A new class of functions for measuring solution integrality in the Feasibility Pump approach: Complete Results

Marianna De Santis (), Stefano Lucidi () and Francesco Rinaldi ()
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Marianna De Santis: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Stefano Lucidi: Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Francesco Rinaldi: Universita' di Padova Dipartimento di Matematica

No 2013-05, DIAG Technical Reports from Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

Abstract: Mixed-Integer optimization is a powerful tool for modeling many optimization problems arising from real-world applications. Finding a first feasible solution represents the first step for several MIP solvers. The Feasibility pump is a heuristic for finding feasible solutions to mixed integer linear problems which is effective even when dealing with hard MIP instances. In this work, we start by interpreting the Feasibility Pump as a Frank-Wolfe method applied to a nonsmooth concave merit function. Then, we define a general class of functions that can be included in the Feasibility Pump scheme for measuring solution integrality and we identify some merit functions belonging to this class. We further extend our approach by dynamically combining two different merit functions. Finally, we define a new version of the Feasibility Pump algorithm, which includes the original version of the Feasibility Pump as a special case, and we present computational results on binary MILP problems showing the effectiveness of our approach.

Keywords: Mixed integer programming; Concave penalty functions; Frank-Wolfe algorithm; Feasibility Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2013-05
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