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#1

in problems solved

BARON solves the most benchmark MINLPs among solvers with reported results, with 29% lower runtime than the next-fastest solver.

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55%

fewer model terms

ALAMO produced models with about 55% fewer terms than LASSO on average, while achieving greater predictive accuracy and favoring simpler, low-complexity models.

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5.5×

more problems solved

BAM solves 5.5× as many benchmark problems as the best Bayesian optimizer, delivering substantially more successful solutions.

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Recent Use Cases

Power System Scheduling with BARON

Power System Scheduling with BARON

Researchers in India used BARON (in GAMS) to optimize power plant scheduling across three grids, accounting for transmission losses and constraints while consistently finding lower-cost operating schedules than competing methods.

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Process Flowsheet Optimization with ALAMO

Process Flowsheet Optimization with ALAMO

A U.S. Department of Energy collaboration used ALAMO to replace intensive reactor simulations with compact models, achieving 100% success across 64 optimization instances and outperforming neural networks with greater speed and efficiency.

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Featured Sponsorships

The Optimization Firm is a proud sponsor of the following recent and upcoming conferences:

  INFORMS Optimization Society Conference (IOS 2026) March 20-22, 2026

  Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2026) May 18-21, 2026

  23rd International Conference on the Integration of CP, AI, and OR (CPAIOR 2026) May 26-29, 2026

  SIAM Activity Group Test of Time Award (OP 2026) June 2–5, 2026

  International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2027) July 25-30, 2027