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Giovanni Lavezzi, Kidus Guye, Marco Ciarcià
In this paper we propose a set of guidelines to select a solver for the solution of nonlinear programming problems. With this in mind, we present a comparison of the convergence performances of commonly used solvers for both unconstrained and constrained nonlinear programming problems. The comparison involves accuracy…
Daniel Cederberg, William Zhang, Parth Nobel, Stephen Boyd
We introduce disciplined nonlinear programming (DNLP), a syntax for specifying nonlinear programming problems. DNLP is inspired by disciplined convex programming (DCP) and allows smooth functions to be freely mixed with nonsmooth convex and concave functions, with rules governing how the nonsmooth functions can be…
Julia Grübel, Richard Krug, Martin Schmidt, Winnifried Wollner
We present a novel method for mixed-integer optimization problems with multivariate and Lipschitz continuous nonlinearities. In particular, we do not assume that the nonlinear constraints are explicitly given but that we can only evaluate them and that we know their global Lipschitz constants. The algorithm is a…
Daniel Molina-Pérez, Edgar Alfredo Portilla-Flores, Efrén Mezura-Montes, Eduardo Vega-Alvarado + 2 more
'Efrén Mezura-Montes' 'Eduardo Vega-Alvarado' 'María Bárbara Calva-Yañez' 'Thomas Stützle'] Mixed integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) addresses optimization problems that involve continuous and discrete/integer decision variables, as well as nonlinear functions. These problems often exhibit multiple discontinuous…
Olga Brezhneva, Agnieszka Prusińska, Alexey A. Tret’yakov, Ravi P. Agarwal
'Ravi P. Agarwal'] The paper describes an application of the p-regularity theory to Quadratic Programming (QP) and nonlinear equations with quadratic mappings. In the first part of the paper, a special structure of the nonlinear equation and a construction of the 2-factor operator are used to obtain an exact formula…
Ankur Sinha, Arka Das, Guneshwar Anand, Sachin Jayaswal
In this article, we discuss an exact algorithm for solving mixed integer concave minimization problems. A piecewise inner-approximation of the concave function is achieved using an auxiliary linear program that leads to a bilevel program, which provides a lower bound to the original problem. The bilevel program is…
Frank E. Curtis, Lara Zebiane
NonOpt, a C++ software package for minimizing locally Lipschitz objective functions, is presented. The software is intended primarily for minimizing objective functions that are nonconvex and/or nonsmooth. The package has implementations of two main algorithmic strategies: a gradient-sampling and a proximal-bundle…
Elisabeth Gaar, Jon Lee, Ivana Ljubić, Markus Sinnl + 1 more
We study a class of integer bilevel programs with second-order cone constraints at the upper-level and a convex-quadratic objective function and linear constraints at the lower-level. We develop disjunctive cuts (DCs) to separate bilevel-infeasible solutions using a second-order-cone-based cut-generating procedure. We…
Georges Czaplicki, Serge Mazeres
Model validation depends on the agreement between the predicted and experimental data. However, finding solutions to problems, described by equations with many parameters, for which virtually nothing is known, is a difficult task. For example, the extraction of kinetic parameters from complex schemes representing the…
Yuhui Liu, Hecheng Li, Huafei Chen, Mei Ma + 1 more
In the engineering and economic management fields, optimisation models frequently involve different decision-making levels. These are known as multi-level optimisation problems. Because the decision-making process of such problems are hierarchical, they are also called a hierarchical optimisation problems. When the…
Ke Su, Shaohua Liu, Wei Lu, Fei Chen
In this paper, we proposed an adaptive QP-free method without a penalty function or a filter for minimax optimization. In each iteration, solved two linear systems of equations constructed from Lagrange multipliers and KKT-conditioned NCP functions. Based on the work set, the computational scale is further reduced.…
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Inverse problems, where we seek the values of inputs to a model that lead to a desired set of outputs, are a challenges subset of problems in science and engineering. In this work we demonstrate the use of two generative AI methods to solve inverse problems. We compare this approach to two more conventional approaches…
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Solving optimization problems, especially for nonlinear and constrained systems, is a challenge. Decades of specialized algorithms have been developed for general and special cases of root finding, minimization (including constraints), for parameter estimation, and mapping connected spaces. These approaches typically…
Berhanu Belay, Adane Abebaw, Omar A. Alzubi
This manuscript presents a technique for solving a multiple-objective probabilistic fractional programming problem with discrete random variables. A multiple-objective probabilistic mathematical model is constructed with fractional objectives. In the model, some parameters of coefficients and right hand side parameters…
Olena Doroshenko
Pathfinding in complex topographies poses a challenge with applications extending from urban planning to autonomous navigation. While numerous algorithms offer potential solutions, their comparative efficiency and reliability when confronted with nonlinear terrains remain to be systematically evaluated. This study…
Jaan Übi, Evald Übi
In order to find a non-negative solution to a system of inequalities, the corresponding dual problem is composed, which has a suitable unity basic matrix. In such a formulation, the objective function is replaced by set of constraints based on that function. Additional constraints can be used for accelerating…
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Automated chemistry platforms hold the potential to enable large-scale organic synthesis campaigns, such as producing a library of compounds for biological evaluation. The efficiency of such platforms will depend on the schedule according to which the synthesis operations are executed. In this work, we study the…
Henri Schmidt, Benjamin J. Raphael
Reconstructing unobserved ancestral states of a phylogenetic tree provides insight into the history of evolving systems and is one of the fundamental problems in phylogenetics. For a fixed phylogenetic tree, the most parsimonious ancestral reconstruction – a solution to the small parsimony problem – can be efficiently…
Sterling Baird, Jason R. Hall, Taylor D. Sparks
Would you rather search for a line inside a cube or a point inside a square? Physics-based simulations and wet-lab experiments often have symmetries (degeneracies) that allow reducing problem dimensionality or search space, but constraining these degeneracies is often unsupported or difficult to implement in many…
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Experimental design plays an important role in efficiently acquiring informative data for system characterization and deriving robust conclusions under resource limitations. Recent advancements in high-throughput experimentation coupled with machine learning have notably improved experimental procedures. While Bayesian…
Wynand S. Verwoerd, Longfei Mao
The solution space of an FBA-based model of cellular metabolism, can be characterized by extraction of a bounded, low dimensional kernel (the SSK) that facilitates perceiving it as a geometric object in multidimensional flux space. The aim is to produce an amenable description, intermediate between the single feasible…
Changin Oh, Kathleen P. Wilkie
We present the Toroidal Search Algorithm (TSA), a novel population-based metaheuristic optimization method inspired by the topology of a torus. Conventional metaheuristics frequently suffer from boundary stagnation, a phenomenon that severely degrades performance in bounded and high-dimensional search spaces. TSA…