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This PR adds a binary reduction presolving pass inspired by SAT-related bounded variable elimination work such as "Effective Preprocessing in SAT through Variable and Clause Elimination" (SAT 2005).

Block BVE eliminates a small set of non-objective binary variables (the interior) by projecting the constraints they appear in onto the other binary variables of those same rows (the boundary), which stay in the model.
For every assignment of the boundary it checks if the interior can be set to satisfy each row of the block.

The assignments admitting no such setting are everything the block still forces on the rest of the
model, so these can be turned into no-good rows while eliminating the interior columns altogether. Reductions requiring new no-good clauses are only committed if they would result in fewer total rows, to avoid excessive growth.

Candidates come from the probing cache. Each non-objective binary carrying at least one edge becomes a seed, tried in order of increasing row count, grown one variable at a time: among the eligible implication neighbors of the current interior, it absorbs whichever leaves the smallest boundary, and only while the boundary strictly shrinks.

Each grown interior is staged into a block and dropped if it breaks preset caps. Disjoint candidates are batched and enumerated on the GPU, yielding a feasibility bit and witness interior per boundary pattern, and the derived clauses are checked against that table and checked for growth.

Results are as follows on MIPLIB2017. Most reductions occur on mostly-binary combinatorial problems like the bnatt class, the piperout class, and the cryptanalysis classes.

We now find +1 feasible/optimal: bnatt400 The BKS is found in ~5s, and optimality proven after B&B in ~2min.

  Instance                     Relative row reduction    Relative column reduction
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   bnatt500                                    40.532%                      46.000%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   bnatt400                                    40.720%                      45.167%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   piperout-27                                 19.922%                      10.507%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   piperout-08                                 14.991%                       7.020%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   cryptanalysiskb128n5obj14                    7.480%                       9.175%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   cryptanalysiskb128n5obj16                    7.480%                       9.169%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   neos-950242                                  2.875%                       2.500%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   physiciansched3-3                            2.128%                       3.874%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   neos8                                        1.243%                       1.240%
  ───────────────────────────  ────────────────────────  ───────────────────────────
   roll3000                                     1.133%                       1.201%

Benchmark results:

        Seed    Feasible bnatt / main    Primal gap bnatt / main    Primal integral bnatt / main    SGM(0.001) bnatt / main
  ━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
           0                226 / 226        0.114377 / 0.114337             0.160337 / 0.165177        0.030480 / 0.031056
  ───────────  ───────────────────────  ─────────────────────────  ──────────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────
           1                226 / 225        0.113938 / 0.116821             0.159689 / 0.170257        0.030555 / 0.030913
  ───────────  ───────────────────────  ─────────────────────────  ──────────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────
           2                225 / 225        0.115021 / 0.117333             0.164569 / 0.165596        0.031414 / 0.029845
  ───────────  ───────────────────────  ─────────────────────────  ──────────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────
   Aggregate                677 / 676        0.114445 / 0.116164             0.161532 / 0.167010        0.030814 / 0.030600

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cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings.cu (1)

170-170: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Correct the presolve_max_rounds parameter description.

Line 170 says that a negative value derives a round cap from problem features. evaluate_presolve_budget returns -1 when this value is negative, which leaves the round count uncapped. This text can cause incorrect user configuration.

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- "Papilo presolve rounds cap (<0 derives it from the problem, 0 keeps Papilo default)"
+ "Papilo presolve rounds cap (<0 leaves the round count uncapped, 0 keeps Papilo default)"
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In `@cpp/src/math_optimization/solver_settings.cu` at line 170, Update the
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929-929: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard step_size against zero.

step_size is min(step_size_hint, priority_indices.size()). If a caller passes step_size_hint == 0 and priority_indices is not empty, the loop at Line 944 advances step_start by zero on every pass and never terminates. The taskloop performs no work in that state, so the solver hangs with no progress and no log output. Clamp the value to at least one.

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cpp/tests/mip/block_bve_test.cu (1)

297-334: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share BVE_INT_SCALE_MAX between production code and this test. Define the constant in a shared header and use it for both row_int_scale and kMaxDenom/kMaxFinal; otherwise the test can drift from the production boundary.

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In `@cpp/tests/mip/block_bve_test.cu` around lines 297 - 334, Define the shared
BVE_INT_SCALE_MAX constant in an appropriate production header, update
row_int_scale to use it, and replace the duplicated kMaxDenom and kMaxFinal
literals in integer_scaling_accepts_rational_rejects_pathological with that same
symbol so the test boundary cannot drift.
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Document the interior-width limit that witness implies.

witness is uint32_t, so it can only encode 32 interior variables. presolve_data.cu reads bit k for every k < interior.size(). If interior.size() exceeds 32, that shift is undefined behavior. The cap that keeps this safe (BVE_MAX_INTERIOR) lives in block_bve.cu, so the contract is not visible at the point of use. Add the limit to the comment here.

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 template <typename i_t>
 struct bve_postsolve_t {
-  std::vector<i_t> interior;
+  std::vector<i_t> interior;      // at most 32 entries: each witness packs one bit per interior var
   std::vector<i_t> boundary;
   std::vector<uint32_t> witness;  // size 2^boundary.size()
 };
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In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/presolve_data.cuh` around lines 37 - 42,
Update the comment on bve_postsolve_t::witness to document that its uint32_t
encoding supports at most 32 interior variables and that interior.size() must
not exceed BVE_MAX_INTERIOR. Keep the change limited to making this contract
visible alongside the struct definition.
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu (1)

197-197: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Fix the operator precedence in the cache-presence test.

!bound_presolve.probing_cache.probing_cache.count(var_original) > 0 parses as (!count(...)) > 0. The result matches the intent today, but only by coincidence. Any later edit that reads this as !(count(...) > 0) will keep the same meaning while a reader who trusts the written form will not. Test the count directly.

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-    if (!bound_presolve.probing_cache.probing_cache.count(var_original) > 0) {
+    if (bound_presolve.probing_cache.probing_cache.count(var_original) == 0) {
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count(var_original) directly with an explicit comparison, avoiding negation
combined with a relational operator. Preserve the existing branch behavior while
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In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/block_bve.cu`:
- Around line 1004-1016: Update the cached-interior branch in the taskloop
around grow_seed_interior so interiors[k] excludes retired columns: retain only
columns whose reducer.done entry is false and whose reducer.col2rows entry is
non-empty before staging. Preserve the existing growth and cache updates for
uncached seeds, and apply the filtering only when reusing growth_interior[seed].

In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu`:
- Around line 753-761: Update the presolve substitution flow after
sanitize_graph and before appending AffineSub records to detect every remaining
cycle in the substitution graph. Reject or break cyclic components so only
acyclic substitutions reach substitute_variables, ensuring variables are not
placed in both input vectors and preserving are_exclusive.

In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/presolve_data.cu`:
- Around line 143-166: Strengthen the four bounds assertions in the
reconstruction logic for rec.bve.boundary, rec.bve.interior,
rec.sub.substituted_var, and rec.sub.substituting_var to require each signed
index is non-negative as well as less than h_assignment.size() before indexing
or assigning.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu`:
- Line 929: Update the step_size calculation near the probing-cache task loop to
clamp the result to at least one when priority_indices is non-empty, preventing
the step_start loop from advancing by zero; preserve the existing
empty-collection behavior.

---

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In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu`:
- Line 197: Update the cache-presence condition near the probing cache lookup to
test count(var_original) directly with an explicit comparison, avoiding negation
combined with a relational operator. Preserve the existing branch behavior while
making the intended zero/nonzero check unambiguous.

In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/presolve_data.cuh`:
- Around line 37-42: Update the comment on bve_postsolve_t::witness to document
that its uint32_t encoding supports at most 32 interior variables and that
interior.size() must not exceed BVE_MAX_INTERIOR. Keep the change limited to
making this contract visible alongside the struct definition.

In `@cpp/tests/mip/block_bve_test.cu`:
- Around line 297-334: Define the shared BVE_INT_SCALE_MAX constant in an
appropriate production header, update row_int_scale to use it, and replace the
duplicated kMaxDenom and kMaxFinal literals in
integer_scaling_accepts_rational_rejects_pathological with that same symbol so
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Comment on lines +1004 to +1016
#pragma omp taskloop default(shared) priority(CUOPT_DEFAULT_TASK_PRIORITY)
for (i_t k = 0; k < (i_t)round_seeds.size(); ++k) {
const i_t seed = round_seeds[k];
if (growth_done[seed]) {
interiors[k] = growth_interior[seed];
continue;
}
bve_growth_result_t<i_t> grown = grow_seed_interior(seed, reducer, impl_adj, timer);
growth_ops[k] = grown.ops;
interiors[k] = std::move(grown.interior);
growth_interior[seed] = interiors[k];
growth_done[seed] = 1;
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# Minimal read-only model of the relevant scope, commit, and reverse postsolve behavior.
rows = {
    0: {"active": True, "terms": {"seed", "w"}},
    1: {"active": True, "terms": {"w", "boundary"}},
}
col2rows = {"seed": {0}, "w": {0, 1}, "boundary": {1}}
done = {"seed": False, "w": False, "boundary": False}
records = []

def stage(interior):
    affected = {r for c in interior for r in col2rows[c]}
    boundary = set().union(*(rows[r]["terms"] - set(interior) for r in affected))
    return affected, boundary

def commit(interior, boundary):
    affected, _ = stage(interior)
    records.append({"interior": list(interior), "boundary": list(boundary)})
    for r in affected:
        rows[r]["active"] = False
        for c in rows[r]["terms"]:
            col2rows[c].discard(r)
        rows[r]["terms"].clear()
    for c in interior:
        col2rows[c].clear()
        done[c] = True

cached = ["seed", "w"]
commit(["w"], ["boundary"])       # earlier reduction retires w
affected, boundary = stage(cached) # stale cached w still participates in input
assert affected == set() or "seed" in affected
assert "w" in cached and done["w"] and not col2rows["w"]

# Reverse append replay applies the later stale record first, then the earlier record.
records.append({"interior": cached, "boundary": sorted(boundary)})
replay = []
for rec in reversed(records):
    replay.extend(rec["interior"])
print("stale_input_stages:", cached)
print("w_done:", done["w"], "w_live_rows:", sorted(col2rows["w"]))
print("append_order:", [r["interior"] for r in records])
print("reverse_replay_order:", [r["interior"] for r in reversed(records)])
print("earlier_record_replays_after_stale:", True)
PY

Repository: NVIDIA/cuopt

Length of output: 336


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# Model one retired cached column plus one live seed. It mirrors scope_of(), stage(),
# commit_projected(), and reverse var_postsolve replay for this edge case.
rows = {
    0: {"terms": {"w"}, "active": True},
    1: {"terms": {"seed", "boundary"}, "active": True},
}
col2rows = {"w": {0}, "seed": {1}, "boundary": {1}}
done = {"w": False, "seed": False}

def stage(interior):
    interior = set(interior)
    affected = {r for c in interior for r in col2rows[c]}
    boundary = {c for r in affected for c in rows[r]["terms"] if c not in interior}
    return affected, boundary

records = []
# Earlier reduction retires w.
affected, _ = stage(["w"])
records.append(["w"])
for r in affected:
    for c in rows[r]["terms"]:
        col2rows[c].discard(r)
    rows[r]["terms"].clear()
    rows[r]["active"] = False
col2rows["w"].clear()
done["w"] = True

# A later round reuses the stale cache for a live seed.
cached = ["seed", "w"]
affected, boundary = stage(cached)
assert affected == {1}
assert boundary == {"boundary"}
assert "w" in cached and done["w"] and not col2rows["w"]
records.append(cached)

print("stage_accepts_retired_column:", True)
print("stale_candidate:", cached)
print("append_order:", records)
print("reverse_replay_order:", list(reversed(records)))
print("retired_column_replayed_first_in_stale_record:", True)
print("earlier_record_replayed_last:", True)
PY

Repository: NVIDIA/cuopt

Length of output: 385


Filter retired columns from cached interiors before staging. stage() can accept a cached interior that contains a retired column when another cached column still has live rows. Reverse postsolve order prevents final-value corruption, but the stale column still creates redundant reductions and consumes scope and projection budget. Filter cached interiors against reducer.done and empty reducer.col2rows entries.

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In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/block_bve.cu` around lines 1004 - 1016,
Update the cached-interior branch in the taskloop around grow_seed_interior so
interiors[k] excludes retired columns: retain only columns whose reducer.done
entry is false and whose reducer.col2rows entry is non-empty before staging.
Preserve the existing growth and cache updates for uncached seeds, and apply the
filtering only when reusing growth_interior[seed].

Comment thread cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu Outdated
Comment on lines +143 to +166
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.witness.size() == (size_t{1} << rec.bve.boundary.size()),
"block witness size mismatch");
uint32_t pattern = 0;
for (size_t j = 0; j < rec.bve.boundary.size(); ++j) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.boundary[j] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block boundary out of bounds");
const int bit = (h_assignment[rec.bve.boundary[j]] > 0.5) ? 1 : 0;
pattern |= (uint32_t)bit << j;
}
const uint32_t w = rec.bve.witness[pattern];
for (size_t k = 0; k < rec.bve.interior.size(); ++k) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.interior[k] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block interior out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.bve.interior[k]] = (w >> k) & 1u;
}
break;
}
case reconstruction_kind_t::AffineSub: {
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituted_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituted_var out of bounds");
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituting_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituting_var out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.sub.substituted_var] =
rec.sub.offset + rec.sub.coefficient * h_assignment[rec.sub.substituting_var];

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the lower bound of every index used to address h_assignment.

The four index asserts only check the upper bound. rec.bve.boundary[j], rec.bve.interior[k], rec.sub.substituted_var, and rec.sub.substituting_var are all signed i_t, and each one is produced by mapping a column through variable_mapping. A mapped value of -1 passes every one of these asserts and then indexes h_assignment out of range. Add the non-negative half so a broken mapping fails at the record that produced it.

🛡️ Proposed assert hardening
-          cuopt_assert(rec.bve.boundary[j] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
+          cuopt_assert(rec.bve.boundary[j] >= 0 &&
+                         rec.bve.boundary[j] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
                        "block boundary out of bounds");
-          cuopt_assert(rec.bve.interior[k] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
+          cuopt_assert(rec.bve.interior[k] >= 0 &&
+                         rec.bve.interior[k] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
                        "block interior out of bounds");
-        cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituted_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
+        cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituted_var >= 0 &&
+                       rec.sub.substituted_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
                      "substituted_var out of bounds");
-        cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituting_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
+        cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituting_var >= 0 &&
+                       rec.sub.substituting_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
                      "substituting_var out of bounds");
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cuopt_assert(rec.bve.witness.size() == (size_t{1} << rec.bve.boundary.size()),
"block witness size mismatch");
uint32_t pattern = 0;
for (size_t j = 0; j < rec.bve.boundary.size(); ++j) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.boundary[j] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block boundary out of bounds");
const int bit = (h_assignment[rec.bve.boundary[j]] > 0.5) ? 1 : 0;
pattern |= (uint32_t)bit << j;
}
const uint32_t w = rec.bve.witness[pattern];
for (size_t k = 0; k < rec.bve.interior.size(); ++k) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.interior[k] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block interior out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.bve.interior[k]] = (w >> k) & 1u;
}
break;
}
case reconstruction_kind_t::AffineSub: {
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituted_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituted_var out of bounds");
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituting_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituting_var out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.sub.substituted_var] =
rec.sub.offset + rec.sub.coefficient * h_assignment[rec.sub.substituting_var];
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.witness.size() == (size_t{1} << rec.bve.boundary.size()),
"block witness size mismatch");
uint32_t pattern = 0;
for (size_t j = 0; j < rec.bve.boundary.size(); ++j) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.boundary[j] >= 0 &&
rec.bve.boundary[j] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block boundary out of bounds");
const int bit = (h_assignment[rec.bve.boundary[j]] > 0.5) ? 1 : 0;
pattern |= (uint32_t)bit << j;
}
const uint32_t w = rec.bve.witness[pattern];
for (size_t k = 0; k < rec.bve.interior.size(); ++k) {
cuopt_assert(rec.bve.interior[k] >= 0 &&
rec.bve.interior[k] < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"block interior out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.bve.interior[k]] = (w >> k) & 1u;
}
break;
}
case reconstruction_kind_t::AffineSub: {
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituted_var >= 0 &&
rec.sub.substituted_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituted_var out of bounds");
cuopt_assert(rec.sub.substituting_var >= 0 &&
rec.sub.substituting_var < (i_t)h_assignment.size(),
"substituting_var out of bounds");
h_assignment[rec.sub.substituted_var] =
rec.sub.offset + rec.sub.coefficient * h_assignment[rec.sub.substituting_var];
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@cpp/src/mip_heuristics/problem/presolve_data.cu` around lines 143 - 166,
Strengthen the four bounds assertions in the reconstruction logic for
rec.bve.boundary, rec.bve.interior, rec.sub.substituted_var, and
rec.sub.substituting_var to require each signed index is non-negative as well as
less than h_assignment.size() before indexing or assigning.

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Thanks for the hard work, Alice!

// Continued-fractions approach: rationalize each coefficient, compute scm/gcd incrementally.
// Returns the smallest positive multiplier s such that s * c is (near-)integer for every c, or NaN
// if no such multiplier exists within the caps.
inline double find_scaling_rational(const std::vector<double>& coefficients,

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I think Chris also implemented a continued-fractional variable. Maybe it is better to use that.

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Thanks Alice! Great results! I couldn't review the BVE reductions in detail but I reviewed the surrounding logic. Have you tested the probing_cache probe counts, runtime of cuopt presolve and the impact of this to primal gap/integral ? Since this is some heavy presolve logic, I would run a benchmark with asserts to see if there is any obvious issue, later it is quite hard to find presolve related issues.

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const bool reduced = block_bve_presolve(
*problem_ptr, impl_adj, bve_timer, bve_work_units, &bve_findings, &bve_proved_infeasible);
if (bve_proved_infeasible) {
CUOPT_LOG_INFO("Block-BVE proved the problem infeasible");

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Have you checked if this was printed in any of the benchmarks?

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Darn, oversight! No, it's not, but it should be _DEBUG regardless, I will fix

problem.handle_ptr->sync_stream();

// Collect AffineSub reconstructions, then append in deterministic order (by substituted_var).
std::vector<var_postsolve_t<i_t, f_t>> batch_recs;

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Can you explain a bit what isbatch_recs? Also why is there a need for new logic to handle substitutions? Can't we just convert the BVE substitutions into already existing format?

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It's the postsolve stack for cuOpt reductions (subsitutions only previously, now the blockBVE reconstructions as well). Agreed that it's a terrible name :) Will rename to postsolve_reconstructions or something.

For the question, the BVE reconstructions are a bit more complicated in that they consider the values of multiple binaries (the "boundary"), turn this into a bit pattern, and index it into a precomputed table to reconstruct another set of binaries (the "interior"). This can't be expressed with affine substitutions nor with Papilo's postsolve tools, so I had to add a new type of postsolve operation for this

Comment thread cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/probing_cache.cu Outdated
const f_t forced_val = forcing.forced_value ? f_t(1) : f_t(0);
for (cache_entry_t<i_t, f_t>& entry : entry_it->second) {
if (entry.var_to_cached_bound_map.empty()) { continue; }
if (entry.val_interval.interval_type != interval_type_t::EQUALS) { continue; }

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Doesn't a cache entry with EQUALS interval and entry.val_interval.val == probed_valcause a conflict unless it is the same forced value?

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Yes, and if there's a conflict, we conclude this forces a fixing to the other value for the binary variable (or the problem is infeasible)

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Okay, you are doing what i described already:) But I couldn't see how you report infeasibility with n_contradicted, do you report infeasibility with it somewhere?

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This is done downstream in "apply_bve_fixings"

// Reverse-append undo of the unified GPU-presolve reconstruction log
for (auto it = var_postsolve.rbegin(); it != var_postsolve.rend(); ++it) {
const auto& rec = *it;
switch (rec.kind) {

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The logic is a bit complicated here. Do you think if there is a way to convert the bve substitutions into a standardized substitutions?

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It's not really possible I think :/ They're not affine substitutions at all. I will do a bit of cleanup for readability though


// Best rational approximation p/q to x with q <= max_denom, via continued fractions. Returns the
// last valid convergent if the denominator limit is reached.
inline std::pair<int64_t, int64_t> rational_approximation(double x,

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I think there is already something similarr to this in: cpp/src/cuts/rational.hpp

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This is existing code, I just moved it into a shared header :) I'll see if it's possible to unify everything cleanly

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I looked, I could unify them, but maybe in a later PR because I'm concerned of accidentally changing semantics and breaking cut generation

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Thanks for the review work Akif :) I've added benchmark numbers in the PR description. We're slightly better in feasibility, primal gap, and primal integral, mostly thanks to the bnatt400 solve. SGM doesn't really change, but as far as I can see this is all within typical run to run variance. I saw no obvious regression

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/ok to test 4218d80

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/ok to test 5d6d8b1

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/ok to test d052b48

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