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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am using IPOPT 3.11.8 with MATLAB interface. I have managed to get
the gradients, Jacobians and Hessians working with INTLAB. I've used
IPOPT's derivative checker to make sure there are no issues in both
the first order and second order derivatives.<br>
<br>
However, I am seeing very different behaviour when using the
'limited-memory' option for the Hessian evaluation instead of the
'exact'. In fact, the 'limited-memory' option seems to be giving a
considerably better performance (finding solutions in less
iterations). <br>
I've read a little on the 'limited-memory' option which says that it
might give superior performance in the case of dense Hessians. While
my Hessians are quite sparse, I am currently setting <b>hessianstructure</b>
to <b>tril(ones(nvars))</b>, thus assuming all entries can be
non-zero. Could this be the problem causing lesser performance of
the 'exact' option? Or perhaps anyone has other suggestions? Thanks
in advance.<br>
<br>
Andrew Spiteri<br>
Institute of Aerospace Technologies<br>
University of Malta<br>
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