Questions tagged [linear-programming]
Referring to optimization problems that consist only of linear constraints and a linear objective function.
116
questions
-1
votes
0answers
21 views
Can we start Simplex method at a different corner than origin
I am working on a complex LP where I would like to get a fast heuristic solution and use it as a starting point for Simplex. The heuristic algorithm provides a corner point, but I am not sure how to ...
1
vote
0answers
11 views
Long AMPL model preparation time
We deal with a large-scale linear optimization problem (~50000 variables and ~4000000 constraints). We use AMPL Studio modeling environment for problem modeling and then calling linear solver (CPLEX, ...
2
votes
1answer
58 views
Getting Extremal Rays of Cone
So I have a set of linear homogeneous equations $A\vec{x}=0$. I would like to solve this for non-negative solutions. I can solve the system in general and I get the two vectors that span the solution ...
2
votes
1answer
66 views
Is it more efficient to capture many constraints in one constraint?
I have a number of variables that need to be set to 0. They are positive real numbers so the way I see it I can do this by setting each one to 0 by separate constraints, or I can set their sum to zero....
1
vote
1answer
79 views
Is there a name for this integer linear optimization problem?
I have an integer linear programming problem of the form:
$$\DeclareMathOperator{\tr}{tr} \min \tr WX$$ subject to:
$$\begin{align}
\sum_j X_{ij} < c_i && \forall i \\
\sum_i X_{ij} = 1 &...
4
votes
1answer
48 views
Determine image of hypercube under linear map
Let $A$ be an $3\times N$ matrix (where $N$ is large) with nonnegative real entries. I'd like an algorithm for determining when a vector $v\in\Bbb R^3$ can be written as $Aw$ for some vector $w\in\Bbb ...
2
votes
3answers
147 views
Find a solution of large system of inequalities
I have a large system of homogenous inequalities involving 33 real unknowns of the form
$$
\vec{F}(z_i)^T \cdot \vec{X}>0\,
$$
where $\vec{X} = \left(x_1,...,x_{24}\right)^T$ are the unknowns and ...
5
votes
1answer
71 views
What is the name for this type of constraint?
I have what would be a straightforward mixed-integer linear programming problem, except for the fact that some of the constraints are of the form $f(x_1,x_2,x_3,\ldots,x_n) < c$, where $f$ is 'take ...
3
votes
0answers
54 views
Solving multiple linear programs with same constraints but different objective
I have ~30 non-negative variables and 24 equations and I want to find out the upper and lower bound for each variable. Feasible solutions are guaranteed.
So for each variable, I solve two LP problem, ...
2
votes
0answers
29 views
Where can I find sample data for large linear programming optimization problems?
I am doing a comparison of different algebraic modeling langues (AMPL, AIMMS, GAMS, Pyomo) in both theoretical and practical terms. As a practical experiment I am trying to measure problem model ...
1
vote
1answer
80 views
Splittable and non-splittable flows in the network flow problem
I am working on a multi-commodity flow problem where for a graph $G=(V, E)$, some flows are permitted to be split and some flows should strictly follow one path. I have formulated this problem as ...
3
votes
1answer
83 views
What is a “good enough” method of assigning values to n variables subject to basic bounding constraints while maintaining relative weights?
Given triples of $n$ floating point values
$$(\min_1, \max_1, w_1), \dots, (\min_n, \max_n, w_n)$$
and a value $V$, what is a good algorithhm to assign values $v_i$ to each of the triples such that ...
2
votes
0answers
51 views
Weighted Set Cover in practice, beyond the greedy algorithm
According to the wikipedia page for Set Cover, the greedy algorithm for weighted set cover achieves the polynomial-time approximation bound. There are other techniques for solving Set Cover, such as ...
2
votes
0answers
52 views
Transforming an arbitrary linear program into one with an interior point
Primal-dual interior point methods for linear programming require interior primal and dual starting points. I am looking for a good reference containing a description for modifying a given linear ...
5
votes
1answer
473 views
Ways to speed up solving an LP with Google's ortools
I'm having an issue solving an LP of the form:
$$\min z = c^Tx$$
$$\text{s.t.}$$
$$Ax \geq b$$
$$x\geq p$$
$1 \leq a_{ij} \ll b_i$, $p \leq 0$, and $c \geq 0$
The specific problems I'm running into ...
1
vote
0answers
151 views
Finding integer/lattice points (coordinates) inside a polytope/polyhedra?
I am using Python but I wouldn't mind changing language. All I have gotten from my research are tools to count the number of (lattice) points inside a region given the equations for the planes that ...
1
vote
2answers
61 views
implied equalities and relative interior
What is the best method to find for a linear system of inequalities $Ax\ge b$ with dense $A$ of moderate dimension the affine subspace spanned by the feasible points (i.e., the implied equalities $(Ax)...
3
votes
1answer
223 views
Why do active set methods or the simplex method pivot only one variable at a time?
Why do active set methods or the simplex method pivot only one variable at a time? Ostensibly, we could add multiple columns to the basis during pivoting, but the standard presentation of the methods ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Solve a set of multivariate linear inequalities with constraints in Python
I'm trying to implement Dinur-Nissim algorithm and am stuck at how to solve the set of linear inequalities with multiple unknowns and a large number of equations along with constraints.
Example:
\...
0
votes
1answer
649 views
How to perform linear programming sensitivity analysis in MATLAB?
I would like to perform post-optimal analysis using Matlab linprog. But it does not provide any information about that. So required a way to get the info about optimal basis, basic and non-basic ...
3
votes
1answer
60 views
Linear programming with stochasticity?
Suppose I have implemented an LP, where some constraint coefficients are implemented as the mean of some probability distribution.
Now, I would like to solve the same problem but with stochasticity ...
1
vote
3answers
108 views
Is it possible to use both the absolute value and the actual value of a variable in a linear objective function?
I have an optimization problem that I'm trying to cast as a linear program. However, I have an objective function of the form
$$\begin{array}{ll} \text{maximize} & a_1 x_1 - a_2 \lvert x_1\rvert\\...
5
votes
1answer
130 views
Largest hypercuboid inside a polyhedron
Given a polyhedron $\mathbf{Ax} \leq \mathbf{b}$, how to find the largest hypercuboid, with unknown center $\mathbf{x_{0}}$ and side lengths $2\epsilon_{i}$, which are aligned along the co-ordinate ...
2
votes
3answers
958 views
Checking the feasibility of a system of inequalities
I have $m$ inequalities involving $n$ variables as follows
$$a_{1,j} x_1 +a_{2,j} x_2 +\dots +a_{n,j} x_n>0 \quad \text{for} \quad 1 \leq j \leq m$$
How can I check if a solution exists (with the ...
1
vote
0answers
94 views
Generate discrete set of points in a feasible region
I have two vectors which specify the bounds $x_{min}$ and $x_{max}$ of the sample space. Also, it has to satisfy the linear constraint $Ax \leq b$.
How to generate an evenly spaced set of points, ...
3
votes
0answers
74 views
linear relaxation of an optimization problem
I'm reading an article lately, and there is one point which confuses me. So, we have the following constrained binary quadratic problem.
min $x^{T}Qx$
with the constraints that $Ax≤b$
and $x\in {0,...
0
votes
1answer
84 views
Perturbation in bounds given the perturbation to constraints
Given a feasibility problem with both inequality and equality constraints, I'm interested in the sensitivity of the bounds of the region to changes in the constraints. To help with answering the ...
1
vote
0answers
195 views
Variable elimination in linear programming
I have a linear program of the form
$$\underset{P,\;g}{\text{Minimize}}\hspace{3mm}c^Tg$$
\begin{align}
\hspace{17mm}\text{Subject to}\hspace{3mm}AP_{\cdot,j}&=\begin{bmatrix}
-g\\
d
\end{...
1
vote
0answers
45 views
Help formulating/finding the general class of this problem
Imagine a bus serving a line with N stations. Each station, $i, i=1,…N$, has $s_{ij}$ passengers that want to board the bus to go to $j$, $\forall j \neq i$. (one direction). So there are $\sum_j s_{...
4
votes
0answers
564 views
Precision of ratio constraint in a linear program [closed]
I am trying to solve a LP in which one of my constraints is of the form
$$\frac{A(x)}{B(x)} = 1$$
I transform this constraint into a linear one
$$A(x) - B(x) = 0$$
However when CPLEX solves the ...
1
vote
1answer
74 views
Literature on comparing Simplex and Interior-Point-Methods (or combining both of them)
Do you know some interesting literature concerning the comparison of Simplex and Interior-Point-Methods referring to linear optimization?
I also read about the possibility of combining both of them ...
2
votes
1answer
107 views
linear programming feasiblity checking
Is there any sufficient and necessary condition to check the feasibility of the linear constraints
$Ax=b, x\geq 0$
without solving an LP with a constant objective function? $x$ is the variable and $...
2
votes
1answer
66 views
From deterministic to stochastic LP formulations
I am having a hard time understanding the very first example in "A Tutorial on Stochastic Programming".
More specifically the authors show that one can formulate the stochastic variant of (1.2) ...
1
vote
0answers
41 views
I'm using linear programming for production planning. Does the order in which I make products affect the cost?
I have a collection of different scrap aluminium alloys. I want to mix them together to make new alloys with customer-defined compositions.
Sometimes this will involve little more than melting down ...
0
votes
1answer
49 views
Maximize Result For 4 variable
A factory has $A$ and $B$ products. $A$ is made with $4X + 2Y$ raw materials. $B$ is made $2X + 4Y$ raw materials.
We want to maximize total profit.
Input
amount of profit $A$ per item, amount of ...
1
vote
2answers
339 views
How to solve a constrained optimization problem using minFunc or minConf
I am trying to solve the following optimization problem:
\begin{align}
&\min\limits_{s} \rm{tr}\left(S^T S\right) + \mathrm{tr}\left(\left(S^T S\right)^{-2}\right)\\
&\text{subject to }\rm\...
1
vote
0answers
46 views
Admissible box constraint for a quadratically constrained linear program [closed]
I am looking at a real-world resource allocation problem that is cast as a quadratically-constrained linear program of the form
$$
\max\langle f,x\rangle
$$
subject to
$$
\begin{aligned}
m \leq\,\, &...
4
votes
0answers
110 views
ADMM for Linear Program over graph
I want to use ADMM to solve a LP defined over a graph.
According to
Distributed optimization and statistical learning via the alternating direction method of multipliers
S. Boyd, N. Parikh, E. ...
1
vote
1answer
96 views
Simplex method - cycling and condition “>=” or “>” in choice of pivot row
I'm coding the simplex method and observing that it easily falls into cycling,
even if Bland's rule is used.
It seems to me I have found the reason and I would like to check my understanding is ...
5
votes
1answer
262 views
What category is this problem?
My first question, please excuse me if its too basic.
I have a matrix of evenly spaced geographical points; say 10 x 10, which I will call seed points. Each seed ...
2
votes
1answer
413 views
Is the “practical” complexity of linsolve direct solver O(n^2) ?
I recently timed the linsolve direct solver and I was kind of shocked to see that the solver seemed to be scaling quadratically even upto a 1000 dimensions. Specifically I ran the following code and ...
5
votes
1answer
1k views
Implementation of LP with separation oracle?
I'm looking for an implementation of the ellipsoid algorithm for linear programming since the application I have in mind has the constraints represented as a separation oracle. Is such an ...
2
votes
1answer
45 views
linear objectives and constraint except for S^2+C^2=1
I have an optimization problem with linear objective, and constraints that are all linear except for one constraint of the form
$S^2+C^2=1$,
which corresponds to elements in a rotation matrix.
What ...
1
vote
0answers
42 views
Probabilistic model to approach problem that is usually dealt with linear programming
I have the following problem. Let's say we have $x_{jk}$ it is an expression value of gene $j$ in a sample $k$. It is the average of expression levels across the cell types $s_{ij}$, weighted by ...
1
vote
3answers
346 views
Breaking symmetries in a (binary) integer program
I want to solve a integer programming problem with binary variables $x_1,\ldots,x_n.$
I have a permutation group $G \leq S_n$ such that for every $f \in G$ the vector $\overline{x}_1,\ldots,\...
0
votes
1answer
63 views
Convert the following model into an LP model (not asking for standard form), includes a max (a,b,c,d)
Convert the following model into an LP model. Note that you're not being asked to convert this to standard form.
$$\min z = \max (x_1, x_2, x_3, 2000)$$
s.t.
$$-2x_1 + x_2 + x_3 \geq -4$$
$$3x_1 - ...
7
votes
1answer
560 views
Linear system solution with inequality constraints - methods?
First of all, I hope I am posting this in the correct place. If not, I'm sorry and could you please direct me to where I should post this?
Problem: You are given a set of vectors, $\{\mathbf{a}^i\}_{...
0
votes
1answer
77 views
Can Variance be replaced by absolute value in this optimization problem
Initially I modeled my objective function as
$$\arg \min \operatorname{Var}(f(x),g(x)) + \operatorname{Var}(c(x),d(x)) + \cdots$$
where $f$, $g$, $c$, $x$ are linear functions.
To be able to solve ...
3
votes
1answer
81 views
Use scipy to get any vertex of polytope
I need to get just a random vertex of a polytope. Any will do. The only way I can do this now is to pick a random function (say 0s) to maximize with scipy.optimize.linprog. However, this is wasteful, ...
1
vote
0answers
59 views
Solving an LP greedily [closed]
I have the following LP:
$$
\begin{array}{ll}
\text{Minimize} & \sum_{j=1}^n x_j \\
\text{Subject to} & \sum_{j=1}^n a_{ij} x_j \geq b_i,~~~i\in\{1,\ldots,M\} \\
& 0 \leq ...
