Automatic Generation of Symmetry-Breaking Constraints

  • Authors:
  • Leo Liberti

  • Affiliations:
  • LIX, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France F-91128

  • Venue:
  • COCOA 2008 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Solution symmetries in integer linear programs often yield long Branch-and-Bound based solution processes. We propose a method for finding elements of the permutation group of solution symmetries, and two different types of symmetry-breaking constraints to eliminate these symmetries at the modelling level. We discuss some preliminary computational results.