[Cbc] OsiCbc isProvenOptimal?

John Forrest john.forrest at fastercoin.com
Sun Sep 28 11:47:12 EDT 2014


Made some more changes - better?

On 27/09/14 10:14, Jan-Willem Goossens wrote:
> John,
>
> Thanks again.
> The fix works, most of the time. However, for example when the user interrupts the solve with ctr-c, then status!=0 and the same problem occurs (optimal=true)
> Why not always return modelPtr_->isProvenOptimal()?
>
> There are many other OsiCbc functions that use the modelPtr_->solver(), when the modelPtr_ (CbcModel) offers these functions itself. Why not have OsiCbc call the modelPtr function in all these cases?
>
> Jan-Willem
>
>
>
>> On 22-sep.-2014, at 22:30, Jan-Willem Goossens <jhmgoossens at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> John,
>>
>> Thank you for your help. I'll give it a go and let you know.
>>
>> Jan-Willem
>>
>>> On 22 Sep 2014, at 11:54, John Forrest <john.forrest at fastercoin.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Jan-Willem,
>>>
>>> It has been said before that OsiCbc is not as well tested (or flexible) as using Cbc directly.
>>>
>>> I have modified code in stable and trunk - tell me if anything is wrong.
>>>
>>> John Forrest
>>>
>>>> On 18/09/14 22:07, Jan-Willem Goossens wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting unexpected results from the call to osiCbc.isProvenOptimal():
>>>> For problems for which the LP relaxation is feasible, but no MIP
>>>> solution exists, the osiCbc.isProvenOptimal() returns TRUE (wrong,
>>>> IMO), while osiCbc.getModelPtr()->isProvenOptimal() returns FALSE
>>>> (correct).
>>>>
>>>> The reason seems to be that OsiCbc isProvenOptimal is implemented as
>>>> bool OsiCbcSolverInterface::isProvenOptimal() const
>>>> {
>>>>   return modelPtr_->solver()->isProvenOptimal();
>>>> }
>>>> and thus return "isProvenOptimal" of the (latest?) LP that was solved.
>>>>
>>>> Is this by design?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jan-Willem
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