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Convex mixed-integer optimization with Frank–Wolfe methods

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Deborah Hendrych *
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Hannah Troppens
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Mathieu Besançon *
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Sebastian Pokutta
DOI:10.1007/s12532-025-00288-wdelete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Mixed-integer nonlinear optimization encompasses a broad class of problems that present both theoretical and computational challenges. We propose a new type of method to solve these problems based on a branch-and-bound algorithm with convex node relaxations. These relaxations are solved with a Frank–Wolfe algorithm over the convex hull of mixed-integer feasible points instead of the continuous relaxation via calls to a mixed-integer linear solver as the linear minimization oracle. The proposed method computes feasible solutions while working on a single representation of the polyhedral constraints, leveraging the full extent of mixed-integer linear solvers without an outer approximation scheme and can exploit inexact solutions of node subproblems.
Keywords:
Nonlinear optimization
Mixed-integer optimization
Branch-and-bound
Frank–Wolfe

Journal

Mathematical Programming Computation cover
Mathematical Programming Computation
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Laboratoire d Informatique de Grenoble
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iol lab
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