zero_half_cuts.h

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#ifndef OR_TOOLS_SAT_ZERO_HALF_CUTS_H_
#define OR_TOOLS_SAT_ZERO_HALF_CUTS_H_
 
#include <utility>
#include <vector>
 
#include "absl/types/span.h"
#include "ortools/lp_data/lp_types.h"
#include "ortools/sat/integer_base.h"
#include "ortools/sat/util.h"
 
namespace operations_research {
namespace sat {
 
// Heuristic to find a good sums of rows from the LP (with coeff -1, +1) that
// can lead to a violated zero-half cut (i.e. after integer rounding with a
// divisor 2).
//
// For this, all that matter is the parity of the coefficients and the rhs in
// the linear combination of the original problem constraint. So this class
// maintain a copy of the LP matrix modulo 2 on which simplification and
// heuristic are performed to find good cut candidates(s).
//
// Most of what is done here is described in the paper "Algorithms to Separate
// {0, 1/2}-Chvátal-Gomory Cuts", Arie M. C. A. Koster, Adrian Zymolka, Manuel
// Kutschka.
class ZeroHalfCutHelper {
 public:
  // Public API: ProcessVariables() must be called first and then constraints
  // can be added one by one. Finally GetZeroHalfInterestingCuts() will return a
  // set of good candidates.
  //
  // TODO(user): This is a first implementation, both the heuristic and the
  // code performance can probably be improved uppon.
  void ProcessVariables(const std::vector<double>& lp_values,
                        absl::Span<const IntegerValue> lower_bounds,
                        absl::Span<const IntegerValue> upper_bounds);
  void AddOneConstraint(glop::RowIndex, absl::Span<const glop::ColIndex> cols,
                        absl::Span<const IntegerValue> coeffs, IntegerValue lb,
                        IntegerValue ub);
  std::vector<std::vector<std::pair<glop::RowIndex, IntegerValue>>>
  InterestingCandidates(ModelRandomGenerator* random);
 
  // Visible for testing.
  void Reset(int size);
 
  // Visible for testing.
  //
  // Boolean matrix. Each column correspond to one variable (col indices).
  // Each row to a sum of the initial problem constraints. We store the
  // coefficient modulo 2, so only the positions of the ones.
  struct CombinationOfRows {
    // How this row was formed from the initial problem constraints.
    std::vector<std::pair<glop::RowIndex, IntegerValue>> multipliers;
 
    // The index of the odd coefficient of this combination.
    std::vector<int> cols;
 
    // The parity of the rhs (1 for odd).
    int rhs_parity;
 
    // How tight this constraints is under the current LP solution.
    double slack;
  };
  void AddBinaryRow(const CombinationOfRows& binary_row);
  const CombinationOfRows& MatrixRow(int row) const { return rows_[row]; }
  const std::vector<int>& MatrixCol(int col) const { return col_to_rows_[col]; }
 
  // Visible for testing.
  //
  // Adds the given row to all other rows having an odd cofficient on the given
  // column. This then eliminate the entry (col, row) that is now a singleton by
  // incresing the slack of the given row.
  void EliminateVarUsingRow(int col, int row);
 
  // Visible for testing.
  //
  // Like std::set_symmetric_difference, but use a vector<bool> instead of sort.
  // This assumes tmp_marked_ to be all false. We don't DCHECK it here for
  // speed, but it DCHECKed on each EliminateVarUsingRow() call.
  void SymmetricDifference(absl::Span<const int> a, std::vector<int>* b);
 
 private:
  // As we combine rows, when the activity of a combination get too far away
  // from its bound, we just discard it. Note that the row will still be there
  // but its index will not appear in the col-wise representation of the matrix.
  const double kSlackThreshold = 0.5;
  const int kMaxAggregationSize = 100;
 
  // We don't consider long constraint or constraint with high magnitude, since
  // the highest violation we can hope for is 1, and if the magnitude is large
  // then the cut efficacity will not be great.
  const int kMaxInputConstraintSize = 100;
  const double kMaxInputConstraintMagnitude = 1e6;
 
  // Variable information.
  std::vector<double> lp_values_;
  std::vector<double> shifted_lp_values_;
  std::vector<int> bound_parity_;
 
  // Binary matrix.
  //
  // Note that as we combine rows, we never move their indices. So after initial
  // creation rows_ will always have the same size.
  std::vector<CombinationOfRows> rows_;
  std::vector<std::vector<int>> col_to_rows_;
  std::vector<int> singleton_cols_;
 
  // Temporary vector used by SymmetricDifference().
  std::vector<bool> tmp_marked_;
};
 
}  // namespace sat
}  // namespace operations_research
 
#endif  // OR_TOOLS_SAT_ZERO_HALF_CUTS_H_