A Lagrangian reconstruction of a class of local search methods

نویسندگان

  • Kenneth M. F. Choi
  • Jimmy Ho-Man Lee
  • Peter J. Stuckey
چکیده

Heuristic repair algorithms, a class of local search methods, demonstrate impressive eeciency in solving some large-scale and hard instances of constraint satisfaction problems (CSP's). In this paper, we draw a surprising connection between heuristic repair techniques and the discrete Lagrange multiplier methods by transforming CSP's into zero-one constrained optimization problems. A Lagrangian-based search scheme LSDL is proposed. We show how GENET, a representative heuristic repair algorithm, can be reconstructed from LSDL. The dual viewpoint of GENET as heuristic repair method and Lagrange multiplier method allows us to investigate variants of GENET from both perspectives. Benchmarking results connrm that rst, our reconstructed GENET has the same fast convergence behavior as other GENET implementations reported in the literature, competing favourably with other state-of-the-art methods on a set of hard graph colouring problems. Second, our best variant, which combines techniques from heuristic repair and Lagrangian methods, is always more eecient than the reconstructed GENET, and can better it by an order of magnitude.

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تاریخ انتشار 1998