Analysis of Sparse Cutting Planes for Sparse MILPs with Applications to Stochastic MILPs

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DOI10.1287/MOOR.2017.0866zbMATH Open1432.90090arXiv1601.00198OpenAlexW2963926915MaRDI QIDQ5219296FDOQ5219296


Authors: Marco Molinaro, Qianyi Wang, Santanu S. Dey Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 11 March 2020

Published in: Mathematics of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we present an analysis of the strength of sparse cutting-planes for mixed integer linear programs (MILP) with sparse formulations. We examine three kinds of problems: packing problems, covering problems, and more general MILPs with the only assumption that the objective function is non-negative. Given a MILP instance of one of these three types, assume that we decide on the support of cutting-planes to be used and the strongest inequalities on these supports are added to the linear programming relaxation. Call the optimal objective function value of the linear programming relaxation together with these cuts as zcut. We present bounds on the ratio of zcut and the optimal objective function value of the MILP that depends only on the sparsity structure of the constraint matrix and the support of sparse cuts selected, that is, these bounds are completely data independent. These results also shed light on the strength of scenario-specific cuts for two stage stochastic MILPs.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1601.00198




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