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The simplex method is remarkably efficient in practice and was a great improvement over earlier methods such as Fourier–Motzkin elimination. However, in 1972, Klee and Minty [32] gave an example, the Klee–Minty cube, showing that the worst-case complexity of simplex method as formulated by Dantzig is exponential time. Since then, for almost ...
The conjecture was first put forth in a letter by Warren M. Hirsch to George B. Dantzig in 1957 [1] [2] and was motivated by the analysis of the simplex method in linear programming, as the diameter of a polytope provides a lower bound on the number of steps needed by the simplex method. The conjecture is now known to be false in general.
The revised simplex method is mathematically equivalent to the standard simplex method but differs in implementation. Instead of maintaining a tableau which explicitly represents the constraints adjusted to a set of basic variables, it maintains a representation of a basis of the matrix representing the constraints.
The original simplex algorithm starts with an arbitrary basic feasible solution, and then changes the basis in order to decrease the minimization target and find an optimal solution. Usually, the target indeed decreases in every step, and thus after a bounded number of steps an optimal solution is found.
The simplex algorithm has been proved to solve "random" problems efficiently, i.e. in a cubic number of steps, [16] which is similar to its behavior on practical problems. [ 13 ] [ 17 ] However, the simplex algorithm has poor worst-case behavior: Klee and Minty constructed a family of linear programming problems for which the simplex method ...
In the worst case, the simplex algorithm may require exponentially many steps to complete. 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.
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In the case shown, the simplex algorithm takes five steps. However, the simplex algorithm visits every vertex in the worst case of a problem whose feasible region is the Klee–Minty cube, so the number of steps rises exponentially with the dimension of the problem.