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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 paper, we investigate the constraint typology of mixed-integer linear programming MILP formulations. MILP is a commonly used mathematical programming technique for modelling and solving real-life scheduling, routing, planning,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Vicky Mak-Hau , John Yearwood , William Moran

The selection of branching variables is a key component of branch-and-bound algorithms for solving Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP) problems since the quality of the selection procedure is likely to have a significant effect on the size of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Pierre Le Bodic , George L. Nemhauser

Recent work has shown potential in using Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) solvers to optimize certain aspects of neural networks (NNs). However the intriguing approach of training NNs with MIP solvers is under-explored.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Tómas Thorbjarnarson , Neil Yorke-Smith

Mixed-integer programming (MIP) has emerged as a powerful framework for learning optimal decision trees. Yet, existing MIP approaches for regression tasks are either limited to purely binary features or become computationally intractable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Cristobal Heredia , Pedro Chumpitaz-Flores , Kaixun Hua

This paper introduces scalable, sampling-based algorithms that optimize trained neural networks with ReLU activations. We first propose an iterative algorithm that takes advantage of the piecewise linear structure of ReLU neural networks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-07 Georgia Perakis , Asterios Tsiourvas

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

Nonlinear metrics, such as the F1-score, Matthews correlation coefficient, and Fowlkes-Mallows index, are often used to evaluate the performance of machine learning models, in particular, when facing imbalanced datasets that contain more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Emir Demirović , Peter J. Stuckey

While globally optimal solutions to many convex programs can be computed efficiently in polynomial time, this is, in general, not possible for nonconvex optimization problems. Therefore, locally optimal approaches or other efficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Bho Matthiesen , Christoph Hellings , Eduard A. Jorswieck , Wolfgang Utschick

We establish a broad methodological foundation for mixed-integer optimization with learned constraints. We propose an end-to-end pipeline for data-driven decision making in which constraints and objectives are directly learned from data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Donato Maragno , Holly Wiberg , Dimitris Bertsimas , S. Ilker Birbil , Dick den Hertog , Adejuyigbe Fajemisin

Inspection planning is concerned with computing the shortest robot path to inspect a given set of points of interest (POIs) using the robot's sensors. This problem arises in a wide range of applications from manufacturing to medical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adir Morgan , Kiril Solovey , Oren Salzman

Mixed-Integer Programs (MIPs) are NP-hard optimization models that arise in a broad range of decision-making applications, including finance, logistics, energy systems, and network design. Although modern commercial solvers have achieved…

Clustering serves as a vital tool for uncovering latent data structures, and achieving both high accuracy and interpretability is essential. To this end, existing methods typically construct binary decision trees by solving mixed-integer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hayato Suzuki , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Yuichi Takano

A key ingredient in branch and bound (B&B) solvers for mixed-integer programming (MIP) is the selection of branching variables since poor or arbitrary selection can affect the size of the resulting search trees by orders of magnitude. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-31 Daniel Anderson , Pierre Le Bodic , Kerri Morgan

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are highly flexible and powerful tools for modeling and solving complex real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, machine learning (ML)-guided approaches have demonstrated significant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Junyang Cai , Taoan Huang , Bistra Dilkina

Tree ensembles are very popular machine learning models, known for their effectiveness in supervised classification and regression tasks. Their performance derives from aggregating predictions of multiple decision trees, which are renowned…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Lorenzo Bonasera , Emilio Carrizosa

In this paper, we develop a fast mixed-integer convex programming (MICP) framework for multi-robot navigation by combining graph attention networks and distributed optimization. We formulate a mixed-integer optimization problem for receding…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-28 Viet-Anh Le , Panagiotis Kounatidis , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Numerous real-world decision-making problems can be formulated and solved using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models. However, the transformation of these problems into MILP models heavily relies on expertise in operations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Qingyang Li , Lele Zhang , Vicky Mak-Hau

The increasing use of machine learning in high-stakes domains -- where people's livelihoods are impacted -- creates an urgent need for interpretable, fair, and highly accurate algorithms. With these needs in mind, we propose a mixed integer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Nathanael Jo , Sina Aghaei , Andrés Gómez , Phebe Vayanos

Mixed-integer optimization is at the core of many online decision-making systems that demand frequent updates of decisions in real time. However, due to their combinatorial nature, mixed-integer linear programs (MILPs) can be difficult to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Shivi Dixit , Rishabh Gupta , Qi Zhang