A Bound for the Number of Different Basic Solutions Generated by the Simplex Method

In this short paper, we give an upper bound for the number of different basic feasible solutions generated by the simplex method for linear programming problems having optimal solutions. The bound is polynomial of the number of constraints, the number of variables, and the ratio between the minimum and the maximum values of all the positive elements of primal basic feasible solutions. When the primal problem is nondegenerate, it becomes a bound for the number of iterations. We show some basic results when it is applied to special linear programming problems. The results include strongly polynomiality of the simplex method for Markov Decision Problem by Ye and utilize its analysis.Comment: Keywords: Simplex method, Linear programming, Iteration bound, Strong polynomiality, Basic feasible solution

A Bound for the Number of Different Basic Solutions Generated by the Simplex Method

In this short paper, we give an upper bound for the number of different basic feasible solutions generated by the simplex method for linear programming problems having optimal solutions. The bound is polynomial of the number of constraints, the number of variables, and the ratio between the minimum and the maximum values of all the positive elements of primal basic feasible solutions. When the primal problem is nondegenerate, it becomes a bound for the number of iterations. We show some basic results when it is applied to special linear programming problems. The results include strongly polynomiality of the simplex method for Markov Decision Problem by Ye and utilize its analysis.Comment: Keywords: Simplex method, Linear programming, Iteration bound, Strong polynomiality, Basic feasible solution

QUADRATIC AND CONVEX MINIMAX CLASSIFICATION PROBLEMS

Abstract When there are two classes whose mean vectors and covariance matrices are known, Lanckriet et al. [7] consider the Linear Minimax Classification (LMC) problem and they propose a method for solving it. In this paper we first discuss the Quadratic Minimax Classification (QMC) problem, which is a generalization of LMC. We show that QMC is transformed to a parametric Semidefinite Programming (SDP) problem. We further define the Convex Minimax Classification (CMC) problem. Though the two problems are generalizations of LMC, we prove that solutions of these problems can be obtained by solving LMC

An Update-and-Stabilize Framework for the Minimum-Norm-Point Problem

We consider the minimum-norm-point (MNP) problem over zonotopes, a well-studied problem that encompasses linear programming. Inspired by Wolfe's classical MNP algorithm, we present a general algorithmic framework that performs first order update steps, combined with iterations that aim to `stabilize' the current iterate with additional projections, i.e., finding a locally optimal solution whilst keeping the current tight inequalities. We bound on the number of iterations polynomially in the dimension and in the associated circuit imbalance measure. In particular, the algorithm is strongly polynomial for network flow instances. The conic version of Wolfe's algorithm is a special instantiation of our framework; as a consequence, we obtain convergence bounds for this algorithm. Our preliminary computational experiments show a significant improvement over standard first-order methods

An upper bound for the number of different solutions generated by the primal simplex method with any selection rule of entering variables

Abstract Kitahara and Mizuno (2011a) obtained an upper bound for the number of different solutions generated by the primal simplex method with Dantzig's (the most negative) pivoting rule. In this paper, we obtain an upper bound with any pivoting rule which chooses an entering variable whose reduced cost is negative at each iteration. The bound is applied to special linear programming problems. We also get a similar bound for the dual simplex method. Keywords: Linear programming; the number of basic solutions; pivoting rule; the simplex method