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Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across various domains, but their potential for solving combinatorial optimization problems remains largely unexplored. In this paper, we investigate the applicability of LLMs…

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In this paper, a centralized two-block separable optimization is considered for which a fully parallel primal-dual discrete-time algorithm with fixed step size is derived based on monotone operator splitting method. In this algorithm, the…

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We consider the problem of static assortment optimization, where the goal is to find the assortment of size at most $C$ that maximizes revenues. This is a fundamental decision problem in the area of Operations Management. It has been shown…

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This paper considers decentralized consensus optimization problems where different summands of a global objective function are available at nodes of a network that can communicate with neighbors only. The proximal method of multipliers is…

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We study the scheduling of jobs on a single parallel-batching machine with non-identical job sizes and incompatible job families. Jobs from the same family have the same processing time and can be loaded into a batch, as long as the batch…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-04 Fan Yang , Morteza Davari , Wenchao Wei , Ben Hermans , Roel Leus

We study the problem of optimizing assortment decisions in the presence of product-specific costs when customers choose according to a multinomial logit model. This problem is NP-hard and approximate solutions methods have been proposed in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Markus Leitner , Andrea Lodi , Roberto Roberti , Claudio Sole

We propose a new first-order primal-dual optimization framework for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our optimization algorithms feature optimal convergence guarantees under a variety of common structure assumptions…

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Modeling and optimization of multi-echelon supply chain systems is challenging as it requires a holistic approach that exploits synergies and interactions between echelons while accurately accounting for variability observed by these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-03 Anshul Agarwal

With a novel search algorithm or assortment planning or assortment optimization algorithm that takes into account a Bayesian approach to information updating and two-stage assortment optimization techniques, the current research provides a…

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Selecting which products to display and at what prices is a central decision in retail and e-commerce operations. In many applications, these two choices must be made jointly under limited display capacity and uncertain customer demand. In…

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The deployment of large language models (LLMs) is often constrained by their substantial computational and memory demands. While structured pruning presents a viable approach by eliminating entire network components, existing methods suffer…

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The rapid progress in GPU computing has revolutionized many fields, yet its potential in mathematical programming, such as linear programming (LP), has only recently begun to be realized. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview…

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We study an assortment optimization problem under a multi-purchase choice model in which customers choose a bundle of up to one product from each of two product categories. Different bundles have different utilities and the bundle price is…

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We consider the following single-machine scheduling problem, which is often denoted $1||\sum f_{j}$: we are given $n$ jobs to be scheduled on a single machine, where each job $j$ has an integral processing time $p_j$, and there is a…

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Offline preference optimization is a key method for enhancing and controlling the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs. Typically, preference optimization is approached as an offline supervised learning task using manually-crafted…

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The convergence behaviour of first-order methods can be severely slowed down when applied to high-dimensional non-convex functions due to the presence of saddle points. If, additionally, the saddles are surrounded by large plateaus, it is…

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Sponsored product advertisements constitute a major revenue source for online marketplaces such as Amazon, Walmart, and Alibaba. A key operational challenge in these systems lies in the Sponsored Listings Ranking (SLR) problem, that is,…

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Security-Constrained Optimal Power Flow (SCOPF) plays a crucial role in power grid stability but becomes increasingly complex as systems grow. This paper introduces PDL-SCOPF, a self-supervised end-to-end primal-dual learning framework for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Seonho Park , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Motivated by big data applications, first-order methods have been extremely popular in recent years. However, naive gradient methods generally converge slowly. Hence, much efforts have been made to accelerate various first-order methods.…

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