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From an Interior Point to a Corner Point: Smart Crossover
Dongdong Ge, Chengwenjian Wang, Zikai Xiong, Yinyu Ye
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Identifying optimal basic feasible solutions to linear programming problems is a critical task for mixed integer programming and other applications. The crossover method, which aims at deriving an optimal extreme point from a suboptimal solution (the output of a starting method such as interior-point methods or first-order methods), is crucial in this process. This method, compared to the starting method, frequently represents the primary computational bottleneck in practical applications. We propose approaches to overcome this bottleneck by exploiting problem characteristics and implementing customized strategies. For problems arising from network applications and exhibiting network structures, we take advantage of the graph structure of the problem and the tree structure of the optimal solutions. Based on these structures, we propose a tree-based crossover method, aiming to recovering basic solutions by identifying nearby spanning tree structures. For general linear programs, we propose recovering an optimal basic solution by identifying the optimal face and employing controlled perturbations based on the suboptimal solution provided by interior-point methods. We prove that an optimal solution for the perturbed problem is an extreme point, and its objective value is at least as good as that of the initial interior point solution. Computational experiments show significant speed-ups achieved by our methods compared to state-of-the-art commercial solvers on classical linear programming problem benchmarks, network flow problem benchmarks, and optimal transport problems.
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