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20242026
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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning to Approximate Uniform Facility Location via Graph Neural Networks

Chendi Qian, Christopher Morris, Stefanie Jegelka +1

Neural networks, particularly message-passing neural networks (MPNNs), are increasingly used as heuristics for hard combinatorial optimization problems. Yet many learning-based met…

cs.LG2026

Solving Max-Cut to Global Optimality via Feasibility-Preserving Graph Neural Networks

Hao Chen, Chendi Qian, Christopher Morris +2

Exact solution of hard combinatorial optimization problems often relies on strong convex relaxations, but solving these relaxations repeatedly inside a branch-and-bound algorithm c…

cs.LG2026

On the Expressive Power of GNNs to Solve Linear SDPs

Chendi Qian, Christopher Morris

Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are a powerful framework for convex optimization and for constructing strong relaxations of hard combinatorial problems. However, solving large SDPs ca…

cs.LG2026

GraIP: A Benchmarking Framework For Neural Graph Inverse Problems

Semih Cantürk, Andrei Manolache, Arman Mielke +5

A wide range of graph learning tasks, such as structure discovery, temporal graph analysis, and combinatorial optimization, focus on inferring graph structures from data, rather th…

cs.LG2025

Principled Data Augmentation for Learning to Solve Quadratic Programming Problems

Chendi Qian, Christopher Morris

Linear and quadratic optimization are crucial in numerous real-world applications, ranging from training machine learning models to solving integer linear programs. Recently, learn…

cs.AI2025

Towards graph neural networks for provably solving convex optimization problems

Chendi Qian, Christopher Morris

Recently, message-passing graph neural networks (MPNNs) have shown potential for solving combinatorial and continuous optimization problems due to their ability to capture variable…