Write nonlinear model in separate file?

General Usage
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For linear model we can use writeLP(m::Model, filename::String). What macro we can use for nonlinear model? .LP file format won’t support.

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You need to specify the context (which package you are using).

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Sure. I am using two separate files. One for Ipopt and other for NLopt. Please let me know the way to write nonlinear model to a file just like writeLP.

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You can use either AmplNLWriter (.nl) or CoinOptServices (.osil). What do you want to then do with the saved model?

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It means I am supposed to install AmplNLWriter to print .nl file. Any prvision in Ipopt solver to print .nl file.

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You use the IpoptNLSolver described in the AmplNLWriter package documentation https://github.com/JuliaOpt/AmplNLWriter.jl/#amplnlwriterjl

What are you trying to do with the .nl file once you have it?

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Hi,
If I use IpoptSolver instead of IpoptNLSolver for nonlinear
function. Will it work?

Thanks,

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IpoptSolver uses in-memory API’s and does not write a file. IpoptNLSolver writes a .nl file.

You need to be more specific than “Will it work?” - what, exactly, are you trying to accomplish?

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Thanks. Should I use IpoptSolver or IpoptNLSolver for non-linear problem?

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You can try both and compare. IpoptSolver doesn’t have to write the model to a .nl file or read results back from a .sol file or incur the overhead of shelling out to a separate executable, but IpoptNLSolver uses the same C library as AMPL to evaluate function gradients, constraint Jacobian, etc so can sometimes perform a bit better than the pure-Julia automatic differentiation that IpoptSolver uses.

Note that for most sizable nonlinear problems of the type you would solve with JuMP, function evaluation is usually a minor portion of the total execution time. The sparse linear algebra operations inside Ipopt will take most of the time, and those will be the same between IpoptSolver and IpoptNLSolver.

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