# SCIP

Solving Constraint Integer Programs

prop_obbt.h
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16 /**@file prop_obbt.h
17  * @ingroup PROPAGATORS
18  * @brief optimization-based bound tightening propagator
19  * @author Stefan Weltge
20  *
21  * In Optimization-Based Bound Tightening (OBBT), we solve auxiliary LPs of the form
22  * \f[
23  * \min / \max \, \{ x_i \mid x \in P' \},
24  * \f]
25  * where \f$P'\f$ is the current LP relaxation restricted by the primal cutoff constraint \f$c^T x <= z\f$, \f$z\f$ the
26  * current cutoff bound. Trivially, the optimal objective value of this LP provides a valid lower/upper bound on
27  * variable \f$x_i\f$.
28  *
29  * Since solving LPs may be expensive, the propagator inspects solutions \f$x \in P'\f$ and does not run for variable
30  * bounds which are tight at \f$x\f$: First, we check SCIP's last LP relaxation solution. Second, we solve a sequence of
31  * filtering LP's \f$\min / \max \, \{ \sum w_i \, x_i \mid x \in P' \}\f$ in order to push several variables towards
32  * one of their bounds in one LP solve. Third, we inspect all solutions of the auxiliary LPs solved along the way.
33  *
34  * By default, OBBT is only applied for nonbinary variables that occur in nonlinear constraints.
35  *
36  * After we learned a better variable bound the propagator tries to separate the solution of the current OBBT LP with
37  * the refined outer approximation in order to strengthen the learned bound. Additionally, we trigger a
38  * propagation round of SCIP after a fixed number of learned bound tightenings.
39  *
40  * Additionally, the propagator uses the dual solution of the auxiliary LPs to construct globally valid generalized
41  * variable bounds which may be propagated during the branch-and-bound search.
42  */
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45
46 #ifndef __SCIP_PROP_OBBT_H__
47 #define __SCIP_PROP_OBBT_H__
48
49 #include "scip/def.h"
50 #include "scip/type_retcode.h"
51 #include "scip/type_scip.h"
52
53 #ifdef __cplusplus
54 extern "C" {
55 #endif
56
57 /** creates the obbt propagator and includes it in SCIP
58  *
59  * @ingroup PropagatorIncludes
60  */
63  SCIP* scip /**< SCIP data structure */
64  );
65
66 #ifdef __cplusplus
67 }
68 #endif
69
70 #endif
#define SCIP_EXPORT
Definition: def.h:100
enum SCIP_Retcode SCIP_RETCODE
Definition: type_retcode.h:54
type definitions for return codes for SCIP methods
type definitions for SCIP&#39;s main datastructure
SCIP_EXPORT SCIP_RETCODE SCIPincludePropObbt(SCIP *scip)
Definition: prop_obbt.c:3196
common defines and data types used in all packages of SCIP