Aggregation of Bilinear Bipartite Equality Constraints and its Application to Structural Model Updating Problem

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Main Authors: Dey, Santanu S, Han, Dahye, Wang, Yang
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author Dey, Santanu S
Han, Dahye
Wang, Yang
author_facet Dey, Santanu S
Han, Dahye
Wang, Yang
contents In this paper, we study the strength of convex relaxations obtained by convexification of aggregation of constraints for a set $S$ described by two bilinear bipartite equalities. Aggregation is the process of rescaling the original constraints by scalar weights and adding the scaled constraints together. It is natural to study the aggregation technique as it yields a single bilinear bipartite equality whose convex hull is already understood from previous literature. On the theoretical side, we present sufficient conditions when $\text{conv}(S)$ can be described by the intersection of convex hulls of a finite number of aggregations, examples when $\text{conv}(S)$ can only be obtained as the intersection of the convex hull of an infinite number of aggregations, and examples when $\text{conv}(S)$ cannot be achieved exactly from the process of aggregation. Computationally, we explore different methods to derive aggregation weights in order to obtain tight convex relaxations. We show that even if an exact convex hull may not be achieved using aggregations, including the convex hull of an aggregation often significantly tightens the outer approximation of $\text{conv}(S)$. Finally, we apply the aggregation method to obtain convex relaxation for the structural model updating problem and show that this yields better bounds within a branch-and-bound tree as compared to not using aggregations.
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spellingShingle Aggregation of Bilinear Bipartite Equality Constraints and its Application to Structural Model Updating Problem
Dey, Santanu S
Han, Dahye
Wang, Yang
Optimization and Control
In this paper, we study the strength of convex relaxations obtained by convexification of aggregation of constraints for a set $S$ described by two bilinear bipartite equalities. Aggregation is the process of rescaling the original constraints by scalar weights and adding the scaled constraints together. It is natural to study the aggregation technique as it yields a single bilinear bipartite equality whose convex hull is already understood from previous literature. On the theoretical side, we present sufficient conditions when $\text{conv}(S)$ can be described by the intersection of convex hulls of a finite number of aggregations, examples when $\text{conv}(S)$ can only be obtained as the intersection of the convex hull of an infinite number of aggregations, and examples when $\text{conv}(S)$ cannot be achieved exactly from the process of aggregation. Computationally, we explore different methods to derive aggregation weights in order to obtain tight convex relaxations. We show that even if an exact convex hull may not be achieved using aggregations, including the convex hull of an aggregation often significantly tightens the outer approximation of $\text{conv}(S)$. Finally, we apply the aggregation method to obtain convex relaxation for the structural model updating problem and show that this yields better bounds within a branch-and-bound tree as compared to not using aggregations.
title Aggregation of Bilinear Bipartite Equality Constraints and its Application to Structural Model Updating Problem
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14163