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AAAI 2025

February 27, 2025

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Lagrangian decomposition (LD) is a relaxation method that provides a dual bound for constrained optimization problems by decomposing them into more manageable sub-problems. This bound can be used in branch-and-bound algorithms to prune the search space effectively. In brief, a vector of Lagrangian multipliers is associated with each sub-problem, and an iterative procedure (e.g., a sub-gradient optimization) adjusts these multipliers to find the tightest bound. Initially applied to integer programming, Lagrangian decomposition also had success in constraint programming due to its versatility and the fact that global constraints provide natural sub-problems. However, the non-linear and combinatorial nature of sub-problems in constraint programming makes it computationally intensive to optimize the Lagrangian multipliers with sub-gradient methods at each node of the tree search. This currently limits the practicality of LD as a general bounding mechanism for constraint programming. To address this challenge, we propose a self-supervised learning approach that leverages neural networks to generate multipliers directly, yielding tight bounds. This approach significantly reduces the number of sub-gradient optimization steps required, enhancing the pruning efficiency and reducing the execution time of constraint programming solvers. This contribution is one of the few that leverage learning to enhance bonding mechanisms on the dual side, a critical element in the design of combinatorial solvers. To our knowledge, this work presents the first generic method for learning valid dual bounds in constraint programming. We validate our approach on two challenging combinatorial problems: The multi-dimensional knapsack problem and the shift scheduling problem. The results show that our approach can solve more instances than the standard application of LD to constraint programming, reduce execution time by more than half, and has promising generalization ability through fine-tuning.

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