A survey of contextual optimization methods for decision-making under uncertainty

U Sadana, A Chenreddy, E Delage, A Forel… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently there has been a surge of interest in operations research (OR) and the machine
learning (ML) community in combining prediction algorithms and optimization techniques to …

Decision-focused learning: Foundations, state of the art, benchmark and future opportunities

J Mandi, J Kotary, S Berden, M Mulamba… - Journal of Artificial …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Decision-focused learning (DFL) is an emerging paradigm that integrates machine learning
(ML) and constrained optimization to enhance decision quality by training ML models in an …

Pyepo: A pytorch-based end-to-end predict-then-optimize library for linear and integer programming

B Tang, EB Khalil - Mathematical Programming Computation, 2024 - Springer
In deterministic optimization, it is typically assumed that all problem parameters are fixed
and known. In practice, however, some parameters may be a priori unknown but can be …

Landscape surrogate: Learning decision losses for mathematical optimization under partial information

A Zharmagambetov, B Amos, A Ferber… - Advances in …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recent works in learning-integrated optimization have shown promise in settings where the
optimization problem is only partially observed or where general-purpose optimizers …

Learning with combinatorial optimization layers: a probabilistic approach

G Dalle, L Baty, L Bouvier, A Parmentier - arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13513, 2022 - arxiv.org
Combinatorial optimization (CO) layers in machine learning (ML) pipelines are a powerful
tool to tackle data-driven decision tasks, but they come with two main challenges. First, the …

Direct heterogeneous causal learning for resource allocation problems in marketing

H Zhou, S Li, G Jiang, J Zheng, D Wang - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Marketing is an important mechanism to increase user engagement and improve platform
revenue, and heterogeneous causal learning can help develop more effective strategies …

Scalable coupling of deep learning with logical reasoning

M Defresne, S Barbe, T Schiex - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.07617, 2023 - arxiv.org
In the ongoing quest for hybridizing discrete reasoning with neural nets, there is an
increasing interest in neural architectures that can learn how to solve discrete reasoning or …

Machine learning for satisficing operational decision making: A case study in blood supply chain

M Abolghasemi, B Abbasi, Z HosseiniFard - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine learning (ML) has attracted recent attention in solving constrained
optimization problems to reduce computational time. In this article, we employ multi-output …

From statistical relational to neurosymbolic artificial intelligence: A survey

G Marra, S Dumančić, R Manhaeve, L De Raedt - Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
This survey explores the integration of learning and reasoning in two different fields of
artificial intelligence: neurosymbolic and statistical relational artificial intelligence …

[HTML][HTML] Constructing decision rules for multiproduct newsvendors: An integrated estimation-and-optimization framework

AV Olivares-Nadal - European Journal of Operational Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we develop an integrated estimation-and-optimization framework for
constructing decisions rules for the order quantities of multiple perishable products. The …