---
title: "End-to-End Constrained Optimization Learning: A Survey"
authors:
  - "James Kotary"
  - "Ferdinando Fioretto"
  - "Pascal Van Hentenryck"
  - "Bryan Wilder"
doi: "10.24963/ijcai.2021/610"
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/610"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2021/0610.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2021
pages: "4475-4482"
track: "Survey Track"
keywords:
  - "Machine learning: General"
  - "Constraints and SAT: General"
---

# End-to-End Constrained Optimization Learning: A Survey

James Kotary, Ferdinando Fioretto, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Bryan Wilder

*Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 4475-4482. DOI: [10.24963/ijcai.2021/610](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/610)

## Abstract

This paper surveys the recent attempts at leveraging machine learning to solve constrained optimization problems. It focuses on surveying the work on integrating combinatorial solvers and optimization methods with machine learning architectures. 
These approaches hold the promise to develop new hybrid machine learning and optimization methods to predict fast, approximate, solutions to combinatorial problems and to enable structural logical inference. This paper presents a conceptual review of the recent advancements in this emerging area.