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GF(2) presolve reduction for enlight_hard.mps #406
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Great example of how building new presolver methods without adding new infrastructure!
Co-authored-by: Rajesh Gandham <rgandham@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Rajesh Gandham <rgandham@nvidia.com>
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MIPLIB2017 problems from the
enlight*series are usually hard to solve by the regular B&B and heuristics process, but they possess a specific problem structure which can be reduced to a properly constrained system of equations in GF(2). (machine translation does a decent job at translating this blog post)In particular, each constraint is of the form

With x_i binary variables, b_i 0 or 1, and y_i an integer 'dummy' variable used to represent equality modulo 2.
This system can then be solved by textbook Gaussian elimination in GF(2).
Problems
enlight_hard.mps(in the benchmark set) andenlight8.mpsare thus solved to optimality during presolve, andenlight4.mps,enlight11.mpsandenlight9.mpsare proven infeasible.This in turns improves our benchmark performance by +1 feasible and -0.5% average gap.
Benchmark results:
Main branch 53d6e74:
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