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Combining gradient information and primitive directions for high-performance Bound-Constrained mixed-integer optimization

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Matteo Lapucci
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Giampaolo Liuzzi
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Stefano Lucidi
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Pierluigi Mansueto *
DOI:10.1007/s10898-025-01583-5delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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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 derivative information when possible in these scenarios: concretely, we propose an algorithmic framework that carries out local optimization steps, alternating searches along gradient-based and primitive directions. The algorithm is shown to match the convergence properties of a derivative-free counterpart. Most importantly, the results of thorough computational experiments show that the proposed method clearly outperforms not only the derivative-free approach but also the main alternatives available from the literature to be used in the considered setting, both in terms of efficiency and effectiveness.
Keywords:
Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization
Gradient-based optimization
Primitive directions
Global convergence

Journal

J
Journal of Global Optimization
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1.7
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86
Citations:
6.9K

Organization

U
university of florence
Scholars:
4.2W
Papers: 3.1W
Citations: 42
S
sapienza university rome
Scholars:
6.3W
Papers: 4.7W
Citations: 381