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In mathematical optimization, Dantzig's simplex algorithm (or simplex method) is a popular algorithm for linear programming. [ 1 ] The name of the algorithm is derived from the concept of a simplex and was suggested by T. S. Motzkin . [ 2 ]
GLOP (the Google Linear Optimization Package) is Google's open-source linear programming solver, created by Google's Operations Research Team. It is written in C++ and was released to the public as part of Google's OR-Tools software suite in 2014. [1] GLOP uses a revised primal-dual simplex algorithm optimized for sparse matrices.
An intuitive explanation of the algorithm from "Numerical Recipes": [5] The downhill simplex method now takes a series of steps, most steps just moving the point of the simplex where the function is largest (“highest point”) through the opposite face of the simplex to a lower point.
HiGHS has implementations of the primal and dual revised simplex method for solving LP problems, based on techniques described by Hall and McKinnon (2005), [6] and Huangfu and Hall (2015, 2018). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] These include the exploitation of hyper-sparsity when solving linear systems in the simplex implementations and, for the dual simplex ...
The algorithm was not a computational break-through, as the simplex method is more efficient for all but specially constructed families of linear programs. However, Khachiyan's algorithm inspired new lines of research in linear programming.
The IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimizer solves integer programming problems, very large [3] linear programming problems using either primal or dual variants of the simplex method or the barrier interior point method, convex and non-convex quadratic programming problems, and convex quadratically constrained problems (solved via second-order cone programming, or SOCP).
In operations research, the Big M method is a method of solving linear programming problems using the simplex algorithm.The Big M method extends the simplex algorithm to problems that contain "greater-than" constraints.
There are algorithms for solving an LP in weakly-polynomial time, such as the ellipsoid method; however, they usually return optimal solutions that are not basic. However, Given any optimal solution to the LP, it is easy to find an optimal feasible solution that is also basic. [2]: see also "external links" below.