Exploiting patterns to reduce IP coefficient matrices

In this report, we present a novel method to reduce the non-zero factors in the coefficient matrices of integer programming problems by extracting coefficient patterns that appear frequently in the coefficient matrix and by replacing these patterns with new variables. Using this method, we can effectively reduce the memory requirements for maintaining the data structures, and for solving IP problems with IP solvers.

By: Takayuki Yoshizumi

Published in: RT0712 in 2007

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