A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem

Details A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem A Branch and Cut Algorithm for the Halfspace Depth Problem

2009-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1923v1

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Computational Geometry

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The concept of \emph{data depth} in non-parametric multivariate descriptive statistics is the generalization of the univariate rank method to multivariate data. \emph{Halfspace depth} is a measure of data depth. Given a set $S$ of points and a point $p$, the halfspace depth (or rank) of $p$ is defined as the minimum number of points of $S$ contained in any closed halfspace with $p$ on its boundary. Computing halfspace depth is NP-hard, and it is equivalent to the Maximum Feasible Subsystem problem. In this paper a mixed integer program is formulated with the big-$M$ method for the halfspace depth problem. We suggest a branch and cut algorithm for these integer programs. In this algorithm, Chinneck's heuristic algorithm is used to find an upper bound and a related technique based on sensitivity analysis is used for branching. Irreducible Infeasible Subsystem (IIS) hitting set cuts are applied. We also suggest a binary search algorithm which may be more numerically stable. The algorithms are implemented with the BCP framework from the \textbf{COIN-OR} project.

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