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XPRScontrol Enumeration

Namespace:   Optimizer
Assembly:  xprsdn (in xprsdn.dll) Version: 44.01.04
Syntax
C# 
public enum XPRScontrol
Members
  Member name Value Description
ExtraRows 8004 The initial number of extra rows to allow for in the matrix, including cuts. If rows are to be added to the matrix, then, for maximum efficiency, space should be reserved for the rows before the matrix is input by setting the EXTRAROWS control. If this is not done, resizing will occur automatically, but more space may be allocated than the user actually requires.
ExtraCols 8005 The initial number of extra columns to allow for in the matrix. If columns are to be added to the matrix, then, for maximum efficiency, space should be reserved for the columns before the matrix is input by setting the EXTRACOLS control. If this is not done, resizing will occur automatically, but more space may be allocated than the user actually requires.
ExtraElems 8006 The initial number of extra matrix elements to allow for in the matrix, including coefficients for cuts. If rows or columns are to be added to the matrix, then, for maximum efficiency, space should be reserved for the extra matrix elements before the matrix is input by setting the EXTRAELEMS control. If this is not done, resizing will occur automatically, but more space may be allocated than the user actually requires.
LPIterLimit 8007 The maximum number of iterations that will be performed by primal simplex or dual simplex before the optimization process terminates. For MIP problems, this is the maximum total number of iterations over all nodes explored by the Branch and Bound method.
LPLog 8009 Simplex: The frequency at which the simplex log is printed.
Scaling 8010 This bit vector control determines how the Optimizer will rescale a model internally before optimization. If set to 0, no scaling will take place.
Presolve 8011 This control determines whether presolving should be performed prior to starting the main algorithm. Presolve attempts to simplify the problem by detecting and removing redundant constraints, tightening variable bounds, etc. In some cases, infeasibility may even be determined at this stage, or the optimal solution found.
Crash 8012 Simplex: This determines the type of crash used when the algorithm begins. During the crash procedure, an initial basis is determined which is as close to feasibility and triangularity as possible. A good choice at this stage will significantly reduce the number of iterations required to find an optimal solution. The possible values increase proportionally to their time-consumption.
PricingAlg 8013 Simplex: This determines the primal simplex pricing method. It is used to select which variable enters the basis on each iteration. In general Devex pricing requires more time on each iteration, but may reduce the total number of iterations, whereas partial pricing saves time on each iteration, but may result in more iterations.
InvertFreq 8014 Simplex: The frequency with which the basis will be inverted. The basis is maintained in a factorized form and on most simplex iterations it is incrementally updated to reflect the step just taken. This is considerably faster than computing the full inverted matrix at each iteration, although after a number of iterations the basis becomes less well-conditioned and it becomes necessary to compute the full inverted matrix. The value of INVERTFREQ specifies the maximum number of iterations between full inversions.
InvertMin 8015 Simplex: The minimum number of iterations between full inversions of the basis matrix. See the description of INVERTFREQ for details.
MaxNode 8018 Branch and Bound: The maximum number of nodes that will be explored.
MaxTime 8020 Obsolete. The maximum time in seconds that the Optimizer will run before it terminates, including the problem setup time and solution time. For MIP problems, this is the total time taken to solve all nodes.
MaxMIPSol 8021 Branch and Bound: This specifies a limit on the number of integer solutions to be found by the Optimizer. It is possible that during optimization the Optimizer will find the same objective solution from different nodes. However, MAXMIPSOL refers to the total number of integer solutions found, and not necessarily the number of distinct solutions.
SiftPasses 8022 Determines how quickly we allow to grow the worker problems during the sifting algorithm. Using larger values can increase the number of columns added to the worker problem which often results in increased solve times for the worker problems but the number of necessary sifting iterations may be reduced. .
DefaultAlg 8023 This selects the algorithm that will be used to solve LPs, standalone or during MIP optimization.
VarSelection 8025 Branch and Bound: This determines the formula used to calculate the estimate of each integer variable, and thus which integer variable is selected to be branched on at a given node. The variable selected to be branched on is the one with the maximum estimate.
NodeSelection 8026 Branch and Bound: This determines which nodes will be considered for solution once the current node has been solved.
BackTrack 8027 Branch and Bound: Specifies how to select the next node to work on when a full backtrack is performed.
MIPLog 8028 MIP log print control.
KeepNRows 8030 How nonbinding rows should be handled by the MPS reader.
MPSEcho 8032 Determines whether comments in MPS matrix files are to be printed out during matrix input.
MaxPageLines 8034 Number of lines between page breaks in printable output.
OutputLog 8035 This controls the level of output produced by the Optimizer during optimization. In the Console Optimizer, OUTPUTLOG controls which messages are sent to the screen (stdout). When using the Optimizer library, no output is sent to the screen. If the user wishes output to be displayed, they must define a callback function and print messages to the screen themselves. In this case, OUTPUTLOG controls which messages are sent to the user output callback.
BarSolution 8038 This determines whether the barrier has to decide which is the best solution found or return the solution computed by the last barrier iteration.
CacheSize 8043 Obsolete. Newton Barrier: L2 or L3 (see notes) cache size in kB (kilobytes) of the CPU. On Intel (or compatible) platforms a value of -1 may be used to determine the cache size automatically. If the CPU model is new then the cache size may not be correctly detected by an older release of the software.
CrossOver 8044 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This control determines whether the barrier method will cross over to the simplex method when at optimal solution has been found, to provide an end basis (see getBasis, writeBasis) and advanced sensitivity analysis information (see objsa, rHSsa, bndsa).
BarIterLimit 8045 Newton barrier: The maximum number of iterations. While the simplex method usually performs a number of iterations which is proportional to the number of constraints (rows) in a problem, the barrier method standardly finds the optimal solution to a given accuracy after a number of iterations which is independent of the problem size. The penalty is rather that the time for each iteration increases with the size of the problem. BARITERLIMIT specifies the maximum number of iterations which will be carried out by the barrier.
CholeskyAlg 8046 Newton barrier: type of Cholesky factorization used.
BarOutput 8047 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This specifies the level of solution output provided. Output is provided either after each iteration of the algorithm, or else can be turned off completely by this parameter.
ExtraMIPEnts 8051 The initial number of extra MIP entities to allow for.
Refactor 8052 Indicates whether the optimization should restart using the current representation of the factorization in memory.
BarThreads 8053 If set to a positive integer it determines the number of threads implemented to run the Newton-barrier and hybrid gradient algorithms. If the value is set to the default value (-1), the THREADS control will determine the number of threads used.
KeepBasis 8054 Simplex: This determines whether the basis should be kept when reoptimizing a problem. The choice is between using a crash basis created at the beginning of simplex or using a basis from a previous solve (if such exists). By default, this control gets (re)set automatically in various situations. By default, it will be automatically set to 1 after a solve that produced a valid basis. This will automatically warmstart a subsequent solve. Explicitly loading a starting basis will also set this control to 1. If the control is explicitly set to 0, any existing basis will be ignored for a new solve, and the Optimizer will start from an ad-hoc crash basis.
CrossoverOps 8060 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: a bit vector for adjusting the behavior of the crossover procedure.
Version 8061 The Optimizer version number, e.g. 1301 meaning release 13.01.
CrossoverThreads 8065 Determines the maximum number of threads that parallel crossover is allowed to use. If CROSSOVERTHREADS is set to the default value (-1), the BARTHREADS control will determine the number of threads used.
BigmMethod 8068 Simplex: This specifies whether to use the "Big M" method, or the standard phase I (achieving feasibility) and phase II (achieving optimality). In the "Big M" method, the objective coefficients of the variables are considered during the feasibility phase, possibly leading to an initial feasible basis which is closer to optimal. The side-effects involve possible round-off errors due to the presence of the "Big M" factor in the problem.
MPSNameLength 8071
ElimFillIn 8073 Amount of fill-in allowed when performing an elimination in presolve .
PresolveOps 8077 This bit vector control specifies the operations which are performed during the presolve.
MIPPresolve 8078 Branch and Bound: Type of integer processing to be performed. If set to 0, no processing will be performed.
MIPThreads 8079 If set to a positive integer it determines the number of threads implemented to run the parallel MIP code. If MIPTHREADS is set to the default value (-1), the THREADS control will determine the number of threads used.
BarOrder 8080 Newton barrier: This controls the Cholesky factorization in the Newton-Barrier.
BreadthFirst 8082 The number of nodes to include in the best-first search before switching to the local first search (NODESELECTION=4).
AutoPerturb 8084 Simplex: This indicates whether automatic perturbation is performed. If this is set to 1, the problem will be perturbed whenever the simplex method encounters an excessive number of degenerate pivot steps, thus preventing the Optimizer being hindered by degeneracies.
DenseColLimit 8086 Newton barrier: Columns with more than DENSECOLLIMIT elements are considered to be dense. Such columns will be handled specially in the Cholesky factorization of this matrix.
CallbackFromMasterThread 8090 Branch and Bound: specifies whether the MIP callbacks should only be called on the master thread.
MaxMCoeffBufferElems 8091 The maximum number of matrix coefficients to buffer before flushing into the internal representation of the problem. Buffering coefficients can offer a significant performance gain when you are building a matrix using chgCoef or chgMCoef, but can lead to a significant memory overhead for large matrices, which this control allows you to influence.
RefineOps 8093 This specifies when the solution refiner should be executed to reduce solution infeasibilities. The refiner will attempt to satisfy the target tolerances for all original linear constraints before presolve or scaling has been applied.
LpRefineIterLimit 8094 This specifies the simplex iteration limit the solution refiner can spend in attempting to increase the accuracy of an LP solution.
MipRefineIterLimit 8095 This defines an effort limit expressed as simplex iterations for the MIP solution refiner. The limit is per reoptimizations in the MIP refiner.
DualizeOps 8097 Bit-vector control for adjusting the behavior when a problem is dualized.
CrossoverIterLimit 8104 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: The maximum number of iterations that will be performed in the crossover procedure before the optimization process terminates.
PreBasisRed 8106 Determines if a lattice basis reduction algorithm should be attempted as part of presolve
PreSort 8107 This bit vector control specifies whether to sort rows, columns and MIP entities by their names when starting the presolve. With the default value 0, no sorting will take place.
PrePermute 8108 This bit vector control specifies whether to randomly permute rows, columns and MIP entities when starting the presolve. With the default value 0, no permutation will take place.
PrePermuteSeed 8109 This control sets the seed for the pseudo-random number generator for permuting the problem when starting the presolve. This control only has effects when PREPERMUTE is enabled.
MaxMemorySoft 8112 When RESOURCESTRATEGY is enabled, this control sets the maximum amount of memory in megabytes the optimizer targets to allocate. This may change the solving path, but will not cause the solve to terminate early. To set a hard version of the same, please set MAXMEMORYHARD.
CutFreq 8116 Branch and Bound: This specifies the frequency at which cuts are generated in the tree search. If the depth of the node modulo CUTFREQ is zero, then cuts will be generated.
SymSelect 8117 Adjusts the overall amount of effort for symmetry detection.
Symmetry 8118 Adjusts the overall amount of effort for symmetry detection.
MaxMemoryHard 8119 This control sets the maximum amount of memory in megabytes the optimizer should allocate. If this limit is exceeded, the solve will terminate. This control is designed to make the optimizer stop in a controlled manner, so that the problem object is valid once termination occurs. The solve state will be set to incomplete. This is different to an out of memory condition in which case the optimizer returns an error. The optimizer may still allocate memory once the limit is exceeded to be able to finsish the operations and stop in a controlled manner. When RESOURCESTRATEGY is enabled, the control also has the same effect as MAXMEMORYSOFT and will cause the optimizer to try preserving memory when possible.
MIQCPAlg 8125 This control determines which algorithm is to be used to solve mixed integer quadratic constrained and mixed integer second order cone problems.
QCCuts 8126 Branch and Bound: Limit on the number of rounds of outer approximation cuts generated for the root node, when solving a mixed integer quadratic constrained or mixed integer second order conic problem with outer approximation.
QCRootAlg 8127 This control determines which algorithm is to be used to solve the root of a mixed integer quadratic constrained or mixed integer second order cone problem, when outer approximation is used.
PreConvertSeparable 8128 Presolve: reformulate problems with a non-diagonal quadratic objective and/or constraints as diagonal quadratic or second-order conic constraints.
AlgAfterNetwork 8129 The algorithm to be used for the clean up step after the network simplex solver.
Trace 8130 Display the infeasibility diagnosis during presolve. If non-zero, an explanation of the logical deductions made by presolve to deduce infeasibility or unboundedness will be displayed on screen or sent to the message callback function.
MaxIIS 8131 This function controls the number of Irreducible Infeasible Sets to be found using the iISAll (IIS-a).
CPUTime 8133 How time should be measured when timings are reported in the log and when checking against time limits
CoverCuts 8134 Branch and Bound: The number of rounds of lifted cover inequalities at the top node. A lifted cover inequality is an additional constraint that can be particularly effective at reducing the size of the feasible region without removing potential integral solutions. The process of generating these can be carried out a number of times, further reducing the feasible region, albeit incurring a time penalty. There is usually a good payoff from generating these at the top node, since these inequalities then apply to every subsequent node in the tree search.
GomCuts 8135 Branch and Bound: The number of rounds of Gomory or lift-and-project cuts at the top node.
LpFolding 8136 Simplex and barrier: whether to fold an LP problem before solving it.
MPSFormat 8137 Specifies the format of MPS files.
CutStrategy 8138 Branch and Bound: This specifies the cut strategy. A more aggressive cut strategy, generating a greater number of cuts, will result in fewer nodes to be explored, but with an associated time cost in generating the cuts. The fewer cuts generated, the less time taken, but the greater subsequent number of nodes to be explored.
CutDepth 8139 Branch and Bound: Sets the maximum depth in the tree search at which cuts will be generated. Generating cuts can take a lot of time, and is often less important at deeper levels of the tree since tighter bounds on the variables have already reduced the feasible region. A value of 0 signifies that no cuts will be generated.
TreeCoverCuts 8140 Branch and Bound: The number of rounds of lifted cover inequalities generated at nodes other than the top node in the tree. Compare with the description for COVERCUTS. A value of -1 indicates the number of rounds is determined automatically.
TreeGomCuts 8141 Branch and Bound: The number of rounds of Gomory cuts generated at nodes other than the first node in the tree. Compare with the description for GOMCUTS. A value of -1 indicates the number of rounds is determined automatically.
CutSelect 8142 A bit vector providing detailed control of the cuts created for the root node of a MIP solve. Use TREECUTSELECT to control cuts during the tree search.
TreeCutSelect 8143 A bit vector providing detailed control of the cuts created during the tree search of a MIP solve. Use CUTSELECT to control cuts on the root node.
Dualize 8144 For a linear problem or the initial linear relaxation of a MIP, determines whether to form and solve the dual problem.
DualGradient 8145 Simplex: This specifies the dual simplex pricing method.
SBIterLimit 8146 Number of dual iterations to perform the strong branching for each entity.
SBBest 8147 Number of infeasible MIP entities to initialize pseudo costs for on each node.
BarIndefLimit 8153 Newton Barrier. This limits the number of consecutive indefinite barrier iterations that will be performed. The optimizer will try to minimize (resp. maximize) a QP problem even if the Q matrix is not positive (resp. negative) semi-definite. However, the optimizer may detect that the Q matrix is indefinite and this can result in the optimizer not converging. This control specifies how many indefinite iterations may occur before the optimizer stops and reports that the problem is indefinite. It is usual to specify a value greater than one, and only stop after a series of indefinite matrices, as the problem may be found to be indefinite incorrectly on a few iterations for numerical reasons.
HeurFreq 8155 Branch and Bound: This specifies the frequency at which heuristics are used in the tree search. Heuristics will only be used at a node if the depth of the node is a multiple of HEURFREQ.
HeurDepth 8156 Branch and Bound: Sets the maximum depth in the tree search at which heuristics will be used to find MIP solutions. It may be worth stopping the heuristic search for solutions after a certain depth in the tree search. A value of 0 signifies that heuristics will not be used. This control no longer has any effect and will be removed from future releases.
HeurMaxSol 8157 Branch and Bound: This specifies the maximum number of heuristic solutions that will be found in the tree search. This control no longer has any effect and will be removed from future releases.
HeurNodes 8158 Branch and Bound: This specifies the maximum number of nodes at which heuristics are used in the tree search. This control no longer has any effect and will be removed from future releases.
LNPBest 8160 Number of infeasible MIP entities to create lift-and-project cuts for during each round of Gomory cuts at the top node (see GOMCUTS).
LNPIterLimit 8161 Number of iterations to perform in improving each lift-and-project cut.
BranchChoice 8162 Once a MIP entity has been selected for branching, this control determines which of the branches is solved first.
BarRegularize 8163 This control determines how the barrier algorithm applies regularization on the KKT system.
SBSelect 8164 The size of the candidate list of MIP entities for strong branching.
IISLog 8165 Selects how much information should be printed during the IIS procedure. Please refer to Appendix for a more detailed description of the IIS logging format.
LocalChoice 8170 Controls when to perform a local backtrack between the two child nodes during a dive in the branch and bound tree.
LocalBacktrack 8171
DualStrategy 8174 This bit-vector control specifies the dual simplex strategy.
L1Cache 8175 Obsolete. Newton barrier: L1 cache size in kB (kilo bytes) of the CPU. On Intel (or compatible) platforms a value of -1 may be used to determine the cache size automatically.
HeurDiveStrategy 8177 Branch and Bound: Chooses the strategy for the diving heuristic.
HeurSelect 8178
BarStart 8180 Controls the computation of the starting point and warm-starting for the Newton barrier and the hybrid gradient algorithms.
PresolvePasses 8183 Number of reduction rounds to be performed in presolve
BarNumStability 8186
BarOrderThreads 8187 If set to a positive integer it determines the number of concurrent threads for the sparse matrix ordering algorithm in the Newton-barrier method.
ExtraSets 8190 The initial number of extra sets to allow for in the matrix. If sets are to be added to the matrix, then, for maximum efficiency, space should be reserved for the sets before the matrix is input by setting the EXTRASETS control. If this is not done, resizing will occur automatically, but more space may be allocated than the user actually requires.
ExtraSetElems 8191 The initial number of extra elements in sets to allow for in the matrix. If sets are to be added to the matrix, then, for maximum efficiency, space should be reserved for the set elements before the matrix is input by setting the EXTRASETELEMS control. If this is not done, resizing will occur automatically, but more space may be allocated than the user actually requires.
FeasibilityPump 8193 Branch and Bound: Decides if the Feasibility Pump heuristic should be run at the top node.
PreCoefElim 8194 Presolve: Specifies whether the optimizer should attempt to recombine constraints in order to reduce the number of non zero coefficients when presolving a mixed integer problem.
PreDomCol 8195 Presolve: Determines the level of dominated column removal reductions to perform when presolving a mixed integer problem. Only binary columns will be checked.
HeurSearchFreq 8196 Branch and Bound: This specifies how often the local search heuristic should be run in the tree.
HeurDiveSpeedUp 8197 Branch and Bound: Changes the emphasis of the diving heuristic from solution quality to diving speed.
SBEstimate 8198 Branch and Bound: How to calculate pseudo costs from the local node when selecting an infeasible MIP entity to branch on. These pseudo costs are used in combination with local strong branching and history costs to select the branch candidate.
BarCores 8202 If set to a positive integer it determines the number of physical CPU cores assumed to be present in the system by the barrier and hybrid gradient algorithms. If the value is set to the default value (-1), Xpress will automatically detect the number of cores.
MaxChecksOnMaxTime 8203 This control is intended for use where optimization runs that are terminated using the TIMELIMIT (or the deprecated MAXTIME) control are required to be reproduced exactly. This control is necessary because of the inherent difficulty in terminating algorithmic software in a consistent way using temporal criteria. The control value relates to the number of times the optimizer checks the TIMELIMIT criterion up to and including the check when the termination was activated. To use the control the user first must obtain the value of the CHECKSONMAXTIME attribute after the run returns. This attribute value is the number of times the optimizer checked the TIMELIMIT criterion during the last call to the optimization routine mipOptimize. Note that this attribute value will be negative if the optimizer terminated on the TIMELIMIT criterion. To ensure that a reproduction of a run terminates in the same way the user should first ensure that TIMELIMIT is set to its default value or to a large value so the run does not terminate again on TIMELIMIT and then simply set the control MAXCHECKSONMAXTIME to the absolute value of the CHECKSONMAXTIME value.
MaxChecksOnMaxCutTime 8204 This control is intended for use where optimization runs that are terminated using the MAXCUTTIME control are required to be reproduced exactly. This control is necessary because of the inherent difficulty in terminating algorithmic software in a consistent way using temporal criteria. The control value relates to the number of times the optimizer checks the MAXCUTTIME criterion up to and including the check when the termination of cutting was activated. To use the control the user first must obtain the value of the CHECKSONMAXCUTTIME attribute after the run returns. This attribute value is the number of times the optimizer checked the MAXCUTTIME criterion during the last call to the optimization routine mipOptimize. Note that this attribute value will be negative if the optimizer terminated cutting on the MAXCUTTIME criterion. To ensure accurate reproduction of a run the user should first ensure that MAXCUTTIME is set to its default value or to a large value so the run does not terminate again on MAXCUTTIME and then simply set the control MAXCHECKSONMAXCUTTIME to the absolute value of the CHECKSONMAXCUTTIME value.
HistoryCosts 8206 Branch and Bound: How to update the pseudo cost for a MIP entity when a strong branch or a regular branch is applied.
AlgAfterCrossOver 8208 The algorithm to be used for the final clean up step after the crossover.
MutexCallBacks 8210 Branch and Bound: This determines whether the callback routines are mutexed from within the optimizer.
BarCrash 8211 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This determines the type of crash used for the crossover. During the crash procedure, an initial basis is determined which attempts to speed up the crossover. A good choice at this stage will significantly reduce the number of iterations required to crossover to an optimal solution. The possible values increase proportionally to their time-consumption.
HeurDiveSoftRounding 8215 Branch and Bound: Enables a more cautious strategy for the diving heuristic, where it tries to push binaries and integer variables to their bounds using the objective, instead of directly fixing them. This can be useful when the default diving heuristics fail to find any feasible solutions.
HeurSearchRootSelect 8216 A bit vector control for selecting which local search heuristics to apply on the root node of a MIP solve. Use HEURSEARCHTREESELECT to control local search heuristics during the tree search.
HeurSearchTreeSelect 8217 A bit vector control for selecting which local search heuristics to apply during the tree search of a MIP solve. Use HEURSEARCHROOTSELECT to control local search heuristics on the root node.
MPS18Compatible 8223 Provides compatibility of MPS file output for older MPS readers.
RootPresolve 8224 Determines if presolving should be performed on the problem after the tree search has finished with root cutting and heuristics.
CrossOverDRP 8227
ForceOutput 8229 Certain names in the problem object may be incompatible with different file formats (such as names containing spaces for LP files). If the optimizer might be unable to read back a problem because of non-standard names, it will first attempt to write it out using an extended naming convention. If the names would not be possible to extend so that they would be reproducible and recognizable, it will give an error message and won't create the file. If the optimizer might be unable to read back a problem because of non-standard names, it will give an error message and won't create the file. This option may be used to force output anyway.
PrimalOps 8231 Primal simplex: allows fine tuning the variable selection in the primal simplex solver.
Deterministic 8232 Selects whether to use a deterministic or opportunistic mode when solving a problem using multiple threads.
PreProbing 8238 Presolve: Amount of probing to perform on binary variables during presolve. This is done by fixing a binary to each of its values in turn and analyzing the implications.
TreeMemoryLimit 8242 A soft limit, in megabytes, for the amount of memory to use in storing the branch and bound search tree. This doesn't include memory used for presolve, heuristics, solving the LP relaxation, etc. When set to 0 (the default), the optimizer will calculate a limit automatically based on the amount of free physical memory detected in the machine. When the memory used by the branch and bound tree exceeds this limit, the optimizer will try to reduce the memory usage by writing lower-rated sections of the tree to a file called the "tree file". Though the solve can continue if it cannot bring the tree memory usage below the specified limit, performance will be inhibited and a message will be printed to the log.
TreeCompression 8243 When writing nodes to the gloal file, the optimizer can try to use data-compression techniques to reduce the size of the tree file on disk. The TREECOMPRESSION control determines the strength of the data-compression algorithm used; higher values give superior data-compression at the affect of decreasing performance, while lower values compress quicker but not as effectively. Where TREECOMPRESSION is set to 0, no data compression will be used on the tree file.
TreeDiagnostics 8244 A bit vector providing control over how various tree-management-related messages get printed in the tree log file during the branch-and-bound search.
MaxTreeFileSize 8245 The maximum size, in megabytes, to which the tree file may grow, or 0 for no limit. When the tree file reaches this limit, a second tree file will be created. Useful if you are using a filesystem that puts a maximum limit on the size of a file.
PreCliqueStrategy 8247 Determines how much effort to spend on clique covers in presolve.
RepairInfeasMaxTime 8250 Obsolete. Overall time limit for the repairinfeas tool
IfCheckConvexity 8251 Determines if the convexity of the problem is checked before optimization. Applies to quadratic, mixed integer quadratic and quadratically constrained problems. Checking convexity takes some time, thus for problems that are known to be convex it might be reasonable to switch the checking off.
PrimalUnshift 8252 Determines whether primal is allowed to call dual to unshift.
RepairIndefiniteQ 8254 Controls if the optimizer should make indefinite quadratic matrices positive definite when it is possible.
MipRampup 8255 Controls the strategy used by the parallel MIP solver during the ramp-up phase of a branch-and-bound tree search.
MaxLocalBacktrack 8257 Branch-and-Bound: How far back up the current dive path the optimizer is allowed to look for a local backtrack candidate node.
UserSolHeuristic 8258 Determines how much effort to put into running a local search heuristic to find a feasible integer solution from a partial or infeasible user solution.
PreConvertObjToCons 8260 Presolve: convert a linear or quadratic objective function into an objective transfer constraint
ForceParallelDual 8265 Dual simplex: specifies whether the dual simplex solver should always use the parallel simplex algorithm. By default, when using a single thread, the dual simplex solver will execute a dedicated sequential simplex algorithm.
BacktrackTie 8266 Branch and Bound: Specifies how to break ties when selecting the next node to work on when a full backtrack is performed. The options are the same as for the BACKTRACK control.
BranchDisj 8267 Branch and Bound: Determines whether the optimizer should attempt to branch on general split disjunctions during the branch and bound search.
MipFracReduce 8270 Branch and Bound: Specifies how often the optimizer should run a heuristic to reduce the number of fractional integer variables in the node LP solutions.
ConcurrentThreads 8274 Determines the number of threads used by the concurrent solver.
MaxScaleFactor 8275 This determines the maximum scaling factor that can be applied during scaling. The maximum is provided as an exponent of a power of 2.
HeurThreads 8276 Branch and Bound: The number of threads to dedicate to running heuristics during the root solve.
Threads 8278 The default number of threads used during optimization.
HeurBeforeLP 8280 Branch and Bound: Determines whether primal heuristics should be run before the initial LP relaxation has been solved.
PreDomRow 8281 Presolve: Determines the level of dominated row removal reductions to perform when presolving a problem.
BranchStructural 8282 Branch and Bound: Determines whether the optimizer should search for special structure in the problem to branch on during the branch and bound search.
QuadraticUnshift 8284 Determines whether an extra solution purification step is called after a solution found by the quadratic simplex (either primal or dual).
BarPresolveOps 8286 Newton barrier: This controls the Newton-Barrier specific presolve operations.
QSimplexOps 8288 Controls the behavior of the quadratic simplex solvers.
MipRestart 8290 Branch and Bound: controls strategy for in-tree restarts.
ConflictCuts 8292 Branch and Bound: Specifies how cautious or aggressive the optimizer should be when searching for and applying conflict cuts. Conflict cuts are in-tree cuts derived from nodes found to be infeasible or cut off, which can be used to cut off other branches of the search tree.
PreProtectDual 8293 Presolve: specifies whether the presolver should protect a given dual solution by maintaining the same level of dual feasibility. Enabling this control often results in a worse presolved model. This control only expected to be optionally enabled before calling crossoverLpSol.
CoresPerCPU 8296 Used to override the detected value of the number of cores on a CPU. The cache size (either detected or specified via the CACHESIZE control) used in Barrier methods will be divided by this amount, and this scaled-down value will be the amount of cache allocated to each Barrier thread
ResourceStrategy 8297 Controls whether the optimizer is allowed to make nondeterministic decisions if memory is running low in an effort to preserve memory and finish the solve. Available memory (or container limits) are automatically detected but can also be changed by MAXMEMORYSOFT and MAXMEMORYHARD
Clamping 8301 This control allows for the adjustment of returned solution values such that they are always within bounds.
SleepOnThreadWait 8302 Obsolete. In previous versions this was used to determine if the threads should be put into a wait state when waiting for work.
PreDupRow 8307 Presolve: Determines the type of duplicate rows to look for and eliminate when presolving a problem.
CPUPlatform 8312 Newton Barrier: Selects the AMD, Intel x86 or ARM vectorization instruction set that Barrier should run optimized code for. On AMD / Intel x86 platforms the SSE2, AVX and AVX2 instruction sets are supported while on ARM platforms the NEON architecture extension can be activated.
BarAlg 8315 This control determines which barrier algorithm is used to solve the problem.
Sifting 8319 Determines whether to enable sifting algorithm with the dual simplex method.
BarKeepLastSol 8323
LPLogStyle 8326 Simplex: The style of the simplex log.
RandomSeed 8328 Sets the initial seed to use for the pseudo-random number generator in the Optimizer. The sequence of random numbers is always reset using the seed when starting a new optimization run.
TreeQCCuts 8331 Branch and Bound: Limit on the number of rounds of outer approximation cuts generated for nodes other than the root node, when solving a mixed integer quadratic constrained or mixed integer second order conic problem with outer approximation.
PreLinDep 8333 Presolve: Determines whether to check for and remove linearly dependent equality constraints when presolving a problem.
DualThreads 8334 Determines the maximum number of threads that dual simplex is allowed to use. If DUALTHREADS is set to the default value (-1), the THREADS control will determine the number of threads used.
PreObjCutDetect 8336 Presolve: Determines whether to check for constraints that are parallel or near parallel to a linear objective function, and which can safely be removed. This reduction applies to MIPs only.
PreBndRedQuad 8337 Determines if convex quadratic constraints should be used for inferring bound reductions on variables when solving a MIP.
PreBndRedCone 8338 Determines if second order cone constraints should be used for inferring bound reductions on variables when solving a MIP.
PreComponents 8339 Presolve: determines whether small independent components should be detected and solved as individual subproblems during root node processing.
MaxMipTasks 8347 Branch-and-Bound: The maximum number of tasks to run in parallel during a MIP solve.
MipTerminationMethod 8348 Branch and Bound: How a MIP solve should be stopped on early termination when there are still active tasks in the system. This can happen when, for example, a time or node limit is reached.
PreConeDecomp 8349 Presolve: decompose regular and rotated cones with more than two elements and apply Outer Approximation on the resulting components.
HeurForceSpecialObj 8350 Branch and Bound: This specifies whether local search heuristics without objective or with an auxiliary objective should always be used, despite the automatic selection of the Optimiezr. Deactivated by default.
HeurSearchRootCutFreq 8351 How frequently to run the local search heuristic during root cutting. This is given as how many cut rounds to perform between runs of the heuristic. Set to zero to avoid applying the heuristic during root cutting. Branch and Bound: This specifies how often the local search heuristic should be run in the tree.
PreElimQuad 8353 Presolve: Allows for elimination of quadratic variables via doubleton rows.
PreImplications 8356 Presolve: Determines whether to use implication structures to remove redundant rows. If implication sequences are detected, they might also be used in probing.
TunerMode 8359 Tuner: Whether to always enable the tuner or disable it.
TunerMethod 8360 Tuner: Selects a factory tuner method. A tuner method consists of a list of controls with different settings that the tuner will evaluate and try to combine.
TunerTarget 8362 Tuner: Defines the tuner target -- what should be evaluated when comparing two runs with different control settings.
TunerThreads 8363 Tuner: the number of threads used by the tuner.
TunerHistory 8365 Tuner: Whether to reuse and append to previous tuner results of the same problem.
TunerPermute 8366 Tuner: Defines the number of permutations to solve for each control setting.
TunerVerbose 8370 Tuner: whether the tuner should prints detailed information for each run.
TunerOutput 8372 Tuner: Whether to output tuner results and logs to the file system.
PreAnalyticcenter 8374 Determines if analytic centers should be computed and used for variable fixing and the generation of alternative reduced costs (-1: Auto 0: Off, 1: Fixing, 2: Redcost, 3: Both)
NetCuts 8382 Obsolete.
LPFlags 8385 A bit-vector control which defines the algorithm for solving an LP problem or the initial LP relaxation of a MIP problem.
MIPKappaFreq 8386 Branch and Bound: Specifies how frequently the basis condition number (also known as kappa) should be calculated during the branch-and-bound search.
ObjScaleFactor 8387 Custom objective scaling factor, expressed as a power of 2. When set, it overwrites the automatic objective scaling factor. A value of 0 means no objective scaling. This control is applied for the full solve, and is independent of any extra scaling that may occur specifically for the barrier or simplex solvers. As it is a power of 2, to scale by 16, set the value of the control to 4.
TreeFileLogInterval 8389 This control sets the interval between progress messages output while writing tree data to the tree file, in seconds. The solve is slowed greatly while data is being written to the tree file and this output allows the user to see how much progress is being made.
IgnoreContainerCpuLimit 8390
IgnoreContainerMemoryLimit 8391
MIPDualReductions 8392 Branch and Bound: Limits operations that can reduce the MIP solution space.
GenconsDualReductions 8395 This parameter specifies whether dual reductions should be applied to reduce the number of columns and rows added when transforming general constraints to MIP structs.
PwlDualReductions 8396 This parameter specifies whether dual reductions should be applied to reduce the number of columns, rows and SOS-constraints added when transforming piecewise linear objectives and constraints to MIP structs.
BarFailIterLimit 8398 Newton barrier: The maximum number of consecutive iterations that fail to improve the solution in the barrier algorithm.
AutoScaling 8406 Whether the Optimizer should automatically select between different scaling algorithms. If the SCALING control is set, no automatic scaling will be applied.
GenconsAbsTransformation 8408 This control specifies the reformulation method for absolute value general constraints at the beginning of the search.
ComputeJobPriority 8409 Selects the priority that will be used for remote optimization jobs.
PreFolding 8410 Presolve: Determines if a folding procedure should be used to aggregate continuous columns in an equitable partition.
Compute 8411 Controls whether the next solve is performed directly or on an Insight Compute Interface.
NetStallLimit 8412 Limit the number of degenerate pivots of the network simplex algorithm, before switching to either primal or dual simplex, depending on ALGAFTERNETWORK.
SerializePreIntSol 8413 Setting SERIALIZEPREINTSOL to 1 will ensure that the preintsol callback is always fired in a deterministic order during a parallel MIP solve. This applies only when the control DETERMINISTIC is set to 1.
NumericalEmphasis 8416 How much emphasis to place on numerical stability instead of solve speed.
PwlNonConvexTransformation 8420 This control specifies the reformulation method for piecewise linear constraints at the beginning of the search. Note that the chosen formulation will only be used if MIP entities are necessary but not if presolve detected that a convex reformulation is possible. Furthermore, the binary formulation will only be applied to piecewise linear constraints with bounded input variable, otherwise the SOS2-formulation will be used.
MipComponents 8421 Determines whether disconnected components in a MIP should be solved as separate MIPs. There can be significant performence benefits from solving disconnected components individual instead of being part of the main branch-and-bound search.
MipConcurrentNodes 8422 Sets the node limit for when a winning solve is selected when concurrent MIP solves are enabled. When multiple MIP solves are started, they each run up to the MIPCONCURRENTNODES node limit and only one winning solve is selected for contuinuing the search with.
MipConcurrentSolves 8423 Selects the number of concurrent solves to start for a MIP. Each solve will use a unique random seed for its random number generator, but will otherwise apply the same user controls. The first concurrent solve to complete will have solved the MIP and all the concurrent solves will be terminated at this point. Using concurrent solves can be advantageous when a MIP displays a high level of performance variability.
OutputControls 8424 This control toggles the printing of all control settings at the beginning of the search. This includes the printing of controls that have been explicitly assigned to their default value. All unset controls are omitted as they keep their default value.
SiftSwitch 8425 Determines which algorithm to use for solving the subproblems during sifting.
HeurEmphasis 8427 Branch and Bound: This control specifies an emphasis for the search w.r.t. primal heuristics and other procedures that affect the speed of convergence of the primal-dual gap. For problems where the goal is to achieve a small gap but not neccessarily solving them to optimality, it is recommended to set HEUREMPHASIS to 1. This setting triggers many additional heuristic calls, aiming for reducing the gap at the beginning of the search, typically at the expense of an increased time for proving optimality.
BarRefIter 8431 Newton barrier: After terminating the barrier algorithm, further refinement steps can be performed. Such refinement steps are especially helpful if the solution is near to the optimum and can improve primal feasibility and decrease the complementarity gap. It is also often advantageous for the crossover algorithm. BARREFITER specifies the maximum number of such refinement iterations.
ComputeLog 8434 Controls how the run log is fetched when a solve is performed on an Insight Compute Interface.
SiftPresolveOps 8435 Determines the presolve operations for solving the subproblems during the sifting algorithm.
CheckInputData 8436 Check input arrays for bad data.
EscapeNames 8440 If characters illegal to an mps or lp file should be escaped to guarantee readability, and whether escaped characters should be transformed back when reading such a file.
IOTimeout 8442 The maximum number of seconds to wait for an I/O operation before it is cancelled.
AutoCutting 8446 Should the Optimizer automatically decide whether to generate cutting planes at local nodes in the tree or not? If the CUTFREQ control is set, no automatic selection will be made and local cutting will be enabled.
GlobalNumInitNlpCuts 8449 Specifies the maximum number of tangent cuts when setting up the initial relaxation during a global solve. By default, the algorithm chooses the number of cuts automatically. Adding more cuts tightens the problem, resulting in a smaller branch-and-bound tree, at the cost of slowing down each LP solve.
CallbackCheckTimeDelay 8451 Minimum delay in milliseconds between two consecutive executions of the CHECKTIME callback in the same solution process
MultiObjOps 8457 Modifies the behaviour of the optimizer when solving multi-objective problems.
MultiObjLog 8458 Log level for multi-objective optimization.
BackgroundMaxThreads 8461 Limit the number of threads to use in background jobs (for example in parallel to the root cut loop).
BackgroundSelect 8463 Select which tasks to run in background jobs (for example in parallel to the root cut loop).
GlobalLSHeurstrategy 8464 When integer-feasible (for MINLP, any solution for NLP) but nonlinear-infeasible solutions are encountered within a global solve, the integer variables can be fixed and a local solver (as defined by the LOCALSOLVER control) can be called on the remaining continuous problem. This control defines the frequency and effort of such local solves.
GlobalSpatialBranchIfPreferOrig 8465 Whether spatial branchings on original variables should be preferred over branching on auxiliary variables that were introduced by the reformulation of the global solver.
PreConfiguration 8470 MIP Presolve: determines whether binary rows with only few repeating coefficients should be reformulated. The reformulation enumerates the extremal feasible configurations of a row and introduces new columns and rows to model the choice between these extremal configurations. This presolve operation can be disabled as part of the (advanced) IP reductions PRESOLVEOPS.
FeasibilityJump 8471 MIP: Decides if the Feasibility Jump heuristic should be run. The value for this control is either -1 (let Xpress decide), 0 (off) or a value that indicates for which type of models the heuristic should be run.
IISOps 8472 Selects which part of the restrictions (bounds, constraints, entities) should always be kept in an IIS. This is useful if certain types of restrictions cannot be violated, thus they are known not to be the cause of infeasibility. The IIS obtained this way is irreducible only for the non-protected restrictions. This control has an effect only on the deletion filter of the IIS procedure.
RLTCuts 8476 Determines whether RLT cuts should be separated in the Xpress Global Solver.
HeursearchBackgroundSelect 8477 Select which large neighborhood searches to run in the background (for example in parallel to the root cut loop).
AlternativeRedCosts 8478 Controls aggressiveness of searching for alternative reduced cost
HeurShiftProp 8479 Determines whether the Shift-and-propagate primal heuristic should be executed. If enabled, Shift-and-propagate is an LP-free primal heuristic that is executed immediately after presolve.
HeurSearchCopyControls 8480 Select how user-set controls should affect local search heuristics.
GlobalNlpCuts 8481 Limit on the number of rounds of outer approximation and convexification cuts generated for the root node, when solving an (MI)NLP to global optimality.
GlobalTreeNlpCuts 8482 Limit on the number of rounds of outer approximation and convexification cuts generated for each node in the tree, when solving an (MI)NLP to global optimality.
BarhgOps 8483 Control options for the hybrid gradient algorithm. Bits 1, 2 and 3 control which norms of the coefficient matrix are used for solution normalization. The normalization factor is the maximum of the selected norms. By default, or if all three bits are set to 0, the infinity norm is used. The omega parameter referenced in bits 4, 5 and 6 is a measure of the relative magnitudes of the objective and the right-hand side.
BarhgMaxRestarts 8484 The maximum number of restarts in the hybrid gradient algorithm. Restarts play the role of iterations in the hybrid gradient algorithm. A log line is printed at every restart, unless BAROUTPUT is set to 0.
MCFCutStrategy 8486 Level of Multi-Commodity Flow (MCF) cutting planes separation: This specifies how much aggresively MCF cuts should be separated. If the separation of MCF cuts is enabled, Xpress will try to detect a MCF network structure in the problem and, if such a structure is identified, it will separate specific cutting planes exploiting the identified network.
MaxCutTime 8149 The maximum amount of time allowed for generation of cutting planes and reoptimization. The limit is checked during generation and no further cuts are added once this limit has been exceeded.
MaxStallTime 8443 The maximum time in seconds that the Optimizer will continue to search for improving solution after finding a new incumbent.
TunerMaxTime 8364 Tuner: The maximum time in seconds that the tuner will run before it terminates.
MatrixTol 7001 The zero tolerance on matrix elements. If the value of a matrix element is less than or equal to MATRIXTOL in absolute value, it is treated as zero. The control applies when solving a problem, for an input tolerance see INPUTTOL.
PivotTol 7002 Simplex: The zero tolerance for matrix elements. On each iteration, the simplex method seeks a nonzero matrix element to pivot on. Any element with absolute value less than PIVOTTOL is treated as zero for this purpose.
FeasTol 7003 This tolerance determines when a solution is treated as feasible. If the amount by which a constraint's activity violates its right-hand side or ranged bound is less in absolute magnitude than FEASTOL, then the constraint is treated as satisfied. Similarly, if the amount by which a column violates its bounds is less in absolute magnitude than FEASTOL, those bounds are also treated as satisfied.
OutputTol 7004 Zero tolerance on print values.
SOSRefTol 7005 The minimum relative gap between the ordering values of elements in a special ordered set. The gap divided by the absolute value of the larger of the two adjacent values must be at least SOSREFTOL.
OptimalityTol 7006 Simplex: This is the zero tolerance for reduced costs. On each iteration, the simplex method searches for a variable to enter the basis which has a negative reduced cost. The candidates are only those variables which have reduced costs less than the negative value of OPTIMALITYTOL.
EtaTol 7007 Tolerance on eta elements. During each iteration, the basis inverse is premultiplied by an elementary matrix, which is the identity except for one column - the eta vector. Elements of eta vectors whose absolute value is smaller than ETATOL are taken to be zero in this step.
RelPivotTol 7008 Simplex: At each iteration a pivot element is chosen within a given column of the matrix. The relative pivot tolerance, RELPIVOTTOL, is the size of the element chosen relative to the largest possible pivot element in the same column.
MIPTol 7009 Branch and Bound: This is the tolerance within which a decision variable's value is considered to be integral.
MipTolTarget 7010 Target MIPTOL value used by the automatic MIP solution refiner as defined by REFINEOPS. Negative and zero values are ignored.
BarPerturb 7011 Newton barrier: In numerically challenging cases it is often advantageous to apply perturbations on the KKT system to improve its numerical properties. BARPERTURB controlls how much perturbation is allowed during the barrier iterations. By default no perturbation is allowed. Set this parameter with care as larger perturbations may lead to less efficient iterates and the best settings are problem-dependent.
MIPAddCutoff 7012 Branch and Bound: The amount to add to the objective function of the best integer solution found to give the new CURRMIPCUTOFF. Once an integer solution has been found whose objective function is equal to or better than CURRMIPCUTOFF, improvements on this value may not be interesting unless they are better by at least a certain amount. If MIPADDCUTOFF is nonzero, it will be added to CURRMIPCUTOFF each time an integer solution is found which is better than this new value. This cuts off sections of the tree whose solutions would not represent substantial improvements in the objective function, saving processor time. The control MIPABSSTOP provides a similar function but works in a different way.
MIPAbsCutoff 7013 Branch and Bound: If the user knows that they are interested only in values of the objective function which are better than some value, this can be assigned to MIPABSCUTOFF. This allows the Optimizer to ignore solving any nodes which may yield worse objective values, saving solution time. When a MIP solution is found a new cut off value is calculated and the value can be obtained from the CURRMIPCUTOFF attribute. The value of CURRMIPCUTOFF is calculated using the MIPRELCUTOFF and MIPADDCUTOFF controls.
MIPRelCutoff 7014 Branch and Bound: Percentage of the incumbent value to be added to the value of the objective function when an integer solution is found, to give the new value of CURRMIPCUTOFF. The effect is to cut off the search in parts of the tree whose best possible objective function would not be substantially better than the current solution. The control MIPRELSTOP provides a similar functionality but works in a different way.
PseudoCost 7015 Branch and Bound: The default pseudo cost used in estimation of the degradation associated with an unexplored node in the tree search. A pseudo cost is associated with each integer decision variable and is an estimate of the amount by which the objective function will be worse if that variable is forced to an integral value.
Penalty 7016 Minimum absolute penalty variable coefficient. BIGM and PENALTY are set by the input routine (readProb (READPROB)) but may be reset by the user prior to lpOptimize (LPOPTIMIZE).
BigM 7018 The infeasibility penalty used if the "Big M" method is implemented.
MIPAbsStop 7019 Branch and Bound: The absolute tolerance determining whether the tree search will continue or not. It will terminate if
   |MIPOBJVAL - BESTBOUND| <= MIPABSSTOP
where MIPOBJVAL is the value of the best solution's objective function, and BESTBOUND is the current best solution bound. For example, to stop the tree search when a MIP solution has been found and the Optimizer can guarantee it is within 100 of the optimal solution, set MIPABSSTOP to 100.
MIPRelStop 7020 Branch and Bound: This determines when the branch and bound tree search will terminate. Branch and bound tree search will stop if:
   |MIPOBJVAL - BESTBOUND| <= MIPRELSTOP x max(|BESTBOUND|,|MIPOBJVAL|)
where MIPOBJVAL is the value of the best solution's objective function and BESTBOUND is the current best solution bound. For example, to stop the tree search when a MIP solution has been found and the Optimizer can guarantee it is within 5% of the optimal solution, set MIPRELSTOP to 0.05.
CrossoverAccuracyTol 7023 Newton barrier: This control determines how crossover adjusts the default relative pivot tolerance. When re-inversion is necessary, crossover will compare the recalculated working basic solution with the assumed ones just before re-inversion took place. If the error is above this threshold, crossover will adjust the relative pivot tolerance to address the build-up of numerical inaccuracies.
PrimalPerturb 7024 The factor by which the problem will be perturbed prior to optimization by primal simplex. A value of 0.0 results in no perturbation prior to optimization. Note the interconnection to the AUTOPERTURB control. If AUTOPERTURB is set to 1, the decision whether to perturb or not is left to the Optimizer. When the problem is automatically perturbed in primal simplex, however, the value of PRIMALPERTURB will be used for perturbation.
DualPerturb 7025 The factor by which the problem will be perturbed prior to optimization by dual simplex. A value of 0.0 results in no perturbation prior to optimization. Note the interconnection to the AUTOPERTURB control. If AUTOPERTURB is set to 1, the decision whether to perturb or not is left to the Optimizer. When the problem is automatically perturbed in dual simplex, however, the value of DUALPERTURB will be used for perturbation.
BarObjScale 7026 Defines how the barrier scales the objective.
BarRhsScale 7027 Defines how the barrier scales the right hand side.
CholeskyTol 7032 Newton barrier: The tolerance for pivot elements in the Cholesky decomposition of the normal equations coefficient matrix, computed at each iteration of the barrier algorithm. If the absolute value of the pivot element is less than or equal to CHOLESKYTOL, it merits special treatment in the Cholesky decomposition process.
BarGapStop 7033 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This is a convergence parameter, representing the tolerance for the relative duality gap. When the difference between the primal and dual objective function values falls below this tolerance, the Optimizer determines that the optimal solution has been found.
BarDualStop 7034 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This is a convergence parameter, representing the tolerance for dual infeasibilities. If the difference between the constraints and their bounds in the dual problem falls below this tolerance in absolute value, optimization will stop and the current solution will be returned.
BarPrimalStop 7035 Newton barrier and hybrid gradient: This is a convergence parameter, indicating the tolerance for primal infeasibilities. If the difference between the constraints and their bounds in the primal problem falls below this tolerance in absolute value, the Optimizer will terminate and return the current solution.
BarStepStop 7036 Newton barrier: A convergence parameter, representing the minimal step size. On each iteration of the barrier algorithm, a step is taken along a computed search direction. If that step size is smaller than BARSTEPSTOP, the Optimizer will terminate and return the current solution.
ElimTol 7042 The Markowitz tolerance for the elimination phase of the presolve.
MarkowitzTol 7047 The Markowitz tolerance used for the factorization of the basis matrix.
MIPAbsGapNotify 7064 Branch and bound: if the gapnotify callback has been set using addCbGapNotify, then this callback will be triggered during the tree search when the absolute gap reaches or passes the value you set of the MIPRELGAPNOTIFY control.
MIPRelGapNotify 7065 Branch and bound: if the gapnotify callback has been set using addCbGapNotify, then this callback will be triggered during the branch and bound tree search when the relative gap reaches or passes the value you set of the MIPRELGAPNOTIFY control.
BarLargeBound 7067 Threshold for the barrier to handle large bounds.
PPFactor 7069 The partial pricing candidate list sizing parameter.
RepairIndefiniteQMax 7071
BarGapTarget 7073 Newton barrier: The target tolerance for the relative duality gap. The barrier algorithm will keep iterating until either BARGAPTARGET is satisfied or until no further improvements are possible. In the latter case, if BARGAPSTOP is satisfied, it will declare the problem optimal.
DummyControl 7075
BarStartWeight 7076 Newton barrier: This sets a weight for the warm-start point when warm-start is set for the barrier algorithm. Using larger weight gives more emphasis for the supplied starting point.
BarFreeScale 7077 Defines how the barrier algorithm scales free variables.
SbEffort 7086 Adjusts the overall amount of effort when using strong branching to select an infeasible MIP entity to branch on.
HeurDiveRandomize 7089 The level of randomization to apply in the diving heuristic. The diving heuristic uses priority weights on rows and columns to determine the order in which to e.g. round fractional columns, or the direction in which to round them. This control determines by how large a random factor these weights should be changed.
HeurSearchEffort 7090 Adjusts the overall level of the local search heuristics.
CutFactor 7091 Limit on the number of cuts and cut coefficients the optimizer is allowed to add to the matrix during tree search. The cuts and cut coefficients are limited by CUTFACTOR times the number of rows and coefficients in the initial matrix.
EigenValueTol 7097 A quadratic matrix is considered not to be positive semi-definite, if its smallest eigenvalue is smaller than the negative of this value.
IndLinBigM 7099 During presolve, indicator constraints will be linearized using a BigM coefficient whenever that BigM coefficient is small enough. This control defines the largest BigM for which such a linearized version will be added to the problem in addition to the original constraint. If the BigM is even smaller than INDPRELINBIGM, then the original indicator constraint will additionally be dropped from the problem.
TreeMemorySavingTarget 7100 When the memory used by the branch-and-bound search tree exceeds the limit specified by the TREEMEMORYLIMIT control, the optimizer will try to save memory by writing lower-rated sections of the tree to the tree file. The target amount of memory to save will be enough to bring memory usage back below the limit, plus enough extra to give the tree room to grow. The TREEMEMORYSAVINGTARGET control specifies the extra proportion of the tree's size to try to save; for example, if the tree memory limit is 1000Mb and TREEMEMORYSAVINGTARGET is 0.1, when the tree size exceeds 1000Mb the optimizer will try to reduce the tree size to 900Mb. Reducing the value of TREEMEMORYSAVINGTARGET will cause less extra nodes of the tree to be written to the tree file, but will result in the memory saving routine being triggered more often (as the tree will have less room in which to grow), which can reduce performance. Increasing the value of TREEMEMORYSAVINGTARGET will cause additional, more highly-rated nodes, of the tree to be written to the tree file, which can cause performance issues if these nodes are required later in the solve.
IndPreLinBigM 7102 During presolve, indicator constraints will be linearized using a BigM coefficient whenever that BigM coefficient is small enough. This control defines the largest BigM for which the original constraint will be replaced by the linearized version. If the BigM is larger than INDPRELINBIGM but smaller than INDLINBIGM, the linearized row will be added but the original indicator constraint is kept as a numerically stable way to check feasibility.
RelaxTreeMemoryLimit 7105 When the memory used by the branch and bound search tree exceeds the target specified by the TREEMEMORYLIMIT control, the optimizer will try to reduce this by writing nodes to the tree file. In rare cases, usually where the solve has many millions of very small nodes, the tree structural data (which cannot be written to the tree file) will grow large enough to approach or exceed the tree's memory target. When this happens, optimizer performance can degrade greatly as the solver makes heavy use of the tree file in preference to memory. To prevent this, the solver will automatically relax the tree memory limit when it detects this case; the RELAXTREEMEMORYLIMIT control specifies the proportion of the previous memory limit by which to relax it. Set RELAXTREEMEMORYLIMIT to 0.0 to force the Xpress Optimizer to never relax the tree memory limit in this way.
MIPAbsGapNotifyObj 7108 Branch and bound: if the gapnotify callback has been set using addCbGapNotify, then this callback will be triggered during the tree search when the best solution value reaches or passes the value you set of the MIPRELGAPNOTIFYOBJ control.
MIPAbsGapNotifyBound 7109 Branch and bound: if the gapnotify callback has been set using addCbGapNotify, then this callback will be triggered during the tree search when the best bound reaches or passes the value you set of the MIPRELGAPNOTIFYBOUND control.
PresolveMaxGrow 7110 Limit on how much the number of non-zero coefficients is allowed to grow during presolve, specified as a ratio of the number of non-zero coefficients in the original problem.
HeurSearchTargetSize 7112
CrossOverRelPivotTol 7113
CrossOverRelPivotTolSafe 7114
DetLogFreq 7116
MaxImpliedBound 7120 Presolve: When tighter bounds are calculated during MIP preprocessing, only bounds whose absolute value are smaller than MAXIMPLIEDBOUND will be applied to the problem.
FeasTolTarget 7121 This specifies the target feasibility tolerance for the solution refiner.
OptimalityTolTarget 7122 This specifies the target optimality tolerance for the solution refiner.
PreComponentsEffort 7124 Presolve: adjusts the overall effort for the independent component presolver. This control affects working limits for the subproblem solving as well as thresholds when it is called. Increase to put more emphasis on component presolving.
LPLogDelay 7127 Time interval between two LP log lines.
HeurDiveIterLimit 7128 Branch and Bound: Simplex iteration limit for reoptimizing during the diving heuristic.
BarKernel 7130 Newton barrier: Defines how centrality is weighted in the barrier algorithm.
FeasTolPerturb 7132 This tolerance determines how much a feasible primal basic solution is allowed to be perturbed when performing basis changes. The tolerance FEASTOL is always considered as an upper limit for the perturbations, but in some cases smaller value can be more desirable.
CrossOverFeasWeight 7133
LUPivotTol 7139
MIPRestartGapThreshold 7140 Branch and Bound: Initial gap threshold to delay in-tree restart. The restart is delayed initially if the gap, given as a fraction between 0 and 1, is below this threshold. The optimizer adjusts the threshold every time a restart is delayed. Note that there are other criteria that can delay or prevent a restart.
NodeProbingEffort 7141 Adjusts the overall level of node probing.
Inputtol 7143 The tolerance on input values elements. If any value is less than or equal to INPUTTOL in absolute value, it is treated as zero. For the internal zero tolerance see MATRIXTOL.
MIPRestartFactor 7145 Branch and Bound: Fine tune initial conditions to trigger an in-tree restart. Use a value > 1 to increase the aggressiveness with which the Optimizer restarts. Use a value < 1 to relax the aggressiveness with which the Optimizer restarts. Note that this control does not affect the initial condition on the gap, which must be set separately.
BarObjPerturb 7146 Defines how the barrier perturbs the objective.
CpiAlpha 7149 decay term for confined primal integral computation.
GlobalSpatialBranchPropagationEffort 7152 Limits the effort that is spent on propagation during spatial branching.
GlobalSpatialBranchCuttingEffort 7153 Limits the effort that is spent on creating cuts during spatial branching.
GlobalBoundingBox 7154 If a nonlinear problem cannot be solved due to appearing unbounded, it can automatically be regularized by the application of a bounding box on the variables. If this control is set to a negative value, in a second solving attempt all original variables will be bounded by the absolute value of this control. If set to a positive value, there will be a third solving attempt afterwards, if necessary, in which also all auxiliary variables are bounded by this value.
TimeLimit 7158 The maximum time in seconds that the Optimizer will run before it terminates, including the problem setup time and solution time. For MIP problems, this is the total time taken to solve all nodes.
SolTimeLimit 7159 The maximum time in seconds that the Optimizer will run a MIP solve before it terminates, given that a solution has been found. As long as no solution has been found, this control will have no effect.
RepairInfeasTimeLimit 7160 Overall time limit for the repairinfeas tool
BarhgExtrapolate 7166 Extrapolation parameter for the hybrid gradient algorithm. Although theory suggests that a value of 1 is best, slightly smaller values perform better in general.
MPSRHSName 6001 When reading an MPS file, this control determines which entries from the RHS section will be read. As with all string controls, this is of length 64 characters plus a null terminator, \0.
MPSObjName 6002 When reading an MPS file, this control determines which neutral row will be read as the objective function. If this control is set when reading a multi-objective MPS file, only the named objective will be read; all other objectives will be ignored. As with all string controls, this is of length 64 characters plus a null terminator, \0.
MPSRangeName 6003 When reading an MPS file, this control determines which entries from the RANGES section will be read. As with all string controls, this is of length 64 characters plus a null terminator, \0.
MPSBoundName 6004 When reading an MPS file, this control determines which entries from the BOUNDS section will be read. As with all string controls, this is of length 64 characters plus a null terminator, \0.
OutputMask 6005 Mask to restrict the row and column names written to file. As with all string controls, this is of length 64 characters plus a null terminator, \0.
TunerMethodFile 6017 Tuner: Defines a file from which the tuner can read user-defined tuner method.
TunerOutputPath 6018 Tuner: Defines a root path to which the tuner writes the result file and logs.
TunerSessionName 6019 Tuner: Defines a session name for the tuner.
ComputeExecService 6022 Selects the Insight execution service that will be used for solving remote optimizations.
Msp_DuplicateSolutionsPolicy 6203
Msp_DefaultUserSolFeasTol 6209
Msp_DefaultUserSolMipTol 6210
Msp_IncludeProbNameInLogging 6211
Msp_WriteSlxSolLogging 6212
Msp_EnableSlackStorage 6213
Msp_OutputLog 6214
Msp_Sol_FeasTol 6402
Msp_Sol_MipTol 6403
Msp_Sol_BitFieldsUsr 6406
Mse_CallbackCullSols_MipObject 6601
Mse_CallbackCullSols_Diversity 6602
Mse_CallbackCullSols_ModObject 6603
Mse_OptimizeDiversity 6607
Mse_OutputTol 6609
Mse_OutputLog 6610
NlpFuncEval 12312 Bit map for determining the method of evaluating user functions and their derivatives
NlpLog 12316 Level of printing during SLP iterations
NlpEvaluate 12334 Evaluation strategy for user functions
NlpPresolve 12344 This control determines whether presolving should be performed prior to starting the main algorithm
LocalSolver 12352
NlpStopOutOfRange 12354 Stop optimization and return error code if internal function argument is out of range
NlpThreadSafeUserFunc 12359 Defines if user functions are allowed to be called in parallel
NlpJacobian 12360 First order differentiation mode when using analytical derivatives
NlpHessian 12361 Second order differentiation mode when using analytical derivatives
MultiStart 12362 The multistart master control. Defines if the multistart search is to be initiated, or if only the baseline model is to be solved.
MultiStart_Threads 12363 The maximum number of threads to be used in multistart
MultiStart_MaxSolves 12364 The maximum number of jobs to create during the multistart search.
MultiStart_MaxTime 12365 The maximum total time to be spent in the mutlistart search.
NlpMaxTime 12366 The maximum time in seconds that the SLP optimization will run before it terminates
NlpDerivatives 12373 Bitmap describing the method of calculating derivatives
NlpReformulate 12392 Controls the problem reformulations carried out before augmentation. This allows SLP to take advantage of dedicated algorithms for special problem classes.
NlpPresolveOps 12393 Bitmap indicating the SLP presolve actions to be taken
MultiStart_Log 12395 The level of logging during the multistart run.
MultiStart_Seed 12396 Random seed used for the automatic generation of initial point when loading multistart presets
MultiStart_PoolSize 12397 The maximum number of problem objects allowed to pool up before synchronization in the deterministic multistart.
NlpPostsolve 12398 This control determines whether postsolving should be performed automatically
NlpDeterministic 12399 Determines if the parallel features of SLP should be guaranteed to be deterministic
NlpPresolveLevel 12402 This control determines the level of changes presolve may carry out on the problem and whether column/row indices may change
NlpProbing 12403 This control determines whether probing on a subset of variables should be performed prior to starting the main algorithm. Probing runs multiple times bound reduction in order to further tighten the bounding box.
NlpCalcThreads 12405 Number of threads used for formula and derivatives evaluations
NlpThreads 12406 Default number of threads to be used
NlpFindIV 12413 Option for running a heuristic to find a feasible initial point
NlpLinQuadBR 12414 Use linear and quadratic constraints and objective function to further reduce bounds on all variables
NLPSolver 12417 Selects the library to use for local solves
SlpAlgorithm 12301 Bit map describing the SLP algorithm(s) to be used
SlpAugmentation 12302 Bit map describing the SLP augmentation method(s) to be used
SlpBarLimit 12303 Number of initial SLP iterations using the barrier method
SlpCascade 12304 Bit map describing the cascading to be used
SlpCascadeNLimit 12306 Maximum number of iterations for cascading with non-linear determining rows
SlpDampStart 12308 SLP iteration at which damping is activated
SlpCutStrategy 12310 Determines whihc cuts to apply in the MISLP search when the default SLP-in-MIP strategy is used.
SlpDeltaZLimit 12311 Number of SLP iterations during which to apply XSLP_DELTA_Z
SlpInfeasLimit 12314 The maximum number of consecutive infeasible SLP iterations which can occur before Xpress-SLP terminates
SlpIterLimit 12315 The maximum number of SLP iterations
SlpSameCount 12317 Number of steps reaching the step bound in the same direction before step bounds are increased
SlpSameDamp 12319 Number of steps in same direction before damping factor is increased
SlpSBStart 12320 SLP iteration after which step bounds are first applied
SlpXCount 12321 Number of SLP iterations over which to measure static objective (1) convergence
SlpXLimit 12322 Number of SLP iterations up to which static objective (1) convergence testing starts
SlpDelayUpdateRows 12329 Number of SLP iterations before update rows are fully activated
SlpAutoSave 12330 Frequency with which to save the model
SlpAnalyze 12332 Bit map activating additional options supporting model / solution path analyzis
SlpOCount 12333 Number of SLP iterations over which to measure objective function variation for static objective (2) convergence criterion
SlpMipAlgorithm 12336 Bitmap describing the MISLP algorithms to be used
SlpMipRelaxStepBounds 12337 Bitmap describing the step-bound relaxation strategy during MISLP
SlpMipFixStepBounds 12338 Bitmap describing the step-bound fixing strategy during MISLP
SlpMipIterLimit 12339 Maximum number of SLP iterations at each node
SlpMipCutoffLimit 12340 Number of SLP iterations to check when considering a node for cutting off
SlpMipOCount 12341 Number of SLP iterations at each node over which to measure objective function variation
SlpMipDefaultAlgorithm 12343 Default algorithm to be used during the tree search in MISLP
SlpMipLog 12347 Frequency with which MIP status is printed
SlpDeltaOffset 12348 Position of first character of SLP variable name used to create name of delta vector
SlpUpdateOffset 12349 Position of first character of SLP variable name used to create name of SLP update row
SlpErrorOffset 12350 Position of first character of constraint name used to create name of penalty error vectors
SlpSBRowOffset 12351 Position of first character of SLP variable name used to create name of SLP lower and upper step bound rows
SlpVCount 12356 Number of SLP iterations over which to measure static objective (3) convergence
SlpVLimit 12357 Number of SLP iterations after which static objective (3) convergence testing starts
SlpECFCheck 12369 Check feasibility at the point of linearization for extended convergence criteria
SlpMipCutOffCount 12370 Number of SLP iterations to check when considering a node for cutting off
SlpWCount 12374 Number of SLP iterations over which to measure the objective for the extended convergence continuation criterion
SlpUnFinishedLimit 12376 The number of consecutive SLP iterations that may have an unfinished status before the solve is terminated.
SlpConvergenceOps 12377 Bit map describing which convergence tests should be carried out
SlpZeroCriterion 12378 Bitmap determining the behavior of the placeholder deletion procedure
SlpZeroCriterionStart 12379 SLP iteration at which criteria for deletion of placeholder entries are first activated.
SlpZeroCriterionCount 12380 Number of consecutive times a placeholder entry is zero before being considered for deletion
SlpLSPatternLimit 12381 Number of iterations in the pattern search preceding the line search
SlpLSIterLimit 12382 Number of iterations in the line search
SlpLSStart 12383 Iteration in which to active the line search
SlpPenaltyInfoStart 12384 Iteration from which to record row penalty information
SlpFilter 12387 Bit map for controlling solution updates
SlpTraceMaskOps 12388 Controls the information printed for XSLP_TRACEMASK. The order in which the information is printed is determined by the order of bits in XSLP_TRACEMASKOPS.
SlpLSZeroLimit 12389 Maximum number of zero length line search steps before line search is deactivated
SlpHeurStrategy 12400 Branch and Bound: This specifies the MINLP heuristic strategy. On some problems it is worth trying more comprehensive heuristic strategies by setting HEURSTRATEGY to 2 or 3.
SlpBarCrossoverStart 12408 Default crossover activation behaviour for barrier start
SlpBarStallingLimit 12409 Number of iterations to allow numerical failures in barrier before switching to dual
SlpBarStallingObjLimit 12410 Number of iterations over which to measure the objective change for barrier iterations with no crossover
SlpBarStartOps 12411 Controls behaviour when the barrier is used to solve the linearizations
SlpGridHeurSelect 12412 Bit map selectin which heuristics to run if the problem has variable with an integer delta
NlpInfinity 12119 Value returned by a divide-by-zero in a formula
NlpZero 12123 Absolute tolerance
NlpDefaultIV 12145 Default initial value for an SLP variable if none is explicitly given
NlpValidationTol_A 12165 Absolute tolerance for the XSLPvalidate procedure
NlpValidationTol_R 12166 Relative tolerance for the XSLPvalidate procedure
NlpPrimalIntegralRef 12175 Reference solution value to take into account when calculating the primal integral
NlpPrimalIntegralAlpha 12176 Decay term for primal integral computation
NlpPresolveZero 12193 Minimum absolute value for a variable which is identified as nonzero during SLP presolve
NlpMeritLambda 12197 Factor by which the net objective is taken into account in the merit function
MsMaxBoundRange 12204 Defines the maximum range inside which initial points are generated by multistart presets
NlpValidationTol_K 12205 Relative tolerance for the XSLPvalidatekkt procedure
NlpPresolve_ElimTol 12206 Tolerance for nonlinear eliminations during SLP presolve
NlpValidationTarget_R 12209 Feasiblity target tolerance
NlpValidationTarget_K 12210 Optimality target tolerance
NlpValidationFactor 12211 Minimum improvement in validation targets to continue iterating
SlpDamp 12103 Damping factor for updating values of variables
SlpDampExpand 12104 Multiplier to increase damping factor during dynamic damping
SlpDampShrink 12105 Multiplier to decrease damping factor during dynamic damping
SlpDelta_A 12106 Absolute perturbation of values for calculating numerical derivatives
SlpDelta_R 12107 Relative perturbation of values for calculating numerical derivatives
SlpDelta_Z 12108 Tolerance used when calculating derivatives
SlpDeltaCost 12109 Initial penalty cost multiplier for penalty delta vectors
SlpDeltaMaxCost 12110 Maximum penalty cost multiplier for penalty delta vectors
SlpDJTol 12112 Tolerance on DJ value for determining if a variable is at its step bound
SlpErrorCost 12113 Initial penalty cost multiplier for penalty error vectors
SlpErrorMaxCost 12114 Maximum penalty cost multiplier for penalty error vectors
SlpErrorTol_A 12116 Absolute tolerance for error vectors
SlpExpand 12118 Multiplier to increase a step bound
SlpMaxWeight 12120 Maximum penalty weight for delta or error vectors
SlpMinWeight 12121 Minimum penalty weight for delta or error vectors
SlpShrink 12122 Multiplier to reduce a step bound
SlpCTol 12124 Closure convergence tolerance
SlpATol_A 12125 Absolute delta convergence tolerance
SlpATol_R 12126 Relative delta convergence tolerance
SlpMTol_A 12127 Absolute effective matrix element convergence tolerance
SlpMTol_R 12128 Relative effective matrix element convergence tolerance
SlpItol_A 12129 Absolute impact convergence tolerance
SlpITol_R 12130 Relative impact convergence tolerance
SlpSTol_A 12131 Absolute slack convergence tolerance
SlpSTol_R 12132 Relative slack convergence tolerance
SlpMVTol 12133 Marginal value tolerance for determining if a constraint is slack
SlpXTol_A 12134 Absolute static objective function (1) tolerance
SlpXTol_R 12135 Relative static objective function (1) tolerance
SlpDefaultStepBound 12136 Minimum initial value for the step bound of an SLP variable if none is explicitly given
SlpDampMax 12137 Maximum value for the damping factor of a variable during dynamic damping
SlpDampMin 12138 Minimum value for the damping factor of a variable during dynamic damping
SlpDeltaCostFactor 12139 Factor for increasing cost multiplier on total penalty delta vectors
SlpErrorCostFactor 12140 Factor for increasing cost multiplier on total penalty error vectors
SlpErrorTol_P 12141 Absolute tolerance for printing error vectors
SlpCascadeTol_PA 12142 Absolute cascading print tolerance
SlpCascadeTol_PR 12143 Relative cascading print tolerance
SlpOTol_A 12150 Absolute static objective (2) convergence tolerance
SlpOTol_R 12151 Relative static objective (2) convergence tolerance
SlpDelta_X 12152 Minimum absolute value of delta coefficients to be retained
SlpGranularity 12157 Base for calculating penalty costs
SlpMipCutoff_A 12158 Absolute objective function cutoff for MIP termination
SlpMipCutoff_R 12159 Absolute objective function cutoff for MIP termination
SlpMipOtol_A 12160 Absolute objective function tolerance for MIP termination
SlpMipOtol_R 12161 Relative objective function tolerance for MIP termination
SlpEscalation 12169 Factor for increasing cost multiplier on individual penalty error vectors
SlpObjToPenaltyCost 12170 Factor to estimate initial penalty costs from objective function
SlpShrinkBias 12171 Defines an overwrite / adjustment of step bounds for improving iterations
SlpFeastolTarget 12172 When set, this defines a target feasibility tolerance to which the linearizations are solved to
SlpOptimalityTolTarget 12173 When set, this defines a target optimality tolerance to which the linearizations are solved to
SlpDelta_Infinity 12174 Maximum value for partial derivatives
SlpVTol_A 12177 Absolute static objective (3) convergence tolerance
SlpVTol_R 12178 Relative static objective (3) convergence tolerance
SlpETol_A 12180 Absolute tolerance on penalty vectors
SlpETol_R 12181 Relative tolerance on penalty vectors
SlpEVTol_A 12182 Absolute tolerance on total penalty costs
SlpEVTol_R 12183 Relative tolerance on total penalty costs
SlpDelta_Zero 12184 Absolute zero acceptance tolerance used when calculating derivatives
SlpMinSBFactor 12185 Factor by which step bounds can be decreased beneath XSLP_ATOL_A
SlpClampValidationTol_A 12186 Absolute validation tolerance for applying XSLP_CLAMPSHRINK
SlpClampValidationTol_R 12187 Relative validation tolerance for applying XSLP_CLAMPSHRINK
SlpClampShrink 12188 Shrink ratio used to impose strict convergence on variables converged in extended criteria only
SlpEcfTol_A 12189 Absolute tolerance on testing feasibility at the point of linearization
SlpEcfTol_R 12190 Relative tolerance on testing feasibility at the point of linearization
SlpWTol_A 12191 Absolute extended convergence continuation tolerance
SlpWTol_R 12192 Relative extended convergence continuation tolerance
SlpMatrixTol 12194 Nonzero tolerance for dropping coefficients from the linearization.
SlpDRFixRange 12195 The range around the previous value where variables are fixed in cascading if the determining column is below XSLP_DRCOLTOL.
SlpDRColTol 12196 The minimum absolute magnitude of a determining column, for which the determined variable is still regarded as well defined
SlpMipErrorTol_A 12198 Absolute penalty error cost tolerance for MIP cut-off
SlpMipErrorTol_R 12199 Relative penalty error cost tolerance for MIP cut-off
SlpCDTol_A 12200 Absolute tolerance for deducing constant derivatives
SlpCDTol_R 12201 Relative tolerance for deducing constant derivatives
SlpEnforceMaxCost 12202 Maximum penalty cost in the objective before enforcing most violating rows
SlpEnforceCostShrink 12203 Factor by which to decrease the current penalty multiplier when enforcing rows.
SlpDRColDjTol 12208 Reduced cost tolerance on the delta variable when fixing due to the determining column being below XSLP_DRCOLTOL.
SlpBarStallingTol 12212 Required change in the objective when progress is measured in barrier iterations without crossover
SlpObjThreshold 12213 Assumed maximum value of the objective function in absolute value.
SlpBoundThreshold 12214 The maximum size of a bound that can be introduced by nonlinear presolve.
KnitroParamNewPoint 101001
KnitroParamHonorBbnds 101002 Indicates whether or not to enforce satisfaction of simple variable bounds throughout the optimization.
KnitroParamAlgorithm 101003 Indicates which algorithm to use to solve the problem
KnitroParamBarMuRule 101004 Indicates which strategy to use for modifying the barrier parameter mu in the barrier algorithms.
KnitroParamBarFeasible 101006 Specifies whether special emphasis is placed on getting and staying feasible in the interior-point algorithms.
KnitroParamGradOpt 101007 Specifies how to compute the gradients of the objective and constraint functions.
KnitroParamHessOpt 101008 Specifies how to compute the (approximate) Hessian of the Lagrangian.
KnitroParamBarInitPt 101009 Indicates whether an initial point strategy is used with barrier algorithms.
KnitroParamMaxCGIt 101013 Specifies the number of limited memory pairs stored when approximating the Hessian using the limited-memory quasi-Newton BFGS option.
KnitroParamMaxIt 101014 Specifies the maximum number of iterations before termination.
KnitroParamOutLev 101015 Controls the level of output produced by Knitro.
KnitroParamScale 101017 Performs a scaling of the objective and constraint functions based on their values at the initial point.
KnitroParamSOC 101019 Specifies whether or not to try second order corrections (SOC).
KnitroParamDelta 101020 Specifies the initial trust region radius scaling factor used to determine the initial trust region size.
KnitroParamBarFeasModeTol 101021 Specifies the tolerance in equation that determines whether Knitro will force subsequent iterates to remain feasible.
KnitroParamFeastol 101022 Specifies the final relative stopping tolerance for the feasibility error.
KnitroParamFeasTolAbs 101023 Specifies the final absolute stopping tolerance for the feasibility error.
KnitroParamBarInitMu 101025 Specifies the initial value for the barrier parameter : mu used with the barrier algorithms. This option has no effect on the Active Set algorithm.
KnitroParamObjRange 101026 Specifies the extreme limits of the objective function for purposes of determining unboundedness.
KnitroParamOptTol 101027 Specifies the final relative stopping tolerance for the KKT (optimality) error.
KnitroParamOptTolAbs 101028 Specifies the final absolute stopping tolerance for the KKT (optimality) error.
KnitroParamPivot 101029
KnitroParamXTol 101030 The optimization process will terminate if the relative change in all components of the solution point estimate is less than xtol.
KnitroParamDebug 101031
KnitroParamMultiStart 101033
KnitroParamMSMaxSolves 101034
KnitroParamMsMaxBndRange 101035
KnitroParamLMSize 101038 Specifies the number of limited memory pairs stored when approximating the Hessian using the limited-memory quasi-Newton BFGS option.
KnitroParamMaxCrossIt 101039 Specifies the maximum number of crossover iterations before termination.
KnitroParamBLASOption 101042
KnitroParamBarMaxRefactor 101043 Indicates the maximum number of refactorizations of the KKT system per iteration of the Interior/Direct algorithm before reverting to a CG step.
KnitroParamBarMaxBacktrack 101044 Indicates the maximum allowable number of backtracks during the linesearch of the Interior/Direct algorithm before reverting to a CG step.
KnitroParamBarPenRule 101049 Indicates which penalty parameter strategy to use for determining whether or not to accept a trial iterate.
KnitroParamBarPenCons 101050 Indicates whether a penalty approach is applied to the constraints.
KnitroParamMSNumToSave 101051
KnitroParamMSSaveTol 101052
KnitroParamMSTerminate 101054
KnitroParamMSStartPtRange 101055
KnitroParamInfeasTol 101056 Specifies the (relative) tolerance used for declaring infeasibility of a model.
KnitroParamLinSolver 101057
KnitroParamBarDirectInterval 101058 Controls the maximum number of consecutive conjugate gradient (CG) steps before Knitro will try to enforce that a step is taken using direct linear algebra.
KnitroParamPresolve 101059 Determine whether or not to use the Knitro presolver to try to simplify the model by removing variables or constraints. Specifies conditions for terminating the MIP algorithm.
KnitroParamPresolveTol 101060 Determines the tolerance used by the Knitro presolver to remove variables and constraints from the model.
KnitroParamBarSwitchRule 101061 Indicates whether or not the barrier algorithms will allow switching from an optimality phase to a pure feasibility phase.
KnitroParamMATerminate 101063
KnitroParamMSSeed 101066
KnitroParamBarRelaxCons 101077
KnitroParamMIPMethod 102001 Specifies which MIP method to use.
KnitroParamMIPBranchRule 102002 Specifies which branching rule to use for MIP branch and bound procedure.
KnitroParamMIPSelectRule 102003 Specifies the MIP select rule for choosing the next node in the branch and bound tree.
KnitroParamMIPIntGapAbs 102004 The absolute integrality gap stop tolerance for MIP.
KnitroParamMIPIntGapRel 102005 The relative integrality gap stop tolerance for MIP.
KnitroParamMIPOutLevel 102010 Specifies how much MIP information to print.
KnitroParamMIPOutInterval 102011 Specifies node printing interval for XKTR_PARAM_MIP_OUTLEVEL when XKTR_PARAM_MIP_OUTLEVEL > 0.
KnitroParamMIPDebug 102013
KnitroParamMIPImplicatns 102014 Specifies whether or not to add constraints to the MIP derived from logical implications.
KnitroParamMIPGUBBranch 102015 Specifies whether or not to branch on generalized upper bounds (GUBs).
KnitroParamMIPKnapsack 102016 Specifies rules for adding MIP knapsack cuts.
KnitroParamMIPRounding 102017 Specifies the MIP rounding rule to apply.
KnitroParamMIPRootAlg 102018 Specifies which algorithm to use for the root node solve in MIP (same options as XKTR_PARAM_ALGORITHM user option).
KnitroParamMIPLPAlg 102019 Specifies which algorithm to use for any linear programming (LP) subproblem solves that may occur in the MIP branch and bound procedure.
KnitroParamMIPMaxNodes 102021 Specifies the maximum number of nodes explored.
KnitroParamMIPHeuristic 102022 Specifies which MIP heuristic search approach to apply to try to find an initial integer feasible point.
KnitroParamMIPHeurMaxIt 102023
KnitroParamMIPPseudoint 102026 Specifies the method used to initialize pseudo-costs corresponding to variables that have not yet been branched on in the MIP method.
KnitroParamMIPStringMaxIt 102027 Specifies the maximum number of iterations to allow for MIP strong branching solves.
KnitroParamMIPStrongCandLim 102028 Specifies the maximum number of candidates to explore for MIP strong branching.
KnitroParamMIPStrongLevel 102029 Specifies the maximum number of tree levels on which to perform MIP strong branching.
KnitroParamParNumThreads 103001
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