{ "id": "2304.00435", "version": "v1", "published": "2023-04-02T02:54:41.000Z", "updated": "2023-04-02T02:54:41.000Z", "title": "On Degeneracy Issues in Multi-parametric Programming and Critical Region Exploration based Distributed Optimization", "authors": [ "Haitian Liu", "Ye Guo", "Hao Liu", "Hongbin Sun" ], "categories": [ "eess.SY", "cs.SY", "math.OC" ], "abstract": "This paper focuses on two aspects of interest related to multi-parametric linear/quadratic programming (mpLP/QP). First, we study degeneracy issues of mpLP/QP. A novel approach to deal with degeneracies is proposed to find all critical regions containing the given parameter. Our method leverages properties of the multi-parametric linear complementary problem, vertex searching technique, and complementary basis enumeration. Second, an improved critical region exploration (CRE) method to solve distributed LP/QP is proposed under a general mpLP/QP-based formulation. The improved CRE incorporates the proposed approach to handle degeneracies. A cutting plane update and an adaptive stepsize scheme are also integrated to accelerate convergence under different problem settings. The computational efficiency is verified on multi-area tie-line scheduling problems with various testing benchmarks and initial states.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2023-04-02T02:54:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "critical region exploration", "distributed optimization", "multi-parametric programming", "multi-parametric linear complementary problem", "method leverages properties" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }