FPS is a solver for equality-constrained nonlinear problems, i.e., optimization problems of the form

min f(x)     s.t.     c(x) = 0.

It uses other JuliaSmoothOptimizers packages for development. In particular, NLPModels.jl is used for defining the problem, and SolverCore.jl for the output. If a general inequality-constrained problem is given to the solver, it solves the problem reformulated as a SlackModel from NLPModelsModifiers.jl.

For equality-constrained problems, the method iteratively solves an unconstrained problem. For bound and equality-constrained problems, the subproblems are bound-constrained problems. Any solver compatible with Stopping.jl can be used. By default, we use ipopt from NLPModelsIpopt.jl to solve the subproblem, but other solvers can be used such as knitro from NLPModelsKnitro.jl or any solvers from JSOSolvers.jl. The Stopping version of these solvers is available in StoppingInterface.jl.

It uses LDLFactorizations.jl by default to evaluate the derivatives of the penalized subproblem, but one can also use a matrix-free version with Krylov.jl.

Estrin, R., Friedlander, M. P., Orban, D., & Saunders, M. A. (2020). Implementing a smooth exact penalty function for equality-constrained nonlinear optimization. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 42(3), A1809-A1835. 10.1137/19M1238265

If you use FletcherPenaltySolver.jl in your work, please cite using the format given in CITATION.cff.

pkg> add FletcherPenaltySolver

using FletcherPenaltySolver, ADNLPModels

# Rosenbrock
nlp = ADNLPModel(x -> 100 * (x[2] - x[1]^2)^2 + (x[1] - 1)^2, [-1.2; 1.0])
stats = fps_solve(nlp)

# Constrained
nlp = ADNLPModel(
  x -> 100 * (x[2] - x[1]^2)^2 + (x[1] - 1)^2,
  [-1.2; 1.0],
  x->[x[1] * x[2] - 1],
  [0.0],[1.0],
)
stats = fps_solve(nlp)

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