[Bonmin] does cpu time limit change the result?

Pierre Bonami pierre.bonami at gmail.com
Thu Jul 9 07:33:30 EDT 2009


Did you download it from stable or trunk?
You can check with svn info.

On Jul 9, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Giuseppe Aprea wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for answering.
> I am running the code after changing the options according to your
> suggestion. I'll
> let you know about the result.
> As for the version I don't know exactly. I tried
> $ bonmin -v
> bonmin (Linux 2.6.24-19-generic), ASL(20090430)
>
> I am not sure it helps. I used svn to download the software about  
> 3-4 weeks ago.
> Is there another way(or file to open) to check the version?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> giuseppe
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Pierre  
> Bonami<pierre.bonami at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Guiseppe,
>> Can you try setting
>> bonmin.number_strong_branch_root 1
>> bonmin.number_strong_branch 1
>> bonmin.time_limit 1000
>> and see if it stops.
>> Which version are you using now?
>> On Jul 8, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Giuseppe Aprea wrote:
>>
>>> I know, it's again me. Please be patient and forgive me.
>>>
>>> I am still not able to retrieve the solution from the code. It  
>>> seems I
>>> can't stop
>>> bonmin.
>>>
>>> Here is my main:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BonminSetup bonmin;
>>> bonmin.initializeOptionsAndJournalist();
>>> //Register an additional option
>>> bonmin.roptions()->AddStringOption2("print_solution","Do we print
>>> the solution or not?",
>>>                               "yes",
>>>                               "no", "No, we don't.",
>>>                               "yes", "Yes, we do.",
>>>                               "A longer comment can be put here");
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> // Here we can change the default value of some Bonmin or Ipopt  
>>> option
>>> //bonmin.options()->SetNumericValue("bonmin.time_limit", 5);
>>> //changes bonmin's time limit
>>> //bonmin.options()->SetStringValue("mu_oracle","loqo");
>>>
>>> //Here we read several option files
>>> bonmin.readOptionsFile("Mybonmin.opt");
>>> bonmin.readOptionsFile();// This reads the default file "bonmin.opt"
>>>
>>> // Options can also be set by using a string with a format similar
>>> to the bonmin.opt file
>>> // bonmin.readOptionsString("bonmin.algorithm B-BB\n");
>>>
>>> // Now we can obtain the value of the new option
>>> int printSolution;
>>> bonmin.options()->GetEnumValue("print_solution", printSolution,"");
>>> if(printSolution == 1){
>>>  tminlp->printSolutionAtEndOfAlgorithm();
>>> }
>>>
>>> //Now initialize from tminlp
>>> bonmin.initialize(GetRawPtr(tminlp));
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> //Set up done, now let's branch and bound
>>> double time1 = CoinCpuTime();
>>> double sol[VARSNUM];
>>>
>>> try {
>>>  Bab bb;
>>>  bb(bonmin);//process parameter file using Ipopt and do branch and
>>> bound using Cbc
>>>      if(bb.bestSolution()!=NULL){
>>>              for(i=0;i<VARSNUM;i++){
>>>                      sol[i]=*(bb.bestSolution()+i);
>>>                      printf("\n%f",sol[i]);
>>>              }
>>>      }
>>>      else{
>>>              printf("\n\n\tNo feasible solution!\n\n");
>>>      }
>>>      printf("\n");
>>>
>>> }
>>> catch(TNLPSolver::UnsolvedError *E) {
>>>  //There has been a failure to solve a problem with Ipopt.
>>>  std::cerr<<"Ipopt has failed to solve a problem"<<std::endl;
>>> }
>>> catch(OsiTMINLPInterface::SimpleError &E) {
>>>  std::cerr<<E.className()<<"::"<<E.methodName()
>>>           <<std::endl
>>>           <<E.message()<<std::endl;
>>> }
>>> catch(CoinError &E) {
>>>  std::cerr<<E.className()<<"::"<<E.methodName()
>>>           <<std::endl
>>>           <<E.message()<<std::endl;
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> return 0;
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> here is the option file:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> print_solution yes
>>> #derivative_test second-order
>>> bonmin.bb_log_level 5
>>> bonmin.algorithm B-BB
>>> #print_level 6
>>> max_cpu_time 7200
>>> #bound_relax_factor 1e-6
>>> #bonmin.iteration_limit 4
>>> bonmin.time_limit 60
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> and this is the output (the process is running since 11 hours  
>>> despite
>>> bonmin.time_limit set to 60!!!!):
>>>
>>> CppExample$ make clean ; make ;time ./CppExample
>>> rm -rf CppExample MyBonmin.o MyTMINLP.o
>>> g++ -g -O0 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DNDEBUG -pedantic-errors
>>> -Wimplicit -Wparentheses -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wall
>>> -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wno-unknown-pragmas
>>> -I`echo /home/gaprea/usr/local/include/coin` -I`echo
>>> /home/gaprea/usr/local/include/coin/ipopt`  -c -o MyBonmin.o `test  
>>> -f
>>> 'MyBonmin.cpp' || echo '/'`MyBonmin.cpp
>>> MyBonmin.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
>>> MyBonmin.cpp:239: warning: unused variable ‘time1’
>>> g++ -g -O0 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DNDEBUG -pedantic-errors
>>> -Wimplicit -Wparentheses -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wall
>>> -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wno-unknown-pragmas
>>> -I`echo /home/gaprea/usr/local/include/coin` -I`echo
>>> /home/gaprea/usr/local/include/coin/ipopt`  -c -o MyTMINLP.o `test  
>>> -f
>>> 'MyTMINLP.cpp' || echo '/'`MyTMINLP.cpp
>>> bla=;\
>>>      for file in MyBonmin.o MyTMINLP.o; do bla="$bla `echo  
>>> $file`"; done;
>>> \
>>>      g++ -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/home/gaprea/usr/local/lib -g -O0
>>> -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DNDEBUG -pedantic-errors -Wimplicit
>>> -Wparentheses -Wreturn-type -Wcast-qual -Wall -Wpointer-arith
>>> -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wno-unknown-pragmas   -o CppExample  
>>> $bla
>>> -L/home/gaprea/usr/local/lib -lbonmin -lipopt -lCbc -lCgl -lOsiClp
>>> -lOsi -lClp -lCoinUtils
>>>
>>> /home/gaprea/000_System_Biology/SOFTWARE/MINLP/Bonmin-1.0/build/ 
>>> ThirdParty/ASL/amplsolver.a
>>> -ldl -lm `cat
>>> /home/gaprea/usr/local/lib/../share/doc/coin/Ipopt/ 
>>> ipopt_addlibs_cpp.txt`
>>> `cat /home/gaprea/usr/local/lib/../share/doc/coin/Cgl/ 
>>> cgl_addlibs.txt`
>>> `cat /home/gaprea/usr/local/lib/../share/doc/coin/Osi/ 
>>> osi_addlibs.txt`
>>> `cat /home/gaprea/usr/local/lib/../share/doc/coin/Clp/ 
>>> clp_addlibs.txt`
>>> `cat
>>> /home/gaprea/usr/local/lib/../share/doc/coin/CoinUtils/ 
>>> coinutils_addlibs.txt`
>>>
>>>
>>> ******************************************************************************
>>> This program contains Ipopt, a library for large-scale nonlinear
>>> optimization.
>>> Ipopt is released as open source code under the Common Public  
>>> License
>>> (CPL).
>>>       For more information visit http://projects.coin-or.org/Ipopt
>>>
>>> ******************************************************************************
>>>
>>> NOTE: You are using Ipopt by default with the MUMPS linear solver.
>>>    Other linear solvers might be more efficient (see Ipopt  
>>> documentation).
>>>
>>>
>>> NLP0012I
>>>            Num      Status      Obj             It       time
>>> NLP0013I     1        OPT         -75.00000003473977      492       
>>> 890.812
>>> BON0001I 105 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I 104 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I 103 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I 102 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I 101 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>>
>>> ....................................
>>>
>>> BON0001I  13 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I  12 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I  11 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I  10 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   9 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   8 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   7 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   6 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   5 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   4 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   3 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   2 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   1 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0001I   0 up   0   0.00000000e+00  down   0   0.00000000e+00
>>> BON0002I upMultiplier = 1.000000e+00 downMultiplier = 1.000000e+00
>>> BON0003I   0 value = 3.214075e-01 upEstimate = 5.351865e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.464813e-01 infeas = 5.351865e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.351865e-02
>>> BON0003I   1 value = 3.218285e-01 upEstimate = 5.457120e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.454288e-01 infeas = 5.457120e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.457120e-02
>>> BON0003I   2 value = 3.218306e-01 upEstimate = 5.457658e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.454234e-01 infeas = 5.457658e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.457658e-02
>>> BON0003I   3 value = 3.215331e-01 upEstimate = 5.383283e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.461672e-01 infeas = 5.383283e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.383283e-02
>>>
>>> ......................................................
>>>
>>> BON0003I 104 value = 3.229850e-01 upEstimate = 5.746239e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.425376e-01 infeas = 5.746239e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.746239e-02
>>> BON0003I 105 value = 3.229850e-01 upEstimate = 5.746239e-02
>>> downEstimate = 9.425376e-01 infeas = 5.746239e-02 value2 =
>>> 5.746239e-02
>>> BON0005I list_[  0] =   0 useful_[  0] = -3.214075e-01
>>> BON0005I list_[  1] =   1 useful_[  1] = -3.218285e-01
>>> BON0005I list_[  2] =   2 useful_[  2] = -3.218306e-01
>>>
>>> .........................................
>>>
>>> BON0006I list2[ 50] =  50 useful2[ 50] = 5.756897e-02
>>> BON0006I list2[ 51] =  68 useful2[ 51] = 5.706160e-02
>>> BON0006I list2[ 52] =  52 useful2[ 52] = 5.756941e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[    0] =    21, usefull_[    0] =
>>> -1.0620419692890424e+150  6.2041969289042376e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[    1] =    65, usefull_[    1] =
>>> -1.0603499841862923e+150  6.0349984186292338e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[    2] =    45, usefull_[    2] =
>>> -1.0580582195624974e+150  5.8058219562497460e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[    3] =    62, usefull_[    3] =
>>> -1.0579476520448998e+150  5.7947652044899711e-02
>>>
>>> ........................................................
>>>
>>> BON0004I list_[  103] =    86, usefull_[  103] =
>>> -3.2140746297613371e-01  5.3518657440334128e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[  104] =     0, usefull_[  104] =
>>> -3.2140746165193834e-01  5.3518654129845800e-02
>>> BON0004I list_[  105] =    23, usefull_[  105] =
>>> -3.1875385045788662e-01  4.6884626144716446e-02
>>> NLP0013I     2        OPT         -75.00000003322431      574       
>>> 505.896
>>> NLP0013I     3        OPT         -74.9999999873914       252       
>>> 241.371
>>> NLP0013I     4        OPT         -74.99999998750623      523       
>>> 529.597
>>> NLP0013I     5        OPT         -75.00000003116291      437       
>>> 382.544
>>> NLP0013I     6        OPT         -74.99999998735127      378       
>>> 265.133
>>> NLP0013I     7        OPT         -74.99999998749557      519       
>>> 439.447
>>> NLP0013I     8        OPT         -74.9999999875126       445       
>>> 315.852
>>> NLP0013I     9        OPT         -74.9999999874956       439       
>>> 493.555
>>> NLP0013I     10       OPT         -75.00000003005148      569       
>>> 670.742
>>> NLP0013I     11       OPT         -75.00000003466486      296       
>>> 317.04
>>> NLP0013I     12       OPT         -75.00000003310092      435       
>>> 460.289
>>> NLP0013I     13       OPT         -74.99999998737427      253       
>>> 198.54
>>> NLP0013I     14       OPT         -74.99999998728373      547       
>>> 337.825
>>> NLP0013I     15       OPT         -75.00000003314065      436       
>>> 421.158
>>> NLP0013I     16       OPT         -74.99999998751224      668       
>>> 767.376
>>> NLP0013I     17       OPT         -75.00000003492561      475       
>>> 744.463
>>> NLP0013I     18       OPT         -74.99999998738807      569       
>>> 510.66
>>> NLP0013I     19       OPT         -74.99999998751285      757       
>>> 643.148
>>> NLP0013I     20       OPT         -74.9999999874247       549       
>>> 551.082
>>> NLP0012I
>>>            Num      Status      Obj             It       time
>>> NLP0013I     21       OPT         -75.00000003496038      450       
>>> 454.336
>>> NLP0013I     22       OPT         -74.99999998752237      585       
>>> 1072.19
>>> NLP0013I     23       OPT         -74.9999999874547       401       
>>> 1041.68
>>> NLP0013I     24       OPT         -75.00000003262794      545       
>>> 486.982
>>>
>>> ...............................................
>>>
>>> NLP0013I     86       OPT         -75.00000003314067      303       
>>> 381.704
>>> NLP0013I     87       OPT         -74.99999998749439      165       
>>> 281.238
>>> NLP0013I     88       OPT         -75.00000003234817      583       
>>> 755.575
>>> NLP0013I     89       OPT         -74.99999998737553      325       
>>> 291.038
>>> NLP0013I     90       OPT         -74.99999998737404      109       
>>> 122.04
>>>
>>>
>>> according to me there is no reason why it should be still running. I
>>> really think that
>>> Bonmin should have worked 60 secs in 11 hours. At least I have no
>>> reason to think
>>> different. I believe I have followed properly all instructions.
>>> max_cpu_time is set to
>>> 2 hours to give time ipopt to solve the nlp problem, and I also  
>>> tried
>>> to push bb_log_level
>>> to its maximum in order to peek in the solution but this is still
>>> unreachable for me.
>>> I have also tried to use the option iteration_limit (by the way,  
>>> this
>>> number has nothing
>>> to do with the numbers in the second column of the output, does it?)
>>> but it seem that
>>> the right option to stop Bonmin should be bonmin.time_limit. Is 60  
>>> sec too
>>> much?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>> Giuseppe
>>
>>




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