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Integer programming (IP) is a general optimization framework widely applicable to a variety of unstructured and structured problems arising in, e.g., scheduling, production planning, and graph optimization. As IP models many provably hard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Yunhao Tang , Shipra Agrawal , Yuri Faenza

Oil products are the main source of energy in the world today. Distribution of these products is one of the main issues in the industry. The main tools for this work are pipelines, and along with it, railways, shipping and roads are also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-03 Seyyed Hamed Moghimi , Jafar Habibi , Hamid Jahad , Mohammad Amin Fazli

We introduce a unified framework for the study of multilevel mixed integer linear optimization problems and multistage stochastic mixed integer linear optimization problems with recourse. The framework highlights the common mathematical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Suresh Bolusani , Stefano Coniglio , Ted. K. Ralphs , Sahar Tahernejad

Designing faster algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problems is highly desired across numerous practical domains, as a vast array of complex real-world challenges can be effectively modeled as MILP formulations.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Ruizhi Liu , Liming Xu , Xulin Huang , Jingyan Sui , Shizhe Ding , Boyang Xia , Chungong Yu , Dongbo Bu

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) provides a powerful framework for optimization problems, with Branch-and-Cut (B&C) being the predominant algorithm in state-of-the-art solvers. The efficiency of B&C critically depends on heuristic policies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Hongyu Cheng , Amitabh Basu

In mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers, cutting planes are essential for Branch-and-Cut (B&C) algorithms as they reduce the search space and accelerate the solving process. Traditional methods rely on hard-coded heuristics for cut plane…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shuli Zeng , Sijia Zhang , Shaoang Li , Feng Wu , Xiang-Yang Li

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) is a well-established framework for computer-aided molecular design (CAMD). By precisely encoding the molecular space and score functions, e.g., a graph neural network, the molecular design problem is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Shiqiang Zhang , Christian W. Feldmann , Frederik Sandfort , Miriam Mathea , Juan S. Campos , Ruth Misener

In this work, we address a task allocation problem for human multi-robot settings. Given a set of tasks to perform, we formulate a general Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem aiming at minimizing the overall execution time while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Martina Lippi , Alessandro Marino

The paper considers the problem of scheduling software modules on a multi-core processor, taking into account the limited bandwidth of the data bus and the precedence constraints. Two problem formulations with different levels of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Anton V. Eremeev , Anton A. Malakhov , Maxim A. Sakhno , Maria Y. Sosnovskaya

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

We analyze integer linear programs which we obtain after discretizing two-dimensional subproblems arising from a trust-region algorithm for mixed integer optimal control problems with total variation regularization. We discuss NP-hardness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Paul Manns , Marvin Severitt

Finding optimal join orders is among the most crucial steps to be performed by query optimisers. Though extensively studied in data management research, the problem remains far from solved: While query optimisers rely on exhaustive search…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Manuel Schönberger , Immanuel Trummer , Wolfgang Mauerer

Binarized Neural Networks (BNNs) have recently attracted significant interest due to their computational efficiency. Concurrently, it has been shown that neural networks may be overly sensitive to "attacks" - tiny adversarial changes in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Elias B. Khalil , Amrita Gupta , Bistra Dilkina

Quantified Integer Programming (QIP) bridges multiple domains by extending Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) to incorporate general integer variables and linear constraints while also generalizing Integer Programming through variable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Michael Hartisch , Leroy Chew

In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for the network slicing problem which attempts to map multiple customized virtual network requests (also called services) to a common shared network infrastructure and allocate network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Wei-Kun Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Fan Liu , Yu-Hong Dai , Zhi-Quan Luo

We propose a machine learning approach for quickly solving Mixed Integer Programs (MIP) by learning to prioritize a set of decision variables, which we call pseudo-backdoors, for branching that results in faster solution times.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Aaron Ferber , Jialin Song , Bistra Dilkina , Yisong Yue

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…

This paper presents a new hybrid classical-quantum approach to solve Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) using neutral atom quantum computations. We apply Benders decomposition (BD) to segment MILPs into a master problem (MP) and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 M. Yassine Naghmouchi , Wesley da Silva Coelho

We study a two-stage mixed-integer linear program (MILP) with more than 1 million binary variables in the second stage. We develop a two-level approach by constructing a semi-coarse model (coarsened with respect to variables) and a coarse…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-20 Fu Lin , Sven Leyffer , Todd Munson

We report a computational study of cutting plane algorithms for multi-stage stochastic mixed-integer programming models with the following cuts: (i) Benders', (ii) Integer L-shaped, and (iii) Lagrangian cuts. We first show that Integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Akul Bansal , Simge Küçükyavuz