EUROPT 2025
Abstract Submission

455. Comparison of Interior-point and active set quadratic programming for regularised column generation

Invited abstract in session WB-11: Interior point methods and applications - Part I, stream Interior point methods and applications.

Wednesday, 10:30-12:30
Room: B100/5017

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Wim Vanroose
mathematics, U. Antwerpen
2. Sebastian Van Thienen
Mathematics, UAntwerpen

Abstract

Regularized column generation is equivalent to a bundle method that maximizes the dual objective. In each iteration, a cut/column is added, and the solution is updated by solving a quadratic programming problem.
In this talk, we compare the performance of a warm-started interior point method, where multiple columns are added simultaneously, with a hot-started active-set QP approach, where columns are added one by one while maintaining a factorization of the KKT matrix using rank-one updates.
We discuss the challenges in high-performance numerical linear algebra and present numerical results for large-scale planning problems in the airline industry.

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Status: accepted


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