Nested Benders Decomposition for Large-Scale Multi-Follower Bilevel Optimization

We propose a scalable nested Benders decomposition (BD) framework for single-leader, multi-follower bilevel optimization problems. The proposed framework is applicable to bilevel optimization problems in which each follower solves a linear program and is particularly well suited for instances involving a large number of followers. By identifying the upper-level decisions as complicating variables, the method … Read more