Solving the uncapacitated facility location problem using message passing algorithms

author: Nevena Lazic, Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto
published: June 3, 2010,   recorded: May 2010,   views: 6427
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The Uncapacitated Facility Location Problem (UFLP) is one of the most widely studied discrete location problems, whose applications arise in a variety of settings. We tackle the UFLP using probabilistic inference in a graphical model - an approach that has received little attention in the past. We show that the fixed points of max-product linear programming (MPLP), a convexified version of the max-product algorithm, can be used to construct a solution with a 3-approximation guarantee for metric UFLP instances. In addition, we characterize some scenarios under which the MPLP solution is guaranteed to be globally optimal. We evaluate the performance of both max-sum and MPLP empirically on metric and non-metric problems, demonstrating the advantages of the 3-approximation construction and algorithm applicability to non-metric instances.

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