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We present a linear cutting-plane relaxation approach that rapidly proves tight lower bounds for the Alternating Current Optimal Power Flow Problem (ACOPF). Our method leverages outer-envelope linear cuts for well-known second-order cone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Daniel Bienstock , Matias Villagra

The Interior-Point Methods are a class for solving linear programming problems that rely upon the solution of linear systems. At each iteration, it becomes important to determine how to solve these linear systems when the constraint matrix…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Catalina J. Villalba , Aurelio R. L. Oliveira

Iterative solvers for large-scale linear systems such as Krylov subspace methods can diverge when the linear system is ill-conditioned, thus significantly reducing the applicability of these iterative methods in practice for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Vasileios Kalantzis , Mark S. Squillante , Chai Wah Wu

In this contribution, we present a novel approach for solving the obstacle problem for (linear) conservation laws. Usually, given a conservation law with an initial datum, the solution is uniquely determined. How to incorporate obstacles,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Paulo Amorim , Alexander Keimer , Lukas Pflug , Jakob Rodestock

In this paper, we describe a comprehensive algorithmic framework for solving mixed integer bilevel linear optimization problems (MIBLPs) using a generalized branch-and-cut approach. The framework presented merges features from existing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Sahar Tahernejad , Ted K. Ralphs , Scott T. DeNegre

A variant of the well-known Set Covering Problem is studied in this paper, where subsets of a collection have to be selected, and pairwise conflicts among subsets of items exist. The selection of each subset has a cost, and the inclusion of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Roberto Montemanni , Derek H. Smith

We present a new insight into the systematic generation of minimal solvers in computer vision, which leads to smaller and faster solvers. Many minimal problem formulations are coupled sets of linear and polynomial equations where image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Zuzana Kukelova , Joe Kileel , Bernd Sturmfels , Tomas Pajdla

We consider the problem of efficiently solving large-scale linear least squares problems that have one or more linear constraints that must be satisfied exactly. Whilst some classical approaches are theoretically well founded, they can face…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Jennifer Scott , Miroslav Tuma

A class of smoothing methods is proposed for solving mathematical programs with equimibrium constraints. We introduce new and very simple regularizations of the complementarity constraints. Some estimate distance to optimal solution and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Mounir Haddou

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and its potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the LP problem. In this paper, we make a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi N. , Paul H. Siegel

Detectability of failures of linear programming (LP) decoding and the potential for improvement by adding new constraints motivate the use of an adaptive approach in selecting the constraints for the underlying LP problem. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Mohammad H. Taghavi , Paul H. Siegel

This work addresses inverse linear optimization where the goal is to infer the unknown cost vector of a linear program. Specifically, we consider the data-driven setting in which the available data are noisy observations of optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang

We introduce and compare new compression approaches to obtain regularized solutions of large linear systems which are commonly encountered in large scale inverse problems. We first describe how to approximate matrix vector operations with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-12 Sergey Voronin , Dylan Mikesell , Guust Nolet

A novel algorithm, called semantic line combination detector (SLCD), to find an optimal combination of semantic lines is proposed in this paper. It processes all lines in each line combination at once to assess the overall harmony of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jinwon Ko , Dongkwon Jin , Chang-Su Kim

When drawing graphs whose edges and nodes contain text or graphics, such informa tion needs to be displayed without overlaps, either as part of the initial layout or as a post-processing step. The core problem in removing overlaps lies in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Yifan Hu

Mathematical optimization is ubiquitous in modern applications. However, in practice, we often need to use nonlinear optimization models, for which the existing optimization tools such as Cplex or Gurobi may not be directly applicable and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Jian Cao , Liyong Lin , Lele Li

When predictive models are used to support complex and important decisions, the ability to explain a model's reasoning can increase trust, expose hidden biases, and reduce vulnerability to adversarial attacks. However, attempts at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Dimitris Bertsimas , Arthur Delarue , Patrick Jaillet , Sebastien Martin

We consider the existence and multiplicity of solutions for a class of quasi-linear Schr\"{o}dinger equations which include the modified nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations. A new perturbation approach is used to treat the sub-cubic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Chen Huang , Jianjun Zhang , Xuexiu Zhong

In this paper, by using the Brunovsky normal form, we provide a reformulation of the problem consisting in finding the actuator design which minimizes the controllability cost for finite-dimensional linear systems with scalar controls. Such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-13 Borjan Geshkovski , Enrique Zuazua

Math word problems (MWPs) require analyzing text descriptions and generating mathematical equations to derive solutions. Existing works focus on solving MWPs with two types of solvers: tree-based solver and large language model (LLM)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jie Yao , Zihao Zhou , Qiufeng Wang