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Add a Bradley–Hammer–Wolsey coefficient-reduction presolver for short, one-sided constraints over binary variables. It integerizes and normalizes eligible rows,
searches for smaller equivalent integer weights, and retains only rewrites that preserve binary solutions without weakening the original row’s LP relaxation.

Add targeted and randomized tests covering rational coefficients, both inequality orientations, mixed signs, cache behavior, rejection cases, and exhaustive
preservation of the 0/1 feasible set.

This is useful to reduce fractional rows to pure integral for the bnatt* class to allow for a future CPUFJ fast path.

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   Instance                     Coefficients reduced / original NNZ    Dropped / original NNZ
  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
   bnatt500                                                 29.835%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   bnatt400                                                 29.528%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   neos-3656078-kumeu                                        3.140%                    0.003%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   cryptanalysiskb128n5obj16                                 1.414%                    0.470%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   cryptanalysiskb128n5obj14                                 1.414%                    0.470%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   neos-960392                                               0.949%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   rocI-4-11                                                 0.336%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   uccase9                                                   0.307%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   gmu-35-40                                                 0.186%                        0%
  ───────────────────────────  ─────────────────────────────────────  ────────────────────────
   momentum1                                                 0.145%                        0%

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// points, which are supersets of BHW's ceilings and roofs because we skip their ordering condition.
// That costs nothing: with all coefficients positive the activity is monotone, so the maximum of
// w.x over the feasible points is attained at a maximal one and the minimum over the infeasible
// points at a minimal one. Checked exhaustively over 9.4M (row, weight) pairs against full 2^k

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I think we can remote the sentence starting with "Checked"

// points at a minimal one. Checked exhaustively over 9.4M (row, weight) pairs against full 2^k
// equivalence, in both directions, before landing.
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// BHW's minimization is not implemented. Section 5 obtains the minimum equivalent inequality by LP

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I think we can remove this paragraph

// vectors for a 12-entry row, measured at 187us for the worst shape. Lemma 3.6 supplies the lower
// bound that seeds and prunes the search.
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// TODO: extend the fallback path to the row generation of Section 6. On the PaPILO-reduced corpus

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Let's shorten this an avoid giving numbers on an instance specific example.

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Adds a BHW coefficient-reduction presolver for eligible binary inequality rows. The change implements exact and heuristic reductions, registers the presolver, integrates its source and tests, and validates binary feasible-set preservation.

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BHW coefficient reduction

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Reduction contracts
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/bhw_coeff_reduce.hpp
Defines BHW limits, reduction results, shape caching, row-reduction declarations, and the delayed PaPILO presolve class.
Row reduction algorithm
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/bhw_coeff_reduce.cpp
Normalizes binary rows, builds feasible and infeasible partitions, searches exact or heuristic reduced weights, validates equivalence, and restores orientation.
Presolve integration
cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/bhw_coeff_reduce.cpp, cpp/src/mip_heuristics/presolve/third_party_presolve.cpp, cpp/src/mip_heuristics/CMakeLists.txt
Executes reductions on eligible rows, applies accepted changes transactionally, records debug statistics, instantiates float and double variants, and registers the presolver.
Reduction validation
cpp/tests/mip/bhw_coeff_reduce_test.cpp, cpp/tests/internal/CMakeLists.txt
Tests feasible-set preservation, integerization, orientation, rejection cases, cache consistency, and randomized reductions.

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Add <numeric> for the direct std::accumulate dependency.

bhw_stats_t::report uses std::accumulate, but bhw_coeff_reduce.cpp relies on <numeric> being included transitively by integer_scaling.hpp. Add <numeric> directly so this file remains self-contained if that transitive include changes.

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