Column Generation for Extended Formulations
SADYKOV, Ruslan
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
VANDERBECK, François
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
SADYKOV, Ruslan
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
VANDERBECK, François
Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
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Reformulations based algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization [Realopt]
Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux [IMB]
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en
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EURO Journal on Computational Optimization. 2013-05-01, vol. 1, n° 1-2, p. 81-115
Springer
English Abstract
Working in an extended variable space allows one to develop tighter reformu- lations for mixed integer programs. However, the size of the extended formulation grows rapidly too large for a direct treatment by a MIP-solver. ...Read more >
Working in an extended variable space allows one to develop tighter reformu- lations for mixed integer programs. However, the size of the extended formulation grows rapidly too large for a direct treatment by a MIP-solver. Then, one can work with inner approximations defined and improved by generating dynamically vari- ables and constraints. When the extended formulation stems from subproblems' reformulations, one can implement column generation for the extended formulation using a Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition paradigm. Pricing subproblem solutions are expressed in the variables of the extended formulation and added to the current re- stricted version of the extended formulation along with the subproblem constraints that are active for the subproblem solutions. This so-called "column-and-row gen- eration" procedure is revisited here in a unifying presentation that generalizes the column generation algorithm and extends to the case of working with an approximate extended formulation. The interest of the approach is evaluated numerically on ma- chine scheduling, bin packing, generalized assignment, and multi-echelon lot-sizing problems. We compare a direct handling of the extended formulation, a standard column generation approach, and the "column-and-row generation" procedure, high- lighting a key benefit of the latter: lifting pricing problem solutions in the space of the extended formulation permits their recombination into new subproblem solutions and results in faster convergence.Read less <
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