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# XKTR_PARAM_BAR_PENCONS, KNITRO_PARAM_BAR_PENCONS

Description | Indicates whether a penalty approach is applied to the constraints.
Type | Integer
Topic area | Knitro
Values |
0 | (auto) Let Knitro automatically choose the strategy.
1 | (none) No constraints are penalized.
2 | (all) A penalty approach is applied to all general constraints.
Default value | 0
Note | Using a penalty approach may be helpful when the problem has degenerate or difficult constraints. It may also help to more quickly identify infeasible problems, or achieve feasibility in problems with difficult constraints. This option has no effect on the Active Set algorithm.
Category | Control

Parent Topic Integer control parameters

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