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20192024
most citedSearching Large Neighborhoods for Integer Linear Programs with Contrastive Learning

9 citations · 29 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2024

Multi-task Representation Learning for Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Junyang Cai, Taoan Huang, Bistra Dilkina

Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) are highly flexible and powerful tools for modeling and solving complex real-world combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, machine lear…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Distributional MIPLIB: a Multi-Domain Library for Advancing ML-Guided MILP Methods

Weimin Huang, Taoan Huang, Aaron M Ferber +1

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) is a fundamental tool for modeling combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, a growing body of research has used machine learning to ac…

cs.AI2024

Learning Backdoors for Mixed Integer Linear Programs with Contrastive Learning

Junyang Cai, Taoan Huang, Bistra Dilkina

Many real-world problems can be efficiently modeled as Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) and solved with the Branch-and-Bound method. Prior work has shown the existence of MILP…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Adaptive Anytime Multi-Agent Path Finding Using Bandit-Based Large Neighborhood Search

Thomy Phan, Taoan Huang, Bistra Dilkina +1

Anytime multi-agent path finding (MAPF) is a promising approach to scalable path optimization in large-scale multi-agent systems. State-of-the-art anytime MAPF is based on Large Ne…

cs.LG2023

GenCO: Generating Diverse Designs with Combinatorial Constraints

Aaron Ferber, Arman Zharmagambetov, Taoan Huang +2

Deep generative models like GAN and VAE have shown impressive results in generating unconstrained objects like images. However, many design settings arising in industrial design, m…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Landscape Surrogate: Learning Decision Losses for Mathematical Optimization Under Partial Information

Arman Zharmagambetov, Brandon Amos, Aaron Ferber +3

Recent works in learning-integrated optimization have shown promise in settings where the optimization problem is only partially observed or where general-purpose optimizers perfor…

cs.AI2023★ 9 cited

Searching Large Neighborhoods for Integer Linear Programs with Contrastive Learning

Taoan Huang, Aaron Ferber, Yuandong Tian +2

Integer Linear Programs (ILPs) are powerful tools for modeling and solving a large number of combinatorial optimization problems. Recently, it has been shown that Large Neighborhoo…

cs.AI2022★ 3 cited

Local Branching Relaxation Heuristics for Integer Linear Programs

Taoan Huang, Aaron Ferber, Yuandong Tian +2

Large Neighborhood Search (LNS) is a popular heuristic algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COP). It starts with an initial solution to the problem and iterat…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

SurCo: Learning Linear Surrogates For Combinatorial Nonlinear Optimization Problems

Aaron Ferber, Taoan Huang, Daochen Zha +4

Optimization problems with nonlinear cost functions and combinatorial constraints appear in many real-world applications but remain challenging to solve efficiently compared to the…

cs.AI2022

The (Un)Scalability of Heuristic Approximators for NP-Hard Search Problems

Sumedh Pendurkar, Taoan Huang, Sven Koenig +1

The A* algorithm is commonly used to solve NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. When provided with a completely informed heuristic function, A* solves many NP-hard minimum-…

cs.AI2020★ 5 cited

Learning to Resolve Conflicts for Multi-Agent Path Finding with Conflict-Based Search

Taoan Huang, Bistra Dilkina, Sven Koenig

Conflict-Based Search (CBS) is a state-of-the-art algorithm for multi-agent path finding. At the high level, CBS repeatedly detects conflicts and resolves one of them by splitting…

cs.GT2020★ 2 cited

Green Security Game with Community Engagement

Taoan Huang, Weiran Shen, David Zeng +3

While game-theoretic models and algorithms have been developed to combat illegal activities, such as poaching and over-fishing, in green security domains, none of the existing work…

cs.AI2019★ 1 cited

Dynamic Trip-Vehicle Dispatch with Scheduled and On-Demand Requests

Taoan Huang, Bohui Fang, Xiaohui Bei +1

Transportation service providers that dispatch drivers and vehicles to riders start to support both on-demand ride requests posted in real time and rides scheduled in advance, lead…