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This is a Julia implementation of the Conic operator splitting method (COSMO) solver. It can solve large convex conic optimization problems of the following form:

with decision variables x ϵ R^n, s ϵ R^m and data matrices P=P'>=0, q ϵ R^n, A ϵ R^(m×n), and b ϵ R^m. The convex set K is a composition of convex sets and cones.

For more information take a look at the COSMO.jl Documentation (stable | dev).

Features

• Versatile: COSMO solves linear programs, quadratic programs, second-order cone programs, semidefinite programs and problems involving exponential and power cones
• Quad SDPs: Positive semidefinite programs with quadratic objective functions are natively supported
• Safeguarded acceleration: robust and faster convergence to higher precision using COSMOAccelerators
• Infeasibility detection: Infeasible problems are detected without a homogeneous self-dual embedding of the problem
• JuMP / Convex.jl support: We provide an interface to MathOptInterface (MOI), which allows you to describe your problem in JuMP and Convex.jl.
• Warm starting: COSMO supports warm starting of the decision variables
• Custom sets and linear solver: Customize COSMO's components by defining your own convex constraint sets and by choosing from a number of direct and indirect linear system solvers, for example, QDLDL, Pardiso, Conjugate Gradient and MINRES
• Arbitrary precision types: You can solve problems with any floating point precision.
• Open Source: Our code is free to use and distributed under the Apache 2.0 Licence
• Chordal decomposition: COSMO tries to decompose large structured PSD constraints using chordal decomposition techniques. This often results in a significant speedup compared to the original problem.
• Smart clique merging: After an initial decomposition of a structured SDP, COSMO recombines overlapping cliques/blocks to speed up the algorithm.

Installation

• COSMO can be added via the Julia package manager (type ]): pkg> add COSMO

Citing

If you find COSMO useful in your project, we kindly request that you cite the following paper:

@Article{Garstka_2021,
  author  = {Michael Garstka and Mark Cannon and Paul Goulart},
  journal = {Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications},
  title   = {{COSMO}: A Conic Operator Splitting Method for Convex Conic Problems},
  volume  = {190},
  number  = {3},
  pages   = {779--810},
  year    = {2021},
  publisher = {Springer},
  doi     = {10.1007/s10957-021-01896-x},
  url     = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10957-021-01896-x}
}

The article is available under Open Access here.

Contributing

• Contributions are always welcome. Our style guide can be found here.
• Current issues, tasks and future ideas are listed in Issues. Please report any issues or bugs that you encounter.
• As an open source project we are also interested in any projects and applications that use COSMO. Please let us know by opening a GitHub issue.

Python - Interface

COSMO can also be called from Python. Take a look at: cosmo-python

Licence 🔍

This project is licensed under the Apache License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.