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Learning to Choose Branching Rules for Nonconvex MINLPs
Timo Berthold, Fritz Geis
Outer-approximation-based branch-and-bound is a common algorithmic framework for solving MINLPs (mixed-integer nonlinear programs) to global optimality, with branching variable sel…
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Global Optimization for Combinatorial Geometry Problems Revisited in the Era of LLMs
Timo Berthold, Dominik Kamp, Gioni Mexi +2
Recent progress in LLM-driven algorithm discovery, exemplified by DeepMind's AlphaEvolve, has produced new best-known solutions for a range of hard geometric and combinatorial prob…