9- apply same feasibility definition in PaPILO as in SCIP to avoid numerical inconsistencies
10- check variable cancellation in SCIPvarAddVlb() and SCIPvarAddVub() to avert wrong infeasibility
11- SCIPfreeReoptSolve() now also clears partial solutions
12- fixed bug in calculation of "fractionality score" for spatial branching candidates in cons_nonlinear
13- fixed bug with installing symmetry dialog in sub-SCIPs
14- added copy callbacks for presolvers dualagg and redvub, branching rules lookahead and cloud, primal heuristics dualval and repair, propagator nlobbt, and separators gauge and convexproj
15- respect maximal separation rounds setting by running remaining delayed separators in last round
16- replace terms consistently in applyFixings() of cons_linear to handle infinite aggregations
17
18Build system
19------------
20
21### Cmake
22
23- fix SCIP Optimization Suite build with -DSYM=(s)bliss and bliss being downloaded and built during configuration by cmake
24- fix use of a bliss cmake installation (from https://github.com/scipopt/bliss) specified via BLISS_DIR if -DSYM=(s)bliss
25
26### Makefile
27
28- the check/solchecker build can now use also GMP installations by Homebrew on macOS/arm64
29
30Miscellaneous
31-------------
32
33- the output precision for writing CIP/OPB files has been increased at several places for nonlinear constraints
34- the solchecker tool now also supports SCIP solutions without unknown or infinite values
35- generate an error if the same linear constraint is used by several indicator constraints
36
37@section RN920 SCIP 9.2.0
38*************************
39
40Features
41--------
42
43- added check for absolute and relative gap limits at end of synchronization in concurrent solving mode, in order to terminate earlier;
44 note that if the concurrent solve is stopped due to a gap limit, the "winner" solver will have an interrupted solution status and
45 its primal and dual bounds may not be the best possible ones (use SCIPgetConcurrentPrimalbound() and SCIPgetConcurrentDualbound() instead)
46- parse pseudoboolean constraint from CIP format (and add linear-"and"-reformulation)
47
48Performance improvements
49------------------------
50
51- reoptimization now also stores propagations from propagators if reoptimization/saveconsprop is enabled;
52 the parameter will be renamed to reoptimization/saveprop in a next major release
53- imposed stricter limits on the size of disconnected components which may be solved separately during presolve
54- use individual slack variables also for constraints indicated by a common binary variable to use tighter formulation by default
55- when computing symmetries using Nauty, iteration limits are now available to terminate Nauty early
56
57Fixed bugs
58----------
59
60- Benders' decomposition subproblems that are always infeasible are correctly handled and the complete problem is declared infeasible
61- skip linear constraint propagation if the residual activity bound cancels the side precision
62- correct bound tracking to make the evaluation of primal-dual-integrals work
63- skip aggregations on fixed variables in milp presolver to avoid errors for earlier versions of PaPILO
64- use indices of negation counterparts and accept fixings when ordering and-resultants of pseudoboolean constraints
65- update locks on model variables before removing pseudoboolean constraints in presolve
66- reformulate soft pseudoboolean constraints with linear constraints if the indicator decomposition is disabled
67- add workaround for recent HiGHS versions resetting the model status when changing the presolve option after a solve
68- avoid hashmap key error in removal of doubletons and singletons in dual presolve of setppc constraints by updating constraints and corresponding hashmaps after each multi-aggregation
69
70Interface changes
71-----------------
72
73### New API functions
74
75- added SCIPtpiIsAvailable() to check whether a working task processing interface is available (TPI != none)
76- added SCIPtpiGetLibraryName() and SCIPtpiGetLibraryDesc()
77- SCIPdelCons() can now also be called in SCIP_STAGE_TRANSFORMED
78- added SCIPstrcasecmp() and SCIPstrncasecmp() for case-insensitive string comparison
79- added SCIPbendersSubproblemsAreInfeasible() to return if at least one subproblem has been identified as being
80 infeasible prior to performing any variable fixing
81
82### New parameters
83
84- presolving/milp/abortfacexhaustive to control the abort threshold for exhaustive presolving in PAPILO
85- presolving/milp/abortfacmedium to control the abort threshold for medium presolving in PAPILO
86- presolving/milp/abortfacfast to control the abort threshold for fast presolving in PAPILO
87- constraints/components/maxcompweight to determine the maximum weight for a disconnected component that is solved during presolve
88- constraints/components/contfactor counts the contributing factor of a single continuous variables with respect to the weight limit specified by constraints/components/maxcompweight
89- constraints/indicator/usesameslackvar to decide whether the same slack variable should be used for indicators constraints with common binary variable
90- propagating/symmetry/nautymaxncells and propagating/symmetry/nautymaxnnodes to set iteration limits in Nauty (only available if build with SYM=nauty or SYM=snauty)
91
92### Changed parameters
93
94- presolving/milp/threads is now only available if PaPILO is built with TBB
95- changed default of numerics/recomputefac to 1e+6 to aim at relative epsilon precision
96
97Build system
98------------
99
100### Cmake
101
102- attempted to fix detection of CPLEX library on macOS and Windows systems
103
104Testing
105-------
106
107- added parameter FILTER for tests/Makefile to run only tests with a specific pattern (ctest with -R FILTER)
108
109Miscellaneous
110-------------
111
112- adjusted Gurobi interface for Gurobi 12
113- reordered events: BESTSOLFOUND/NODE_FEASIBLE are now processed before the nodes are cut off and before NODE_DELETE events are processed
114- removed `#define` of `getcwd` (in case of Windows builds) in scip/def.h
115- the `#define` of `strcasecmp` and `strncasecmp` (in case of Windows builds) in scip/def.h will be removed with SCIP 10;
116 use `SCIPstr(n)casecmp()` (scip/pub_misc.h) instead
117
118@section RN911 SCIP 9.1.1
119*************************
120
121Fixed bugs
122----------
123
124- fix bug in separator aggregation that caused incorrect terminations when for an integral objective the objective limit was set to a fractional value
125- fix bug in memory management of doublelex matrices where indices were set beyond array bounds
126- store relevance flags in consdataTightenCoefs() of cons_linear.c to avoid dropping variables unintentionally due to numerical changes
127- fix possible segmentation fault when resetting local and global bounds of original variables after abnormal termination
128- compare coefficient scales to detect parallelism to avoid integral relaxations in detectRedundantConstraints() of cons_linear.c
129- remove coefficient information from linear constraint hashes in order to compare keys with tolerances
130- fixed NULL pointer dereference in SCIPtpiGetNumThreads() of TinyCThread interface if called before SCIPtpiInit(); now returns 0 in this case
131- calling SCIPsolveConcurrent() when SCIP was compiled without a TPI now results in a plugin-not-found error
132- fixed LPI status functions of lpi_cpx if the barrier is called
133- check cuts for redundancy after scaling in cutTightenCoefs() and cutTightenCoefsQuad() of cuts.c
134- maintain definition of artificial integral variables in xor constraints to avoid invalidation of conflict constraints
135- free childless nodes only after the deactivation of the old focus path in treeSwitchPath() of tree.c
136- only normalize rows for column norm evaluations in shift-and-propagate heuristic to avoid unscaled violations
137- expression handler for absolute value computes now also a cut when one of the bounds is infinite as long as the sign of the argument is known
138- check for more data to be freed before modifying nonlinear constraints in SCIPaddExprNonlinear()
139- allow for terms with zero coefficients when checking sum in SCIPexprCheckQuadratic()
140- do not abort writing of constraints to lp/pip files (and forget to free buffer memory) when encountering unsupported nonlinear constraint
141- fixed that strings with names and descriptions of the LPI's were not null-terminated
142- fixed decision on when to enforce nonlinear constraints on relaxation solutions if integer variables are present
143- fixed reading of very long lines (>78000 characters) in FlatZinc reader
144- fixed write of strings with at least 1024 characters when compiling with MSVS 2015 (14.0) or later (still an issue with earlier MSVS, which will not be fixed)
145- keep epsilon coefficients in applyFixings() of cons_linear.c until multiples are merged to avoid loss of relevant contributions
146- fixed that some variable type changes were not accounted correctly in presolve of linear constraints
147- fix constraint sorting in setpp-orbitope upgrade in symmetry code
148- fixed that SCIPnodeGetConsProps() also counted bound changes from propagators
149- use original and-constraints of an untransformed pseudoboolean constraint when copying original problems to avert segmentation faults
150- sort and-constraints of a pseudoboolean constraint with respect to the resultant problem indices to avoid shuffled copies
151- treat pseudoboolean constraints as nonlinear constraints in OPB reader to prevent duplication mistakes
152
153Examples and applications
154-------------------------
155
156- in example Binpacking implement Farkas pricing for packings because branching can actually lead to infeasible restricted master LPs
157
158Testing
159-------
160
161- allow unknown parameters to let tests pass if only optional dependencies are missing
162
163Build system
164------------
165
166### Cmake
167
168- fixed compilation and linking with HiGHS; to use HiGHS, cmake now requires to specify the directory containing the `highs-config.cmake` file via `-DHIGHS_DIR`
169- extended identification of Ipopt library on Windows to also look for ipopt.dll.lib, as this is used since Ipopt 3.13.0 (2019)
170
171
172@section RN910 SCIP 9.1.0
173*************************
174
175Features
176--------
177
178- added constraint handler that checks and enforces bounds on original variables which have been fixed or aggregated in the transformed problem
179- allow for implicit integer variables in xor constraints
180- implemented symmetry detection callbacks for pseudoboolean constraints
181- added option to consider enforcement of nonlinear constraints (including spatial branching) before integrality has been enforced
182
183Fixed bugs
184----------
185
186- make sure that, in dual proof analysis, upgraded constraints can report their number of variables
187- check knapsack constraints as linear constraints to avoid violations based on implicit integrality
188- make sure that symmetry detection callbacks report success
189- make arithmetics in cuts.c more robust to avoid invalid scg cuts due to numerical rounding sensitivity
190- allow to copy pseudoboolean constraints even if no AND constraints are present in order to avoid a warning
191- set value for variable that is introduced to reformulate nonlinear objective function when reading .nl files with initial solution
192- fixed that multi-aggregations from PaPILO were accepted without ensuring that their bounds hold
193
194Examples and applications
195-------------------------
196
197- TSP: removed `gzstream.h/hpp` and parse gzipped files differently
198
199Interface changes
200-----------------
201
202### New callbacks
203
204- SCIP_DECL_NLHDLRENFO takes additional parameter branchcandonly to indicate whether only branching candidates should be registered,
205 without looking for cuts or boundchanges
206
207### New API functions
208
209- new function SCIPgetExprActivityNonlinear() to get activity of nonlinear constraint
210- new function SCIPincludeConshdlrFixedvar() to include new constraint handler that checks bounds on fixed original variables
211
212### New parameters
213
214- limits/primal to terminate the solve as soon as the primal bound is at least as good as this value, same as limits/objectivestop (deprecated)
215- limits/dual to terminate the solve as soon as the dual bound is at least as good as this value
216- presolving/milp/internalmaxrounds to control the maximal rounds for each call of the milp presolver (PaPILO)
217- constraints/fixedvar/∗ to control the new constraint handler that checks bounds on fixed original variables
218- constraints/nonlinear/branching/mixfractional to specify minimal average pseudo cost count for discrete variables
219 at which to start considering spatial branching before branching on fractional integer variables
220 (default infinity means that integrality is always enforced before nonlinear constraints)
221- constraints/nonlinear/branching/fracweight to specify weight of fractionality of integer variables in spatial branching
222
223### New data structures
224
225- enum SCIP_Status has been extended by SCIP_STATUS_PRIMALLIMIT and SCIP_STATUS_DUALLIMIT to indicate termination at limits/primal and limits/dual respectively
226
227Build system
228------------
229
230- changed the default symmetry computation package from sassy+bliss to sassy+nauty
231- bliss source is no longer included in the source tree, but can be linked as external library (https://github.com/ds4dm/Bliss)
232- cmake now automatically downloads and installs the latest release version of SoPlex from GitHub if it is not found directly
233
234Miscellaneous
235-------------
236
237- updated nauty to version 2.8.8
238
239
240@section RN901 SCIP 9.0.1
241*************************
242
243Fixed bugs
244----------
245
246- fixed bug in detection of double lex matrices due to wrong memory allocation
247- fixed bug where parameter `limits/objectivestop` was copied to subscips in plugins which have different objectives
248- in count mode respect empty solution when problem is solved in presolving
249- fixed that SCIP may have tried to pass a negative random seed to an LP solver
250- fixed bug where conflict analysis in strong branching tried to analyze an unsuccessful LP solve
251- enable parameter limits/restarts by allowing to reach the restart limit in restartAllowed()
252- handle normalizing linear constraints in presolving with more caution to avoid numerical difficulties for integer variables with large coefficients
253- use quad precision to calculate residual activity bounds to reduce numerical errors for large variable bounds in cons_linear.c
254- in SCIPsolveProbingLP() when objective has been changed do not return cutoff due to exceeding the cutoff bound
255- set probing LP to be a relaxation only when objective has not been changed
256- declare contradicting infinities in getMinActivity() and getMaxActivity() as non-tight
257- reject farkas solution with large values to bound magnification of errors in SCIPgetFarkasProof()
258- if all variables are fixed, apply relative feasibility tolerance to avoid invalid infeasibility in applyFixings() of cons_linear.c
259- delete empty redundant knapsack and linear constraints after cleanup in SCIPmatrixCreate()
260- cleanup first constraints in SCIPcleanupConssVarbound(), SCIPcleanupConssSetppc(), and SCIPcleanupConssLogicor()
261- symmetry handling methods have not been added immediately after computing symmetries, which has been fixed
262- delay checking node limits after presolving to correctly continue up to the exceeding main node
263- simplified the objective sense assumption for the subproblems in the Lagromory separator
264- update effective root depth iteratively to avoid trapping it at a single child node
265- fixed that dualsparsify presolver did not always check do-not-multiaggregate variable flag
266- fixed bug in computing elements of orbits in orbital reduction
267
268Miscellaneous
269-------------
270
271- redefine isrelax to istight in cons_linear.c
272
273Build system
274------------
275
276### Cmake
277
278- A file cmake.log containing the changed options is written to the cmake build directory.
279- removed replacement of the settings of RelWithDebInfo
280- add compile option -ffp-contract=off or /fp:precise to enhance reproducibility across different systems
281
282### Makefile
283
284- add flags -ffp-contract=off and /fp:precise to enhance reproducibility across different systems
285
286Interface changes
287-----------------
288
289### New parameters
290
291- added parameter "propagating/symmetry/symtiming" to determine when symmetries are computed and handled
292
293### Changed parameters
294
295- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/addconsstiming" since it is not used anymore.
296- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/ofsymcomptiming" since it is not used anymore.
297
298@section RN900 SCIP 9.0.0
299*************************
300
301Features
302--------
303
304- added simplification of abs(x)^n to x^n when n is even (simplify rule POW12)
305- in expression simplification, added possibility to expand power of sum with exponents larger than 2 (simplify rule POW7)
306- in expression simplification, added possibility to expand products with sums as factor when there are more than two factors (simplify rule SP12b)
307- in expression simplification, added possibility to allow expanding power of products with fractional exponent (simplify rule POW5a)
308- can now build with Lapack (used for solving nonlinear problems) explicitly; if IPOPT is used, then Lapack is accessed through it;
309 an interface to Lapack is available in lapack_calls.h
310- added support for logical constraints in binary variables and basic logical operators (and, or, not, equal) to AMPL .nl reader
311- indicator constraints now use the same slack variable for the linear constraints if binary variables are used multiple times
312 for indicator constraints
313- new diving heuristic indicatordiving that focuses on indicator variables which control semicontinuous variables
314- updated statistics on NLP relaxation; information on convexity of NLP has been added
315- added new bandit method (EXP.3-IX) that is the new default of the ALNS heuristic
316- added dialog to display recognized permutation symmetries ("display symmetry")
317- The symmetry detection code has been completely restructured. Instead of completely encoding symmetry information in
318 prop_symmetry.c, there is a new callback for constraint handlers, which returns symmetry relevant information by
319 encoding a constraint as a node and edge colored graph. This way, also custom constraint handlers can provide
320 symmetry information.
321- added special presolving step for logicor and set covering/packing for constraints with two variables and one independent variable
322- increased the depth field of the tree structure from 16 to 30 bits and the max depth of the search tree from 65534 to 1073741822
323- added new cut selector plugin called cutsel_ensemble. Performs a superset of hybrid cutsel. Implements new filtering methods and scoring options.
324- added new branching rule based on Gomory mixed-integer cuts
325- added new branching score to the reliability pseudo-cost branching rule
326- added new cut selector plugin called cutsel_dynamic. Performs a superset of hybrid cutsel. Implements new filtering methods and scoring options.
327- added monoidal strengthening to intersection cut generation of nlhdlr_quadratic
328- extended heuristic dps to run after processing the node and to use strict limits for the reoptimization step
329- extended obbt propagator to handle variables of the linear constraints corresponding to indicator constraints
330- added new heuristic heur_scheduler that models the selection of LNS and diving heuristics as a multi-armed bandit problem
331- added nonlinear handler for signomial expressions: adds cuts based on a difference of convex functions representation
332- Delayed separators are now called if no other cuts have been found. Previously, such separators were only called near stalling or when the separation rounds limit was reached.
333- added a new separator sepa_lagromory to generate Lagromory cuts in a relax-and-cut framework, i.e., GMI cuts generated
334 at different bases that are explored in the process of solving the Lagrangian dual problem at a node. This separator
335 is OFF by default.
336- when parsing nonlinear constraints from CIP files, the * after the number in a term is now optional if followed by a variable,
337 i.e., instead of 3*<x>*<y>, now also 3<x>*<y> can be read, but 3<x><y> is not supported;
338 this allows to read some CIP files that were written with SCIP < 8
339- when running bliss, we now limit the number of actually created generators and not the ones considered by bliss
340
341Performance improvements
342------------------------
343
344- Variable conflict-based addition of Schreier-Sims cuts for symmetry handling in prop_symmetry.c does no longer use
345 an expensive explicit conflict graph construction.
346- Only run propagation of indicator constraints if relevant variables have changed.
347- Propagation of indicator constraints propagates maximal activity of linear constraint to upper bound of slack variable.
348- Added initialization of LP relaxation for SOC constraints.
349- Avoided some numerical issues when separating SOC constraints.
350- If differentation of convex expression fails in convex nlhdlr, then a perturbed point is tried.
351- Use sassy/bliss as default symmetry computation package.
352- No longer linearize indicator constraints in undercover heuristic by default.
353- Deactivate pre-root heuristic zeroobj in undercover heuristic.
354- Added new branching score tiebreaker for reliability pseudo-cost branching rule
355- Try nearest bound if zero solution value is out of bounds in heuristic trivial.
356
357Interface changes
358-----------------
359
360### New and changed callbacks
361
362- Added solution linearization callback for nonlinear handlers.
363 The nonlinear handler may use this callback to add tight cuts that use the given solution as reference point to the cutpool.
364 The callback is called if option constraints/nonlinear/linearizeheursol is enabled.
365- The callback for copying problem data SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY() now has a parameter "original" indicating whether the original
366 or transformed problem should be copied. Similarly, SCIPprobCopy() in prob.h/c has such a parameter.
367- Added CONSGETPERMSYMGRAPH and CONSGETSIGNEDPERMSYMGRAPH callback for constraint handlers, which provides symmetry information about constraints to SCIP.
368
369### Deleted and changed API methods
370
371- SCIPtpiInitLock(), SCIPtpiDestroyLock(), SCIPtpiInitCondition(), SCIPtpiDestroyCondition() now take a double
372 pointer to SCIP_LOCK/SCIP_CONDITION, respectively.
373- Renamed SCIPtpiSumbitJob() to SCIPtpiSubmitJob().
374- SCIPcreateConsIndicatorLinCons(), SCIPcreateConsIndicatorGenericLinCons() do not allow binvar to be NULL anymore
375- Replaced SCIPnlrowSetCurvature() by SCIPsetNlRowCurvature().
376- SCIPsnprintf() now returns the required string length in case reallocation is necessary.
377- SCIPcomputeCoverUndercover() receives three more arguments which nonlinearities to cover
378- removed definition of SQRT
379- SCIPincludeObjConshdlr(), SCIPincludeConshdlr(), SCIPconshdlrCreate() receive two more arguments for the
380 conshdlr callbacks CONSGETPERMSYMGRAPH and CONSGETSIGNEDPERMSYMGRAPH
382- new parameter issigned for SCIPcomputeOrbitsSym()
383- new parameter symtype for SCIPcomputeComponentsSym()
384- new parameter symtype and permvardomaincenter for SCIPlexicographicReductionAddPermutation()
385- replaced parameters matrixdata and exprdata of SYMcomputeSymmetryGenerators() by graph
386
387### New API functions
388
389- new functions for interfacing with Lapack: SCIPlapackIsAvailable(), SCIPlapackIsAvailable(), SCIPlapackComputeEigenvalues(), and SCIPlapackSolveLinearEquations
390 These functions should be used instead of SCIPisIpoptAvailableIpopt(), SCIPcallLapackDsyevIpopt(), and
391 SCIPsolveLinearEquationsIpopt() in the context of computing eigenvalues or solving linear equations.
392 If IPOPT is available, the calls will be passed on to Ipopt's interface to Lapack.
415- SCIPincludeCutselEnsemble(), SCIPselectCutsEnsemble() to include cutsel_ensemble or use the selection algorithm
416- SCIPincludeBranchruleGomory() includes new gomory cut based branching rule
417- SCIPgetVarAvgGMIScore(), SCIPincVarGMISumScore(), SCIPgetVarLastGMIScore(), SCIPsetVarLastGMIScore() set historical values used by SCIP's default branching rule
418- SCIPincludeNlhdlrSignomial() includes the signomial nonlinear handler
419- SCIPgetExprMonomialData() returns a monomial representation of a product expression
420- SCIPestimateRoot() computes estimators for roots with exponent in [0,1]
421- SCIPincludeCutselDynamic(), SCIPselectCutsDynamic() to include cutsel_dynamic or use the selection algorithm
422- SCIPincludeSepaLagromory() to include the new Lagromory separator
423- SCIPconsCompCheck() to compare two constraints based on their check priority
424- SCIPgetConsPermsymGraph() and SCIPgetConsSignedPermsymGraph() to access the (signed) permutation symmetry detection graph of a constraint
425- SCIPsetConshdlrGetPermsymGraph() and SCIPsetConshdlrGetSignedPermsymGraph() to set the (signed) permutation symmetry detection graph of a constraint
426- SCIPconshdlrSupportsPermsymDetection() and SCIPconshdlrSupportsSignedPermsymDetection() to access whether a conshdlr supports detection of (signed) permutation symmetries
427- new API functions for creating and manipulating a symmetry detection graph: SCIPcreateSymgraph(), SCIPfreeSymgraph(), SCIPcopySymgraph(), SCIPextendPermsymDetectionGraphLinear(),
459 String values should not be quoted and spaces in string values are not supported.
460- sassy can be used now as preprocessor for nauty/traces
461- The solution status codes written to AMPL solution files now match those from https://mp.ampl.com/details.html#_CPPv4N2mp3sol6StatusE.
462
463### Changed parameters
464
465- change default value of parameter separating/filtercutpoolrel to FALSE
466- Shrunk range of parameter "propagating/symmetry/sstleaderrule" from [0,3] to [0,2], removed "MAXCONFLICTS"-option.
467- Removed reading/gmsreader/freeints. A default upper bound of +inf is now assumed for integer variables in GAMS (which is the case since GAMS 23.1).
468- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/symfixnonbinaryvars" since it is not used in the new symmetry code.
469- Replaced "propagating/symmetry/onlybinarysymmetry" with "propagating/symmetry/enforcecomputesymmetry" and set to FALSE by default.
470- Disabled "propagating/symmetry/performpresolving" since running orbital reduction during presolving is not effective.
471- Repurposed "propagating/symmetry/usedynamicprop" since it now also applies to lexicographic reduction.
472- Changed default value of parameter "propagating/symmetry/addsymresacks" from FALSE to TRUE.
473
474### New parameters
475
476- separating/maxcutsgenfactor and separating/maxcutsrootgenfactor as factors (w.r.t. separating/maxcuts and
477 separating/maxcutsroot) for limits on the number of cuts generated (which used to be constants '2')
478- expr/pow/expandmaxexponent to specify limit on exponent when to expand power of sum
479- expr/pow/distribfracexponent to enable expanding power of products with fractional exponents
480- expr/product/expandalways to enable expanding any product with sums as factor (that is, also when more than two factors)
481- nlhdlr/convex/maxperturb to specify maximal perturbation of non-differential reference points
482- benders/default/nlpiterlimit to adjust iteration limit for NLP solver for Benders' decomposition NLP subproblems
483- limits/objectivestop to interrupt the solve as soon as a primal solution is found
484 that is at least as good as the given value
485- heuristics/undercover/{coverand,coverind,covernl} to control which nonlinearities to consider (by default only "and" and nonlinear constraints)
486- cutselection/ensemble/∗ all parameters for new ensemble cut selector
487- cutselection/dynamic/∗ all parameters for new dynamic cut selector
488- branching/relpscost/gmiavgeffweight specifies the weight in the relpscost branching score of the normalized efficacy of all generated GMI cuts (for a variable)
489 branching/relpscost/gmilasteffweight specifies the weight in the elpscost branching score of the normalized efficacy of the last generated GMI cut (for a variable)
490- nlhdlr/quadratic/usemonoidal to enable monoidal strengthening when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
491- nlhdlr/quadratic/trackmore to collect more statistics for monoidal strengthening when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
492- nlhdlr/quadratic/useminrep to use the minimal representation to compute cut coefficients when separating quadratics with intersection cuts
493- nlhdlr/quadratic/sparsifycuts to enable sparsification of intersection cuts for quadratics
494- heuristics/dps/reoptlimits to set strict limits for the reoptimization step in dps
495- heuristics/dps/timing to run dps after processing the node
496- heuristics/scheduler/∗ all parameters for new scheduler heuristic
497- nlhdlr/signomial/enabled, nlhdlr/signomial/maxnundervars, nlhdlr/signomial/mincutscale: parameters for the signomial nonlinear handler
498- separating/lagromory/freq to denote the frequency for calling Lagromory separator
499- separating/lagromory/away to denote the minimal integrality violation of a basis variable to try separation
500- separating/lagromory/dynamiccuts to denote whether the generated cuts be removed from LP if they are no longer tight
501- separating/lagromory/maxroundsroot to denote the maximal number of separation rounds in the root node
502- separating/lagromory/maxrounds to denote the maximal number of separation rounds in a non-root node
503- separating/lagromory/nmaxcutsperlproot to denote, in the root node, the maximal number of Lagromory cuts that can be
504 separated per explored basis of the Lagrangian dual
505- separating/lagromory/nmaxcutsperlp to denote, in a non-root node, the maximal number of Lagromory cuts that can be
506 separated per explored basis of the Lagrangian dual
507- separating/lagromory/perroundnmaxlpiters to denote the maximal number of separating LP iterations that are allowed per
508 separation round
509- separating/lagromory/dualdegeneracyratethreshold to denote the minimum dual degeneracy rate for the separator execution
510- separating/lagromory/varconsratiothreshold to denote the minimum variable-constraint ratio on the optimal face for the
511 separator execution
512- many other advanced parameters for the Lagromory separator, which are also mentioned under separating/lagromory/∗
513
514### Data structures
515
516- new data structure SYM_GRAPH to encode symmetry information from a constraint
517- new data structure SYM_EXPRDATA to encode symmetry information from expressions
518- replaced enum SYM_SYMTYPE by a complete new one; removed SYM_RHSSENSE, added SYM_NODETYPE and SYM_CONSOPTYPE
519
520Deleted files
521-------------
522
523- deleted the now unused files: tpi_none.h, tpi_openmp.h, tpi_tnycthrd.h, type_tpi_none.h, type_tpi_openmp.h, type_tpi_tnycthrd.h
524
525Unit tests
526----------
527
528- new unittests for nlhdlr_quadratic that test monoidal strengthening and the use of the minimal representation to compute cut coefficients
529- unittests for nlhdlr_signomial
530
531Testing
532-------
533
534- changed `set lim obj` to `set lim objective` in ctest since `obj` is no longer unambiguous
535
536Build system
537------------
538
539### Cmake
540
541- New flag -DLAPACK=on for linking with Lapack (must be available in the system)
542- added flag option "SYM=sbliss" for using sassy/bliss as a graph automorphism package
543- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP.
544- added flag option "SYM=snauty" for using sassy/nauty as a graph automorphism package
545
546### Makefile
547
548- added flag option "nauty" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
549- added flag option "sbliss" (sassy/bliss) for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
550- added flag option "snauty" (sassy/nauty) for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
551- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP
552- New flag LAPACK for linking with Lapack (must be available in the system)
553- A file scip/config.h is created in the build directory ($(OBJDIR)/include) now.
554 Defining NO_CONFIG_HEADER is no longer necessary and has no effect anymore.
555
556Fixed bugs
557----------
558
559- Number of runs in which separation is enabled will now be correct as per "separating/maxruns" parameter. Earlier,
560 separation was enabled for "maxruns + 1" number of runs, i.e., separation was enabled even when "maxruns = 0" was set.
561- add safeguard for number of selected cuts
562- use double double precision for delta in activity updates of cons_linear.c
563- sort constraints in checkSolOrig() to keep the logic of constraint handlers intact
564- fixed make install when SHARED=no and make uninstall
565- check absolute coefficients relative to extremal average to avoid invalid unifications in normalizeCons()
566- enforce and check symmetry-based constraints to take their locks (in dual reductions) into account
567- flush changes at the end of SCIPlpiSetBase() in lpi_grb.c to apply the newly set basis correctly
568
569Miscellaneous
570-------------
571
572- The TPI has been changed to become mostly independent from the actual parallel interface during compile time.
573 For this, the locks and conditions are now pointers to abstract structs.
574- fixed that scip/def.h, the header for C preprocessor definition (`#define`'s), included headers for some SCIP type and function definitions
586- fixed that scaling of rows in Gurobi interface (SCIPlpiScaleRow()) changed infinite sides to large finite ones (1e20) when scale factor is negative
587- check whether objective limit is truly reached in SCIPlpiIsStable()
588- if an objective limit is set and Mosek claims that it is exceeded, check that this is indeed the case in SCIPlpiIsStable()
589- the .mps file reader was extended to additionally accept .mps files with the objective sense section on one line
590- ensure that delayed cutpool separation does not happen if enough cuts have been found already
591- fixed that a Gurobi or Mosek interface (LPI) could not be freed from a thread different than the one it was created in, which lead to problems when, e.g., using the concurrent optimizer
592- in cons_varbound if both variables are fixed, instead of propagating the constraint check the feasibility of the constraint since propagating can lead to unnecessary numerical troubles
593- fixed memory leak in branching rule "distribution"
594- fixed that undercover did not enforce that sufficiently many variables in an and-constraints were fixed to have it linearized in the generated sub-scip
595- fixed two bugs in cons_varbound: avoid adding variable bounds if vbdcoef is infinite and unlock/lock variables if lhs/rhs/vbdcoef are changed
596- globalize constraint changes before bound changes during the effective root shift in treeSwitchPath() to correctly update variable locks by avoiding global bounds with outstanding bound change events when deleting constraints
597- fixed error when attempting to copy SCIP with activated pricers
598- remove integrality check for implicit integral variables in cons_integral.c, updated the definition for variable type implicit integer to be more explicit that these variables can take fractional values, and updated FAQ entry
599- updated and, or, and pseudoboolean constraint handlers to better handle fractional implicit integer variables in enforcement
600- avoid invalid strong Chvatal-Gomory cuts by ceiling with tolerance in the calculation of parameter k and flooring slack coefficients with standard epsilon tolerance as well as quad precision
601- add missing row links to columns in SCIPflushRowExtensions() required to maintain correct row norms
602- restrict separator intobj to solutions for which there can be no better feasible integral objective values to avoid cutting them off
603- delay removal of clique lists from SCIPvarRemoveCliquesImplicsVbs() into cliqueCleanup() to avoid segmentation faults by incomplete cleanups after variable conversions
604- reject sub-solutions with invalid objectives in SCIPtranslateSubSols() due to contradicting infinite contributions
605- correct column index in getMinMaxActivityResiduals() to make presolver dualinfer work
606- copy quiet flag from main scip's message handler to the one of solverscip in concurrent optimization
607- avoid bound tightening cycles towards huge redundancy bounds in fullDualPresolve() to avert fatal numerical trouble in representing vertices of linear relaxations with unbounded domains
608- fix problem where debug solution did not work if branching constraints are present
609- update index of dominating variable on coefficient deletion in dualPresolving() of constraint handler logicor
610- pass on flags from a redundant to the implying varbound constraint in preprocessConstraintPairs() to avoid suboptimal fixings by model relaxations
611- apply reductions of dualinfer only if a dual solution exists (primal is bounded)
612- before presolving is finished check solutions before retransforming them including tiny values to keep check flags consistent
613- disable heuristics before and during presolving in benders decomposition to avoid messing up the objective structure in the solution store by dropping auxiliary variables in the required retransformations
614- correct local flag of singleton conflict constraints in tightenSingleVar() against invalid bound globalization
615- respect unboundedness in the computation of activity bounds in conflict.c to avoid invalid huge bounds due to small coefficients on unbounded variables
616- ensure positive sides of a linear constraint when recognizing a set partition in rangedRowSimplify() to account for redundancy issues
617- relax numerical conditions for variable aggregations to avert invalid variable fixings
618- fixed harmless read of uninitialized data when creating parameters
619- fix call of SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblem in nlpi_worhp
620
621Performance improvements
622------------------------
623
624- Use sassy/bliss as default symmetry computation package.
625
626Interface changes
627-----------------
628
629### Interfaces to external software
630
631- added interface to nauty/traces for symmetry computation
632- added interface to sassy, a preprocessor for symmetry computation
633- The directory src/sassy contains the source code of sassy.
634
635Build system
636------------
637
638### Cmake
639
640- added flag option "SYM=sbliss" for using sassy/bliss as a graph automorphism package
641
642### Makefile
643
644- added flag option "nauty" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
645- added flag option "sbliss" for SYM variable to specify which graph automorphism package should be used
646- use SYM=sbliss by default, since sassy and bliss are now shipped with SCIP
647
648Miscellaneous
649-------------
650
651- the parameter change callback is no longer called at the moment a parameter is created
652
653@section RN804 SCIP 8.0.4
654*************************
655
656Features
657--------
658
659- use quad precision in cutsSubstituteMIR() for substituting slack variables into CMIR cuts
660- use quad precision for activity computations in cons_linear.c
661
662### Deleted and changed API methods
663
664- SCIPshrinkDisjunctiveVarSet() no longer attempts to cutoff the current node if it finds the
665 given disjunction to be infeasible; it is now in the responsibility of the caller to act accordingly
666
667### New API functions
668
669- added SCIPskipSpace
670- added XML parser routines from src/xml/xml.h
671
672### Interfaces to external software
673
674- updated XPRESS interface to work with XPRESS 41 as well
675- new interface to LP solver HiGHS (lpi_highs.cpp)
676
677### Changed parameters
678
679- changed integer parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputrestart" from range {0, 1, 2} to being fixed at value 0
680
681Unit tests
682----------
683
684- added new checks for objective, bounds and sides inside the scaling tests in lpi/change.c
685
686Fixed bugs
687----------
688
689- relax condition of assert in lpSolve to hold only if lp/checkstability is true
690- OPB reader: dynamically increase the size of the line buffer for reading in getMaxAndConsDim()
691- Enabled the solution limit checks in SCIPsolveIsStopped in solve.c when in SCIP_STAGE_PRESOLVING
692- fix quad precision comparison for the calculation of knapsackcover constraints.
693- force copying of symmetry constraints for concurrent solve
694- increase the precision of double multiplications in quad precision environments
695- corrected handling of different variable types in symmetry
696- orbitope detection: refine computation of overlap structure and fixed bug in finding orbitope generators
697- ensure that winner is always determined in concurrent mode
698- when a row with invalid index range is added to the global cutpool, update the indices instead of failing with an assert
699- update of watched literals in cons_xor.c and ensure that fixed variables are counted in propacateCons()
700- avoid some numerical issue in check for redundant variables in linear constraints (introduced with version 8.0.2)
701- more rows are treated as being integral in cutsSubstituteMIR() for CMIR cuts
702- fixed several relaxations of the rhs of cuts to 0 in cuts.c
703- avoid aggregation into a single linear constraint if they should not be upgraded (needed for indicator constraints)
704- apply effective root changes before fork is repropagated during treeSwitchPath() in tree.c
705- avoid invalid objective value for solutions generated from an unbounded LP relaxation in case of a nonlinear objective function
706- disable recomputing symmetries after a restart (constraint removal is not permitted)
707- avoid cutting off optimal solutions for small feasibility tolerances in conflict analysis
708- initialize variable in presol_dualsparsify.c
709- fix in presolving of variable bound constraints to use absolute instead of relative difference
710- free variable histories in reoptimization mode
711- handle whitespaces in interactive shell history consistently
712- check and enforce equalities on which the objective is projected in cons_linear.c
713- ensure row feasibilities of solution shiftings in heur_oneopt.c and heur_twoopt.c
800- new parameters to turn on more statistics: misc/showdivingstats (diving heuristics), heuristics/alns/shownbstats (ALNS), estimation/showstats (tree size estimation)
801
802### Data structures
803
804- added nrootcalls and ncutsadded to SCIP_Cutpool
805- added fromcutpool flag to SCIP_Row and fixed 33 bit allocation
956 Removed support for parameterized expressions.
957- Added support for expression types sin, cos, and entropy. Added an expression type that stores a SCIP variable.
958- Added handling of sin and cos expressions in OSiL reader.
959- Added handling of sin, cos, and tan expressions in ZIMPL reader.
960- Added expression handler plugin type, removed user expression type.
961- Replaced expressions, expression trees, and expression graphs by a new implementation of expressions.
962- Added differentiation methods (Gradients and Hessian directions) to expressions.
963- Added integrality information to expressions.
964- Added comparison and hashing of expressions.
965- Improved simplification of expressions and identification of common subexpressions, in particular terms that appear
966 equally in several quadratic functions are now identified.
967- Expression simplification now expands powers also when the resulting exponents will be larger than 2.
968- Added table to print statistics on expression handlers.
969- Removed interval-arithmetic evaluation from expression interpreter (interfaces to automatic differentiation codes).
970- Hessians for user-provided expression handlers are not available in the NLP solver interfaces for now.
971- Sparse Hessians are now returned by expression interpreter. Removed dense Hessians.
972
973Constraint handlers for NLP:
974- cons_nonlinear has been completely rewritten and now handles constraints of the form lhs <= expr <= rhs, where
975 expr is an expression using the new expression type. A linear part of a nonlinear constraint is no longer distinguished.
976- Methods that work on a particular nonlinear structure are now implemented via nonlinear handlers (nlhdlr).
977 These handlers are plugins of cons_nonlinear and interact with cons_nonlinear by detecting structures in expressions and
978 providing propagation and separation mechanisms.
979- Added nlhdlr "default" as a mandatory nlhdlr: this is a nlhdlr that gets active on expressions that no other nlhdlr handles.
980 It then uses the callbacks implemented in expression handlers to provide domain propagation and linear under/overestimates.
981- Added nlhdlr for quadratic expressions: domain propagation that was previously part of cons_quadratic; separation via intersection cuts (currently disabled).
982- Added nlhdlr for bilinear expressions: collects bilinear products and provides under/overestimation of a product over a 2D-projection of the LP.
983- Added nlhdlr for convex and concave expressions: detection of convex/concave subexpressions and linear under/overestimation.
984- Added nlhdlr for quotients: detects quotients, provides specialized linear under/overestimation and domain propagation for univariate quotients.
985- Added nlhdlr for perspective reformulations: detects expressions in semi-continuous variables and tightens linear
986 under/overestimates of these expressions by applying a perspective transformation.
987- Added nlhdlr for second-order cones: detects second-order cone constraints (as ||x|| <= t or a quadratic that can written like that) and
988 separates on a disaggregated reformulation (similar to cons_soc previously).
989- Removed constraint handlers abspower, bivariate, quadratic, and soc.
990- Removed simplification of duplicate abspower constraints for now.
991 Removed simplification of abspower constraints with loose variables.
992 Removed resolving of domain propagation (ConsResProp callback) and conflict analysis for abspower constraints.
993 Removed propagation of varbounds for variables of abspower constraints.
994 Removed reformulation of abs(x)^p * x into signpower expression for now.
995- Removed reformulation of SOC constraints when adding to the NLP.
996 Removed possibility to add linearizations a la Glineur or BenTal&Nemirovski for SOC constraints.
997- Removed possibility to disaggregate quadratic constraints.
998 Removed lifted tangent inequalities for bilinear terms in quadratic constraints.
999 Removed option to project LP solution onto feasible region of a quadratic constraint via interior point or gauge function.
1000 Removed handling of unbounded LPs when enforcing quadratic constraints.
1001- Removed construction of cuts from interval gradients for nonlinear constraints.
1002 Removed possibility to pretend that all nonlinear constraints are convex.
1003 Removed possibility to create local or non-initial nonlinear constraints for now.
1004- Removed explicit reformulation of nonlinear constraints in presolve.
1005 An extended formulation is now generated implicitly and used to construct the LP relaxation,
1006 but the original formulation is used to check feasibility, propagate variable domains, etc.
1007 Variables that are added for the extended formulation are now marked as relaxation-only.
1008- Improved locking of nonlinear variables in nonlinear constraints by taking monotonicity into account.
1009- Improved mechanisms to detect and handle structures in nonlinear constraints, which allows for several algorithms
1010 to work simultaneously on equal or overlapping expressions.
1011- Improved linearization of (sums of) products of binary variables, e.g., clique information is now taken into account.
1012 Removed option to linearize products between a binary and a non-binary variable.
1013- Nonlinear constraints with the same function (but possibly different left- or right-hand-side) are now merged.
1014- When a variable appears in only one concave less-or-equal constraint, it will be fixed to one of its bounds in more cases now.
1015- New branching rule for variables in nonlinear constraints (implemented in cons_nonlinear) that scores candidates
1016 based on constraint violation, variable type, and pseudo-costs simultaneously.
1017- Added tables to print statistics of nonlinear constraint handler and nonlinear handlers.
1018
1019Performance improvements
1020------------------------
1021
1022- Use the objective cutoff row as base row for separation in sepa_aggregation.c.
1023- Separate lifted cover cuts based on newer lifting function of Letchford and Souli (2019) in sepa_aggregation.c.
1024- In-tree restarts due to tree size estimation have been made compatible with orbital fixing.
1025- Improved upgrade of orbisacks to packing/partitioning orbitopes.
1026- Improved running time of symresack cover separation.
1027- Improved propagation algorithm for orbisack and symresack.
1028- Improved handling for expressions of type signpower in CppAD interface by making use of CppADs conditional expressions.
1029- Faster reevaluation of Hessian for quadratic expressions in CppAD interface.
1030- Enabled optimization of taped expressions in the CppAD interface.
1031- Sparse Hessian evaluation for expressions with sparse Hessian in the CppAD interface.
1032- Disabled branching on variables that are added for the extended formulation of a nonlinear constraint.
1033- Prefer branching on variables in nonconvex terms of nonlinear constraints also if a cut could be generated but would yield a small reduction in the convexification gap only.
1034- When violations of nonlinear constraints are tiny, the feasibility tolerance for the LP relaxation may now be reduced temporarily to allow for cuts to have an effect.
1035- Improved under/overestimation of multidimensional vertex-polyhedral (e.g., multilinear or concave) functions by use of scaling and keeping the cut-generating LP around.
1036- Products in nonlinear constraints are no longer disaggregated for the extended formulation.
1037- No longer relax bounds of integral variables when computing bounds on activity in nonlinear constraints.
1038- Revised and improved Ipopt interface.
1039- Revised and improved subNLP primal heuristic, in particular choice of iteration limit and starting condition and reuse of subSCIP.
1040- Merge strongcg into the gomory separator to avoid computing the same base equality twice. The files
1041 sepa_strongcg.{h|c} have been removed.
1042- The RENS neighborhood in ALNS now fixes fractional variables if necessary for reaching its target fixing rate.
1043- Use cpsolver emphasis in sepa_rapidlearning.
1044- If decomposition/maxgraphedge = 0, the computation of the block graph is completely turned off.
1045- Fixed a performance bug in cons_integral.c where rounding information was passed incorrectly to the generic diving algorithm.
1046
1047Examples and applications
1048-------------------------
1049
1050- Add c++ Sudoku example
1051- Removed circle.c and renamed string.c to spring.c in CallableLibrary example.
1052- SCIP-Jack (Steiner tree application):
1053 Most files have been modified and many new ones have been added (code base more than doubled).
1054 Two new problem classes are supported: maximum-weight connected subgraph problem with budget constraints, partial-terminal node-weighted Steiner tree problem.
1055 Major performance improvements accross all problem classes that are supported.
1056
1057Interface changes
1058-----------------
1059
1060### New and changed callbacks
1061
1062- extend SEPAEXEC{LP,SOL} callbacks by parameter "depth", which should be used within separation instead of SCIPgetCurrentDepth()
1063- extend SCIPseparateSolCutpool() by parameter "pretendroot", which is passed to SCIPcutpoolSeparate() instead of SCIPtreeGetCurrentDepth(scip->tree) == 0
1081- added SCIP_NLPIPROBLEM* problem to SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLVERPOINTER
1082
1083### Deleted and changed API methods
1084
1085- When calling SCIPdelVar() in the SCIP_STAGE_PROBLEM stage, it is now documented as the user's responsibility to ensure
1086 the variable is not present in any constraints. Otherwise, SCIPsolve() now returns SCIP_INVALIDDATA.
1087- removed SCIPselectCuts(), replaced by SCIPselectCutsHybrid() of the hybrid cut selector plugin
1088- If SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() is called for a variable, then this now need to happen before the
1089 variable is added to the transformed problem (SCIPaddVar()).
1090 SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() will automatically call SCIPvarMarkDeletable().
1091- SCIPcomputeOrbitsFilterSym() and SCIPcomputeComponentsSym(): Type of argument componentblocked
1092 changed from SCIP_Shortbool* to unsigned*.
1093- removed SCIPsetParam()
1094- SCIPcreateConsOrbitope() and SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitope() have two new arguments "usedynamicprop"
1095 and "mayinteract" to encode whether a dynamic reordering of the orbitope rows shall be used in
1096 full orbitope propagation and whether the orbitope might interact with other symmetry handling
1097 methods, respectively.
1098- internal function SCIPgetPropertiesPerm() has been replaced by SCIPisInvolutionPerm()
1099- internal function SCIPgenerateOrbitopeVarsMatrix() has new arguments "storelexorder", "lexorder",
1100 "nvarsorder", "maxnvarsorder" to compute and store the lexicographic order defined by an orbitope
1101- renamed SCIPcomputeArraysIntersection() and SCIPcomputeArraysSetminus() to
1102 SCIPcomputeArraysIntersectionInt() and SCIPcomputeArraysSetminusInt(), respectively, and changed
1103 their return type from SCIP_RETCODE (which _always_ was SCIP_OKAY) to void
1104- removed SCIPincludeDialogDefault(), use SCIPincludeDialogDefaultBasic() instead and check whether you also need SCIPincludeDialogDefaultSet() and SCIPincludeDialogDefaultFix()
1105- removed exprint argument from SCIPaddNlRowGradientBenderscutOpt()
1106- added copyexprhdlrs argument to SCIPcopyPlugins() (19th position)
1107- added copycutselectors argument to SCIPcopyPlugins() (10th position)
1108- removed refpoint argument from SCIPaddSquareSecant()
1109- added argument exprdata to SYMcomputeSymmetryGenerators()
1124- renamed SCIPsetNlRowExprtree() to SCIPsetNlRowExpr() and changed type of expr(tree) argument to SCIP_EXPR*
1125- SCIPenableNLP() is no longer allowed in stages INITSOLVE and SOLVING
1126- removed SCIPaddLinearConsToNlpHeurSubNlp()
1127- SCIPhasNLPSolution() now returns true also if a infeasible solution to the NLP exists; SCIPcreateNLPSol() can now also be used when only an infeasible solution to the NLP exists
1128- renamed SCIPsolveNLP() to SCIPsolveNLPParam() and added parameter SCIP_NLPPARAM param
1129- removed SCIPsolveDiveNLP(), use SCIPsolveNLPParam() instead
1177- removed SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarDegree() and SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarDegrees(), use SCIPnlpiOracleIsVarNonlinear() and SCIPnlpiOracleGetVarCounts(), respectively, instead
1178- removed SCIPnlpiOracleGetConstraintDegree(), use SCIPnlpiOracleIsConstraintNonlinear() instead
1179- removed argument messagehdlr from SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblem() and SCIPnlpiOraclePrintProblemGams()
1180- removed SCIPcreateNlpiProb(), use SCIPcreateNlpiProblemFromNlRows() instead
1181- renamed SCIPupdateNlpiProb() to SCIPupdateNlpiProblem() and moved into scip_nlpi.{h,c}
1182- renamed SCIPaddNlpiProbRows() to SCIPaddNlpiProblemRows() and moved into scip_nlpi.{h,c}
1184- removed SCIPgetIpoptApplicationPointerIpopt(), use SCIPgetNlpiSolverPointer() instead
1185- removed SCIPnlpStatisticsCreate(), SCIPnlpStatisticsFree(), SCIPnlpStatisticsGetNIterations(), SCIPnlpStatisticsGetTotalTime(), SCIPnlpStatisticsSetNIterations(), SCIPnlpStatisticsSetTotalTime(), the struct is public now
1186- renamed LapackDsyev() to SCIPcallLapackDsyevIpopt()
1187- renamed SCIPsolveLinearProb() to SCIPsolveLinearEquationsIpopt()
1188
1189Expression interpreter:
1190- removed functions that operated with SCIPInterval
1191- changed first argument of SCIPexprintCreate() to SCIP*
1192- added SCIP* as first argument to SCIPexprintFree()
1193- added SCIP* as first argument to SCIPexprintCompile(), changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA**
1194- added arguments SCIP*, SCIP_EXPRINT*, and SCIP_EXPR* as first arguments to SCIPexprintFreeData()
1195- renamed SCIPexprintGetExprtreeCapability() to SCIPexprintGetExprCapability();
1196 added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1197- removed SCIPexprintNewParametrization()
1198- SCIPexprintEval(): added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1199- removed SCIPexprintEvalInt()
1200- SCIPexprintGrad(): added SCIP* as first argument, changed third argument to SCIP_EXPR*, added fourth argument SCIP_EXPRINTDATA*
1201- removed SCIPexprintGradInt()
1202- removed SCIPexprintHessianSparsityDense() and SCIPexprintHessianDense, use SCIPexprintHessianSparsity() and SCIPexprintHessian() instead
1203
1204Expressions:
1205- removed SCIPexpropGetName(), use SCIPexprhdlrGetName() instead
1206- removed SCIPexpropGetNChildren()
1207- removed SCIPexprGetOperator(), use SCIPexprGetHdlr() instead
1208- removed SCIPexprGetOpIndex(), SCIPexprGetOpReal(), SCIPexprGetOpData(), use SCIPexprGetData() instead
1209- removed SCIPexprGetRealPowerExponent(), SCIPexprGetIntPowerExponent(), SCIPexprGetSignPowerExponent(), use SCIPgetExponentExprPow() instead
1210- removed SCIPexprGetLinearCoefs(), SCIPexprGetLinearConstant(), use SCIPgetCoefsExprSum() and SCIPgetConstantExprSum() instead
1330- renamed SCIPgetNAllBilinearTermsQuadratic() to SCIPgetNBilinTermsNonlinear() and changed argument from SCIP* to SCIP_CONSHDLR*
1331- renamed SCIPgetAllBilinearTermsQuadratic() to SCIPgetBilinTermsNonlinear() and replaced arguments by SCIP_CONSHDLR* and changed return type to SCIP_CONSNONLINEAR_BILINTERM*
1332- removed SCIPaddBilinearIneqQuadratic(), use SCIPinsertBilinearTermImplicitNonlinear() instead
1333- renamed SCIPcreateConsQuadratic() to SCIPcreateConsQuadraticNonlinear() and removed argument stickingatnode
1334- removed SCIPincludeConshdlrSOC()
1335- replaced SCIPcreateConsBasicSOC() by SCIPcreateConsBasicSOCNonlinear()
1336- deprecated SCIPcreateConsSOC(), use SCIPcreateConsBasicSOCNonlinear() instead
1337- deprecated SCIPgetNlRowSOC(), use SCIPgetNlRowNonlinear() instead
1557- Removed parameters for strongcg separator: separating/strongcg/..., i.e.,
1558 maxrounds, maxroundsroot, maxsepacutsroot, maxsepacuts, dynamiccuts. One can control the
1559 strongcg behavior throught the parameters of sepa_gomory.
1560- renamed separating/{minortho,minorthoroot,objparalfac,intsupportfac} to cutselection/hybrid/{minortho,minorthoroot,objparalweight,intsupportweight}
1561
1562### New parameters
1563
1564- It is now possible to add orbitope constraints to handle symmetries even if not all variables
1565 in a component of the symmetry group are binary. This feature can be enabled using the
1624- new parameters "branching/inference/conflictprio" and "branching/inference/cutoffprio" that allow
1625 using the different score criteria in inference branching hierarchically
1626- new parameters "heuristics/alns/nodesquotmin", "heuristics/alns/maxcallssamesol" and "heuristics/alns/initduringroot"
1627 to control neighborhoods in ALNS
1628- new parameter "benders/default/benderscut/optimality/mir" to control whether mixed-integer rounding procedure is applied to Benders optimality cuts
1629- new parameter "misc/avoidmemout" to try to avoid running into memory limit
1745- added test projection:transitivity in prob/obbt.c
1746- added reader/nl.c
1747- added test intervalarith:sincos in scip/intervalarith.c
1748- added sepa/minor.c
1749- added sepa/rlt/cuts.c
1750- added sepa/rlt/product_detection.c
1751- added sepa/rlt/separation.c
1752- added tests test_compute_symmetry:expr{1,2,3,4} in symmetry/compute.c
1753
1754Build system
1755------------
1756
1757- the separate NLPI library has been integrated into the main SCIP library;
1758 uses of NLPILIBFILE or NLPILIBSRC in Makefiles that use make/make.project
1759 should be removed
1760
1761### Cmake
1762
1763- replace flag PARASCIP by THREADSAFE
1764- option AMPL is now ON by default
1765- add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 cflag for compilation on systems other than windows
1766- add compile options directly instead of modifying CMAKE_C_FLAGS and CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS
1767
1768### Makefile
1769
1770- prefix PKG_CONFIG_PATH with Ipopt's pkgconfig dir instead of postfixing
1771- replace flag PARASCIP by THREADSAFE
1772- flag AMPL is now true by default
1773- libscip has been renamed to libscipbase and libscipsolver has been renamed to libscip
1774 in order to have the same library names for makefiles and cmake. For downward
1775 compatibility libscipsolver still exists (as a link).
1776
1777Fixed bugs
1778----------
1779
1780- fixed handling of multi-aggregation in cons_symresack and cons_orbisack
1781- SCIPgetLowerbound() now consistently returns infinity when status is infeasible
1782- improved the likelihood that a solution that satisfies the nonlinear constraints in the transformed (presolved) problem is also feasible for the original problem
1783- worked around a problem with derivatives of pow at 0 with non-integer exponents in CppAD
1784- fixed that setting of feasiblity and optimiality tolerance for NLP relaxation was overwritten with defaults when solving NLP
1785- fixed variance computation in t-value computation in hypothesis testing of reliability branching
1786- fixed potential overflow in cuts.c:evaluateLiftingFunctionKnapsack()
1787- do not transfer dual reductions to main SCIP in sepa_rapidlearning if strong dual reductions are forbidden
1788- fixed a bug in cons_setppc.c:removeDoubleAndSingletonsAndPerformDualpresolve() which led to wrong variable aggregations
1789- added missing redundancy check to coefficient tightening routine in cons_varbound that led to wrong variable locks
1790- added a check of numerics to avoid wrong reductions in cons_linear.c:simplifyInequalities()
1791- fixed a bug in cons_logicor.c regarding fixed variables that were not removed
1792- presol_milp.c handles variable fixings, suggested by PaPILO, more carefully to cover all cases that can appear
1793- fixed several reproducability bugs that led to different solving paths across multiple runs with one SCIP environment
1794- fixed check of limits/absgap, which was incorrectly applied to the scaled objective of the transformed problem
1795
1796Miscellaneous
1797-------------
1798
1799- in LP, use absolute instead of relative tolerances to check whether solutions from LP solver are primal feasible
1800- when a restart occurs, SCIP now asserts (during EXITSOLVE) that all relaxation-only variables are unlocked and
1801 only captured by the transformed problem.
1802- Avoid redundant calls to LP solver when LP is already flushed and solved
1803- In SCIPdebugMsg(), SCIPsetDebugMsg(), SCIPstatDebugMsg() strip directory from filename.
1804- Recompute activity of rows when checking LP solutions instead of trusting the value given by the LP solver
1805- The define NPARASCIP has been replaced by SCIP_THREADSAFE
1806- Parameters are not reset to their default values before activating an emphasis setting; this now allows to combine
1807 different emphasis settings.
1808- If a lazy bound is set to a value that is tighter than the current global bound, then the global bound is now tightened accordingly.
1809
1810@page RN7 Release notes for SCIP 7
1811
1812@section RN703 SCIP 7.0.3
1813*************************
1814
1815Interface changes
1816-----------------
1817
1818### New API functions
1819
1820- added function SCIPwithDebugSol() to determine whether SCIP was compiled with WITH_DEBUG_SOLUTION
1821
1822- New function SCIPcreateConsBounddisjunctionRedundant() and SCIPcreateConsBasicBounddisjunctionRedundant() that allow
1823 the input to contain redundant literals.
1824
1825### Changed API functions
1826
1827- added __attribute__((format(printf,,,))) to variadic SCIP message printing functions;
1828 this enables warnings about mismatches between format string and variadic function arguments if using GCC.
1829
1830### Interfaces to external software
1831
1832- removed MATLAB interface from interfaces/matlab
1833
1834Build system
1835------------
1836
1837- Compilation will now also work in a raw tarball of the scip git repository
1838
1839### Cmake
1840
1841- Make find_package more verbose and require packages to be found. Now enabled packages that are not found result in an error.
1842
1843Fixed bugs
1844----------
1845
1846- Fixed numerical bug by creating and checking the empty solution when problem vanishes in presolving.
1847- Fixed several bugs in reoptimization.
1848- Fixed bug in cons_bounddisjunction in which a constraint leads to a cutoff.
1849- Fixed bug in reoptimization by avoiding redundant literals for bound disjunctions.
1850- Replace wrong usage of CMAKE_BINARY_DIR by PROJECT_BINARY_DIR in CMake system
1851- Fixed lpi_glop to use absl flag instead of GFlags
1852- Fixed invalid initialization of limits/softtime parameter in cons_components
1853- Fixed MIN macro not defined in some cases.
1854- Safeguard some API methods for querying solving statistics against segmentation faults after SCIPpresolve()
1855- Fixed unfreed solution in concurrent solving
1856- Make sure that logicor constraints are enforced/separated if genlogicor is true in cons_indicator.
1857 Thus, do not change constraints/logicor/sepafreq anymore, but output warning.
1858- Fixed assert that assumed infeasibility cannot occur in presol_boundshift.
1859- Fixed sign bug during creation of conflict constraints with almost zero left-hand side.
1860- Disabled call of conflict handler for conflict sets that contain relaxation-only variables.
1861- Fixed bug in cons_symresack by initializing all constraint data in constrans
1862- Avoid allowing the upgrade of linear constraints corresponding to indicators in propagation of nodes.
1863- Fixed bug in computing lex. min/max faces in dynamic orbitope propagation.
1864- Limit vbounds propagator to one sweep through all bounds per call in order to avoid an infinite loop.
1865- Fixed mismatches between formatter strings and arguments in calls to SCIP message printing functions.
1866
1867Miscellaneous
1868-------------
1869
1870- To avoid performance variablity during reoptimization, the active constraints are now stored in the same order as in the
1871 original problem.
1872- Added workaround for bug in MSVS 2019 when compiling CppAD source.
1873- The original order of variables is now only restored after presolve if `randomization/permutevars` is set to FALSE.
1874
1875@section RN702 SCIP 7.0.2
1876*************************
1877
1878Features
1879--------
1880
1881- Extended check for valid variable and constraint names in PIP writer.
1882- Indicator constraints now write the name of the linear constraint in CIP format. This avoids a complicated
1883 name matching during parsing. The old format is still supported.
1884- The objective scale and offset are now taken into account when reading/writing problems in lp/mps/fzn/pip format.
1885 This often changes the behavior when writing transformed problems.
1886
1887Performance improvements
1888------------------------
1889
1890Examples and applications
1891-------------------------
1892
1893- Add c++ Sudoku example
1894
1895Interface changes
1896-----------------
1897
1898### Deleted and changed API methods
1899
1900- deprecated SCIPsetParam(); use SCIPsetIntParam(), SCIPsetRealParam(), etc, instead
1901
1902### New API functions
1903
1904- new function SCIPcolGetVarProbindex() for accessing the probindex of a variable corresponding to a column
1905- added new sorting functions SCIPsortPtrRealRealBoolBool()
1906
1907Fixed bugs
1908----------
1909
1910- Fixed a sign bug occuring for some cases in the computation of the directed cutoff distance
1911- Fixed overflow in inference information of cumulative constraint handler
1912- Fixed problem with propfreq == 0 in cons_linear.c
1913- Fixed aggregation heuristic in sepa_aggregation.c to not use local rows when that is requested nor modifiable rows
1914- Fixed problem with incompatibility of symmetry handling in Benders decomposition
1915- Fixed parsing of small number in CIP format of nonlinear constraint
1916- Fixed problem in upgrading full orbitopes to partitioning orbitopes
1917- Fixed treatment of negated variables in parsing orbitope constraints
1918- Fixed potential indexing error in prop_vbounds.c
1919- Fixed bug in writing fzn format
1920- Revert to old parameter value when parameter change is rejected in PARAMCHGD callback
1921- Fixed order of linker flags when building AMPL interface with cmake system.
1922- Fixed bug with ofsymcomptiming == 0: now symmetry is actually computed
1923- Improved separation for SOC constraint with multiaggregated variable on right-hand-side.
1924- Fixed bug in presol_boundshift: do not shift non-active variables
1925- Fixed bug in domain propagation for SOC constraints with negative coefficient for variable on right-hand-side.
1926- Fixed bug with multi-aggregated integer variables in cons_xor.
1927- Fixed bug with changed number of variables in storing relaxation solution in probing/diving.
1928- Fixed issues with scip statistics
1929- Fixed issue with multi-aggregated variables
1930- Fixed issue in with buffer memory in cons_cumulative
1931
1932@section RN701 SCIP 7.0.1
1933*************************
1934
1935Build system
1936------------
1937
1938### Cmake
1939
1940- Fixed cmake module for Ipopt to support Ipopt 3.13
1941- Added cmake variable BLISS_LIBRARY_DIR to pass a bliss library
1942- Added warning to require minimal GCC version 4.8
1943- Renamed FindCriterion cmake findmodule to FindCRITERION
1944
1945### Makefile
1946
1947- Updated make/make.project for macOS
1948- Add SANITZERFLAGS (only OPT=dbg) to LDFLAGS also if SHARED=true (and rename SANITZERFLAGS to SANITIZERFLAGS)
1949- Fixed GCC version check in make/make.linux.gnu.dbg
1950
1951Fixed bugs
1952----------
1953
1954- Fixed handling of constant term in quadratic objective of pip-reader
1955- Fixed incorrect value string for parameter estimation/completiontype
1956- Fixed initialization of first LP which led to wrong output about LPs not resolved correctly
1957- Fixed bug in SCIPcutpoolClear() function not clearing internal datastructures properly
1958- Fixed inability to set a value in a solution if it was within epsilon to the current value
1959- Fixed problems for linking optimized code with debug library of SCIP (and vice versa) by moving debug-only members
1960 to end of SCIP structs
1961
1962Miscellaneous
1963-------------
1964
1965- Variables that are marked as relaxation-only are no longer checked against debug solutions if
1966 they are captured by the transformed problem only.
1967
1968@section RN700 SCIP 7.0.0
1969*************************
1970
1971Features
1972--------
1973
1974- Using the parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputerestart" one can now decide to recompute symmetries after a
1975 restart or not. Previously one could just turn off symmetry computation after a restart. If orbital fixing
1976 has found a reduction before the restart occured, symmetries have to be updated to ensure correctness.
1977 To this end, the user can decide via "propagating/symmetry/disableofrestart" whether orbital fixing is disabled or
1978 whether symmetries are recomputed.
1979
1980- extended relaxators statistics in solve statistics about information on number of cutoffs, improved bounds, etc.
1981
1982- extends SMPS file reader for the stochastic information, the sto files, to read a lower bound for the discrete
1983 scenarios. The lower bound is used when creating the auxiliary variables for Benders' decomposition.
1984
1985- extended Benders framework to solve NLPs and generate optimality and feasibility cuts from their solution
1986 when the subproblem is convex nonlinear.
1987
1988- extended Benders framework to create copies of Benders decompositions that can be used in a multithreading environment
1989
1990- additional functionality has been added to enable the transfer of Benders' decomposition cuts between different SCIP
1991 instances, e.g., when used in UG
1992
1993- LP rows (SCIP_ROW) can now store pointer to a constraint from which the row originates
1994
1995- Trust region, a new LNS heuristic, has been added to SCIP as both a standalone primal heuristic heur_trustregion.c
1996 and as a neighborhood inside of Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search (heur_alns.c). This heuristic is designed to improve the
1997 heuristic performance of the Benders' decomposition algorithm. It builds upon the successful trust region approaches
1998 applied to Benders' decomposition.
1999
2000- Modularity of symmetry handling has been increased. It is now possible to use orbitopes (i.e., polyhedral symmetry
2001 handling techniques) and orbital fixing on the same instance.
2002
2003- cut strengthening enabled within the Benders' decomposition framework. This uses a mix of the Improved Magnanti-Wong
2004 method and Kelly's method. The cut strengthening is enabled by setting the paramemter
2005 "benders/<bendersname>/cutstrengthenenabled" to TRUE. The parameters "cutstrengthenmult", "noimprovelimit" and
2006 "corepointperturb" control the behavior of the cut strengthening method. Additionally, the parameter
2007 "cutstrengthenintpoint" allows the user to specify the solution that is used to initialize the core point. The options
2008 are the first LP solution, the first integer feasible solution, a relative interior point, a solution vector of all
2009 ones and a solution vector of all zeros. Also, the core point can be reinitialized after each update to the incumbent
2010 solution.
2011
2012- added option to adjust weights of different scores in relpscost (hybrid) branching rule based on degeneracy information
2013 and skip strong branching for very high degeneracy rates
2014
2015- added new SCIP_DECOMP* object to store user decompositions. The user can specify one or several decompositions by assigning variable
2016 and/or constraint labels either through the API or by reading a file in DEC format (which is one of the formats that GCG writes).
2017 This format specifies constraint labels, variable labels are inferred from that. The decomposition is transformed after presolving.
2018- statistics regarding the number of blocks, the largest and smallest blocks, the border, and the constraint graph are printed for the original decomposition,
2019 and for each decomposition after presolving.
2020- the decomposition can be used as initial decomposition for the Benders functionality of SCIP.
2021- new subsection "How to provide a problem decomposition" in the SCIP documentation
2022
2023- GINS heuristic can make use of a user-provided decomposition labels in two ways:
2024 1. by selecting a block of variables that maximizes the potential, and randomly selecting a start variable for the neighborhood and/or
2025 2. by selecting an interval of consecutive blocks as neighborhood, until fixing rate is reached. In this case, no variable is randomly selected.
2026
2027- extend potential parameter of GINS to allow computation based on local LP solution, as well
2028
2029- new primal heuristic Adaptive Diving, which registers all publicly available dive sets from other diving heuristics.
2030 At each call, it selects one of the available dive sets based on the user's score type choice (heuristics/adaptivediving/scoretype).
2031 During the solution process, the heuristics learns online which divesets reach the best score, and executes them more frequently.
2032 The statistic output for Diving heuristics has been extended to incorporate the statistics of each dive set within Adaptive diving.
2033
2034- Added new penalty alternating direction method (PADM) primal heuristic that splits the problem into several sub-SCIPs
2035 according to a user-provided decomposition. The sub-SCIPs are solved on an alternating basis until a feasible solution of
2036 the original problem is found.
2037
2038- Symmetry handling constraints (cons_orbisack, cons_orbitope, cons_symresack) now have an additional parameter to encode
2039 whether they are model constraints, i.e., define the problem, or whether they are only present to handle symmetries.
2040
2041- The symmetry code has been completely restructured. The presolvers presol_symbreak and presol_symmetry as well as the propagator
2042 prop_orbitalfixing have been merged into the single propagator prop_symmetry to avoid storing the same information
2043 multiple times. This propagator is now responsible for adding symmetry handling constraints as well as activating orbital
2044 fixing. Moreover, the new file symmetry.c contains general functions for symmetry computations like orbit computations.
2045
2046- Variables can now be marked as "relaxation-only". This flag should be used to introduce new variables that are required
2047 to define a relaxation, but that are not part of any checked constraints. Essentially, these variables should only be used
2048 in the current SCIP solve and disregarded after a restart or in SCIP copies. Hence, these variables are not copied by SCIPcopy and
2049 SCIPgetVarCopy, they are currently not used in conflict constraints, and cuts involving them are not upgraded to linear constraints.
2050 Relaxation-only variables cannot appear in the objective function.
2051
2052- The OSiL reader now supports nonlinear expressions of type "signpower".
2053
2054- Expressions of form abs(x)^p * x in a nonlinear constraint are now sometimes recognized and handled by abspower constraints.
2055
2056- If polyhedral symmetry handling methods are used (cons_orbisack, cons_orbitope, cons_symresack), it is now possible to
2057 recompute symmetries if a restart occured.
2058
2059- upgrade some more quadratic constraints to second-order cone constraints, that is,
2060 handle linear binary variables as if squared in simple upgrade and
2061 do not require bounds for variables that have a zero entry in the computed eigenvectors in the non-simple upgrade
2062
2063- new variable event when changing the variable type
2064
2065- It is no longer necessary to provide a SCIP pointer for the subproblem in SCIPaddBendersSubproblem if custom solving
2066 methods are defined. A NULL pointer can be supplied to SCIPaddBendersSubproblem. In this case, no internal Benders'
2067 cut generation methods can be used.
2068
2069- Using the parameter "constraints/symresack/checkmonotonicity" one can now decide to upgrade to packing/partitioning
2070 symresacks even if the underlying permutation is not monotone.
2071
2072- New branching rule `vanillafullstrong`, mostly for scientific purpose, with the following features:
2073 1) no cutoff or domain reduction: only branching;
2074 2) idempotent (optional): leave SCIP, as much as possible, in the same state before / after the strong branching calls
2075 - basically, do not update any statistic;
2076 3) donotbranch (optional): do no perform branching. So that the brancher can be called as an oracle only
2077 (on which variable would you branch ? But do not branch please);
2078 4) scoreall (optional): keep scoring variables, even if infeasibility is detected;
2079 5) collectscores (optional): store the candidate scores from the last call, which can then be retrieved by calling SCIPgetVanillafullstrongData();
2080 6) integralcands (optional): consider integral candidates for branching,
2081 i.e., get candidates from SCIPgetPseudoBranchCands() instead of SCIPgetLPBranchCands().
2082
2083- If a reference value (misc/referencevalue) is given, the primal-reference and reference-dual integrals are calculated automatically and printed within the SCIP statistics.
2084
2085- Locally valid cuts / rows are now considered for dual proof analysis when `conflict/uselocalrows` is set to TRUE.
2086
2087- Linking variables in the linking constraint handler (cons_linking.{ch}) can now be integer or continuous. The coefficients of the binary variables are therefore now stored as SCIP_Real.
2088
2089- To save memory, it is now possible to remove all variables from the internal symmetry data structures that are
2090 not affected by any symmetry.
2091
2092- Allow to filter first variables from orbits and transfer pseudo cost information to variables in orbit
2093
2094- Add integration of external MILP presolve library as a SCIP presolver plugin that runs on MILP problems
2095
2096- Parallelisation can be used when applying Benders' decomposition. There are two different forms of parallelisation
2097 available. The first is applying Benders' decomposition within a parallel branch-and-bound. This is achieved through
2098 the integration with the UG framework. The second is the use of shared memory parallelisation for solving the Benders'
2099 decomposition subproblems. A priority queue has been added to help with load balancing.
2100
2101- The Benders' decomposition framework can handle MINLPs. If a convex relaxation of the MINLP exists, then this is
2102 solved to generate optimality and feasibility cuts. The extensions to the framework are:
2103 - New generic solving methods to solve convex NLP subproblems.
2104 - Modification to benderscut_opt and benderscut_feas to enable the generation of cuts from convex NLPs.
2105 - Addition of benderscut_feasalt to generate feasibility cuts from an alternative subproblem that minimises the
2106 violation of infeasible problems.
2107 - Better handling of subproblem solution results
2108
2109- Adds a feasibility phase to the Benders' decomposition subproblem solving methods. The feasibility phase adds slack
2110 variables to each of the constraints to ensure feasibility of the subproblem. A large coefficient is given to these
2111 slack variables in the objective function to penalise constraint violations. The coefficients are progressively
2112 increased until all slack variables take the value 0.0.
2113
2114- Improved convexity check for Benders' decomposition subproblems. The constraints of the subproblem are now checked for
2115 convexity in the initialisation of the Benders' decomposition algorithm. This enables the solving of convex NLPs as
2116 Benders' decomposition subproblems.
2117
2118- Benders' decomposition can be applied using decomposition supplied in the DEC format. To apply Benders' decomposition
2119 the parameters decomposition/benderslabels and decomposition/applybenders must be set to TRUE.
2120
2121- new event handler event_estim.c/h that approximates search tree completion and estimates tree size
2122 to trigger restarts; many approximations of search tree completion and estimation, including WBE, SSG, and tree profile method
2123- new display column that reports approx. search tree completion during the search, and an overview in the statistics table
2124- added resources (script, tutorial, test data) to adapt tree size estimation to user instances.
2125
2126- Orbital Fixing uses a list of variables that have been fixed globally since the computation of symmetries to filter
2127 symmetries. Previously, some plugins were disabled, which is not necessary anymore.
2128
2129- A new presolver "dualsparsify" was added. It tries to combine columns (i.e. variables) to cancel nonzero coefficients in the constraint matrix.
2130
2131- The presolver "tworowbnd" was implemented with better performance.
2132
2133- To be able to calculate better bounds for the dual variables, the presolver "dualinfer" was extended by the ability to perform convex combinations of continuous columns.
2134
2135- allow disabling of pricers during solving process
2136
2137- added emphasis setting for numerically challenging instances
2138
2139Performance improvements
2140------------------------
2141
2142- Extended cut presolving by removing variables that been fixed at their bounds
2143
2144- Improved branching point selection when branching on externals branching candidates. Instead of using exactly the
2145 LP solution, a point closer to the middle of the variables domain is chosen.
2146
2147- Matrix presolvers that do not work on incomplete matrices now skip matrix creation if unsupported constraint types are detected.
2148
2149- consLockBenders callback implemented to add down locks on the Benders' decomposition auxiliary variables and
2150 up and down locks per subproblem for all master problem variables. This allows the use of presolving and propagation
2151 with Benders' decomposition.
2152
2153- improved performance of orbital fixing in several ways:
2154 store permutations in transposed form to improve cache efficency;
2155 reverse order to speed up filtering of permutations;
2156 handle variables globally fixed to 1 in list;
2157 use event handler to catch global fixings;
2158 speed up orbit computations;
2159 change handling of restarts;
2160 use only permutations that can contribute to a variable's orbit;
2161
2162- allow rapid learning at local nodes
2163
2164- allow to recompute cut without using fractional values for sepa_cgmip
2165
2166- restrict the number of the clique table nonzeros relative to the number of problem nonzeros, which could be a performance bottleneck.
2167
2168- variable fixings of LP face heuristic are now computed earlier; subproblem creation is skipped if not enough variables are fixed.
2169
2170- Improved domcol presolver to not require a complete representation of all constraints in the matrix
2171
2172- performance improvement of adaptive large neighborhood search heuristic on merely continuous problems. The heuristic
2173 stops if presolving in the sub-SCIP fixes less than 50 % of the current target fixing rate over all variables
2174 (including continuous).
2175
2176- reduce memory usage in symmetry detection by a staggered allocation with decreasing overhead for larger instances
2177
2178- improved full orbitope propagation using a static implementation or a dynamic reordering of orbitope rows by a global rank function
2179
2180- improved detection of packing/partitioning orbitopes
2181
2182- enable an in-tree restart if after a reasonable initialization, the estimated size of the remaining tree is large.
2183
2184
2185Examples and applications
2186-------------------------
2187
2188- added methods to set and get hmin and hmax for optcumulative constraints
2189
2190Interface changes
2191-----------------
2192
2193### New and changed callbacks
2194
2195- new optional callback `SCIP_DECL_DIVESETAVAILABLE` to check preconditions for this dive set, e.g., if an incumbent solution is available,
2196 which is passed as new argument to SCIPcreateDiveset(). SCIPcreateDiveset() has another new parameter "ispublic".
2197
2198- new callback `SCIP_DECL_CONSHDLRCOPY` and `SCIP_DECL_CONSCOPY` in cons_orbisack and cons_symresack
2199
2200- new `idempotent` argument to SCIPgetVarStrongbranchInt() and SCIPgetVarStrongbranchFrac(),
2201 so that statistics are not updated during the call. Likewise, new `updatecol` and `updatestat` arguments to SCIPcolGetStrongbranch().
2202
2203- callback `SCIP_DECL_CONSHDLRENFOLP` can now also return SCIP_SOLVELP as *result, which indicates to the SCIP core that the LP relaxation
2204 should be solved again because the primal feasibility tolerance of the LP has been tightened (using SCIPsetLPFeastol())
2205
2206- extension of SCIP_PQUEUE by a new callback SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS to catch swaps as well as functionality to delete arbitrary elements from the priority queue.
2207
2208### Deleted and changed API methods
2209
2210- LPI:
2211 + now for all lp interfaces consistent requirements on SCIP_LPPAR:
2212 LPITLIM and BARRIERCONVTOL positive or zero; FEASTOL, DUALFEASTOL, LPTILIM strictly positive
2213 + now projecting SCIP_LPPAR values on feasible values for each lp interface
2214 + add interface to Glop
2215 + fixed mapping between scaling parameter values in Gurobi LPI lpi_grb
2216- Symmetry:
2217 + removed method SCIPseparateCoversOrbisack() in cons_orbisack.h since the orbitope constraint
2218 handler has its own implementation of this routine with advanced features now
2219 + renamed SCIPgetGeneratorsSymmetry() to SCIPgetSymmetry() and removed two arguments
2220 + extended method SCIPgetSymmetry(): It is possible to access both the original and
2221 transposed permutations matrix as well as the (independent symmetry) components of a permutation group now.
2222 + arguments of functions SCIPcreateConsOrbisack(), SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbisack(), SCIPcreateConsOrbitope(),
2223 SCIPcreateConsBasicOrbitope(), SCIPcreateConsSymresack(), SCIPcreateConsBasicSymresack(), and SCIPcreateSymbreakCons() extended
2224 by "ismodelcons" to encode whether the constraints are model constraints or not
2225 + the function SCIPgetSymmetry() no longer accepts the parameter recompute, but has parameter permvarmap as new input
2229 + add function SCIPcomputeOrbitsComponentsSym() to compute orbits without filtering permutations and indices of orbits for each variable
2230- SCIPallowObjProp() and SCIPallowDualReds() are deprecated and replaced by SCIPallowWeakDualReds() and SCIPallowStrongDualReds(), respectively
2231- Benders' decomposition
2232 + changed SCIPstoreBenderscutCut() in scip_benders.c to SCIPstoreBendersCut(). Where this function used to take a
2233 SCIP_BENDERSCUT pointer, it now accepts a SCIP_BENDERS pointer.
2234 + the functions SCIPsolveBendersSubproblem() no longer accepts the parameter type. The type is not a necessary
2235 argument for the subproblem solving method.
2236 + arguments of functions SCIPbendersSolveSubproblemLP(), SCIPbendersSolveSubproblemCIP(), and SCIPbendersOnlyCheckConvexRelax() changed
2237 - removed SCIPbenderscutGetNAddedCuts() and SCIPbenderscutGetAddedCutData()
2238
2239
2240### New API functions
2241
2242- new argument "onlyifcomplete" in SCIPmatrixCreate() to skip matrix creation right after detecting unsupported constraint types
2243 and new arguments to count statistics when doing a clean-up of inactive variables in the constraints before building the matrix
2244
2245- new argument "threadsafe" in SCIPcopy(), SCIPcopyConsCompression(), SCIPcopyOrig(), SCIPcopyOrigConsCompression and
2246 SCIPcopyBenders(). This argument must only be set to TRUE if the source and target SCIP instances are to be solved in
2247 parallel. Setting this argument to TRUE has a performance cost.
2248
2249- new argument "append" in SCIPsetModifiedDefaultSettingsIpopt()
2250- functions SCIPclearRelaxSolVals(), SCIPsetRelaxSolVal(), SCIPsetRelaxSolVals(), SCIPsetRelaxSolValsSol(), and SCIPmarkRelaxSolValid()
2251 receive an additional argument "relax" to store the relaxation handler as creator of the relaxation solution.
2252
2253- LP:
2254 - SCIProwGetOriginCons() now returns a SCIP_CONS* instead of a SCIP_CONSHDLR*, use SCIProwGetOriginConshdlr() for the previous behavior
2255 - SCIPcreateRowCons() and SCIPcreateEmptyRowCons() now expect a SCIP_CONS* instead of a SCIP_CONSHDLR*,
2256 use SCIPcreateRowConshdlr() and SCIPcreateEmptyRowConshdlr(), respectively, for the previous behavior
2257 - deprecated SCIPlpfeastol() and SCIPchgLpfeastol(), use SCIPgetLPFeastol() and SCIPsetLPFeastol()
2258
2259- new parameter "divecontext" for every method that queries statistics for a diveset. The context can be used to distinguish between the dive set
2260 as single (standalone) heuristic or within Adaptive Diving.
2261- new parameters "divecontext" and "iterlim" to SCIPperformGenericDivingAlgorithm() to control in which context (single,adaptive) statistics are updated.
2262
2263- SCIPcopyVars, SCIPcopy, SCIPcopyConsCompression, and SCIPgetVarCopy do not copy variables that are marked as relaxation-only,
2264 thus it cannot be assumed anymore that each active variable from the master SCIP also has a counterpart in the copy.
2265 SCIPcopy, SCIPcopyConsCompression, and SCIPcopyConss can now return *valid=TRUE if some non-checked and non-enforced constraints were not copied, e.g.,
2266 because they involved relaxation-only variables. Thus, a copy is already regarded as valid if all checked or enforced constraints were copied successfully.
2267
2268- linking constraint handler:
2269 - changed type of vals argument from int* to SCIP_Real* in SCIPcreateConsLinking() and SCIPcreateConsBasicLinking()
2270 - SCIPgetIntvarLinking() has been renamed to SCIPgetLinkvarLinking().
2271 - changed return value of SCIPgetValsLinking() from int* to SCIP_Real*.
2272 - new method SCIPgetBinvarsDataLinking().
2273
2274- SCIPbendersCheckSubproblemOptimality() now returns a boolean indicating whether the subproblem is optimal or not.
2275 Previously this result was returned through a parameter. The change was required to facilitate the integration with
2276 the UG framework.
2277
2278- deleted SCIPcombineTwoInt(), SCIPcombineThreeInt(), SCIPcombineFourInt(); use the appropriate SCIPhashTwo(), ..., SCIPhashSeven() method instead
2279
2280- SCIPsetupBendersSubproblem takes a parameter of the enforcement type.
2281
2282- SCIPcreateNlpiProb takes a hashmap to store the map between the nlrows and the index in the nlrow array.
2283
2284### New API functions
2285
2286- SCIPallowWeakDualReds() and SCIPallowStrongDualReds() replace the deprecated SCIPallowObjProp() and SCIPallowDualReds(), respectively
2287- methods have been added to facilitate the transfer of Benders' decomposition cuts between solvers in UG. These include
2288 SCIPapplyBendersStoredCuts(), SCIPbendersGetNStoredCuts(), SCIPbendersGetStoredCutData() and
2289 SCIPbendersGetStoredCutOrigData().
2290- added SCIPisConvexAbspower()
2291- new functions SCIPsolGetType(), SCIPsolGetRelax(), SCIPsolSetRelax(), SCIPsolSetLPRelaxation(), SCIPsolSetStrongbranch(),
2292 SCIPsolSetPseudo to set or query the new type attribute of a primal solution. The type attribute gives information
2293 about the origin of the solution, ie, whether it was created by a relaxation handler,
2294 by the LP relaxation, by strong branching, by the current pseudo solution, or by a primal heuristic.
2295 The meaning of the argument 'heur' in all creation methods for primal solutions such as SCIPcreateSol() stays unchanged.
2297- new API functions SCIPsetCommonSubscipParams(), SCIPtranslateSubSol(), and SCIPtranslateSubSols() shared by several Large Neighborhood Search heuristics.
2298- new API function SCIPgetLPDualDegeneracy() to get two measures for the dual degeneracy of the current LP
2299- new API functions SCIPdivesetIsAvailable() to check preconditions of a dive set and SCIPdivesetIsPublic() to check if the dive set can be used
2300 by other primal heuristics.
2301- new API functions SCIPcomputeOrbitsSym(), SCIPcomputeOrbitsFilterSym(), SCIPgetPropertiesPerm(), SCIPdetermineBinvarAffectedSym(),
2302 SCIPdetermineNVarsAffectedSym(), SCIPcomputeComponentsSym(), and SCIPextendSubOrbitope(), SCIPgenerateOrbitopeVarsMatrix() for symmetry computations
2303- new API functions SCIPvarIsRelaxationOnly() and SCIPvarMarkRelaxationOnly() to query and set, resp., whether a variable is marked as relaxation-only
2304- new API functions SCIPconshdlrGetNUpdateConss() and SCIPconshdlrGetUpdateConss(), for expert users only
2305- new API function SCIPgetNConflictDualproofsApplied()
2306- new API functions SCIPeventGetOldtype() and SCIPeventGetNewtype() for the new event when changing the variable type
2307- new API function SCIPisConvexConsQuadratic() to check whether a quadratic constraint is convex when a given set of variables would be fixed
2308- new API functions SCIPgetLPFeastol(), SCIPsetLPFeastol(), and SCIPresetLPFeastol() to get, set, and reset (to the default), respectively, the primal
2309 feasibility tolerance for the LP relaxation
2310- new API functions SCIPcleanupConss{Linear,Varbound,Setppc,Logicor,Knapsack}() to clean up inactive variables from those types of linear constraints
2311- new API function SCIPsetBendersSubproblemComp() used to add a custom comparison method for ordering the Benders'
2312 decomposition subproblem solves. The comparison method is used to help with load balancing.
2313- new API function SCIPgetRowObjParallelism to get the objective parallelism of a row
2314- new API function SCIPcolGetAge to get the age of a column
2315- added SCIPhashThree(), SCIPhashFive(), SCIPhashSix(), and SCIPhashSeven() that complement SCIPhashTwo(), SCIPhashFour() to combine 32bit integers to
2316 a 32bit hash value
2317- new API function SCIPgenerateAndApplyBendersOptCut is used to generate a Benders' optimality cut using the dual
2318 solutions. This function can be supplied vectors for the primal and dual solution for generating an optimality cut.
2319 This avoids the need for a SCIP instance to solve the Benders' decomposition subproblem and generating cuts.
2320- new API function SCIPconsAddCoef used for adding a coefficient to a linear-type constraint.
2321- new API functions SCIPconsNonlinearGetRhs, SCIPconsNonlinearGetLhs and SCIPconsNonlinearAddLinearCoef for getting the
2322 RHS and LHS from a nonlinear-type constraint and adding a linear coefficient to the constraint.
2323- new API function SCIPbendersSolSlackVarsActive for checking whether any slack variables from the feasibility phase are
2324 active in the subproblem solution.
2325- new API functions SCIPbendersSetSubproblemType and SCIPbendersGetSubproblemType sets and gets the subproblem type.
2326 This is either:
2327 - Convex constraints with continuous variables
2328 - Convex constraints with discrete variables
2329 - Non-convex constraints with continuous variables
2330 - Non-convex constraints with discrete variables
2331- new API functions SCIPbendersSetSubproblemIsNonlinear() and SCIPbendersSubproblemIsNonlinear() for setting and
2332 identifying whether the Benders' decomposition subproblems contain nonlinear constraints. Similarly, the functions
2333 SCIPbendersSetMasterIsNonlinear() and SCIPbendersMasterIsNonlinear() sets and identifies whether the Benders'
2334 decomposition master problem contains nonlinear constraints.
2335- new API function SCIPapplyBendersDecomposition for applying Benders' decomposition given a decomposition in the DEC
2336 format
2337- new API function SCIPwasNodeLastBranchParent to query if a node has been the parent of the most recent branching in the tree
2338- new API functions SCIPtreemodelInit(), SCIPtreemodelFree(), SCIPtreemodelIsEnabled(), SCIPtreemodelSelectCandidate() related to the new
2339 treemodel way of comparing branching candidates. These functions are only currently used for reliability pscost branching, but they can be used
2340 in other parts of the code.
2341- New function SCIPcalcChildEstimateIncrease() to compute the increase in the child estimation
2342- new API functions SCIPisOrbitalfixingEnabled() and SCIPgetSymmetryNGenerators() to check whether orbital fixing is
2343 enabled and to get the number of generators of the current symmetry group, respectively
2344- new API function SCIPdelNlRow() to remove a row from the NLP
2345
2346### Event system
2347
2348- new event type SCIP_EVENTTYPE_NODEDELETE to react on nodes that are about to be deleted from the tree
2349
2350### Changed parameters
2351
2352- renamed parameter "propagating/orbitalfixing/enableafterrestart" to ".../symmetry/recomputerestart"
2353- Parameter "misc/allowdualreds" is now called "misc/allowstrongdualreds"
2354- Parameter "misc/allowobjprop" is now called "misc/allowweakdualreds"
2355- changed default values of propagation (new value: 1, old value: 5) and separation frequency (new value: -1, old value: 5) in cons_orbitope.c
2356- all primal heuristics that use sub-SCIPs are disabled within the heuristics fast emphasis setting
2357- deleted parameter heuristics/localbranching/useuct, use heuristics/useuctsubscip instead
2358- changed default value of "presolving/symbreak/detectorbitopes" (new value: TRUE, old value: FALSE)
2359- extended range of "misc/usesymmetry" (new range: [0,3], old range: [0,2])
2374- changed default value of "heuristics/coefdiving/freq" (old: 10, new: -1)
2375- changed default value of "heuristics/conflictdiving/freq" (old: -1, new: 10)
2376- changed default value of "heuristics/conflictdiving/lockweight" (old: 1.0, new: 0.75)
2377- replaced parameter "numerics/lpfeastol" by "numerics/lpfeastolfactor" to specify which factor should be applied to the SCIP feasibility
2378 tolerance to initialize the primal feasibility tolerance of the LP solver
2379- enabling aggressive presolving now activates all available presolving plugins,
2380 and decreases the presolving/restartfac parameter correctly with respect to default.
2381- changed default value of heuristics/rins/nodesquot to 0.3 (was 0.1), to compensate
2382 the removal of a hard coded factor of 3.0 in the code without affecting the default behavior
2383 of the RINS heuristic.
2384- changed default value of "constraints/quadratic/empathy4and" (old: 0, new: 2)
2385- changed default value of "propagating/redcost/useimplics" (old: TRUE, new: FALSE)
2386
2387### New parameters
2388
2389- the possibility to define the Benders' decomposition auxiliary variables as implicit integer is provided. This
2390 behavior is controlled with an additional parameter in the Benders' decomposition framework.
2391- added parameter benders/<bendersname>/cutcheck to enable the generation of Benders' decomposition cuts during solution
2392 checking.
2393- constraints/orbitope/usedynamicprop: the possibility to propagate orbitope constraints by reordering the rows based on the
2394 branching strategy is provided (only possible for non-model constraints)
2395
2396- new parameters heuristics/shiftandpropagate/minfixingratelp and heuristics/locks/minfixingratelp to stop the
2397 heuristics after propagating integer fixings if no sufficient fixing of the all variables (including continuous)
2398 could be achieved. These parameters help to avoid solving LP's that are comparable in hardness to the main root LP.
2399
2400- Added parameters branching/midpull and branching/midpullreldomtrig to control by how much to move
2401 the branching point for an external branching candidate closer to the middle of the candidates domain. The
2402 default of 0.75 and 0.5, respectively, uses a point that is 75*alpha% closer to the middle of the domain, where
2403 alpha is the relative width of the candidates domain (width of local domain divided by width of global domain),
2404 if the latter is below 0.5, and alpha=1.0 otherwise. That is, with the default settings, a branching point is
2405 chosen closer to the middle of the candidates domain if the variables local domain is still similar to its
2406 global domain, but is chosen closer to the LP solution if the local domain is much smaller than the global
2407 domain.
2408
2409- Added parameter lp/minmarkowitz to set the Markowitz stability threshold (range 0.0001 to 0.9999).
2410 High values sacrifice performance for stability.
2411
2412- Added parameters benders/<bendersname>/lnsmaxcalls and benders/<bendersname>/lnsmaxcallsroot to the Benders'
2413 decomposition core. These parameters limit the number of Benders' decomposition subproblem checks, for the full
2414 branch-and-bound tree and root node respective, when solving the auxiliary problem of LNS hueristics. These
2415 parameters only have effect if the lnscheck parameter is set to TRUE.
2416
2417- Added parameter cons/linear/maxmultaggrquot to limit the maximum coefficient dynamism of an equation on which
2418 multiaggregation is performed. This replaces a compiler define of the same name.
2419 Default value is 1000, smaller values make multiaggregations numerically more stable.
2420- new global parameter heuristics/useuctsubscip that affects all LNS heuristics using common sub-SCIP parameters
2421
2422- new parameter branching/relpscost/degeneracyaware to switch degeneracy-aware hybrid branching
2423
2424- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/checkexec to check whether rapid learning is allowed to run locally
2425- new parameters separation/rapidlearning/check{degeneracy,dualbound,leaves,nsols,obj} to enable checking the respective feature for local rapid learning
2426- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/maxcalls to limit the number of rapid learning executions
2427- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/nwaitingnodes to set the number of waiting nodes before the dual bound is checked
2428- new parameter separation/rapidlearning/mindegeneracy to set the minimal threshold of degenerate basic-variables
2429- new parameters separation/rapidlearning/minvarconsratio to set the minimal ratio of unfixed variables in relation to basis size
2430
2431- new parameters to control the Benders' decomposition two-phase method.
2432 - constraints/benderslp/depthfreq: after the maxdepth is reached, then the two-phase method will only be called at
2433 nodes at a depth divisible by depthfreq.
2434 - constraints/benderslp/stalllimit: after the maxdepth is reached, if there has been no improvement in the dual bound
2435 for stalllimit number of nodes, then the two-phase method is executed for the next fractional LP solution that is
2436 encountered.
2437 - constraints/benderslp/iterlimit: after the root node, only iterlimit fractional LP solutions are used at each node
2438 to generate Benders' decomposition cuts.
2439
2440- new parameters for symmetry handling
2441 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/maxgenerators"
2442 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/checksymmetries"
2443 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/displaynorbitvars"
2444 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/conssaddlp"
2445 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addsymresacks"
2446 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/detectorbitopes"
2447 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/addconsstiming"
2448 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/ofsymcomptiming"
2449 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/performpresolving"
2450 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/recomputerestart"
2451 - new parameter "constraints/symresack/checkmonotonicity"
2452 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/compresssymmetries"
2453 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/compressthreshold"
2454 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/disableofrestart"
2455 - new parameter "propagating/symmetry/symfixnonbinaryvars"
2456
2457- new parameter for enabling shared memory parallelisation for solving Benders' decomposition subproblems. The parameter
2458 benders/<bendersname>/numthreads sets the number of threads used for parallel subproblem solving.
2459
2460- new parameters to control enhancements for solving MINLPs by Benders' decomposition
2461 - benders/<bendersname>/execfeasphase: enables the feasibility phase for solving the Benders' decomposition
2462 subproblems
2463 - benders/<bendersname>/slackvarcoef: the initial coefficient of the slack variable for the feasibility phase
2464 - benders/<bendersname>/checkconsconvexity: should the constraints be checked for convexity. This can be set to FALSE
2465 if you are certain that the NLP subproblem is convex.
2466
2467- new parameter presolving/clqtablefac (default value 2.0) as limit on number of entries in clique table relative to number of problem nonzeros
2468
2469- new parameter conflict/uselocalrows (default: TRUE) to incorporate locally valid cuts / rows for dual proof analysis
2470
2471- new return code SCIP_NOTIMPLEMENTED for functions, e.g., in the LPI that have not been implemented (yet)
2472
2473- new parameter separating/cgmip/genprimalsols that allows to generate initial primal solutions from Gomory cuts
2474
2475- new parameter branching/relpscost/filtercandssym to allow filtering from orbits
2476
2477- new parameter branching/relpscost/transsympscost to transfer pseudo cost information to orbit
2478
2479- new parameters for tree size estimation and restarts:
2480 - estimation/restarts/restartpolicy (default value n)
2481 - estimation/method (default value c)
2482 - estimation/restarts/restartlimit (default value 1)
2483 - estimation/restarts/minnodes (default value 1000)
2484 - estimation/restarts/countonlyleaves (default value FALSE)
2485 - estimation/restarts/restartfactor (default value 2)
2486 - estimation/coefmonoprog (default value 0.3667)
2487 - estimation/coefmonossg (default value 0.6333)
2488 - estimation/restarts/hitcounterlim (default value 50)
2489 - estimation/reportfreq (default value -1)
2490 - estimation/regforestfilename (default value "-")
2491 - estimation/completiontype (default value a)
2492 - estimation/treeprofile/enabled (default value FALSE)
2493 - estimation/treeprofile/minnodesperdepth (default value 20)
2494 - estimation/useleafts (default value TRUE)
2495 - estimation/ssg/nmaxsubtrees (default value -1)
2496 - estimation/ssg/nminnodeslastsplit (default value 0)
2497
2498- new parameter constraints/linear/extractcliques to turn clique extraction off
2499
2500- new emphasis setting emphasis/numerics to increase numerical stability of (mostly) presolving operations such as (multi-)aggregations at the cost of performance.
2501
2502- new parameters for treemodel:
2503 - new parameter branching/treemodel/enable to enable the treemodel in reliability pscost branching and possible
2504 future parts of the code where it could be used.
2505 - new parameter branching/treemodel/highrule to specify which branching rule to use when treemodel thinks the node
2506 is high in the tree.
2507 - new parameter branching/treemodel/lowrule to specify which branching rule to use when treemodel thinks the node
2508 is low in the tree.
2509 - new parameter branching/treemodel/height to specify at which (estimated) height a node is high or low in the tree.
2510 - new parameter branching/treemodel/filterhigh to specify whether to filter dominated candidates in nodes which are
2511 high in the tree.
2512 - new parameter branching/treemodel/filterlow to specify whether to filter dominated candidates in nodes which are
2513 low in the tree.
2514 - new parameter branching/treemodel/maxfpiter to specify the maximum number of fixed-point iterations to use when
2515 computing the ratio of a variable using the fixed-point method.
2516 - new parameter branching/treemodel/maxsvtsheight to specify the maximum height to compute the SVTS score exactly
2517 before approximating it using the ratio.
2518 - new parameter branching/treemodel/fallbackinf defines the fallback strategy to use when the tree size estimates
2519 obtained by SVTS are infinite.
2520 - new parameter branching/treemodel/fallbacknoprim defines the fallback strategy to use when no primal bound is known
2521 and thus SVTS would not be able to compute a tree size (it would be infinite).
2522 - new parameter branching/treemodel/smallpscost defines the value under which pscosts are considered too small to be
2523 the deciding factor for branching, in which case it may be better not to use the treemodel.
2524
2525- new parameters for symmetry handling constraint handlers to enforce that also non-model constraint are copied:
2526 - new parameter "constraints/orbisack/forceconscopy"
2527 - new parameter "constraints/orbitope/forceconscopy"
2528 - new parameter "constraints/symresack/forceconscopy"
2529
2530
2531### Data structures
2532
2533- small changes in constants of hash functions
2534- added fast 2-universal hash functions for two to seven 32bit elements with 32bit output
2535- extended SCIPpqueueCreate() by additional callback argument SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS to catch position changes
2536- new methods SCIPpqueueDelPos() to delete elements at a specific position in the priority queue and SCIPpqueueFind() to
2537 find a specific position. It is recommended to track position changes using the new callback SCIP_DECL_PQUEUEELEMCHGPOS.
2538 In contrast, using SCIPpqueueFind() can be slow because it needs to compare the element it searches for
2539 with each slot in the queue.
2540
2541### Build system
2542
2543- The default value for DFLAGS in the non-cmake buildsystem has changed from -MM to -MMD. This will break the
2544 generation of depend.* files if that was done by a compiler call that relied on -MM. The new preferred way
2545 to handle compilation dependencies is to additionally use $(DFLAGS) when compiling the object files (.o) and
2546 to include the generated .d files in the Makefile, see also "Build system / Makefile" below.
2547
2548Unit tests
2549----------
2550 - new unit test for treemodel.
2551
2552Testing
2553-------
2554
2555 - fixed an issue that may have lead to wrong status reports in the evaluation scripts
2556
2557Build system
2558------------
2559
2560### Cmake
2561
2562- avoid problem with doubly defined object together with CPLEX
2563
2564### Makefile
2565
2566- Removed static object compilation dependency files (depend.*). If using a GCC compatible compiler, then dependency
2567 files are now dynamically created and updated during build. The new dependency files (*.d) reside next to each object
2568 file (.o) in the corresponding obj subdirectory.
2569- added support for building against Ipopt >= 3.13
2570- unify compiler switches for Intel compiler and avoid problem with doubly defined object together with CPLEX
2571
2572Fixed bugs
2573----------
2574
2575- fix and improve memory handling in symmetry computation
2576- fix shown number of applied conflicts in solving statistics
2577- fix wrongly skipping strong branching call and using old information if LP was solved with 0 iterations
2578- fix minor bug in cut score calculation
2579- fixed several bugs related to rounding locks of variables not being updated correctly
2580- small fix in cons_varbound.c to skip changing bounds of multi-aggregated variables in separation callback
2581- fixed issue in SCIPtightenVar* and SCIPinferVar* that occurs for small bound changes
2582- fixed rejecting minimal boundchange that changed sign of variable, even though SCIPisLb/UbBetter approved it
2583- fixed issue in generateCutNonConvex() which is triggered when adding quadratic constraints during the solving process
2584- fixed bug in freeing the reoptimization data if no problem exists
2585- fixed bug in SCIPreoptReleaseData() when freeing all stored constraints
2586- fixed bug when freeing the transformed problem via interactive shell if reoptimization is enabled
2587- fixed two issues related to (near-)redundant logicor constraints in presolving
2588- fixed counting of aggregations in XOR constraint handler
2589- fixed handling of unbounded solutions
2590- fixed update of LP size information when an LP error occured during probing
2591- handle special case of variable bound constraints during aggregating variables
2592- tighten sides of linear constraints before trying to upgrade them to more specialized constraints (knapsack, logic-or etc.) when calling SCIPupgradeConsLinear()
2593- fixed an issue in repair heuristic in the case of loose (noncolumn) variables
2594- allow user to correctly set heuristics/alns/(un)fixtol
2595- fixed an issue in heur_completesol which is triggered during bound widening of unbounded continuous variables
2596- fixed bug in cons_indicator if addopposite is true
2597- fixed bug in sepa_disjunctive: treat case that conflictgraph is empty
2598- added safety check in conversion to rational number to avoid overflow
2599- fixed bug in interval evaluation with power-operator in certain situations
2600- fixed behavior of SCIPmatrixCreate() regarding memory management and column generation
2601- SCIPmatrixCreate() returns complete=FALSE when locks do not add up
2602- fixed bug in sepa_oddcylce when variables are fixed
2603- fixed numerical issues related to tighter constraint sides in varbound constraint handler
2604- fixed update of watchedvars in logicor constraint handler in case of a restart during the tree
2605- fixed treatment of multi-aggregated variables in logicor constraint handler
2606- handle special case of redundant implications
2607- fixed numerical issue related to almost-0-values in pseudosolution conflict analysis
2608- fixed numerical issue related to very large greatest common dividers in linear constraint handler
2609- avoid using implications on multiaggregated variables when propagating implications
2610- fixed creation of (Lagrangian) variable bounds in the OBBT propagator
2611- fixed sorting of primal solutions
2612- fixed cleaning of clean buffer in conflict analysis
2613- avoid probing on variables with huge bounds in shift and propagate heuristic
2614- fix issue in printing solutions for variables that have been added by the dual sparsify presolver
2615- fix issue related to fixing redundant logic-or constraints after presolving
2616- fixed bug when parsing logic-or and and-constraints
2617- fixed wrong assert in updateLazyBounds()
2618- fixed bug in pricestore, which resulted in too many problem variables being added
2619- fixed bug in cons_knapsack where weight of clique was not reset after an infeasibility was detected
2620- fixed bug in presol_inttobinary which did not take into account that the aggregation could be rejected due to numerics
2621- fixed bug in debug solution mechanism in connection to variables created by presol_inttobinary
2622- fixed wrong indexing while undoing the implications from a redundant variable in SCIPshrinkDisjunctiveVarSet
2623- redundancy checks in SCIPnodeAddBoundinfer now take a possible change to an active variable into account
2624- fixed adding already added quadratic rows to NLP relaxation during solve
2625- fixed issue related to variable locks in the varbound constraint handler
2626- fixed bug in the quadratic constraint handler when changing infinite constraint sides
2627- fixed sorting of variables in linear constraint handler
2628- added additional checks to ensure numerical stability of dual proofs
2629- fixed a case when activities of a linear constraint got unreliable but where still used for reductions
2630- ensure that lhs <= rhs for linear constraints (without tolerances)
2631- make handling of read errors in SCIPfread() consistent between version with and without ZLIB
2632- correctly drop variable events in cons_indicator in restart
2633- fixed bug in cons_orbitope with upgrading of orbitope constraints
2634- additional checks in some presolvers for time limit being exceeded
2635- fixed bug in presolving of cons_varbound with multi-aggregated variables
2636- improve numerics in conflict analysis by using double-double arithmetic
2637- fixed bound acceptance condition to avoid inconsistencies
2638- fixed numerics in pseudoobj propagator by using double-double arithmetic
2639
2640Miscellaneous
2641-------------
2642
2643- modified display column for memory usage ("mem"), which reports the memory usage most of the time, but shows the creator name
2644 (heuristic, relaxation handler, LP relaxation, strong branching, pseudo solution) of every new incumbent solution. Together with this change,
2645 heuristic display characters have been unified to represent the type of the heuristic
2646 (diving, Large neighborhood search, propagation, etc.), see also type_heur.h.
2647- added assert that ensures that the locks of a variable have been decreased to 0 when it is freed
2648- added more output for completing a partial solution
2649- checks in debug mode that clean buffer memory is really clean when being freed are now disabled by default
2650- don't compute symmetries if reoptimization is enabled
2651- prefer integral values when fixing an almost-fixed continuous variable in the trivial presolver
2652- changed the name of the variable that is added by the OSiL reader to represent the quadratic or nonlinear parts of the objective function
2653- SCIP_EXPORT is now defined as __attribute__((__visibility__("default"))) if GCC and no SCIP config header is used
2654
2655@page RN6 Release notes for SCIP 6
2656
2657@section RN602 SCIP 6.0.2
2658*************************
2659
2660Features
2661--------
2662
2663- The abspower constraint handler now passes more accurate convexity
2664 information to the NLP relaxation.
2665
2666Examples and applications
2667-------------------------
2668
2669- added parsing functionality for optcumulative constraints in CIP format
2670
2671Interface changes
2672-----------------
2673
2674### Interfaces to external software
2675
2676- Updated the Mosek LP solver interface to support Mosek 9.0.
2677
2678Build system
2679------------
2680
2681### Cmake
2682
2683- new target to 'doc' to build documentation
2684- ctests now fail if parameter file not found
2685- add flag STATIC_GMP and improve GMP find module
2686- remove non-API methods from library (API methods use new macro SCIP_EXPORT)
2687- increase minimal required CMake version to 3.3
2688- correct paths and dependency information when installing SCIP
2689
2690Fixed bugs
2691----------
2692- fixed SCIP-Jack presolving bug that could lead to wrong results for Steiner arborescence problems
2693- fixed wrong unboundedness result in case not all constraints were already in the LP and enforcement was
2694 skipped because an optimal solution was found
2695- fixed wrong enforcement of constraints in the disjunction constraint handler
2696- fixed wrong behavior of concurrent solve ignoring initial solutions
2697- fixed bug in concurrent solve when problem was already solved in presolving
2698- aggregate non-artificial integer variable for XOR constraints with two binary variables and delete constraint
2699- copy the objective offset when copying the original problem
2700- fixed bug in SCIPlpiGetBInvARow in lpi_cpx using wrong size of resulting vector
2701- fixed quadratic runtime behavior in sepa_aggregation
2702- fixed statistics of separators
2703- improve numerical stability in varbound constraint handler by using double-double arithmetic
2704- fixed bug in propagation of dual proofs
2705- fixed bugs that arise for multiaggregated indicator variables by disallowing multiaggregation for them
2706- improve numerical stability in SCIPcomputeBilinEnvelope* by using double-double arithmetic
2707- fixed bug related to releasing pending bound changes in tree.c
2708- set STD FENV_ACCESS pragma to on in code that changes floating-point rounding mode
2709- disable GCC optimizations in main interval arithmetic code to prevent wrong optimizations
2710- fixed wrong assert in cons_xor concerning the variable type
2711- fixed different behavior of SCIPisLbBetter and SCIPisUbBetter between having NDEBUG defined or not
2712- correctly handle bound disjunctions in symmetry detection
2713- fixed issue in reliability branching related to the LP error flag not being reset
2714- fixed treatment of near-infinite bounds in shiftandpropagate's problem transformation
2715- fixed handling of infinite values in SCIPcomputeHyperplaneThreePoints()
2716- fixed comparisons of infinite values in heur_intshifting.c and heur_shifting.c
2717- fixed bug related to updating unprocessed cuts in the cutpool
2718- fixed bug related to enabling quadratic constraints during `CONSINITLP`
2719- add missing SCIP_EXPORT for functions used by GCG
2720- fixed memory leak and wrong initialization for trival cases in cons_symresack.c
2721- fixed bug with upgrading to packing/partitioning orbitopes
2722- fixed bug with the status while upgrading in presol_symbreak.c
2723- fixed wrong stage while clearing the conflict store
2724- fixed behavior of SCIPfixVar() by setting infeasible pointer to TRUE if fixval lies outside variable domain
2725- allow tightenVar() in SCIP_STAGE_PROBLEM stage
2726- fixed bug in cumulative constraint handler when separating the LP solution
2727- fixed issues with integer overflow in cumulative constraint handler
2728- fixed bug where the convexity of Benders' decomposition subproblems was checked even when users defined subproblem
2729 solving methods. Now, as per the documentation, the user must explicitly state whether the subproblem is convex
2730- fixed wrong indexing in heur_dualval
2731- fixed issue with basis status in SoPlex LPi
2732
2733Miscellaneous
2734-------------
2735
2736- statistics now output primal/dual bounds if objective limit is reached
2737- memory check in debug mode is now disabled by default
2738- message is now provided to the user to inform that automatic Benders' auxiliary variable lower bound computations are
2739 not activated when user defined subproblem solving methods are present
2740- corrected documentation of the primalgap in SCIP; describe when it will be infinite
2741
2742@section RN601 SCIP 6.0.1
2743*************************
2744
2745Features
2746--------
2747
2748- when using a debug solution every (multi-)aggregation will be checked w.r.t. this solution
2749
2750Performance improvements
2751------------------------
2752
2753- try greedy solution first before solving knapsack exactly using dynamic programming in SCIPsolveKnapsackExactly,
2754 compute greedy solution by weighted median selection.
2755- don't consider implied redcost by default in the reduced cost propagator
2756
2757Interface changes
2758-----------------
2759
2760### Deleted and changed API methods and macros
2761
2762- The preprocessor macro NO_CONFIG_HEADER now needs to be defined when
2763 including SCIP header files from a SCIP build or installation that
2764 has been build via the Makefile-only build system.
2765
2766- The following preprocessor macros have been renamed:
2767 WITH_ZLIB to SCIP_WITH_ZLIB, WITH_GMP to SCIP_WITH_GMP, WITH_READLINE
2768 to SCIP_WITH_READLINE, NO_SIGACTION to SCIP_NO_SIGACTION, NO_STRTOK_R
2769 to SCIP_NO_STRTOK_R, ROUNDING_FE to SCIP_ROUNDING_FE, ROUNDING_FP to
2770 SCIP_ROUNDING_FP, ROUNDING_MS to SCIP_ROUNDING_MS. Note, however, that
2771 the names of macros NO_RAND_R and NO_STRERROR_R have not been changed
2772 so far.
2773
2774### New API functions
2775
2776- SCIPhashmapInsertInt(), SCIPhashmapSetImageInt(), and SCIPhashmapGetImageInt() to use integer values as images in hashmaps
2777
2778### Command line interface
2779
2780- warn about coefficients in MPS files with absolute value larger than SCIP's value for infinity
2781
2782### Changed parameters
2783
2784- default clock type for timing is now wallclock
2785
2786Unit tests
2787----------
2788
2789- added unit tests for exact knapsack solving and (weighted) median selection algorithms
2790
2791Build system
2792------------
2793
2794### Cmake
2795
2796- add missing GMP dependency when compiling with SYM=bliss
2797- add DL library when linking to CPLEX to avoid linker errors
2798- new config.h header defining the current build configuration, e.g. SCIP_WITH_GMP
2799
2800Fixed bugs
2801----------
2802
2803- fixed handling of weights in cons_sos1 and cons_sos2 (NULL pointer to weights)
2804- fixed handling of unbounded LPs in SCIP and in several LPIs; added heuristic method to guess solution
2805- the STO reader is capable of handling scenarios defined using lower case "rhs"
2806- fixed OPB reader for instances without explicit plus signs
2807- correct dual solution values for bound constraints
2808- fixed recognition of variable with only one lock in cons_bivariate, cons_quadratic, and cons_nonlinear
2809- fixed update of constraint violations in solution repair in cons_bivariate, cons_quadratic, and cons_nonlinear
2810- print error message and terminate if matrix entries of a column are not consecutive in mps format
2811- fixed incorrect handling of fixed variables when transfer of cuts from LNS heuristic for Benders' decomposition
2812- fix returning local infeasible status by Ipopt interface if Ipopt finds problem locally infeasible
2813- skip attempt to apply fixings in linear constraint handler during solving stage as LP rows cannot change anymore
2814- fixed bug when reading >= indicator constraints in MPS format
2815- fix issue with nodes without domain changes if we ran into solution limit in prop_orbitalfixing
2816- fixed unresolved reference to CppAD's microsoft_timer() function on builds with MS/Intel compilers on Windows
2817- ignore implications added through SCIPaddVarImplication() that are redundant to global bounds also in the
2818 special case of an implication between two binary variables; also, use implications instead of cliques in the case
2819 of a binary implied variable with nonbinary active representative
2820- fixed bug with aggregated variables that are aggregated in propagation of cons_sos1
2821- fixed some special cases in SCIPselect/SCIPselectWeighted methods
2822- relaxed too strict assertion in Zirounding heuristic
2823- fixed the upgrade routine to XOR constraints: aggregate integer variable if its coefficient has the wrong sign
2824- fixed handling of nonartificial parity variables when deleting redundant XOR constraints
2825- earlier deletion of trivial XOR constraints (at most 1 operator left)
2826- fixed wrong hashmap accesses and added sanity check for the correct hashmap type
2827- avoid copying of unbounded solutions from sub-SCIPs as those cannot be checked completely
2828- corrected the output of the first LP value in case of branch-and-price
2829- fixed possible integer overflow, which led to wrong conclusion of infeasibility, in energetic reasoning of cons_cumulative.c
2830
2831Miscellaneous
2832-------------
2833
2834- do not scale linear constraints to integral coefficients
2835
2836@section RN600 SCIP 6.0.0
2837*************************
2838
2839Features
2840--------
2841
2842- new diving heuristic farkasdiving that dives into the direction of the pseudosolution and tries to construct Farkas-proofs
2843- new diving heuristic conflictdiving that considers locks from conflict constraints
2844- restructuring of timing of symmetry computation that allows to add symmetry handling components within presolving
2845- `lp/checkstability` is properly implemented for SoPlex LPI (spx2)
2846- new branching rule lookahead that evaluates potential child and grandchild nodes to determine a branching decision
2847- limits on the number of presolving rounds a presolver (maxrounds) or propagator/constraint handler (maxprerounds)
2848 participates in are now compared to the number of calls of the particular presolving method, not the number of
2849 presolving rounds in general, anymore
2850- new miscellaneous methods for constraints that have a one-row linear representation in pub_misc_linear.h
2851- a Benders' decomposition framework has been added. This framework provides the functionality for a user to solve a
2852 decomposed problem using Benders' decomposition. The framework includes classical optimality and feasibility cuts,
2853 integer optimality cuts and no-good cuts.
2854- add statistic that presents the number of resolves for instable LPs
2855- new readers for stochastic programming problems in SMPS format (reader_sto.h, reader_smps.h)
2856
2857Performance improvements
2858------------------------
2859
2860- cuts generated from certain quadratic constraints with convex feasible region are now global
2861- performance improvements for Adaptive Large Neighborhood Search heur_alns.c
2862 + all neighborhoods now start conservatively from maximum fixing rate
2863 + new default parameter settings for bandit selection parameters
2864 + no adjustment of minimum improvement by default
2865- improved bound tightening for some quadratic equations
2866- constraint handler checking order for original solutions has been modified to check those with negative check priority
2867 that don't need constraints after all other constraint handlers and constraints have been checked
2868- deactivate gauge cuts
2869
2870Examples and applications
2871-------------------------
2872
2873- new example `brachistochrone` in CallableLibrary examples collection; this example implements a discretized model to
2874 obtain the trajectory associated with the shortest time to go from point A to B for a particle under gravity only
2875- new example `circlepacking` in CallableLibrary examples collection; this example models two problems about packing
2876 circles of given radii into a rectangle
2877- new price-and-branch application for the ringpacking problem
2878- new stochastic capacitated facility location example demonstrating the use of the Benders' decomposition framework
2879
2880Interface changes
2881-----------------
2882
2883### New and changed callbacks
2884
2885- added parameter locktype to `SCIP_DECL_CONSLOCK` callback to indicate the type of variable locks
2886
2887### Deleted and changed API methods
2888
2889- Symmetry:
2890 + removed function SCIPgetTimingSymmetry() in presol_symmetry.h since this presolver does not compute symmetries independent
2891 of other components anymore
2892 + additional argument `recompute` to SCIPgetGeneratorsSymmetry() to allow recomputation of symmetries
2893
2894- Random generators:
2895 + the seed of SCIPinitializeRandomSeed() is now an unsigned int
2896 + the seed of SCIPsetInitializeRandomSeed() is now an unsigned int and it returns an unsigned int
2897 + new parameter for SCIPcreateRandom() to specify whether the global random seed shift should be used in the creation of
2898 the random number generator
2899
2900- Miscellaneous:
2901 + additional arguments `preferrecent`, `decayfactor` and `avglim` to SCIPcreateBanditEpsgreedy() to choose between
2902 weights that are simple averages or higher weights for more recent observations (the previous default).
2903 The last two parameters are used for a finer control of the exponential decay.
2904 + functions SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpression(), SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpressionPositive(), and
2905 SCIPintervalSolveUnivariateQuadExpressionPositiveAllScalar() now take an additional argument to specify already
2906 existing bounds on x, providing an entire interval ([-infinity,infinity]) gives previous behavior
6001 - added writing for pip files (linear, quadratic, polynomial nonlinear, polynomial abspower, polynomial bivariate, and
6002 and constraints)
6003 - CIP format variable characters defined, e.g. `SCIP_VARTYPE_INTEGER_CHAR`
6004 - Improved support for wbo format for weighted PBO problems, IBM's xml-solution
6005 format and pip and zimpl format for polynomial mixed-integer programs
6006 - New reader for (standard) bounds on variables
6007 - Extended reader for CIP models to handle various new constraints, including all types of linear constraints
6008 - flatzinc reader is now capable to read cumulative constraints
6009 - changed opb(/wbo) reader which now creates pseudoboolean constraints instead of linear- and and-constraints, only a
6010 non-linear objective will create and-constraints inside the reader and while reading a wbo file the topcost constraint
6011 is created as well
6012 - added clock for determine the time for reading
6013 - added reader for variable bounds (reader_bnd.{c,h})
6014 - Removed method SCIPreadSol(); call solution reading via SCIPreadProb() which calls the solution reader for .sol files.
6015
6016- Nonlinear:
6017 - Major extensions for nonlinear CIP, new option for n-ary branching on nonlinear variables (within pseudocost branching rule)
6018 - added BETA version of constraint handler for nonlinear constraints (cons_nonlinear.{c,h}) to handle nonlinear
6019 equations given by algebraic expressions using operands like addition, multiplication, power, exp, log, bivariate
6020 nonlinear constraints; currently no trigonometric functions
6021 - added BETA version of constraint handler for bivariate nonlinear constraints (cons_bivariate.{c,h}) to compute tight
6022 estimators for 1-convex and convex-concave bivariate nonlinear functions (given as expression tree)
6023 - the gams writer can now write nonlinear, abspower and bivariate constraints
6024 - Extended writer for GAMS and pip format to write more types of nonlinear constraints
6025 - the pip and zimpl reader now create nonlinear constraints for polynomials of degree > 2
6026
6027- Presolving:
6028 - new dual presolving methods in cons_setppc and cons_logicor
6029 - new presolving step `removeConstraintsDueToNegCliques` in locigor constraint handler which updates logicor constraints
6030 to setppc constraints if a negated clique inside this constraint exist, by default is off
6031 - new presolving step in cons_knapsack (detectRedundantVars, deleteRedundantVars) which determines redundant variables
6032 in knapsack constraint with or without using clique information
6033 - cons_logicor is now able to replace all aggregated variables in presolving by there active or negation of an active
6034 variable counterpart
6035 - prop_pseudoobj is now working in presolving as well
6036 - implement presolving in exitpre() in cons_orbitope and cons_indicator
6037
6038- Propagators:
6039 - added counter for number calls and timing for resolve propagation calls for constraint handler and propagators
6040 - Propagators are now also called in node presolving
6041 - the probing presolver presol_probing.{c.h} is now a propagator prop_probing.{c,h}, all corresponding parameters moved as well
6042 - the redcost separator sepa_redcost.{c.h} is now a propagator prop_redcost.{c,h}, all corresponding parameters moved as well
6043 - outsourced propAndSolve() method in solve.c which calls domain propagation and solving of the lp and relaxation
6044
6045- Statistic:
6046 - solutions which are given by the user from the outside are now marked by `#` in the output
6047 - the `Solving Time` is now spitted into presolving, solving and reading time
6048 - Presolvers section has new column `AddCons` which states the number of added constraint
6049 - Constraints section has new column named \#ResProp which show the number of resolve propagation calls of certain
6050 constraint handler
6051 - Constraint Timing section has a new column \#ResProp which states the time spend in resolve propagation method of the
6052 constraint handler
6053 - improved output of propagators in display statistics
6054 - new section `Propagator Timing` which shows the time spend in different callbacks of the propagator
6055 - rearranged first two columns of Propagators section; \#Propagate and \#ResProp stating the number of call for
6056 propagation and resolve propagation; the Time column is moved into the new section Propagator Timings
6057 - Constraints section has new column named `MaxNumber` which the maximum number of active constraint of a certain
6058 constraint handler
6059 - added two columns `Time-0-It` and `Calls-0-It` in the LP section which states the number of LP call and time spend for
6060 solving LPs with zero iterations (only refactorization)
6061 - The display of statistics for presolvers, propagators, constraints and LP solving has changed.
6062
6063Performance improvements
6064------------------------
6065
6066- Reorganized filtering process of separation storage (allows adding cuts for different solutions)
6067- Improved presolving for various constraint handlers
6068- Improved propagation methods for variable bound constraints
6069- Improved performance for quadratic constraints
6070- performance improvements in prop_vbounds
6071- child selection rules now get also applied when the relaxation value is equal to the bound changed in branching
6072- added dual reduction to cons_cumulative.c
6073- for continuous variables, the pseudo costs update and the pscost branching rule now use the same strategies for
6074 updating the pseudo costs and estimating the improvement in the LP bound
6075- only perform probing if the variables are locked
6076- performance and memory consumption improvements in xmlparse.c
6077- Improved knapsack cover cuts
6078- avoid very long separation times of LEWIs in cons_knapsack for very large minimal covers
6079- used SCIPallocMemoryArray() instead of SCIPallocBlockMemoryArray() which leads to fewer memory consumption in
6080 getLiftingSequence() in cons_knapsack, also improved cache use bei using an extra array instead blockmemory chunks
6081- switched FASTMIP from 1 to 2 for CPLEX and changed default pricing rule back to steepest edge pricing instead of
6082 quickstart steepest edge pricing
6083- made sorting method more robust
6084- LNS heuristics now use SCIPcopy() by default
6085- considering inactive variables in undercover heuristic; limiting effort for solving covering problem
6086- if during probing mode the LP relaxation is solved from scratch, e.g., when calling the shiftandpropagate heuristic
6087 before root node solving, then we clear the resulting LP state, since it might be a bad starting basis for the next
6088 solve of the LP relaxation (controlled by new parameter `lp/clearinitialprobinglp`)
6089- included LP simplifier into SoPlex LP interface, applied when solving from scratch (lpi_spx.cpp)
6090- new presolving steps in varbound constraint handler, tightening bounds, coefficients, sides and pairwise presolving
6091
6092Interface changes
6093-----------------
6094
6095- Miscellaneous:
6096 - The emphasis setting types now distinguish between plugin-type specific parameter settings (default, aggressive, fast, off),
6097 which are changed by SCIPsetHeuristics/Presolving/Separating(), and global emphasis settings (default, cpsolver, easycip,
6098 feasibility, hardlp, optimality, counter), which can be set using SCIPsetEmphasis().
6099
6100### New and changed callbacks
6101
6102- added propagator timings `SCIP_PROPTIMING_BEFORELP`, `SCIP_PROPTIMING_DURINGLPLOOP` and `SCIP_PROPTIMING_AFTERLPLOOP` for
6103 all propagation callbacks (see propagators and constraint handlers) which lead to calling the propagation methods of a
6104 propagator before the lp is solved, during the lp loop and after the lp solving loop
6105
6106- Conflict Analysis:
6107 - Added parameter `separate` to conflict handler callback method SCIP_DECL_CONFLICTEXEC() that defines whether the conflict
6108 constraint should be separated or not.
6109
6110- Constraint Handler:
6111 - The new constraint handler callback SCIP_DECL_CONSDELVARS() is called after variables were marked for deletion.
6112 This method is optional and only of interest if you are using SCIP as a branch-and-price framework. That means,
6113 you are generating new variables during the search. If you are not doing that just define the function pointer
6114 to be `NULL`.
6115 If this method gets implemented you should iterate over all constraints of the constraint handler and delete all
6116 variables that were marked for deletion by SCIPdelVar().
6117
6118- NLP Solver Interface:
6119 - The callbacks SCIP_DECL_NLPIGETSOLUTION() and SCIP_DECL_NLPISETINITIALGUESS() got new parameters to get/set values of
6120 dual variables.
6121 - The callback SCIP_DECL_NLPICOPY() now passes the block memory of the target SCIP as an additional parameter.
6122
6123- Presolving:
6124 - New parameters `isunbounded` and `isinfeasible` for presolving initialization (SCIP_DECL_CONSINITPRE(),
6125 SCIP_DECL_PRESOLINITPRE(), SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE()) and presolving deinitialization (SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITPRE(),
6126 SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXITPRE(), SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE()) callbacks of presolvers,
6127 constraint handlers and propagators, telling the callback whether the problem was already declared to be
6128 unbounded or infeasible. This allows to avoid expensive steps in these methods in case the problem is already
6129 solved, anyway.
6130
6131 Note, that the C++ methods
6132 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_presol() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSPRESOL()
6133 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSINITPRE()
6134 - scip::ObjPresol::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PRESOLINITPRE()
6135 - scip::ObjProp::scip_initpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE()
6136 - scip::ObjConshdlr::scip_exitpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_CONSEXITPRE()
6137 - scip::ObjPresol::scip_exitpre() corresponding to SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXITPRE()
6138 - scip::ObjProp::scip_exitpre() corresponding to and SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE()
6139 are virtual functions. That means, if you are not adding the new parameters, your code will still compile, but these methods are not executed.
6140 - Propagators are now also called in during presolving, this is supported by the new callback methods SCIP_DECL_PROPINITPRE(),
6141 SCIP_DECL_PROPEXITPRE(), and SCIP_DECL_PROPPRESOL().
6142 - The new parameters `nnewaddconss` and `naddconss` were added to the constraint handler callback method SCIP_DECL_CONSPRESOL()
6143 and the presolver callback method SCIP_DECL_PRESOLEXEC(). These parameters were also added to corresponding C++ wrapper
6144 class methods (scip_presol() in objconshdlr.h and scip_exec() in objpresol.h)
6145
6146- Problem Data:
6147 - The callback SCIP_DECL_PROBCOPY() got a new parameter `global` to indicate whether the global problem or a local version is copied.
6148
6149### Deleted and changed API methods
6150
6151- implemented SCIPlpiGetPrimalRay() in SoPlex interface that has become available with SoPlex version 1.5.0.2
6152- allowed calling SCIPgetRowSolActivity() in `SCIP_STAGE_SOLVED`, since LP is still available
6153- various extensions and modifications for expressions and expression trees (too much to state here)
6154- The result value `SCIP_NEWROUND` has been added, it allows a separator/constraint handler to start a new separation round
6155 (without previous calls to other separators/conshdlrs).
6156- SCIPcalcNodeselPriority() got a new parameter `branchdir`, which defines the type of branching that was performed: upwards, downwards, or fixed.
6157
6158- Constraint Handlers:
6159 - Method SCIPincludeQuadconsUpgrade() of quadratic constraint handler got new parameter `active` to indicate whether the upgrading method is active by default.
6160 - Method SCIPseparateRelaxedKnapsack() in knapsack constraint handler got new parameter `cutoff`, which is a pointer to store whether a cutoff was found.
6161
6162- Nonlinear expressions, relaxation, and solver interface:
6163 - SCIPcreateNLPSol() now creates a `SCIP_SOL` that is linked to the solution of the current NLP relaxation
6164 - Various types and functions dealing with polynomial expressions have been renamed to use the proper terms `monomial` and
6165 `polynomial` in nonlinear expressions (nlpi/∗expr*); results in many renamings of types, structs and methods.
6166 - The methods SCIPnlpGetObjective(), SCIPnlpGetSolVals(), and SCIPnlpGetVarSolVal() have been removed, use SCIPgetNLPObjval(),
6167 SCIPvarGetNLPSol() and SCIPcreateNLPSol() to retrieve NLP solution values instead.
6168 SCIPcreateNLPSol() now returns an error if NLP or NLP solution is not available
6169 - Removed methods SCIPmarkRequireNLP() and SCIPisNLPRequired(), because the NLP is now always constructed if nonlinearities
6170 are present.
6171 - SCIPgetNLP() has been removed and NLP-methods from pub_nlp.h have been moved to scip.h, which resulted in some renamings, too.
6172 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalSol() to SCIPevalExprtreeSol() and now located in scip.h.
6173 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalIntLocalBounds() to SCIPevalExprtreeLocalBounds() and now located in scip.h.
6174 - renamed SCIPexprtreeEvalIntGlobalBounds() to SCIPevalExprtreeGlobalBounds() and now located in scip.h.
6175 - The functions SCIPnlpiGetSolution() and SCIPnlpiSetInitialGuess() got additional arguments to get/set dual values.
6176 - The method SCIPgetNLPI() got a new parameter `nlpiproblem`, which is a pointer to store the NLP solver interface problem.
6177
6178- Timing:
6179 - SCIPincludeProp() got additional parameters to set the timing mask of the propagator and the new callbacks and parameters
6180 related to calling the propagator in presolving.
6181 - SCIPincludeConshdlr() got additional parameters to set the variable deletion callback function and the timing mask for
6182 propagation.
6183 - removed parameters timelimit and memorylimit from SCIPapplyRens()
6184 - The parameters `timelimit` and `memorylimit` were removed from SCIPapplyRens().
6185
6186- Problem Data:
6187 - The method SCIPcopyProb() got a new parameter `global` to indicate whether the global problem or a local version is copied.
6188
6189- Writing and Parsing Constraints:
6190 - The methods SCIPwriteVarName(), SCIPwriteVarsList(), and SCIPwriteVarsLinearsum() got a new boolean parameter `type`
6191 that indicates whether the variable type should be written or not.
6192 - The methods SCIPparseVarName() and SCIPparseVarsList() got a new output parameter `endptr` that is filled with the position
6193 where the parsing stopped.
6194 - The method SCIPwriteVarsList() got additionally a new parameter `delimiter` that defines the character which is used for delimitation.
6195
6196- Variables:
6197 - SCIPmarkDoNotMultaggrVar()/SCIPvarMarkDoNotMultaggr() now allow to mark negated and aggregated variables
6198 - SCIPgetVarCopy() got a new parameter `success` that will be FALSE if method is called after problem creation stage and no hash map is
6199 given or no image for the given variable is contained in the given hash map.
6200 - SCIPchgVarType() got an extra boolean parameter to store if infeasibility is recognized while upgrading a variable from continuous
6201 type to an integer type.
6202 - SCIPdelVar() got a new parameter `deleted`, which stores whether the variable was successfully marked to be deleted.
6203
6204### New API functions
6205
6206- information about the quality of the solution of an LP (currently the condition number of the basis matrix) can now be:
6207 + requested from the LPI (currently only available for CPLEX): methods SCIPlpiGetRealSolQuality() and
6208 + SCIPprintLPSolutionQuality() command display lpsolquality in interactive shell display column lpcond to show
6209 + estimate on condition number, if available
6210- SCIPround() and SCIPfeasRound() to round to nearest integer
6211- SCIPsortRealRealIntInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
6212- SCIPsortRealIntLong(), SCIPsortPtrPtrRealInt() and corresponding sorting/inserting/deleting methods in
6213 pub_misc.h and necessary defines in misc.c
6214- SCIPcomputeLPRelIntPoint() to compute relative interior point of the current LP
6215- SCIPstartSolvingTime() and SCIPstopSolvingTime() which can be used to start or stop the solving time clock
6216- SCIPstrToRealValue() and SCIPstrCopySection() in pub_misc.h; these methods can be used to convert a string
6217 into a `SCIP_Real` value and to copy a substring.
6218- SCIPgetBinvarRepresentatives() which gets binary variables that are equal to some given binary variables,
6219 and which are either active, fixed, or multi-aggregated, or the negated variables of active, fixed, or multi-aggregated variables
6220- SCIPhasPrimalRay() and SCIPgetPrimalRayVal() that return whether a primal ray is stored and which value a
6221 given variable has in the primal ray, respectively
6222- SCIPsetConsModifiable()
6223- SCIPsetParam() which is a generic parameter setter method, independent of the parameter type
6224- SCIPpropInitpre(), SCIPpropExitpre(), SCIPpropPresol() which initializes, exists and executes the presolving phase
6225- SCIProwGetAge() to access the age of a row (pub_lp.h/lp.c)
6226- SCIPsolGetOrigObj() in pub_sol.h which returns for a solution in the original problem space the objective value
6227- SCIPretransformSol() in scip.h that allows to retransform a solution to the original space
6228- SCIPlpiClearState() to LP interfaces for clearing basis information in the LP solver
6229- SCIPgetSubscipDepth() to access the depth of the current SCIP as a copied subproblem
6230- SCIPdebugAddSolVal() and SCIPdebugGetSolVal() to add/get values to/from a debug solution
6231- SCIPsepastoreRemoveInefficaciousCuts() to remove non-efficious cuts from the separation storage
6232
6233- Nodes:
6234 - SCIPnodeGetParent() to get parent node of a node
6235 - SCIPnodesSharePath() in pub_tree.h that determines whether two nodes are on the same leaf-root path
6236 - SCIPnodesGetCommonAncestor() in pub_tree.h that finds the common ancestor node for two given nodes
6237
6238- Read and Write:
6239 - SCIPgetReadingTime() which returns the time for reading in seconds
6240 - SCIPparseVarsLinearsum(), SCIPparseVarsPolynomial() and SCIPwriteVarsPolynomial() and for writing and
6241 parsing polynomials in constraint handler writing/parsing methods
6242
6243- Memory:
6244 - SCIPcreateMesshdlrPThreads() and SCIPfreeMesshdlrPThreads() for allocating and deleting necessary memory
6245 for message handlers for parallel pthread version
6246 - SCIPallocClearMemoryArray() and BMSallocClearMemoryArray() for allocating cleared memory arrays in scip.h and memory.h
6247
6248- Intervals:
6249 - SCIPintervalPowerScalarInverse() to solve an equation y = x^p for given bounds on y and scalar exponent p
6250 - SCIPintervalQuadBivar() to compute tight bounds on a bivariate quadratic form
6251 - SCIPintervalSolveBivariateQuadExpressionAllScalar() to compute tight bounds on the solutions of a bivariate quadratic equation
6252
6253- Variables:
6254 - SCIPcomputeVarCurrent{L,U}b{Local,Global}() to compute local or global lower or upper bounds of a
6255 multiaggregated variable from the bounds of the aggregation variables
6256 - SCIPbranchVarValNary() for n-ary variable branching
6257 - SCIPgetNegatedVars() which returns all negated variables for a given array of variables, if the negated
6258 variables are not existing yet, they will be created
6259 - SCIPgetNTotalVars() that returns the total number of created vars, icluding variables that were deleted in the meantime
6260 - SCIPvarGetHashkey(), SCIPvarIsHashkeyEq(), SCIPvarGetHashkeyVal() in pub_var.h which can be used for `SCIP_HASHTABLE` of variables
6261 - SCIPvarGetNBdchgInfosLb() and SCIPvarGetNBdchgInfosUb() in pub_var.h returning the number of lower or upper bound changes on the active path
6262 - SCIPvarGetBdchgInfoLb() and SCIPvarGetBdchgInfoUb() returning the bound change information at the given position
6263 - SCIPvarMarkDeletable() to mark a variable to be deletable completely from the problem (for
6264 branch-and-price); can only be called before the variable is added to the problem
6265 - SCIPvarMarkNotDeletable() that marks a variable to be non-deleteable (used within SCIP for forbidding
6266 deletion of variables contained in solution, LP bases, (multi)aggregation, ...)
6267 - SCIPvarIsDeletable() that returns whether a variable is marked to be deletable (each variable is per default non-deletable)
6268
6269- NLP:
6270 - SCIPgetNLPVarsNonlinearity() to get for each variable in the NLP the number of NLP rows in which this variable appears in a nonlinear way
6271 - SCIPnlrowGetDualsol(), SCIPgetNLPVarsLbDualsol(), SCIPgetNLPVarsUbDualsol() to retrieve dual values from an NLP solution
6272 - SCIPgetNLPFracVars() to get the fractional variables in an NLP solution
6273
6274- Propagator:
6275 - SCIPpropSetPresolPriority() which changes the presolving priority of a given propagator