# Multivariate nonlinear constrained optimization using JuMP and ForwardDiff (Automatic Differentiation)

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**Created:** [September 15, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/multivariate-nonlinear-constrained-optimization-using-jump-and-forwarddiff-automatic-differentiation/87338 "2022-09-15T20:50:58Z")\
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Hi there!

The JuMP documentation has a bunch of [tutorials](https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/tutorials/nonlinear/introduction/) and [manual content](https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/manual/nlp/) on nonlinear programming with JuMP.

If you’re coming from MATLAB, things are a little different. You should try to write out your objective and constraints as scalar expressions, rather than providing a single large function to optimize.

If you can’t write our your expressions algebraically and you just have a black-box function, JuMP might not be the right tool for the job; see [Should I use JuMP? · JuMP](https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/should_i_use/#Black-box,-derivative-free,-or-unconstrained-optimization).

It’s often hard to provide general advice without seeing code, so I suggest you read [Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/please-read-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757) and provide a simplified minimal reproducible example of the problem that you are trying to solve.

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