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Nonlinear GAP similar to Min-GAP but with minimum quantities and without capacity
I have $m$ items and $n$ bins where each item $i$ and bin $j$ has a value $v_{i,j}$. Each bin $j$ has a value $V_j$. I want to pack the items into the bins such that
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Integer Program where an integer optimal solution is an extreme point of the LP Relaxation
Let RLP $\equiv$ (Linear relaxation of the Integer Program).
In general, Integer Programming is NP-hard. $~$And often, an integer optimal solution will lie in the interior of the feasible space of the ...
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What is a "strongly complementary pair" of primal/dual solutions to a linear program?
While trying to understand this paper by Hammer, Hansen and Simeone, I came across some terminology I was unfamiliar with: the notion of a "strongly complementary pair".
For a linear program ...
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Parallel complexity of fixed dimension fixed constraints integer programming
Papadimitriou in https://lara.epfl.ch/w/_media/papadimitriou81complexityintegerprogramming.pdf shows ILP is fixed parameter tractable in number of constraints and Lenstra in https://people.csail.mit....
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Separation oracle for breaking cycles in directed graph
I am working on a directed graph problem and am collaterally interested to know whether there is a separation oracle for the following set of linear constraints.
We are given a directed graph $G$ ...
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Does the standard 4/3 integrality gap for TSP example work for Euclidean TSP?
Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, costs $c \in \mathbb{R}^E$ the TSP problem is to compute a min cost tour of the graph. The LP is
min $ c^tx $
$x(\delta(S)) \geq 2 \ \ \ \ \forall S \subset V $
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Hardness of computing the dimension of an integral polytope?
Given a set of linear inequalities $Ax \leq b$ let $P = \text{conv}\{x \in \{0,1\}^n \mid A x \leq b \}$ be the convex hull of all binary vectors that satisfy the given inequalities.
I am interested ...
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Do there exist two equivalent objective functions one of which can be approximated but another one cannot?
I have two equivalent problems A and B, meaning that the optimal solution of one must be the optimal solution of another one. However, it seems that problem A can be approximated but B cannot. Below ...
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How hard is this combinatorial optimisation problem?
Suppose we have multiple intervals $R_1,R_2,...,R_i$ of non-negative integers. These intervals may overlap and we use $R_h(\mathrm{median})$ to denote the median integer in the $h$-th interval $R_h$, ...
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Characterization of integral polyhedra
A rational polyhedron $P \subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$ is an integral polyhedron if it is the convex hull of its integer points. That is, if $P = conv(P \cap \mathbb{Z}^n)$.
Equivalently, $P$ is integral if ...
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Is that edge orientation optimization problem NP-hard?
Is the following optimization problem NP-hard?
Problem. For a given undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, find an orientation of the edges that minimizes the objective value $\sum_\limits{u\in V} ~\left( d_{...
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Is this edge orientation optimization problem NP-hard?
Is the following optimization problem NP-hard?
Problem. For a given undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, find an orientation of the edges that minimizes the objective value $\sum_\limits{v\in V} ~d_{out}(v)\...
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(Integer) Linear Program formulation of planarity?
Q: Is there an efficient (I)LP formulation of planarity?
More specifically, I am looking for a set of constraints that are satisfied by exactly all planar graphs on $n$ vertices, in order to optimize ...
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Ensuring integral maximizer from integral linear program
An integral linear program is one that has a maximizer that is integral. Sometimes it's possible to prove that a particular LP has this property, for example by proving that it's constraint matrix is ...
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Is the edge cover polytope integral on graphs with self-loops?
It is well known that the edge cover polytope is integral on simple graphs. I am wondering whether this also holds for graphs with self-loops.
Here is a Linear Relaxation of the edge cover polytope, ...
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Is the matching polytope integral?
In this document https://courses.engr.illinois.edu/cs598csc/sp2010/Lectures/Lecture9.pdf
they prove the integrality of the matching polytope using the integrality of the perfect matching polytope.
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Separation oracle for hitting all small cut on a graph?
We are given as input an undirected graph $G=(V,E)$, weights $w_e \ge 0$ for all $e\in E$ and an positive integer $k$. We aim to select a set of edges with the minimum weight, such that the cut set of ...
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Name of (and solution to) this generalization of linear assignment
I would like to know if the following problem is known and has any efficient solution.
Given an $n\times n$ score matrix $S$. Find the best $a$ elements, in terms of their sum of scores, such that no ...
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An integer programming on maximum number of triangles
Consider three distinct sets $A, B, C$ of $N$ elements respectively. For each pair of sets, say $A,B$, we introduce an variable for each combination of values $a,b$ as $x_{ab}$. Similarly, we ...
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Finding shortest calculation of the sum of a subset of a group, given sums for other previously summed subsets
Say $S=\{g\in G\}$ is a set of elements in an abelian group $G$ whose group operation $(+)$ is expensive to compute. Given a subset $T\subset S$, we want to compute the sum of $T$'s elements, $\...
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Relaxed minimum dominating set
(I moved this question from cs exchange to here, because it might be more on the topic here)
Let $G=(V,E)$ be a directed graph with $n$ nodes. For a subset of nodes $S\subseteq V$, let $\mathcal{N}(S,...
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Size of solutions in integer programming
Given a linear integer program $Ax\leq b$ with $A\in\mathbb Z^{m\times n}$ and $b\in\mathbb Z^m$ known is there a polynomial time algorithm to give tight upper bounds for $\log_2\|x\|_\infty$ and $\...
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Problems which will be in $NC$ if fixed dimension Linear Integer Programming in $NC$
We know if fixed dimension linear integer programming is in $NC$ then integer $GCD$ is in $NC$. Is this the only non-trivial implication of fixed dimension linear integer programming in $NC$?
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Is there a counterexample to this work?
Is there a counterexample to this claim https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00353? They claim a $O(n^6)$ LP model with simulations to support. I think asking validity is not a reasonable problem. However ...
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Convex mixed linear integer programming with real nuclear norm objective and linear integer objective
Khachiyan and Porkolab in 'Integer optimization on convex semialgebraic sets' gave an $O(ld^{ O(k^4)})$ algorithm to minimize a degree $d$ form with integer coefficients of binary length at most $l$ ...
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Integer programming: enforce the constraint that a subgraph contains at most $k$ connected components?
I'm considering integer programming on an variation of Steiner Forest Problem:
Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, a cost function: $c:E \rightarrow R^{+}$, a terminal set $T \subseteq V$, and a positive ...
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Minimum Union-Sum Cost Path
I have a minimum cost path selection problem that is different from the usual shortest path in that each type of cost is accounted only once in the total cost of the path if multiple edges on the path ...
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Anti bin packing
I have a (practically) unlimited amount of McDonald's coupons that I can use only if I shop for at least 1 money.
Thus I want to partition my family's meal into as many parts as possible that all ...
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Fixed dimension Integer programming minus LLL in fixed parameter $NC$?
If you remove LLL part then is remaining part of
a. Lenstra algorithm
b. Barvinok algorithm
in $O(f(n)(\log(mL))^c)$ time on $O(g(n)(mL)^c)$ processors with fixed $c>0$ in fixed $n$ dimension, $m$ ...
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Solving 0/1 integer programming and solving ACC-of-SYM circuits
I am referring to the proof of Theorem 1.4 in this STOC 2014 paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.2444. In particular my question is about the argument that begins in the 8th line of page 9 where the ...
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Has Khachiyan/Porkolob's convex integer optimization been implemented?
Khachiyan and Porkolab in 'Integer optimization on convex semialgebraic sets' gave an $O(ld^{ O(k^4)})$ algorithm to minimize a degree $d$ form with integer coefficients of binary length at most $l$ ...
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How do minimally violated k-mod cuts work (intuitive explanation)?
As a background, I am not a specialist in theoretical computer science. But I have to take an exam with research-level optimization topics, and I have to learn it on my own, without lectures or tutors....
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Have fixed parameter integer program algorithms ever been implemented for research use?
Have any fixed parameter integer programming algorithms described in Integer programming with a fixed number of variables been implemented? Is there a reference code that researchers can use?
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What exactly did Lenstra prove on mixed integer linear program?
I studied Lenstra's paper https://www.jstor.org/stable/3689168. I have no clue what complexity he provides on Mixed Integer Programming (it is too terse and it is not a stand alone paper as he assumes ...
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Max weight travel on a graph with deadline
Given a deadline $D>0$ and a complete graph $K_n$ (with loops) in which each edge $e_{ij}$ has a weight $w(e_{ij}) \ge 0$ and a travel time $l(e_{ij}) > 0$. Starting from one of the nodes, we ...
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Fixed parameter tractable Integer Programming and $FPP$
Integer programming is $NP$ complete however fixed parameter tractable in number of variables. Is the fixed parameter version in parametrized analogue of $P$-complete or in parametrized analogue of $...
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Polynomial cases of 0 1 quadratic programm with linear constraints
A pseudo boolean function f:{0,1}^n-> R is defined as f(x)= x^tQx +cx where
Q is a symmetric matrix with null elements in the diagonal. Finding the minimum of this function is solvable in polynomial ...
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Fixed parameter Integer Programming circuit depth complexity
It is well known Lenstra's and Kannan's algorithm achieves $n$-variable parameter $L$-bit integer programming solvability in $O(n^nL)$ time and $O(L)$ space.
If implemented as an arithmetic circuit ...
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Under what conditions does an Integer Programming problem run in polynomial time?
Given $AX\leq B$ where $A\in\Bbb Z^{m\times n}$,$B\in\Bbb Z^m$ finding $X\in\Bbb Z^n$ where $m\geq n$ is the integer programming problem. If $A$ is totally unimodular then the problem is solvable in ...
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Consequences of faster parameterized integer programming
Integer programming in $k$ variables can be done in $k^{O(k)}$ time and $O(k^c)$ space.
Is there any consequence if it can be done in $k^{O(k^\alpha)}$ time and $O(k^c)$ space for some $\alpha\in(0,1)...
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Space complexity of integer programming
Given $A\in\Bbb Z^{n\times k}$, $v\in\Bbb Z^n$ and variables $x_1,\dots,x_k$ given as a vector $x$ we know that solving $x\in\Bbb Z^k$ in $Ax\leq v$ is fixed parameter tractable. There is a ...
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On integer programming
Integer programming is NP-hard.
What is the status of integer programming problem that decides between existence of $\leq1$ solution and $>1$ solutions (note $0$ solutions falls in $\leq1$ ...
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Min cost set of edges to connect 2 subgraphs s.t dist of nodes between subgraphs <= K
I find myself with another graph problem that I can't find the name of. I was wondering if anyone was able to identify if this problem and any efficient algorithms to solve it are known.
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What are some example problems for integer programming that are *not binary*
I'm interested in NP-hard problems that have a "nice" integer-programming formulation (quadratic or linear, with quadratic or linear constraints) that is not binary.
Of course it is always possible ...
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Are there integer programs with small coefficients that only have large solutions?
It is well-known that if an integer linear program has a feasible solution, then it has a feasible solution whose bit size is polynomially bounded. For example, here is Theorem 13.4 from Papadimitriou ...
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Is finding an optimal solution to this Knapsack-like problem NP-hard?
Suppose our inputs are a set of objects with weights $w_1,...,w_n$. We have two separate sets of profits: $p_1,...,p_n$ and $v_1,...,v_n$. We wish to maximize $ \sum_{i=1}^{n} p_i(1-x_i)+\alpha_i ...
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Which is the approximation class of Minimum 0-1 integer programming if only non-negative integers are allowed?
I'm wondering which is the approximation class of Minimum 0-1 Integer Programming if only non-negative integers are used. That is:
minimize $c^T \cdot x$,
with $x\in \{0,1\}^n$ and $c\in (\mathbb{Z}^...
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How to prove integrality of LP with not totally unimodular matrix
I have a linear program (LP) for which the constraint matrix is NOT totally unimodular (TU). However, even though constraint matrix is small (14x20), extensive generation of random coefficients for ...
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NP completeness of linear $0-1$ assignment problem
Supposing we have a linear equation in $n^2$ variables with integer (negatives allowed) coefficients of at most $m$ bits each.
Partition $\Pi_1$ the variables into $n$ disjoint sets of $n$ variables ...
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On a Linearization of the Quadratic Assignment Problem
The Quadratic Assignment Problem formulated as an integer program:
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\mbox{minimize}\quad & \sum_{i=1}^n\sum_{j=1}^nc_{ij} x_{ij} + \sum_{i=1}^n\sum_{j=1}^n\sum_{k=1}^n\sum_{l=1}^n ...
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