Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition is well-known to provide strong dual bounds for specially structured mixed integer programs (MIPs) in practice. However, the method is not implemented in any state-of-the-art MIP solver: it needs tailoring to the particular problem; the decomposition must be determined from the typical bordered block-diagonal matrix structure; the resulting column generation subproblems must be solved efficiently; etc. We provide a computational proof-of-concept that the process can be automated in principle, and that strong dual bounds can be obtained on general MIPs for which a solution by a decomposition has not been the first choice. We perform an extensive computational study on the 0-1 dynamic knapsack problem (without block-diagonal structure) and on general MIPLIB2003 instances. Our results support that Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation may hold more promise as a general-purpose tool than previously acknowledged by the research community. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.
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Bergner, M., Caprara, A., Furini, F., Lübbecke, M. E., Malaguti, E., & Traversi, E. (2011). Partial convexification of general MIPs by Dantzig-Wolfe reformulation. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6655 LNCS, pp. 39–51). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20807-2_4
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