Dantzig–Wolfe Reformulations for Binary Quadratic Problems

The purpose of this paper is to provide strong reformulations for binary quadratic problems. We propose a first methodological analysis on a family of reformulations combining Dantzig–Wolfe and Quadratic Convex optimization principles. We show that a few reformulations of our family yield continuous relaxations that are strong in terms of dual bounds and computationally efficient to optimize. As a representative case study, we apply them to a cardinality constrained quadratic knapsack problem, providing extensive experimental insights. We report and analyze in depth a particular reformulation providing continuous relaxations whose solutions turn out to be integer optima in all our tests.