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Upper and Lower Bounds on the Smoothed Complexity of the Simplex Method
Authors
Sophie Huiberts
Yin Tat Lee
Xinzhi Zhang
Publication date
21 November 2022
Publisher
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on
arXiv
Abstract
The simplex method for linear programming is known to be highly efficient in practice, and understanding its performance from a theoretical perspective is an active research topic. The framework of smoothed analysis, first introduced by Spielman and Teng (JACM '04) for this purpose, defines the smoothed complexity of solving a linear program with
d
d
d
variables and
n
n
n
constraints as the expected running time when Gaussian noise of variance
Ο
2
\sigma^2
Ο
2
is added to the LP data. We prove that the smoothed complexity of the simplex method is
O
(
Ο
β
3
/
2
d
13
/
4
log
β‘
7
/
4
n
)
O(\sigma^{-3/2} d^{13/4}\log^{7/4} n)
O
(
Ο
β
3/2
d
13/4
lo
g
7/4
n
)
, improving the dependence on
1
/
Ο
1/\sigma
1/
Ο
compared to the previous bound of
O
(
Ο
β
2
d
2
log
β‘
n
)
O(\sigma^{-2} d^2\sqrt{\log n})
O
(
Ο
β
2
d
2
lo
g
n
β
)
. We accomplish this through a new analysis of the \emph{shadow bound}, key to earlier analyses as well. Illustrating the power of our new method, we use our method to prove a nearly tight upper bound on the smoothed complexity of two-dimensional polygons. We also establish the first non-trivial lower bound on the smoothed complexity of the simplex method, proving that the \emph{shadow vertex simplex method} requires at least
Ξ©
(
min
β‘
(
Ο
β
1
/
2
d
β
1
/
2
log
β‘
β
1
/
4
d
,
2
d
)
)
\Omega \Big(\min \big(\sigma^{-1/2} d^{-1/2}\log^{-1/4} d,2^d \big) \Big)
Ξ©
(
min
(
Ο
β
1/2
d
β
1/2
lo
g
β
1/4
d
,
2
d
)
)
pivot steps with high probability. A key part of our analysis is a new variation on the extended formulation for the regular
2
k
2^k
2
k
-gon. We end with a numerical experiment that suggests this analysis could be further improved.Comment: 41 pages, 5 figure
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