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Main Authors: Villuendas, Hubert, Besançon, Mathieu, Malick, Jérôme
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17543
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author Villuendas, Hubert
Besançon, Mathieu
Malick, Jérôme
author_facet Villuendas, Hubert
Besançon, Mathieu
Malick, Jérôme
contents The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in statistics, particularly in the detection of change-points in time series. In this paper, we propose a semidefinite programming approach for this problem, incorporating compactness in constraints or in objective. We study and compare the different relaxations, and argue that our method provides high-quality heuristics and tight bounds. In particular, the single hyperparameter of our penalized semidefinite models naturally balances the trade-off between compactness and accuracy of the computed solutions. Numerical experiments illustrate, on the hardest instances, the effectiveness and versatility of our approach compared to the existing mixed-integer programming formulation.
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spellingShingle Knapsack with compactness: a semidefinite approach
Villuendas, Hubert
Besançon, Mathieu
Malick, Jérôme
Optimization and Control
The min-knapsack problem with compactness constraints extends the classical knapsack problem, in the case of ordered items, by introducing a restriction ensuring that they cannot be too far apart. This problem has applications in statistics, particularly in the detection of change-points in time series. In this paper, we propose a semidefinite programming approach for this problem, incorporating compactness in constraints or in objective. We study and compare the different relaxations, and argue that our method provides high-quality heuristics and tight bounds. In particular, the single hyperparameter of our penalized semidefinite models naturally balances the trade-off between compactness and accuracy of the computed solutions. Numerical experiments illustrate, on the hardest instances, the effectiveness and versatility of our approach compared to the existing mixed-integer programming formulation.
title Knapsack with compactness: a semidefinite approach
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17543