Ideas for annual undergraduate project

[erelsgl]

Hi. Last year, a team of my students did a project that ended up merged into cvxpyanalyzer. Now, I have a new team for the coming year. We are looking for a project that is more closely related to optimization, maybe based on a recent reseach paper, that could potentailly be merged into cvxpy. Do you have any ideas?

[SteveDiamond]

We discussed internally and one possibility is implementing dual variables for the ND power cone:

cvxpy/cvxpy/constraints/power.py

Line 135 in e6c2a12

class PowConeND(Constraint):

Another idea is to finish this PR adding__rpow__ support: #1700

But merging into cvxpy will require a lot more rounds of iteration than we did last time.

[SteveDiamond]

More ideas:
#1737
#1529
#1540

[erelsgl]

Which of these ideas is sufficiently substantial for an annual project of 3 students?

[SteveDiamond]

They may be too small for that.

[erelsgl]

OK, cool! Can you send references to papers that give background for the basic concepts?

[erelsgl]

@rileyjmurray @PTNobel just a reminder about my question..

[SteveDiamond]

Someone implemented dual variable support for the NDPower constraint in cvxpy 1.4. Apologies for the poor coordination, we forgot you all were looking at this.

[erelsgl]

@SteveDiamond It's OK, they still did not start working on it. So, what similar projects are available now?

[erelsgl]

@SteveDiamond is it possible to have a Zoom meeting to discuss potential projects?

[SteveDiamond]

Can you join the discord? https://discord.gg/4urRQeGBCr

[rileyjmurray]

We could also look at improving ND power cone support by actually using it in atoms like geo_mean.

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[erelsgl]

@rileyjmurray can we schedule a Zoom meeting, so that I can better understand the issues?

[erelsgl]

@rileyjmurray can we schedule a Zoom meeting, so that I can better understand the issues?

[rileyjmurray]

Hi Erel. I won't have time to meet until the end of this week at the earliest. Please follow up with me on Thursday.

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[erelsgl]

@rileyjmurray Are you available today (Thursday)?

[erelsgl]

Done *--- Dr. Erel Segal-Halevi (http://erelsgl.github.io <http://erelsgl.github.io>) ד"ר אראל סגל הלוי*

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