[Scip] Running SCIP as a local optimizer

[Ramón Casero Cañas]

Dear all,

I was wondering whether there's a way to tell SCIP to function as a
local optimizer.

In particular, I have a solution of a quadratic program with
polynomial constraints. The solution fulfils the constraints, but it's
not a local minimum.

What I would like SCIP to do is simply look for the local minimum
while still fulfilling the constraints, which I suppose will be much
faster than if it tries to start looking for a global minimum.

>From previous advice, I think somebody would recommend using Ipopt
instead of SCIP. But I already have written the software to create my
objective function and constraints, run the optimization and read back
the solution for SCIP, so if I'd rather avoid having to write another
interface. (And if I got this right, SCIP is using Ipopt internally
anyway, right?).

Best regards,

Ramon.

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