Wednesday, June 4, 2008

AMPL defined variables

AMPL has a construct called defined variables that can sometimes reduce the size of an NLP by a large amount. Here are some statistics for a client model (confidential so I cannot share it):

GAMS:
BLOCKS OF EQUATIONS           6     SINGLE EQUATIONS       26,192
BLOCKS OF VARIABLES 5 SINGLE VARIABLES 26,201
NON ZERO ELEMENTS 119,031 NON LINEAR N-Z 45,220
DERIVATIVE POOL 8 CONSTANT POOL 1,541
CODE LENGTH 359,381


AMPL:
Substitution eliminates 26180 variables.
Adjusted problem:
10 variables, all nonlinear
1 constraint, all linear; 10 nonzeros
1 nonlinear objective; 10 nonzeros.


GAMS has some similar facilities built in the LGO solver, but these are not available as a general feature.

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