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A General Large Neighborhood Search Framework for Solving Integer Linear Programs
Jialin Song · ravi lanka · Yisong Yue · Bistra Dilkina

Thu Dec 10 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PST) @ Poster Session 6 #1859
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This paper studies how to design abstractions of large-scale combinatorial optimization problems that can leverage existing state-of-the-art solvers in general-purpose ways, and that are amenable to data-driven design. The goal is to arrive at new approaches that can reliably outperform existing solvers in wall-clock time. We focus on solving integer programs and ground our approach in the large neighborhood search (LNS) paradigm, which iteratively chooses a subset of variables to optimize while leaving the remainder fixed. The appeal of LNS is that it can easily use any existing solver as a subroutine, and thus can inherit the benefits of carefully engineered heuristic approaches and their software implementations. We also show that one can learn a good neighborhood selector from training data. Through an extensive empirical validation, we demonstrate that our LNS framework can significantly outperform, in wall-clock time, compared to state-of-the-art commercial solvers such as Gurobi.

Author Information

Jialin Song (Caltech)
ravi lanka (rakuten)
Yisong Yue (Caltech)
Bistra Dilkina (University of Southern California)

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