The submodular knapsack polytope

  • Authors:
  • Alper AtamtüRk;Vishnu Narayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1777, USA;Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The submodular knapsack set is the discrete lower level set of a submodular function. The modular case reduces to the classical linear 0-1 knapsack set. One motivation for studying the submodular knapsack polytope is to address 0-1 programming problems with uncertain coefficients. Under various assumptions, a probabilistic constraint on 0-1 variables can be modeled as a submodular knapsack set. In this paper we describe cover inequalities for the submodular knapsack set and investigate their lifting problem. Each lifting problem is itself an optimization problem over a submodular knapsack set. We give sequence-independent upper and lower bounds on the valid lifting coefficients and show that whereas the upper bound can be computed in polynomial time, the lower bound problem is NP-hard. Furthermore, we present polynomial algorithms based on parametric linear programming and computational results for the conic quadratic 0-1 knapsack case.