Successive Fixing for Large-Scale SCUC Using First-Order Methods

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Autori principali: Xiong, Jinxin, Huang, Yanting, Wang, Yingxiao, Yang, Linxin, Wu, Jianghua, Lei, Shunbo, Wang, Akang
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author Xiong, Jinxin
Huang, Yanting
Wang, Yingxiao
Yang, Linxin
Wu, Jianghua
Lei, Shunbo
Wang, Akang
author_facet Xiong, Jinxin
Huang, Yanting
Wang, Yingxiao
Yang, Linxin
Wu, Jianghua
Lei, Shunbo
Wang, Akang
contents Security-Constrained Unit Commitment is a fundamental optimization problem in power systems operations. The primary computational bottleneck arises from the need to solve large-scale Linear Programming (LP) relaxations within branch-and-cut. Conventional simplex and barrier methods become computationally prohibitive at this scale due to their reliance on expensive matrix factorizations. While matrix-free first-order methods present a promising alternative, their tendency to converge to non-vertex solutions renders them incompatible with standard branch-and-cut procedures. To bridge this gap, we propose a successive fixing framework that leverages a customized GPU-accelerated first-order LP solver to guide a logic-driven variable-fixing strategy. Each iteration produces a reduced Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem, which is subsequently tightened via presolving. This iterative cycle of relaxation, fixing, and presolving progressively reduces problem complexity, producing a highly tractable final MILP model. When evaluated on public benchmarks exceeding 13,000 buses, our approach achieves a tenfold speedup over state-of-the-art methods without compromising solution quality.
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spellingShingle Successive Fixing for Large-Scale SCUC Using First-Order Methods
Xiong, Jinxin
Huang, Yanting
Wang, Yingxiao
Yang, Linxin
Wu, Jianghua
Lei, Shunbo
Wang, Akang
Optimization and Control
Security-Constrained Unit Commitment is a fundamental optimization problem in power systems operations. The primary computational bottleneck arises from the need to solve large-scale Linear Programming (LP) relaxations within branch-and-cut. Conventional simplex and barrier methods become computationally prohibitive at this scale due to their reliance on expensive matrix factorizations. While matrix-free first-order methods present a promising alternative, their tendency to converge to non-vertex solutions renders them incompatible with standard branch-and-cut procedures. To bridge this gap, we propose a successive fixing framework that leverages a customized GPU-accelerated first-order LP solver to guide a logic-driven variable-fixing strategy. Each iteration produces a reduced Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) problem, which is subsequently tightened via presolving. This iterative cycle of relaxation, fixing, and presolving progressively reduces problem complexity, producing a highly tractable final MILP model. When evaluated on public benchmarks exceeding 13,000 buses, our approach achieves a tenfold speedup over state-of-the-art methods without compromising solution quality.
title Successive Fixing for Large-Scale SCUC Using First-Order Methods
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10891