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Automatic streamlining for constrained optimisation

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2019
Author
Spracklen, Patrick
Dang, Nguyen
Akgun, Ozgur
Miguel, Ian James
Keywords
Constraint programming
Streamliners
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
QA76 Computer software
Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)
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Augmenting a base constraint model with additional constraints can strengthen the inferences made by a solver and therefore reduce search effort. We focus on the automatic addition of streamliner constraints, which trade completeness for potentially very significant reduction in search. Recently an automated approach has been proposed, which produces streamliners via a set of streamliner generation rules. This existing automated approach to streamliner generation has two key limitations. First, it outputs a single streamlined model. Second, the approach is limited to satisfaction problems. We remove both limitations by providing a method to produce automatically a portfolio of streamliners, each representing a different balance between three criteria: how aggressively the search space is reduced, the proportion of training instances for which the streamliner admitted at least one solution, and the average reduction in quality of the objective value versus the unstreamlined model. In support of our new method, we present an automated approach to training and test instance generation, and provide several approaches to the selection and application of the streamliners from the portfolio. Empirical results demonstrate drastic improvements both to the time required to find good solutions early and to prove optimality on three problem classes.
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Spracklen , P , Dang , N , Akgun , O & Miguel , I J 2019 , Automatic streamlining for constrained optimisation . in T Schiex & S de Givry (eds) , Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming : 25th International Conference, CP 2019, Stamford, CT, USA, September 30 – October 4, 2019, Proceedings . Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) , vol. 11802 LNCS , Springer , Cham , pp. 366-383 , 25th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming (CP 2019) , Stamford , Connecticut , United States , 30/09/19 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30048-7_22
 
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Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30048-7_22
ISSN
0302-9743
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Copyright © 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30048-7_22
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Funding: UK EPSRC grant EP/P015638/1.
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