# Solve MCP problems with nonlinear constraints
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061
**Category:** Optimization (Mathematical)
**Tags:** jump
**Created:** [February 11, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061 "2024-02-11T12:21:23Z")
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### Author:  [@vicentemunozlh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vicentemunozlh)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/1 "2024-02-11T12:21:23Z")
Hello ! Ive been trying to solve an MCP problem with JuMP and non linear constraints/optimality condition but have not been able to do so.
Is there a way around this? or other package that might do the trick?
Thank you in advance!
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### Author:  [@odow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/odow)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/2 "2024-02-11T23:26:19Z")
Do you have an example? That might be easier to discuss than generalities.
KNITRO.jl supports MCP and nonlinear.
Complementarity.jl can reformulate some MPEC to nonlinear.
Otherwise PATH supports only MCP, so you’ll need to reformulate your problem to a pure MCP.
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### Author:  [@vicentemunozlh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vicentemunozlh)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/3 "2024-02-12T13:35:50Z")
Hello @odow ! thank you very much for responding.
Yes I do have an example.
```julia
@variable(model, alpha >= 0)
@variable(model, beta >= 0)
@variable(model, gamma >= 0)
@variable(model, delta >= 0)
@constraint(model, kkt_beta, -P * delta * (1 + alpha) + gamma ⟂ beta)
@constraint(model, kkt_alpha, beta * delta * P - c * ((P - d)^2) ⟂ alpha)
@constraint(model, kkt_gamma, mean * (2 - d) - beta ⟂ gamma)
```
There rest are linear constraints
P, c , mean and d are parameters.
Other related question is that I tried to migrate this to Complementarity.jl but had some issues with a user-defined function that is being called in the @mapping . Error which I did not had using just JuMP MCP. By any chance, do you have any tip on that?
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### Author:  [@odow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/odow)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2024, 5:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/4 "2024-02-12T17:45:47Z")
This should work with PATHSolver.jl. Something like:
```julia
using JuMP, PATHSolver
P, c, mean, d = 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0
model = Model(PATHSolver.Optimizer)
@variable(model, alpha >= 0)
@variable(model, beta >= 0)
@variable(model, gamma >= 0)
@variable(model, delta >= 0)
@constraint(model, kkt_beta, -P * delta * (1 + alpha) + gamma ⟂ beta)
@constraint(model, kkt_alpha, beta * delta * P - c * ((P - d)^2) ⟂ alpha)
@constraint(model, kkt_gamma, mean * (2 - d) - beta ⟂ gamma)
optimize!(model)
solution_summary(model)
value(alpha), value(beta), value(gamma), value(delta)
```
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### Author:  [@vicentemunozlh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vicentemunozlh)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/5 "2024-02-13T14:38:10Z")
The thing is I get this error:
```julia
ERROR: LoadError: Constraints of type
MathOptInterface.VectorQuadraticFunction{Float64}-in-
MathOptInterface.Complements are not supported by the solver.
```
But when I remove the variable multiplications from the restrictions, then it works.
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### Author:  [@odow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/odow)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2024, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/6 "2024-02-13T18:58:16Z")
What version of PATHSolver.jl do you have? Try updating your packages:
```julia
(mpec) pkg> st
Status `/private/tmp/mpec/Project.toml`
[4076af6c] JuMP v1.19.0
[f5f7c340] PATHSolver v1.7.2
julia> using JuMP, PATHSolver
julia> P, c, mean, d = 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0
(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
julia> model = Model(PATHSolver.Optimizer)
A JuMP Model
Feasibility problem with:
Variables: 0
Model mode: AUTOMATIC
CachingOptimizer state: EMPTY_OPTIMIZER
Solver name: Path 5.0.03
julia> @variable(model, alpha >= 0)
alpha
julia> @variable(model, beta >= 0)
beta
julia> @variable(model, gamma >= 0)
gamma
julia> @variable(model, delta >= 0)
delta
julia> @constraint(model, kkt_beta, -P * delta * (1 + alpha) + gamma ⟂ beta)
kkt_beta : [-delta*alpha + gamma - delta, beta] ∈ MathOptInterface.Complements(2)
julia> @constraint(model, kkt_alpha, beta * delta * P - c * ((P - d)^2) ⟂ alpha)
kkt_alpha : [beta*delta, alpha] ∈ MathOptInterface.Complements(2)
julia> @constraint(model, kkt_gamma, mean * (2 - d) - beta ⟂ gamma)
kkt_gamma : [-beta + 1, gamma] ∈ MathOptInterface.Complements(2)
julia> optimize!(model)
Path 5.0.03 (Fri Jun 26 09:58:07 2020)
Written by Todd Munson, Steven Dirkse, Youngdae Kim, and Michael Ferris
Crash Log
major func diff size residual step prox (label)
0 0 0.0000e+00 0.0e+00 (f[1])
Major Iteration Log
major minor func grad residual step type prox inorm (label)
0 0 1 1 0.0000e+00 I 0.0e+00 0.0e+00 (f[1])
Major Iterations. . . . 0
Minor Iterations. . . . 0
Restarts. . . . . . . . 0
Crash Iterations. . . . 0
Gradient Steps. . . . . 0
Function Evaluations. . 1
Gradient Evaluations. . 1
Basis Time. . . . . . . 0.000002
Total Time. . . . . . . 0.090749
Residual. . . . . . . . 0.000000e+00
julia> solution_summary(model)
* Solver : Path 5.0.03
* Status
Result count : 1
Termination status : LOCALLY_SOLVED
Message from the solver:
"The problem was solved"
* Candidate solution (result #1)
Primal status : FEASIBLE_POINT
Dual status : NO_SOLUTION
Objective value : 0.00000e+00
* Work counters
Solve time (sec) : 9.07490e-02
julia> value(alpha), value(beta), value(gamma), value(delta)
(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0)
```
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### Author:  [@vicentemunozlh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vicentemunozlh)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2024, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/7 "2024-02-17T15:31:24Z")
I cant believe I did not check that in so long 😅 . Thank you very much @odow for always answering so fast!
But now another problem raised for me for a different MCP problem that was previously(before my pkg’s updates) Locally Solved but now gets a `Termination status : SLOW_PROGRESS` . I downgraded JuMP and found that the version v1.14.1 finds the feasible point again. It must be a something that breaks it on version v1.15.0.
I know this particular MCP problem is feasible because It is successfully solved in GAMS using PATH.
Maybe I failed in some part of the translation to Julia but strange that no error of syntax or something like that was raised and that the previos version of JuMP did give me the same solution than GAMS.
Has anyone got a similar issue that you remember? I am currently looking into the github issues to see if I find something.
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### Author:  [@odow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/odow)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/8 "2024-02-17T21:16:58Z")
Can you provide a reproducible example? Do you provide a starting point?
Set a start using the `start` keyword: `@variable(model, alpha >= 0, start = 1)`.
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### Author:  [@vicentemunozlh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/vicentemunozlh)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/solve-mcp-problems-with-nonlinear-constraints/110061/9 "2024-02-25T10:44:00Z")
Yes, that helped! Thank you.