Questions tagged [linear-programming]
Mathematical and computational method for finding the best outcome in a given mathematical model where the list of requirements is represented as linear relationships.
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Is there a simplex-like algorithm that can be used with a separation oracle?
Linear programs can be solved in polynomial time using the ellipsoid method, but in practice the Simplex method is much more efficient, and the smoothed analysis framework of Spielman and Teng ...
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What is known about (upper bounds on) the LP gap of the (symmetric) Travelling salesman in special instances?
What is known about the LP gap of (the natural Held-Karp relaxation of) the (symmetric) Travelling salesman in special instances?
I'm only aware of one special case where the extreme points are all ...
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Why is the ellipsoid method numerically unstable?
In the Ellipsoid method wikipedia entry under the performance section, it is mentioned that the Ellipsoid method often times is numerically unstable in practice: "On even "small"-sized ...
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Does an upper bound on the integrality gap imply an approximation algorithm with the same ratio?
Often, we can model combinatorial optimization problems with an Integer Program. Then there is an associated Linear Relaxation which drops the integrality constraints on the variables.
Let's say we ...
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Is this proof of $LP$ being in $coNP$ correct?
I am referring to the natural decision version of the Linear Programming problem: given $A \in \mathbb{Q}^{m \times n}, \ b \in \mathbb{Q}^m, \ c \in \mathbb{Q}^n, \ \alpha \in \mathbb{Q}$, does there ...
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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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Using Baire Category to analyze the efficiency of the Simplex Method
I read from the wiki page of the Simplex Algorithm that we can "use Baire category theory from general topology, and to show that (topologically) "most" matrices can be solved by the ...
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Prove that this linear relaxation has half-integral extreme points
Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, here is a Linear Relaxation of the edge cover polytope:
(1) For each $v \in V, \sum_{e \in \delta(v)} x_e \geq 1.$
(2) For each $e \in E$, $0 \leq x_e \leq 1.$
Here $\delta(S)$...
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Complexity of real coefficients Linear Programs
I would like to know if there are known any polynomial time algorithms for deciding the feasibility of linear programs with real (not integers) coefficients.
I know that for linear programs with ...
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Which algorithm for linear programming is suitable for the context of quantum computing?
There are two major types of algorithms for linear programming : extreme point based, interior point based.
Which will be suitable for quantum computing?
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are there approximation algorithms that use primal-dual with LP values and/or rounding?
Are there approximation algorithms that use primal-dual with LP values and/or rounding?
e.g. An algorithm that during any iteration first tries to see an extreme point to the LP has any value above a ...
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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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Is this homework problem on T-joins wrong? [closed]
In Question 9.3a, it states that if $T=V$, then the minimum cost perfect matching is the minimum cost T-join. Is this actually true? I think I have a counterexample which I have drawn below.
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Proof of $LP$ is in $coNP$ without showing it is in $P$?
Is there a proof that linear programming is in $coNP$ without showing it is in $P$?
If so what is the strategy?
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Generate cut $(A,B)$ in edge-colored graph $(V,E_1 \cup E_2)$ such that there are more red than white crossings, i.e $|E_1(A,B)| > |E_2(A,B)|$
Let $G=(V,E)$ be graph. Recall that a cut of $G$ is (or can uniquely be identified with) a pair $(A,B)$ of nonempty subsets of $V$ which partition it. Given a cut $(A,B)$, let $E(A,B) := \{(a,b) \in ...
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reference request: greedy algorithm for fractional interval covering
Reference Request
I've found a natural greedy algorithm for the problem below. My question is: what is already known about fast algorithms for this problem (faster than general linear programming, ...
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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.
The ...
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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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Proof that optimal solutions of LP Relaxation of independent set are half-integral
I saw somewhere that optimal solutions of LP Relaxation of independent set are half-integral, by what I mean the possible values of a solution are ${ \{0,0.5,1 \} }$. I'm looking for proof of that.
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Intuition behind the Charikar's LP formulation for densest subgraph problem
I understand why the LP gives the optimal solution for the densest subgraph problem. But don't understand the intuition behind the LP in this paper.
Just mentioning the LP for maximum density of a ...
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Minimum non-zero variable in the optimal solution of linear programming
Suppose we have a linear programming about the vertex packing of a hypergraph G=(V,E), with size $n = \sum_{e \in E}|e|$. We introduce a variable $x_v$ for each vertex $v \in V$.
$$\max \sum_{v} x_v ...
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linear programming with non-integer constraints
Suppose we have a linear progamming about vertex packing of a hypergraph (V,E), with size $n = \sum_{e \in E} |e|$. We introduce a variable $x_v$ for each vertex $v \in V$. The fractional version is ...
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Is it possible to approximate the solution of NP-Hard problems in polynomial time using linear programming? [closed]
Suppose we have a NP-Hard problem such as the k-col, which is meant to determine if a graph may be colored using at most ...
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Minimal number of hyperplanes needed to separate sets of points from one other set
Let $\mathbb{R}^d$ be our space. We have a single good set of points $g$, and a collection of bad sets of points $B$.
We assume that for all $b \in B$ the convex hulls of $g$ and $b$ are disjoint. ...
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Time complexity of alternation free quantified linear program with no free variables and only existential quantifications
We know $\exists x\in\mathbb R^n:Ax\leq b$ is standard linear program.
I am mainly looking at following case of quantified linear program with no free variables with only existential quantifications ...
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Sherali-Adams lowerbound instance of Unique Games constructed via CLT
The question comes from the following paper I have been reading:
[1] Integrality Gaps for Sherali–Adams Relaxations. SODA'09. Moses Charikar, Konstantin Makarychev, Yury Makarychev.
Theorem 6.1 of [...
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Finding whether $n$ polytopes have nontrivial intersection from pairwise comparisons
I have a set of $n$ convex polytopes of the form
$$\mathcal{L_i} = \{ \beta \mid C_i \beta \leq 0 \}$$
where $C$ is a matrix and $\beta$ is a vector. I know that for each pair of polytopes $$(\...
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finding maximum weight subgraph
My graph is as follows:
I need to find a maximum weight subgraph.
The problem is as follows:
There are n Vectex clusters, and in every Vextex cluster, there are some vertexes. For two vertexes in ...
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Complexity of Finding Largest Set of Intersecting Convex Polytopes
I have a set of $n$ convex polytopes, and I wish to find the largest subset of those polytopes that shares at least one point in common. I think that this problem should be NP-hard, but I am ...
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Does simplex algorithm run in polynomial on Bipartite Perfect matching polytope?
It is well known that simplex algorithm runs in exponential time in worst case.
However are there situations (necessary and sufficient conditions) where simplex algorithm runs in polynomial time?
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Minimizing a convex piece-wise linear function of short $(\max, +)$ circuit length
If $a_{ij}$ is an $m \times n$ matrix of real numbers, and $b_j$ are $n$ more real numbers, then
$$\max_i \sum_j (a_{ij} x_j + b_j) \qquad (\ast)$$
is a convex piecewise linear function of $(x_1, \...
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Can one efficiently uniformly sample a neighbor of a vertex in the graph of a polytope?
I have a polytope $P$ defined by $\{ x : Ax \leq b, x \geq 0\}$ .
Question: Given a vertex $v$ of $P$, is there a polynomial time algorithm to uniformly sample from the neighbors of $v$ in the graph ...
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How small can extension complexity be?
In this article on extension complexity of regular polygons https://arxiv.org/pdf/1505.08031.pdf it is mentioned that extension complexity of $n$ regular polygons should be $\theta(\log n)$. This is ...
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How is SDP an extension of spectral algorithms?
In one of his lectures, Uri Feige described semidefinite programming (SDP) as
... an algorithmic technique that extends both linear programming and spectral algorithms.
I know the basic ...
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Reference request: strong polynomial-time for LP
A follow-up of sorts on this question:
Complexity of finding a consistent hyperplane
What is a good survey of partial results on the strong poly-time status of the general LP problem?
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Generalizations of linear programming
Linear problems can be solved in polynomial time. So can semidefinite programs and, presumably, many other useful classes of optimization programs.
Is there a survey/lecture notes describing ...
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Best algorithms for real linear programming
Linear Programming asks for $x\in\mathbb R^n$ such that $Ax\leq L$ holds where $A\in\mathbb R^{m\times n}$ and $L\in\mathbb R^m$ are given. Karmarkar has shown that $\ell$ is the number of bits of ...
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Solving an LP with at most m-1 nonzeros
Consider the linear program:
$$
A x = b, ~~~~~~ x\geq 0
$$
where $A$ is an $m$-by-$n$ matrix, $x$ is an $n$-by-1 vector, $b$ is an $m$-by-1 vector, and $m<n$.
It is known that, if this ...
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Minimum relevant variables in linear system - additive approximation
In the problem Minimum Relevant Variables in Linear System (Min-RVLS), the input is a linear system, e.g.:
$$ A x = b $$
and the goal is to find a solution $x$ with as few nonzero variables as ...
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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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How "hard" is it to maximize a polynomial function subject to linear constraints?
General Problem
Suppose we have a multivariate polynomial function $f(\mathbf{x})$, and several linear functions $\ell_i(\mathbf{x})$. What is known about the complexity of solving the following ...
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Monotone complexity of PLP
Blum and Nisan show Positive Linear Programming could be done in $NC$ if we only ask for approximate solutions. This paper https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8dc7/5aa9d72864022d848c3e599c5f24d9d527e7....
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On complexity of linear programming with quadratic equality/inequality constraints?
Feasibility test in Linear programming is in $P$ and in convex quadratic programming is in $P$. What is the maximum $k$ such that $n$-variable $m=poly(n)$ linear constraint feasibility test with $k$ ...
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Reaching the double exponential upper bound in Fourier-Motzkin elimination
One round of Fourier-Motzkin elimination may yield $n^2/4$ inequalities where $n$ is the original number of linear inequalities, whence an upper bound of $n^{2^d}/2^{2^{d+1}-2}$ for $d$ rounds of ...
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Complexity of finding a consistent hyperplane
Given $m$ binary labeled points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, it is well-known that in general it's NP-hard to find a hyperplane that minimizes sample error. A brute-force search considers all $O(m^d)$ sample ...
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Explicit Formula of Delsarte's Linear Programming Upper Bound for $A_q(n,3)$
The problem of giving an explicit formula for $A_q(n,d)$ is sometimes referred to as "the main problem in coding theory." The value of $A_q(n,d)$ is given by the maximum number of codewords in a q-ary ...
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Max and Min Equations with Linear Programing
I am given constants $c_{i,j}$ as inputs. I want to find values for the variables $x_i$ that satisfy a system of equations, where each equation either takes the form
$$x_i = \max\{x_j + c_{i,j} : j \...
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Solving linear program with 1 quadratic constraint complexity
Consider the following linear program,
$$\min y \\
xc_1 \leq c_2 + yz,\\
x = x_1 + \dots + x_n,\\
z \leq x_1 + x_2, \\
z \leq x_2 + x_3, \\
\vdots\\
z \leq x_{n-1} + x_n, \\
x,x_1, \dots, x_n,y,z \...
