches for solving a Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILP) with difficult constraints. Given any duals for these constraints, called Lagrangian Multipliers (LMs), it returns a bound…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Francesco Demelas , Joseph Le Roux , Mathieu Lacroix , Axel Parmentier

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is a powerful tool for addressing a wide range of real-world problems, but it lacks a clear structure for comparing instances. A reliable similarity metric could establish meaningful relationships…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Gwen Maudet , Grégoire Danoy

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

Biclustering techniques have been widely used to identify homogeneous subgroups within large data matrices, such as subsets of genes similarly expressed across subsets of patients. Mining a max-sum sub-matrix is a related but distinct…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-26 Vincent Branders , Pierre Schaus , Pierre Dupont

We consider integer programming problems with bounded general-integer variables belonging to the general class of network flow problems. For those, we computationally investigate the effect on mixed-integer linear programming (MIP) solvers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Pierre Bonami , Sanjeeb Dash , Anton Derkach , Andrea Lodi

In this study, we introduce an innovative deep learning framework that employs a transformer model to address the challenges of mixed-integer programs, specifically focusing on the Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem (CLSP). Our approach, to our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Joshua F. Cooper , Seung Jin Choi , I. Esra Buyuktahtakin

This article presents the first mixed-integer linear programming (MILP)-based iterative algorithm to solve factorable mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs) with bounded, differentiable periodic functions to global optimality with an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Christopher Montez , Sujeevraja Sanjeevi , Kaarthik Sundar

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are essential tools for solving planning and scheduling problems across critical industries such as construction, manufacturing, and logistics. However, their widespread adoption is limited by long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaoke Wang , Batuhan Altundas , Zhaoxin Li , Aaron Zhao , Matthew Gombolay

The use of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models to represent neural networks with Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) activations has become increasingly widespread in the last decade. This has enabled the use of MILP technology to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Fabian Badilla , Marcos Goycoolea , Gonzalo Muñoz , Thiago Serra

Storyline drawings are a popular visualization of interactions of a set of characters over time, e.g., to show participants of scenes in a book or movie. Characters are represented as $x$-monotone curves that converge vertically for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Alexander Dobler , Michael Jünger , Paul J. Jünger , Julian Meffert , Petra Mutzel , Martin Nöllenburg

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

Integer linear programming (ILP) is an elegant approach to solve linear optimization problems, naturally described using integer decision variables. Within the context of physics-inspired machine learning applied to chemistry, we…

This paper introduces $\Delta$-MILP, a powerful variant of the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimization framework to solve NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scheduling problem. This work is an extension of our original MILP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Thomas Claudet , Ryan Alimo , Edwin Goh , Mark Johnston , Ramtin Madani , Brian Wilson

For clustering of an undirected graph, this paper presents an exact algorithm for the maximization of modularity density, a more complicated criterion to overcome drawbacks of the well-known modularity. The problem can be interpreted as the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Keisuke Sato , Yoichi Izunaga

Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solvers expose hundreds of parameters that have an outsized impact on performance but are difficult to configure for all but expert users. Existing machine learning (ML) approaches require training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Yingxi Li , Anders Wikum , Madeleine Udell , Ellen Vitercik

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

We study integer linear programs (ILP) of the form $\min\{c^\top x\ \vert\ Ax=b,l\le x\le u,x\in\mathbb Z^n\}$ and analyze their parameterized complexity with respect to their distance to the generalized matching problem, following the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Alexandra Lassota , Koen Ligthart

This paper considers how to fuse Machine Learning (ML) and optimization to solve large-scale Supply Chain Planning (SCP) optimization problems. These problems can be formulated as MIP models which feature both integer (non-binary) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi , Reza Zandehshahvar , Pascal Van Hentenryck