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Asymptotic behavior of the quadratic knapsack problem

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We study the quadratic knapsack problem on instances where the profits are independent random variables defined on the interval [0, 1] and the knapsack capacity is proportional to the number of items (we assume that the weights are arbitrary numbers from the interval [0, 1]). We show asymptotically that the objective value of a very easy heuristic is not far away from the optimal solution. More specifically we show that the ratio of the optimal solution and the objective value of this heuristic almost surely tends to 1 as the size of the knapsack instance tends to infinity. As a consequence using randomly generated instances following this scheme seems to be inappropriate for studying the performance of heuristics and (to some extend) exact methods. However such instances are frequently used in the literature for this purpose. Additionally we introduce a class of test instances based on hidden cliques for which finding a good solution is much harder. We support this by theoretical observations as well as by performing computational experiments.

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  • Schauer, Joachim, 2016. "Asymptotic behavior of the quadratic knapsack problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 255(2), pages 357-363.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ejores:v:255:y:2016:i:2:p:357-363
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.06.013
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