Heuristic for arc-flow formulations - #1833
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Introduces a recognizer interface and the two dispatchers that drive it: one running on a task during presolve, one alongside the root relaxation. A pass recognizes a model, constructs a point, and the dispatcher validates it in solver space before publication, so a detection mistake cannot reach the tree. The arc flow pass is the first recognizer. Recognition is staged by cost so an unrecognized model is turned away before its constraint matrix is read.
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<vector>to keep the header self-contained.Lines 37 and 74 declare
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Thanks for the hard work, Alice!
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| const _Float128 lhs = (_Float128)model.slope[a] * (_Float128)model.displacement[b]; |
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Is there a reason why you are using quad-precision here?
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FMAs are relatively cheap to emulate in software for float128 and given that this isn't in the main solve loop, I thought it better to be safe than to emit wrong incumbents on numerically unscaled problems
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Should the types here be templated, like the rest of the code?
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I think simplex::user_problem_t has exactly the same variables. I would use that instead that creating another object for storing the problem.
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user_problem_t is in CSC though, right? And in one-sided form
But I do agree duplication is not so great here. I will address this in my later CPUFJ PRs which faced the same sort of problem
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user_problem_t is in CSC, but it is in the range form
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But you can get CSR quite easily (there are already routines for that)
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I want to avoid an unnecessary transpose on instances where this structure is not matched (to keep latency to the first incumbent found low)
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What is the difference between "root structural" and "early structural"?
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Root runs at the root relaxation+cuts, early runs during the presolve passes. But yeah, I'll see if this can be unified into a single thing
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Would be a bit tricky. I'll perform more simplification in later PRs
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I suggest grouping all the early heuristics into a single object with a simple interface (run, stop, etc.) instead of having everything inline in the solve.cu.
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This can be done in a follow-up PR
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cpp/src/mip_heuristics/structural/arc_flow.cu (1)
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arcflow_profile_t(i_t n_variables = 0, i_t n_constraints = 0)is callable with one argument, so it allows an implicit conversion fromi_t. Addexplicit.♻️ Proposed change
- arcflow_profile_t(i_t n_variables = 0, i_t n_constraints = 0) + explicit arcflow_profile_t(i_t n_variables = 0, i_t n_constraints = 0)As per coding guidelines: "Use
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This PR adds infrastructure for structural heuristics: heuristics that are specialized to certain problem formulation types in order to generate primal incumbents quickly by taking advantage of known literature on the formulation.
In particular, this PR includes a heuristic for emitting primal solutions for problems following an arc-flow formulation as outlined in the following paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.10661
This changes nets us +1 feasible on the MIPLIB2017 benchmark set, at a ~0% gap.
Broader benchmark results pending.
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