Probability of unique integer solution to a system of linear equations
Probability of unique integer solution to a system of linear equations
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线性方程组唯一整数解的概率
DOI:
10.1016/j.ejor.2011.04.010
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
Benjamin Recht
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作者:
O. Mangasarian;Benjamin Recht
We consider a system ofmlinear equations innvariablesAx=dand give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a unique solution to the system that is integer:x∈ {−1, 1}n. We achieve this by reformulating the problem as a linear program and deriving necessary and sufficient conditions for the integer solution to be the unique primal optimal solution. We show that as long asmis larger thann/2, then the linear programming reformulation succeeds for most instances, but ifmis less thann/2, the reformulation fails on most instances. We also demonstrate that these predictions match the empirical performance of the linear programming formulation to very high accuracy.