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Rahul Patel 0001
dblp:168/2241-1
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4ranked-venue papers
3as first author
3since 2021 · last 2026
0000-0001-6845-2941ORCID · verified
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 4 · 3 first-author · 3 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 › discrete optimization
mixed integer linear programming |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Neur2SP: Neural Two-Stage Stochastic Programming · NeurIPS 2022 |
Mathematical optimization › stochastic optimization
stochastic programming |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Neur2SP: Neural Two-Stage Stochastic Programming · NeurIPS 2022 |
Mathematical optimization › stochastic optimization › stochastic programming
two-stage stochastic programming |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Neur2SP: Neural Two-Stage Stochastic Programming · NeurIPS 2022 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
neural network · 0.6expected value function approximation · 0.6MIP solver · 0.6
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Heuristic Multiobjective Discrete Optimization Using Restricted Decision Diagrams
Rahul Patel 0001, Elias B. Khalil, David Bergman |
CPAIOR | 1 |
| 2024 | LEO: Learning Efficient Orderings for Multiobjective Binary Decision Diagrams
Rahul Patel 0001, Elias B. Khalil |
CPAIOR (2) | 1 |
| 2022 | Neur2SP: Neural Two-Stage Stochastic ProgrammingabstractStochastic Programming is a powerful modeling framework for decision-making under uncertainty. In this work, we tackle two-stage stochastic programs (2SPs), the most widely used class of stochastic programming models. Solving 2SPs exactly requires optimizing over an expected value function that is computationally intractable. Having a mixed-integer linear program (MIP) or a nonlinear program (NLP) in the second stage further aggravates the intractability, even when specialized algorithms that exploit problem structure are employed.Finding high-quality (first-stage) solutions -- without leveraging problem structure -- can be crucial in such settings. We develop Neur2SP, a new method that approximates the expected value function via a neural network to obtain a surrogate model that can be solved more efficiently than the traditional extensive formulation approach. Neur2SP makes no assumptions about the problem structure, in particular about the second-stage problem, and can be implemented using an off-the-shelf MIP solver. Our extensive computational experiments on four benchmark 2SP problem classes with different structures (containing MIP and NLP second-stage problems) demonstrate the efficiency (time) and efficacy (solution quality) of Neur2SP. In under 1.66 seconds, Neur2SP finds high-quality solutions across all problems even as the number of scenarios increases, an ideal property that is difficult to have for traditional 2SP solution techniques. Namely, the most generic baseline method typically requires minutes to hours to find solutions of comparable quality. Rahul Patel 0001, Justin Dumouchelle, Elias B. Khalil, Merve Bodur |
NeurIPS | 1 |
| 2020 | A Learning-Based Algorithm to Quickly Compute Good Primal Solutions for Stochastic Integer Programs
Yoshua Bengio, Emma Frejinger, Andrea Lodi 0001, Rahul Patel 0001, Sriram Sankaranarayanan 0002 |
CPAIOR | 4 |