RoundAndSwap.jl

Easily implement a heuristic for solving Mixed Integer problems
Author infrasenselabs
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August 2022

RoundAndSwap.jl

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RoundAndSwap.jl is a library which implements the Round and Swap algorithm, this implementation was inspired by Filippo Pecci's usage in Bounds and Convex Heuristics for Bi-Objective Sensor Placement in Water Networks.

Getting started

  1. Create your JuMP model, and optimize
# Define how many variables you want fixed
num_to_fix = 2

using JuMP, HiGHS
model = Model(HiGHS.Optimizer)
@variable(model, 0  a  1)
@variable(model, 0  b  1)
@variable(model, 0  c  1)
@variable(model, 0  d  1)
@constraint(model, a + b + c + d == num_to_fix)
@objective(model, Max, (a + b) + (2 * (b + c)) + (3 * (c - d)) + (4 * (d + a)))

# To demonstate functionality we will fix b and d
fix(b, 0.8; force=true)
fix(d, 0.8; force=true)

optimize!(model)
  1. Identify which variable we are considering making 1
consider_swapping = [a,b,c,d]
  1. Round variables closest to 1, this will be b and d as we fixed them at 0.8.
using RoundAndSwap
round!(consider_swapping, num_to_fix)
  1. Begin swapping
best_swap, swapper = swap(model, consider_swapping)
  1. Review your best swap
julia> best_swap
1-element Vector{Swap}:
 Swap 
    existing:           b
    new:                a
    obj_value:          10.0          
    success:            true            
    all_fixed:          [:a, :c]          
    termination_status: OPTIMAL 
    solve_time:         0.0004438320000872409
    swap_number:        7

As you can see in this case we found the globally optimal solution of 10. Note: Round and Swap does not provide guarantees of global optimility.

caveats

  • Currently can only set variables to 0 or 1.

Performance

In testing I've done 536 swaps with round_and_swap taking 174.1 seconds with 172.8 seconds of that being in the optimizer, giving RoundAndSwap.jl an overhead of 0.75%.

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