On 2014-09-15, Nathann Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yo !
>
>> enumerating inclusion-wise minimal no-sets is not a remedy: if
>> f =(lambda x: len(x)<k) for |X|=2k, you're pretty much
>> out of luck.
>
> Indeed. But it is much, much, much better in most cases.
>
>> we don't need them all, we only need the maximal ones.
>> LP won't even look at subsets of an already discovered yes-set.
>
> I can discard forget them too with my code. I don't really need to keep them.
>
>> your bitsets are not pruned, and eventually you might end up with
>> too many of them to be efficient. Whereas ILP solver would discard
>> redundant inequalities.
>
> They cannot be pruned. There is nothing to prune. I only keep the minimal 
> ones.
>
>> As well, as you know, there are combinatorial problems, e.g. finding a
>> maximum clique in a graph,
>> where ILP might beat the straight combinatorial algorithms. Now make your f
>> report True on a graph clique,
>> and False on a non-clique, and wait forever for your code to finish...
>
> In this case the list of no-sets is known from the start, and it is
> small. And the boolean function can be quickly evaluated. Clearly not
> what this function is meant to handle.

you wanted to know a function f that might be harded for your algorithm vs ILP, 
and I give you one, as above. I won't tell you it comes from a graph.
(and I implement it to be very slow on small-size subsets :-))

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