Title
Random Projections for Linear Programming
Abstract
AbstractRandom projections are random linear maps, sampled from appropriate distributions, which approximately preserve certain geometrical invariants so that the approximation improves as the dimension of the space grows. The well known Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states that there are random matrices with surprisingly few rows which approximately preserve pairwise Euclidean distances among a set of points. This is commonly used to speed up algorithms based on Euclidean distances. We prove that these matrices also preserve other quantities, such as the distance to a cone. We exploit this result to devise a probabilistic algorithm to approximately solve linear programs. We show that this algorithm can approximately solve very large randomly generated LP instances. We also showcase its application to an error correction coding problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1287/moor.2017.0894
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma,concentration of measure,dimension reduction
Discrete mathematics,Randomized algorithm,Concentration of measure,Dimensionality reduction,Matrix (mathematics),Invariant (mathematics),Linear programming,Mathematics,Random matrix,Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
43
4
0364-765X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ky Khac Vu182.20
Pierre-Louis Poirion2247.43
Leo Liberti31280105.20