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Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) is one of the most popular mathematical formulations with numerous applications. In practice, improving the performance of MILP solvers often requires a large amount of high-quality data, which can be…

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Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) solvers expose hundreds of parameters that have an outsized impact on performance but are difficult to configure for all but expert users. Existing machine learning (ML) approaches require training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Connor Lawless , Yingxi Li , Anders Wikum , Madeleine Udell , Ellen Vitercik

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are essential tools for solving planning and scheduling problems across critical industries such as construction, manufacturing, and logistics. However, their widespread adoption is limited by long…

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Residential and commercial buildings, equipped with systems such as heat pumps (HPs), hot water tanks, or stationary energy storage, have a large potential to offer their consumption flexibility as grid services. In this work, we leverage…

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We propose a framework for the stability verification of Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) representable control policies. This framework compares a fixed candidate policy, which admits an efficient parameterization and can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-02 Roland Schwan , Colin N. Jones , Daniel Kuhn

Unit maintenance and unit commitment are two critical and interrelated aspects of electric power system operation, both of which face the challenge of coordinating efforts to enhance reliability and economic performance. This challenge…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Hongrui Lu , Yuxiong Huang , Tong He , Gengfeng Li

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hannes Petrenz , Johannes Köhler , Francesco Borrelli

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is essential for modeling complex decision-making problems but faces challenges in computational tractability and requires expert formulation. Current deep learning approaches for MILP focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Sirui Li , Janardhan Kulkarni , Ishai Menache , Cathy Wu , Beibin Li

Over the past decade, decision diagrams (DDs) have been used to model and solve integer programming and combinatorial optimization problems. Despite successful performance of DDs in solving various discrete optimization problems, their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-27 Hosseinali Salemi , Danial Davarnia

The penetration of variable renewable energy (VRE) in electrical systems has changed the way the expansion planning is treated. This kind of resource has great variability in small amounts of time, which makes it important to represent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Alessandro Soares , Ricardo Perez , Fernanda Thome

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) can be considered the backbone of the modern power system optimization process, with a large application spectrum, from Unit Commitment and Optimal Transmission Switching to verifying Neural Networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Petros Ellinas , Samuel Chevalier , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

The growing uncertainty from renewable power and electricity demand brings significant challenges to unit commitment (UC). While various advanced forecasting and optimization methods have been developed to predict better and address this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Rui Xie , Yue Chen , Pierre Pinson

As net-load becomes less predictable there is a lot of pressure in changing decision models for power markets such that they account explicitly for future scenarios in making commitment decisions. This paper proposes to make commitment…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Bita Analui , Anna Scaglione

Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is a major electricity end-use with a substantial potential for providing grid services, such as demand response. Harnessing this flexibility requires accurate modeling of the thermal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Pietro Favaro , Jean-François Toubeau , François Vallée , Yury Dvorkin

This paper proposes a Clustered Unit Commitment (CUC) formulation to accurately model flexibility requirements such as ramping, reserve, and startup/shutdown constraints. The CUC is commonly applied in large and long-term planning models to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-21 German Morales-Espana , Diego A. Tejada-Arango

The goal to decarbonize the energy sector has led to increased research in modeling and optimizing multi-energy systems. One of the most promising techniques for modeling (multi-)energy optimization problems is mixed-integer programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Stephanie Riedmüller , Annika Buchholz , Janina Zittel

We propose a novel global solution algorithm for the network-constrained unit commitment problem incorporating a nonlinear alternating current model of the transmission network, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Jianfeng Liu , Anya Castillo , Jean-Paul Watson , Carl D. Laird

With the increasing penetration of renewable energy, frequency response and its security are of significant concerns for reliable power system operations. Frequency-constrained unit commitment (FCUC) is proposed to address this challenge.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-14 Yichen Zhang , Hantao Cui , Jianzhe Liu , Feng Qiu , Tianqi Hong , Rui Yao , Fangxing Li

Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), a widely used modeling framework for combinatorial optimization, are central to many scientific and engineering applications, yet remains computationally challenging at scale. Recent advances in deep…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Peixin Huang , Yaoxin Wu , Yining Ma , Cathy Wu , Wen Song , Wei Zhang

This paper introduces $\Delta$-MILP, a powerful variant of the mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) optimization framework to solve NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) scheduling problem. This work is an extension of our original MILP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Thomas Claudet , Ryan Alimo , Edwin Goh , Mark Johnston , Ramtin Madani , Brian Wilson