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Cutting plane selection is a subroutine used in all modern mixed-integer linear programming solvers with the goal of selecting a subset of generated cuts that induce optimal solver performance. These solvers have millions of parameter…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Mark Turner , Thorsten Koch , Felipe Serrano , Michael Winkler

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

This paper proposes a framework for scheduling the observation and download tasks of multiple agile satellites with practical considerations such as attitude transition time, onboard data capacity, and stereoscopic image acquisition. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Junhong Kim , Doo-Hyun Cho , Jaemyung Ahn , Han-Lim Choi

The optimal binning is the optimal discretization of a variable into bins given a discrete or continuous numeric target. We present a rigorous and extensible mathematical programming formulation for solving the optimal binning problem for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Guillermo Navas-Palencia

Mixed-integer nonlinear programmings (MINLPs) are powerful formulation tools for task planning. However, it suffers from long solving time especially for large scale problems. In this work, we first formulate the task planning problem for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Gavin Zheng

Sequential quadratic programming and sequential convex programming efficiently solve nonlinear programs (NLPs) by linearizing inner nonlinearities while preserving the outer convex structure. This paper introduces a sequential mixed-integer…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Andrea Ghezzi , Wim Van Roy , Sebastian Sager , Moritz Diehl

Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming (MIQP) has been identified as a suitable approach for finding an optimal solution to the behavior planning problem with low runtimes. Logical constraints and continuous equations are optimized alongside.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Klemens Esterle , Tobias Kessler , Alois Knoll

The alternating-current unit commitment problem provides a realistic representation of power system operations, which is a nonconvex mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem and hence is computationally intractable. A common relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Yongzheng Dai

Basis path testing is a cornerstone of structural testing, yet traditional automated methods, relying on greedy graph-traversal algorithms (e.g., DFS/BFS), often generate sub-optimal paths. This structural inferiority is not a trivial…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Chao Wei , Xinyi Peng , Yawen Yan , Mao Luo , Ting Cai

Decision trees have been a very popular class of predictive models for decades due to their interpretability and good performance on categorical features. However, they are not always robust and tend to overfit the data. Additionally, if…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Oktay Gunluk , Jayant Kalagnanam , Minhan Li , Matt Menickelly , Katya Scheinberg

In this paper we consider bound-constrained mixed-integer optimization problems where the objective function is differentiable w.r.t.\ the continuous variables for every configuration of the integer variables. We mainly suggest to exploit…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-19 Matteo Lapucci , Giampaolo Liuzzi , Stefano Lucidi , Pierluigi Mansueto

How to ensure accessibility to food and nutrition while food supply chains suffer from demand and supply uncertainties caused by disruptive forces such as the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters is an emerging and critical issue.…

General Economics · Economics 2024-06-14 Mengfei Chen , Mohamed Kharbeche , Mohamed Haouari , Weihong "Grace" Guo

We introduce a fusion of GPU accelerated primal heuristics for Mixed Integer Programming. Leveraging GPU acceleration enables exploration of larger search regions and faster iterations. A GPU-accelerated PDLP serves as an approximate LP…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Akif Çördük , Piotr Sielski , Alice Boucher , Kumar Aatish

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

This paper deals with a distributed Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) set-up arising in several control applications. Agents of a network aim to minimize the sum of local linear cost functions subject to both individual constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Andrea Camisa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

We study multistage distributionally robust mixed-integer programs under endogenous uncertainty, where the probability distribution of stage-wise uncertainty depends on the decisions made in previous stages. We first consider two ambiguity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-28 Xian Yu , Siqian Shen

Integer and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (INLP, MINLP) are central to logistics, energy, and scheduling, but remain computationally challenging. This survey examines how machine learning and reinforcement learning can enhance exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Morteza Kimiaei , Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Brian Olimba

Diet quality is a leading determinant of chronic disease risk. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled food recommendation systems to adapt suggestions to user preferences and health goals. However, most current systems rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yibin Wang , Yanjie Yang , Grace Melo Guerrero , Rodolfo M. Nayga , Azlan Zahid

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

In this paper, we explore model-based approach to training robust and interpretable binarized regression models for multiclass classification tasks using Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP). Our MIP model balances the optimization of prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Sanjana Tule , Nhi Ha Lan Le , Buser Say