# About

### Authors

* **Alinson S. Xavier,** Argonne National Laboratory <<axavier@anl.gov>>
* **Feng Qiu,** Argonne National Laboratory <<fqiu@anl.gov>>

### Acknowledgments

* Based upon work supported by **Laboratory Directed Research and Development** (LDRD) funding from Argonne National Laboratory, provided by the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357, and the **U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Grid Modeling Program** under Grant DE-OE0000875.*

### References


If you use MIPLearn in your research, or the included problem generators, we kindly request that you cite the package as follows:

* **Alinson S. Xavier, Feng Qiu.** *MIPLearn: An Extensible Framework for Learning-Enhanced Optimization*. Zenodo (2020). DOI: [10.5281/zenodo.4287567](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4287567)

If you use MIPLearn in the field of power systems optimization, we kindly request that you cite the reference below, in which the main techniques implemented in MIPLearn were first developed:

* **Alinson S. Xavier, Feng Qiu, Shabbir Ahmed.** *Learning to Solve Large-Scale Unit Commitment Problems.* INFORMS Journal on Computing (2020). DOI: [10.1287/ijoc.2020.0976](https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.2020.0976)

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