EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

475. A column generation approach to exact experimental design

Invited abstract in session WC-4: Large Scale Optimization for Statistical Learning, stream Optimization for machine learning.

Wednesday, 14:00-16:00
Room: B100/5013

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Selin Ahipasaoglu
University of Southampton
2. Stefano Cipolla
School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton
3. Jacek Gondzio
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Abstract

We propose an algorithm for the exact optimal experimental design problem
under Kiefer’s criteria. Our method first employs column generation to solve the continuous relaxation of the problem quickly. The support of this solution is used to construct a feasible solution that is provably close to the optimal design. We demonstrate that for large-scale problems where the number of regression points is significantly larger than the number of experiments, this approach is preferable over existing algorithms.

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Status: accepted


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