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We present an ideal mixed-integer programming (MIP) formulation for a rectified linear unit (ReLU) appearing in a trained neural network. Our formulation requires a single binary variable and no additional continuous variables beyond the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-04 Ross Anderson , Joey Huchette , Christian Tjandraatmadja , Juan Pablo Vielma

The recent performance improvements in mixed-integer programming (MIP) have been accompanied by a significantly increased complexity of the codes of MIP solvers, which poses challenges in fixing implementation errors. In this paper, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Alexander Hoen , Dominik Kamp , Ambros Gleixner

This paper explores reoptimization techniques for solving sequences of similar mixed integer programs (MIPs) more effectively. Traditionally, these MIPs are solved independently, without capitalizing on information from previously solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Krunal Kishor Patel

Global optimization of decision trees is a long-standing challenge in combinatorial optimization, yet such models play an important role in interpretable machine learning. Although the problem has been investigated for several decades, only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jiancheng Tu , Wenqi Fan , Zhibin Wu

The presence of symmetries of binary programs typically degrade the performance of branch-and-bound solvers. In this article, we derive efficient variable fixing algorithms to discard symmetric solutions from the search space based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-03 Jasper van Doornmalen , Christopher Hojny

Decision trees are powerful tools for classification and regression that attract many researchers working in the burgeoning area of machine learning. One advantage of decision trees over other methods is their interpretability, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Brandon Alston , Hamidreza Validi , Illya V. Hicks

Mixed integer bilinear programs (MIBLPs) offer tools to resolve robotics motion planning problems with orthogonal rotation matrices or static moment balance, but require long solving times. Recent work utilizing data-driven methods has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Xuan Lin , Gabriel Ikaika Fernandez , Dennis Hong

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

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

Linear constraints are one of the most fundamental constraints in fields such as computer science, operations research and optimization. Many applications reduce to the task of model counting over integer linear constraints (MCILC). In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Mingwei Zhang , Zhenhao Gu , Liangda Fang , Cunjing Ge , Ziliang Chen , Zhao-Rong Lai , Quanlong Guan

For almost two decades, mixed integer programming (MIP) solvers have used graph-based conflict analysis to learn from local infeasibilities during branch-and-bound search. In this paper, we improve MIP conflict analysis by instead using…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Gioni Mexi , Felipe Serrano , Timo Berthold , Ambros Gleixner , Jakob Nordström

In Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MIP), a (strong) backdoor is a "small" subset of an instance's integer variables with the following property: in a branch-and-bound procedure, the instance can be solved to global optimality by branching…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Elias B. Khalil , Pashootan Vaezipoor , Bistra Dilkina

Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a foundational tool for complex decision-making problems. However, the NP-hard nature of MILP presents a significant computational challenge, motivating the development of machine learning-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Hongpei Li , Hui Yuan , Han Zhang , Jianghao Lin , Dongdong Ge , Mengdi Wang , Yinyu Ye

Cutting planes are crucial in solving mixed integer linear programs (MILP) as they facilitate bound improvements on the optimal solution. Modern MILP solvers rely on a variety of separators to generate a diverse set of cutting planes by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Sirui Li , Wenbin Ouyang , Max B. Paulus , Cathy Wu

We propose a unified framework to address a family of classical mixed-integer optimization problems with logically constrained decision variables, including network design, facility location, unit commitment, sparse portfolio selection,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-19 Dimitris Bertsimas , Ryan Cory-Wright , Jean Pauphilet

Two essential ingredients of modern mixed-integer programming (MIP) solvers are diving heuristics that simulate a partial depth-first search in a branch-and-bound search tree and conflict analysis of infeasible subproblems to learn valid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 Jakob Witzig , Ambros Gleixner

We study the problem of efficient, scalable set-sharing analysis of logic programs. We use the idea of representing sharing information as a pair of abstract substitutions, one of which is a worst-case sharing representation called a clique…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-07-10 Jorge Navas , Francisco Bueno , Manuel Hermenegildo

We study the mixed-integer optimization (MIO) approach to feature subset selection in nonlinear kernel support vector machines (SVMs) for binary classification. First proposed for linear regression in the 1970s, this approach has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Ryuta Tamura , Yuichi Takano , Ryuhei Miyashiro

In this paper we propose a technique that assigns obstacles to clusters used for collision avoidance via Mixed-Integer Programming. This strategy enables a reduction in the number of binary variables used for collision avoidance, thus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-17 Vinicius Antonio Battagello , Nei Yoshihiro Soma , Rubens Junqueira Magalhaes Afonso

Multivariate decision trees are powerful machine learning tools for classification and regression that attract many researchers and industry professionals. An optimal binary tree has two types of vertices, (i) branching vertices which have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Brandon Alston , Illya V. Hicks