Octanary polyhedral branch and bound for integer programs Online publication date: Fri, 13-May-2022
by James P. Bailey; Todd Easton; Fabio Vitor
International Journal of Operational Research (IJOR), Vol. 43, No. 4, 2022
Abstract: This paper introduces the octanary branching algorithm (OBA), a polyhedral branching technique to solve integer programs. Unlike the traditional branch and bound algorithm, each of OBA's branching nodes generates eight children instead of two. Four of them are created by equality constraints, while the other four use inequalities. This branching strategy allows a dimension reduction of the linear relaxation space of the four equality children, which should enable OBA to find quality integer solutions sooner than the branch and bound algorithm. Computational experiments showed that the branch and bound algorithm required over one billion nodes to identify a solution that is at least as good as the solution found by OBA after only half a million nodes. Consequently, OBA should replace the branch and bound algorithm during the first portion of the branching tree, be used to identify a warm start solution, or be implemented as a diving strategy.
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