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Francesco Demelas
dblp:359/3828
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mathematical optimization › relaxation
continuous relaxation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Predicting Lagrangian Multipliers for Mixed Integer Linear Programs · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization
lagrangian relaxation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Predicting Lagrangian Multipliers for Mixed Integer Linear Programs · ICML 2024 |
Mathematical optimization › discrete optimization
mixed integer linear programming |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Predicting Lagrangian Multipliers for Mixed Integer Linear Programs · ICML 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
graph neural network · 0.8deep learning · 0.8amortized optimization · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Predicting Lagrangian Multipliers for Mixed Integer Linear ProgramsabstractLagrangian Relaxation stands among the most efficient approaches for solving Mixed Integer Linear Programs (MILPs) with difficult constraints. Given any duals for these constraints, called Lagrangian Multipliers (LMs), it returns a bound on the optimal value of the MILP, and Lagrangian methods seek the LMs giving the best such bound. But these methods generally rely on iterative algorithms resembling gradient descent to maximize the concave piecewise linear dual function: the computational burden grows quickly with the number of relaxed constraints. We introduce a deep learning approach that bypasses the descent, effectively amortizing per instance optimization. A probabilistic encoder based on a graph neural network computes, given a MILP instance and its Continuous Relaxation (CR) solution, high-dimensional representations of relaxed constraints, which are turned into LMs by a decoder. We train the encoder and the decoder jointly by directly optimizing the bound obtained from the predicted multipliers. Our method is applicable to any problem with a compact MILP formulation, and to any Lagrangian Relaxation providing a tighter bound than CR. Experiments on two widely known problems, Multi-Commodity Network Design and Generalized Assignment, show that our approach closes up to 85% of the gap between the continuous relaxation and the best Lagrangian bound, and provides a high-quality warm-start for descent-based Lagrangian methods. Francesco Demelas, Joseph Le Roux, Mathieu Lacroix 0001, Axel Parmentier |
ICML | 1 |