English
Related papers

Related papers: Boscia.jl: A review and tutorial

200 papers

We consider robust combinatorial optimization problems where the decision maker can react to a scenario by choosing from a finite set of $k$ solutions. This approach is appropriate for decision problems under uncertainty where the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-28 André Chassein , Marc Goerigk , Jannis Kurtz , Michael Poss

In this paper, we consider the network slicing (NS) problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and manage network resources to meet diverse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

In this paper, we mainly study one class of convex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problems (MINLPs) with non-differentiable data. By dropping the differentiability assumption, we substitute gradients with subgradients obtained from KKT…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Zhou Wei , M. Montaz Ali

In this work, we aim to compare different methods and formulations to solve a problem in air traffic management to global optimality. In particular, we focus on the aircraft deconfliction problem, where we are given n aircraft, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Renan Spencer Trindade , Claudia D'Ambrosio

We present a novel method for mixed-integer optimization problems with multivariate and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. In particular, we do not assume that the nonlinear constraints are explicitly given but that we can only evaluate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Julia Grübel , Richard Krug , Martin Schmidt , Winnifried Wollner

This paper presents a solver-friendly logic-based mixed-integer nonlinear programming model (LB-MINLP) to solve economic dispatch (ED) problems considering disjoint operating zones and valve-point effects. A simultaneous consideration of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-15 Mahdi Pourakbari-Kasmaei , Mahmud Fotuhi-Firuzabad , Jose Roberto Sanches Mantovani

This paper studies first-order algorithms for solving fully composite optimization problems over convex and compact sets. We leverage the structure of the objective by handling its differentiable and non-differentiable components…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Maria-Luiza Vladarean , Nikita Doikov , Martin Jaggi , Nicolas Flammarion

We address the challenge of efficiently solving parameterized sequences of convex Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) problems through warm-starting techniques. We focus on an outer approximation (OA) approach, for which we develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-01 Erik Tamm , Gabriele Eichfelder , Jan Kronqvist

We present an exact algorithm for mean-risk optimization subject to a budget constraint, where decision variables may be continuous or integer. The risk is measured by the covariance matrix and weighted by an arbitrary monotone function,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Christoph Buchheim , Marianna De Santis , Francesco Rinaldi , Long Trieu

We propose an enhanced zeroth-order stochastic Frank-Wolfe framework to address constrained finite-sum optimization problems, a structure prevalent in large-scale machine-learning applications. Our method introduces a novel double variance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Haishan Ye , Yinghui Huang , Hao Di , Xiangyu Chang

Data-driven inverse optimization for mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs), which seeks to learn an objective function and constraints consistent with observed decisions, is important for building accurate mathematical models in a variety…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Akira Kitaoka

An interior-point algorithm framework is proposed, analyzed, and tested for solving nonlinearly constrained continuous optimization problems. The main setting of interest is when the objective and constraint functions may be nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Frank E. Curtis , Xin Jiang , Qi Wang

We investigate a class of nonconvex optimization problems characterized by a feasible set consisting of level-bounded nonconvex regularizers, with a continuously differentiable objective. We propose a novel hybrid approach to tackle such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Xiangyu Yang , Hao Wang , Yichen Zhu , Xiao Wang

Regularized empirical risk minimization with constrained labels (in contrast to fixed labels) is a remarkably general abstraction of learning. For common loss and regularization functions, this optimization problem assumes the form of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Iaroslav Shcherbatyi , Bjoern Andres

High-level decision-making for dynamical systems often involves performance and safety specifications that are activated or deactivated depending on conditions related to the system state and commands. Such decision-making problems can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Andrea Ghezzi , Armin Nurkanović , Avishai Weiss , Moritz Diehl , Stefano Di Cairano

Meta learning with multiple objectives can be formulated as a Multi-Objective Bi-Level optimization Problem (MOBLP) where the upper-level subproblem is to solve several possible conflicting targets for the meta learner. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Feiyang Ye , Baijiong Lin , Zhixiong Yue , Pengxin Guo , Qiao Xiao , Yu Zhang

In multi-objective optimization, several potentially conflicting objective functions need to be optimized. Instead of one optimal solution, we look for the set of so called non-dominated solutions. An important subset is the set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Fritz Bökler , Levin Nemesch , Mirko H. Wagner

Generalizing both mixed-integer linear optimization and convex optimization, mixed-integer convex optimization possesses broad modeling power but has seen relatively few advances in general-purpose solvers in recent years. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-18 Miles Lubin , Emre Yamangil , Russell Bent , Juan Pablo Vielma

Applying nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) to systems with hybrid dynamics or discrete actions typically yields mixed-integer nonlinear programs (MINLPs), whose real-time solution remains a major challenge and limits the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Christopher Anthony Orrico , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Dinesh Krishnamoorthy

This monograph presents the main complexity theorems in convex optimization and their corresponding algorithms. Starting from the fundamental theory of black-box optimization, the material progresses towards recent advances in structural…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-17 Sébastien Bubeck