Aaron M. Ferber, PhD

@article{acikalin2024x2gnn,
  title = {Learning to Explore and Exploit with GNNs for Unsupervised Combinatorial Optimization},
  author = {Acikalin, Utku Umur and Ferber, Aaron and Gomes, Carla P.},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Submission}
}

@article{rappazzo2024aiscivision,
  title = {AISciVision: A Framework for Specializing Large Multimodal Models in Scientific Image Classification},
  author = {Rappazzo, Brendan Hogan and Kabra, Anmol and Pacheco, Felipe Siqueira and Greenstreet, Laura and Fan, Joshua and Ferber, Aaron and Ummus, Marta Eichemberger and Brito, Alecsander Gomes and Graham, Olivia J. and Aoki, Lillian R. and Harvell, C. Drew and Flecker, Alexander and Gomes, Carla P.},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Submission}
}

@article{rappazzo2024gem,
  title = {GEM-RAG: Graphical Eigen Memories For Retrieval Augmented Generation},
  author = {Rappazzo, Brendan Hogan and Wang, Yingheng and Ferber, Aaron and Gomes, Carla},
  journal = {ICMLA},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{rappazzo2024crtcl,
  title = {Critic Loss for Image Classification},
  author = {Rappazzo, Brendan Hogan and Ferber, Aaron and Gomes, Carla},
  journal = {ICMLA},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{kong2024diffusion,
  title = {Diffusion Models as Constrained Samplers for Optimization with Unknown Constraints},
  author = {Kong, Lingkai and Du, Yuanqi and Mu, Wenhao and Neklyudov, Kirill and De Bortol, Valentin and Wang, Haorui and Wu, Dongxia and Ferber, Aaron and Ma, Yi-An and Gomes, Carla P and Zhang, Chao},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.18012},
  year = {2024}
}

@inproceedings{ferber2024genco,
  title = {Gen{CO}: Generating Diverse Designs with Combinatorial Constraints},
  author = {Ferber, Aaron and Zharmagambetov, Arman and Huang, Taoan and Dilkina, Bistra and Tian, Yuandong},
  booktitle = {Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=DiyE6OOGBa}
}

@inproceedings{huang2024contrastive,
  title = {Contrastive Predict-and-Search for Mixed Integer Linear Programs},
  author = {Huang, Taoan and Ferber, Aaron and Zharmagambetov, Arman and Tian, Yuandong and Dilkina, Bistra},
  booktitle = {Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=zatLnLvbs8}
}

@inproceedings{zharmagambetov2024landscape,
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/hash/574f145eac328cc4aaf9358e27120eb5-Abstract-Conference.html},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  title = {Landscape surrogate: Learning decision losses for mathematical optimization under partial information},
  author = {Zharmagambetov, Arman and Amos, Brandon and Ferber, Aaron and Huang, Taoan and Dilkina, Bistra and Tian, Yuandong},
  volume = {36},
  year = {2024},
  pages = {27332--27350}
}

@article{huang2024distributional,
  title = {Distributional MIPLIB: a Multi-Domain Library for Advancing ML-Guided MILP Methods},
  author = {Huang, Weimin and Huang, Taoan and Ferber, Aaron and Dilkina, Bistra},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.06954},
  year = {2024}
}

@article{griffin2024interdiction,
  url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24725854.2023.2255643},
  title = {Interdiction of wildlife trafficking supply chains: An analytical approach},
  author = {Griffin, Emily C and Ferber, Aaron and Lafferty, Lucas and Keskin, Burcu B and Dilkina, Bistra and Gore, Meredith},
  journal = {IISE Transactions},
  volume = {56},
  number = {3},
  pages = {355--373},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}
}

@inproceedings{ferber2023surco,
  title = {Surco: Learning linear surrogates for combinatorial nonlinear optimization problems},
  author = {Ferber, Aaron and Huang, Taoan and Zha, Daochen and Schubert, Martin and Steiner, Benoit and Dilkina, Bistra and Tian, Yuandong},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = {10034--10052},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {PMLR},
  note = {\textcolor{red}{\textbf{Best Paper ICML 2024 SODS Workshop}}}
}

@inproceedings{ferber2023predicting,
  title = {Predicting Wildlife Trafficking Routes with Differentiable Shortest Paths},
  author = {Ferber, Aaron and Griffin, Emily and Dilkina, Bistra and Keskin, Burcu and Gore, Meredith},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research},
  pages = {460--476},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {Springer Nature Switzerland Cham}
}

@inproceedings{huang2023local,
  title = {Local branching relaxation heuristics for integer linear programs},
  author = {Huang, Taoan and Ferber, Aaron and Tian, Yuandong and Dilkina, Bistra and Steiner, Benoit},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research},
  pages = {96--113},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {Springer Nature Switzerland Cham}
}

@inproceedings{huang2023searching,
  title = {Searching large neighborhoods for integer linear programs with contrastive learning},
  author = {Huang, Taoan and Ferber, Aaron and Tian, Yuandong and Dilkina, Bistra and Steiner, Benoit},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = {13869--13890},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {PMLR}
}

@article{gore2023advancing,
  title = {Advancing interdisciplinary science for disrupting wildlife trafficking networks},
  author = {Gore, Meredith L and Griffin, Emily and Dilkina, Bistra and Ferber, Aaron and Griffis, Stanley E and Keskin, Burcu B and Macdonald, John},
  journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
  volume = {120},
  number = {10},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {National Academy of Sciences}
}

@article{gore2023data,
  title = {A data directory to facilitate investigations on worldwide wildlife trafficking},
  author = {Gore, Meredith L and Hilend, Rowan and Prell, Jonathan O and Griffin, Emily and Macdonald, John R and Keskin, Burcu B and Ferber, Aaron and Dilkina, Bistra},
  journal = {Big Earth Data},
  volume = {7},
  number = {2},
  pages = {338--348},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}
}

@article{keskin2023quantitative,
  title = {Quantitative investigation of wildlife trafficking supply chains: A review},
  author = {Keskin, Burcu B and Griffin, Emily C and Prell, Jonathan O and Dilkina, Bistra and Ferber, Aaron and MacDonald, John and Hilend, Rowan and Griffis, Stanley and Gore, Meredith L},
  journal = {Omega},
  volume = {115},
  pages = {102780},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Pergamon}
}

@article{gore2022identifying,
  title = {Identifying datasets for global wildlife trafficking},
  author = {Gore, Meredith and Keskin, Burcu and Macdonald, John and Ferber, Aaron and Griffin, Emily and Prell, Oakley and Dilkina, Bistra and Hilend, Rowan},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Zenodo}
}

@inproceedings{parjadis2023learning,
  title = {Learning Lagrangian Multipliers for the Travelling Salesman Problem},
  author = {Parjadis, Augustin and Cappart, Quentin and Dilkina, Bistra and Ferber, Aaron and Rousseau, Louis-Martin},
  booktitle = {Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Schloss Dagstuhl-Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  note = {\textcolor{red}{\textbf{Best Paper CP 2024}}}
}

@article{paul2023erratum,
  title = {Erratum to “budgeted prize-collecting traveling salesman and minimum spanning tree problems”},
  author = {Paul, Alice and Freund, Daniel and Ferber, Aaron and Shmoys, David B and Williamson, David P},
  journal = {Mathematics of Operations Research},
  volume = {48},
  number = {4},
  pages = {2304--2307},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {INFORMS}
}

@inproceedings{ferber2022learning,
  title = {Learning pseudo-backdoors for mixed integer programs},
  author = {Ferber, Aaron and Song, Jialin and Dilkina, Bistra and Yue, Yisong},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research},
  pages = {91--102},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {Springer International Publishing Cham}
}

@article{gupta2021controllable,
  title = {Controllable Guarantees for Fair Outcomes via Contrastive Information Estimation},
  volume = {35},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16931},
  doi = {10.1609/aaai.v35i9.16931},
  number = {9},
  journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  author = {Gupta, Umang and Ferber, Aaron and Dilkina, Bistra and Ver Steeg, Greg},
  year = {2021},
  month = may,
  pages = {7610-7619}
}

@inproceedings{ferber2020mipaal,
  title = {Mipaal: Mixed integer program as a layer},
  author = {Ferber, Aaron and Wilder, Bryan and Dilkina, Bistra and Tambe, Milind},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {34},
  number = {02},
  pages = {1504--1511},
  year = {2020}
}

@article{paul2020budgeted,
  title = {Budgeted prize-collecting traveling salesman and minimum spanning tree problems},
  author = {Paul, Alice and Freund, Daniel and Ferber, Aaron and Shmoys, David B and Williamson, David P},
  journal = {Mathematics of Operations Research},
  volume = {45},
  number = {2},
  pages = {576--590},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {INFORMS}
}

@inproceedings{paul2017prize,
  title = {Prize-collecting TSP with a budget constraint},
  author = {Paul, Alice and Freund, Daniel and Ferber, Aaron and Shmoys, David B and Williamson, David P},
  booktitle = {European Symposium on Algorithms},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {Schloss-Dagstuhl-Leibniz Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}
}