Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.4606
Publisher DOI: 10.1007/s10107-022-01882-9
Title: High multiplicity N-fold IP via configuration LP
Language: English
Authors: Knop, Dušan 
Koutecký, Martin 
Levin, Asaf 
Mnich, Matthias  
Onn, Shmuel 
Keywords: Integer programming; Configuration IP; Fixed-parameter algorithms; Scheduling
Issue Date: 21-Sep-2022
Publisher: Springer
Source: Mathematical Programming (2022)
Abstract (english): 
N-fold integer programs (IPs) form an important class of block-structured IPs for which increasingly fast algorithms have recently been developed and successfully applied. We study high-multiplicity N-fold IPs, which encode IPs succinctly by presenting a description of each block type and a vector of block multiplicities. Our goal is to design algorithms which solve N-fold IPs in time polynomial in the size of the succinct encoding, which may be significantly smaller than the size of the explicit (non-succinct) instance. We present the first fixed-parameter algorithm for high-multiplicity N-fold IPs, which even works for convex objectives. Our key contribution is a novel proximity theorem which relates fractional and integer optima of the Configuration LP, a fundamental notion by Gilmore and Gomory [Oper. Res., 1961] which we generalize. Our algorithm for N-fold IP is faster than previous algorithms whenever the number of blocks is much larger than the number of block types, such as in N-fold IP models for various scheduling problems.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11420/13427
DOI: 10.15480/882.4606
ISSN: 0025-5610
Journal: Mathematical programming 
Institute: Algorithmen und Komplexität E-11 
Document Type: Article
Project: Multivariate Algorithmen für Scheduling mit hoher Multiplizität 
Projekt DEAL 
Peer Reviewed: Yes
License: CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) CC BY 4.0 (Attribution)
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