<div dir="ltr">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>The IPM code is a naive implementation and not very battle-tested. There is nothing specifically broken, but the linear solve operator becomes very ill-conditioned and for most cases will require a direct solver (e.g. superlu). This is the major problem, and if you're ok with that then it may work for you.<br></div><div>Unfortunately, we don't have anything else to recommend for generally constrained problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Jason Sarich</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:34 PM, David Knezevic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.knezevic@akselos.com" target="_blank">david.knezevic@akselos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I'm interested in trying out TAO IPM for constrained optimization with inequality, equality and bound constraints. I implemented a test case based on the
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<div>But I noticed the following comment in the <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-current/docs/manualpages/Tao/TAOIPM.html" target="_blank">
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<div>So I was wondering what the status of this is? Is there anything that specifically doesn't work, or is it just not production-ready at this stage? (I didn't see any documentation about IPM in the TAO manual, so I figured I'd ask here).
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<div>If IPM isn't recommended at this stage, is there anything else in TAO that works for generally constrained problems?</div>
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