Graph coloring with decision diagrams

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: van Hoeve, Willem-Jan
• 署名单位: Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-5610
• DOI: 10.1007/s10107-021-01662-x
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 631-674
• 关键词: algorithm; optimization; bounds

摘要

We introduce an iterative framework for solving graph coloring problems using decision diagrams. The decision diagram compactly represents all possible color classes, some of which may contain edge conflicts. In each iteration, we use a constrained minimum network flow model to compute a lower bound and identify conflicts. Infeasible color classes associated with these conflicts are removed by refining the decision diagram. We prove that in the best case, our approach may use exponentially smaller diagrams than exact diagrams for proving optimality. We also develop a primal heuristic based on the decision diagram to find a feasible solution at each iteration. We provide an experimental evaluation on all 137 DIMACS graph coloring instances. Our procedure can solve 52 instances optimally, of which 44 are solved within 1 minute. We also compare our method to a state-of-the-art graph coloring solver based on branch-and-price, and show that we obtain competitive results. Lastly, we report an improved lower bound for the open instance C2000.9.