Cocktail Optimization, an Integer Programming Problem June 18, 2026 I’ve been interested in integer programming problems for a long time (they the most interesting problems in dedupe). In the past, I approached them by writing custom branch-and-bound algorithms. I have been using Google’s OR Tools for a project that involves a lot of vehicle routing, and I started to wonder how these mixed integer linear programming solvers would do against my lovingly crafted algorithms. They utterly surpass...