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Did smallpox cause stillbirths? Maternal smallpox infection, vaccination, and stillbirths in Sweden, 1780-1839. 天花会导致死胎吗？1780-1839年瑞典产妇天花感染、疫苗接种和死胎。

IF 1.5 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-11-01 Epub Date: 2023-02-22 DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2023.2174266

Eric B Schneider, Sören Edvinsson, Kota Ogasawara

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Fast convergence to non-isolated minima: four equivalent conditions for $${textrm{C}^{2}}$$ functions 非孤立极小值的快速收敛：$${textrm{C}^{2}}$函数的四个等价条件

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02136-6

Quentin Rebjock, Nicolas Boumal

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Complexity of chordal conversion for sparse semidefinite programs with small treewidth 小树宽稀疏半inite程序的和弦转换复杂性

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02137-5

Richard Y. Zhang

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Recycling valid inequalities for robust combinatorial optimization with budgeted uncertainty 具有预算不确定性的稳健组合优化的循环有效不等式

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02135-7

Christina Büsing, Timo Gersing, Arie M. C. A. Koster

{"title":"Recycling valid inequalities for robust combinatorial optimization with budgeted uncertainty","authors":"Christina Büsing, Timo Gersing, Arie M. C. A. Koster","doi":"10.1007/s10107-024-02135-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10107-024-02135-7","url":null,"abstract":"Robust combinatorial optimization with budgeted uncertainty is one of the most popular approaches for integrating uncertainty into optimization problems. The existence of a compact reformulation for (mixed-integer) linear programs and positive complexity results give the impression that these problems are relatively easy to solve. However, the practical performance of the reformulation is quite poor when solving robust integer problems, in particular due to its weak linear relaxation. To overcome this issue, we propose procedures to derive new classes of valid inequalities for robust combinatorial optimization problems. For this, we recycle valid inequalities of the underlying deterministic problem such that the additional variables from the robust formulation are incorporated. The valid inequalities to be recycled may either be readily available model constraints or actual cutting planes, where we can benefit from decades of research on valid inequalities for classical optimization problems. We first demonstrate the strength of the inequalities theoretically, by proving that recycling yields a facet-defining inequality in many cases, even if the original valid inequality was not facet-defining. Afterwards, we show in an extensive computational study that using recycled inequalities can lead to a significant improvement of the computation time when solving robust optimization problems.","PeriodicalId":18297,"journal":{"name":"Mathematical Programming","volume":"152 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Accelerated stochastic approximation with state-dependent noise 带有状态相关噪声的加速随机逼近

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02138-4

Sasila Ilandarideva, Anatoli Juditsky, Guanghui Lan, Tianjiao Li

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A fast combinatorial algorithm for the bilevel knapsack problem with interdiction constraints 带拦截约束的双层knapsack问题的快速组合算法

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02133-9

Noah Weninger, Ricardo Fukasawa

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Nonlinear conjugate gradient methods: worst-case convergence rates via computer-assisted analyses 非线性共轭梯度方法：通过计算机辅助分析实现最坏情况收敛率

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02127-7

Shuvomoy Das Gupta, Robert M. Freund, Xu Andy Sun, Adrien Taylor

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Machine learning augmented branch and bound for mixed integer linear programming 混合整数线性规划的机器学习增强分支与约束

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02130-y

Lara Scavuzzo, Karen Aardal, Andrea Lodi, Neil Yorke-Smith

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On the strength of Lagrangian duality in multiobjective integer programming 论多目标整数编程中拉格朗日对偶性的强度

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02121-z

Matthew Brun, Tyler Perini, Saumya Sinha, Andrew J. Schaefer

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Convexification techniques for fractional programs 分数程序的凸化技术

IF 2.7 2区数学

Mathematical Programming Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10107-024-02131-x

Taotao He, Siyue Liu, Mohit Tawarmalani

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