Publications

Elias Wirth, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2025). The Pivoting Framework: Frank-Wolfe Algorithms with Active Set Size Control. The 28th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.

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Deborah Hendrych, Mathieu Besançon, David Martínez-Rubio, Sebastian Pokutta (2025). Secant Line Search for Frank-Wolfe Algorithms.

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Mathieu Besançon, Sébastien Designolle, Jannis Halbey, Deborah Hendrych, Dominik Kuzinowicz, Sebastian Pokutta, Hannah Troppens, Daniel Viladrich Herrmannsdoerfer, Elias Wirth (2025). Improved algorithms and novel applications of the FrankWolfe.jl library.

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Mathieu Besançon (2025). Efficient Sparse Flow Decomposition Methods for RNA Multi-Assembly.

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Suresh Bolusani, Mathieu Besançon, Ksenia Bestuzheva, Antonia Chmiela, João Dionísio, Tim Donkiewicz, Jasper van Doornmalen, Leon Eifler, Mohammed Ghannam, Ambros Gleixner, Christoph Graczyk, Katrin Halbig, Ivo Hedtke, Alexander Hoen, Christopher Hojny, Rolf van der Hulst, Dominik Kamp, Thorsten Koch, Kevin Kofler, Jurgen Lentz, Julian Manns, Gioni Mexi, Erik Mühmer, Marc E. Pfetsch, Franziska Schlösser, Felipe Serrano, Yuji Shinano, Mark Turner, Stefan Vigerske, Dieter Weninger, Lixing Xu (2024). The SCIP Optimization Suite 9.0.

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Deborah Hendrych, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2024). Solving the Optimal Experiment Design Problem with Mixed-Integer Convex Methods. 22nd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2024).

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Alejandro Carderera, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2024). Scalable Frank-Wolfe on Generalized Self-Concordant Functions via Simple Steps. SIAM Journal on Optimization.

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Mathieu Besançon, Miguel F Anjos, Luce Brotcorne (2024). Robust bilevel optimization for near-optimal lower-level solutions. Journal of Global Optimization.

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Gioni Mexi, Somayeh Shamsi, Mathieu Besançon, Pierre Le Bodic (2024). Probabilistic Lookahead Strong Branching via a Stochastic Abstract Branching Model. International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.

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Yohann Chasseray, Mathieu Besançon, Éva Petitdemange, Xavier Lorca (2024). Optimisation models for the design of multiple self-consumption loops in semi-rural areas.

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Kartikey Sharma, Deborah Hendrych, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2024). Network Design for the Traffic Assignment Problem with Mixed-Integer Frank-Wolfe. Proceedings of the INFORMS Optimization Society Annual conference.

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Gennesaret Tjusila, Mathieu Besançon, Mark Turner, Thorsten Koch (2024). How many clues to give? A bilevel formulation for the minimum Sudoku clue problem. Operations Research Letters.

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Suresh Bolusani, Gioni Mexi, Mathieu Besançon, Mark Turner (2024). A Multi-Reference Relaxation Enforced Neighborhood Search Heuristic in SCIP. Operations Research Proceedings.

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Mathieu Besançon, Jannis Kurtz (2024). A Frank-Wolfe Algorithm for Oracle-based Robust Optimization.

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Suresh Bolusani, Mathieu Besançon, Ambros Gleixner, Timo Berthold, Claudia D'Ambrosio, Gonzalo Muñoz, Joseph Paat, Dimitri Thomopulos (2023). The MIP Workshop 2023 Computational Competition on Reoptimization. Mathematical Programming Computation.

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Gioni Mexi, Mathieu Besançon, Suresh Bolusani, Antonia Chmiela, Ambros Gleixner, Alexander Hoen (2023). Scylla: a matrix-free fix-propagate-and-project heuristic for mixed-integer optimization. Operations Research Proceedings.

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Sébastien Designolle, Gabriele Iommazzo, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Knebel, Patrick Gelß, Sebastian Pokutta (2023). Improved local models and new Bell inequalities via Frank-Wolfe algorithms. Phys. Rev. Res..

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Akshay Sharma, Mathieu Besançon, Joaquim Dias Garcia, Benoı̂t Legat (2023). Flexible Differentiable Optimization via Model Transformations. INFORMS Journal on Computing.

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Ksenia Bestuzheva, Mathieu Besançon, Wei-Kun Chen, Antonia Chmiela, Tim Donkiewicz, Jasper van Doornmalen, Leon Eifler, Oliver Gaul, Gerald Gamrath, Ambros Gleixner, others (2023). Enabling research through the SCIP optimization suite 8.0. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software.

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Mark Turner, Timo Berthold, Mathieu Besançon, Thorsten Koch (2023). Cutting plane selection with analytic centers and multiregression. International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research.

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Mark Turner, Timo Berthold, Mathieu Besançon (2023). A Context-Aware Cutting Plane Selection Algorithm for Mixed-Integer Programming. Operations Research Proceedings.

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St Elmo Wilken, Mathieu Besançon, Miroslav Kratochvïl, Chilperic Armel Foko Kuate, Christophe Trefois, Wei Gu, Oliver Ebenhöh (2022). Interrogating the effect of enzyme kinetics on metabolism using differentiable constraint-based models. Metabolic Engineering.

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Jan Macdonald, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2022). Interpretable Neural Networks with Frank-Wolfe: Sparse Relevance Maps and Relevance Orderings. International Conference in Machine Learning.

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Mathieu Besançon, Alejandro Carderera, Sebastian Pokutta (2022). FrankWolfe.jl: A High-Performance and Flexible Toolbox for Frank-Wolfe Algorithms and Conditional Gradients. INFORMS Journal on Computing.

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Deborah Hendrych, Hannah Troppens, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2022). Convex mixed-integer optimization with Frank-Wolfe algorithms.

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Ksenia Bestuzheva, Mathieu Besançon, Wei-Kun Chen, Antonia Chmiela, Tim Donkiewicz, Jasper van Doornmalen, Leon Eifler, Oliver Gaul, Gerald Gamrath, Ambros Gleixner, others (2021). The SCIP Optimization Suite 8.0.

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Alejandro Carderera, Mathieu Besançon, Sebastian Pokutta (2021). Simple steps are all you need: Frank-Wolfe and generalized self-concordant functions. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.

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Mathieu Besançon, Theodore Papamarkou, David Anthoff, Alex Arslan, Simon Byrne, Dahua Lin, John Pearson (2021). Distributions.jl: Definition and Modeling of Probability Distributions in the JuliaStats Ecosystem. Journal of Statistical Software.

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Mathieu Besançon, Miguel F Anjos, Luce Brotcorne (2021). Complexity of near-optimal robust versions of multilevel optimization problems. Optimization Letters.

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Mathieu Besançon, Miguel F Anjos, Luce Brotcorne, Juan A Gomez-Herrera (2020). A bilevel approach for optimal price-setting of time-and-level-of-use tariffs. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.

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Mathieu Besançon (2019). A Julia package for bilevel optimization problems. Journal of Open Source Software.

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Mathieu Besançon, Miguel F. Anjos, Luce Brotcorne, Juan A. Gomez-Herrera (2019). A Bilevel Framework for Optimal Price-Setting of Time-and-Level-of-Use Tariffs.

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