// Copyright 2010-2025 Google LLC // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); // you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. // You may obtain a copy of the License at // // http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 // // Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software // distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, // WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and // limitations under the License. // LINT: LEGACY_NAMES syntax = "proto2"; package operations_research.sat; option csharp_namespace = "Google.OrTools.Sat"; option go_package = "github.com/google/or-tools/ortools/sat/proto/satparameters"; option java_package = "com.google.ortools.sat"; option java_multiple_files = true; // Contains the definitions for all the sat algorithm parameters and their // default values. // // NEXT TAG: 356 message SatParameters { // In some context, like in a portfolio of search, it makes sense to name a // given parameters set for logging purpose. optional string name = 171 [default = ""]; // ========================================================================== // Branching and polarity // ========================================================================== // Variables without activity (i.e. at the beginning of the search) will be // tried in this preferred order. enum VariableOrder { IN_ORDER = 0; // As specified by the problem. IN_REVERSE_ORDER = 1; IN_RANDOM_ORDER = 2; } optional VariableOrder preferred_variable_order = 1 [default = IN_ORDER]; // Specifies the initial polarity (true/false) when the solver branches on a // variable. This can be modified later by the user, or the phase saving // heuristic. // // Note(user): POLARITY_FALSE is usually a good choice because of the // "natural" way to express a linear boolean problem. enum Polarity { POLARITY_TRUE = 0; POLARITY_FALSE = 1; POLARITY_RANDOM = 2; } optional Polarity initial_polarity = 2 [default = POLARITY_FALSE]; // If this is true, then the polarity of a variable will be the last value it // was assigned to, or its default polarity if it was never assigned since the // call to ResetDecisionHeuristic(). // // Actually, we use a newer version where we follow the last value in the // longest non-conflicting partial assignment in the current phase. // // This is called 'literal phase saving'. For details see 'A Lightweight // Component Caching Scheme for Satisfiability Solvers' K. Pipatsrisawat and // A.Darwiche, In 10th International Conference on Theory and Applications of // Satisfiability Testing, 2007. optional bool use_phase_saving = 44 [default = true]; // If non-zero, then we change the polarity heuristic after that many number // of conflicts in an arithmetically increasing fashion. So x the first time, // 2 * x the second time, etc... optional int32 polarity_rephase_increment = 168 [default = 1000]; // If true and we have first solution LS workers, tries in some phase to // follow a LS solutions that violates has litle constraints as possible. optional bool polarity_exploit_ls_hints = 309 [default = false]; // The proportion of polarity chosen at random. Note that this take // precedence over the phase saving heuristic. This is different from // initial_polarity:POLARITY_RANDOM because it will select a new random // polarity each time the variable is branched upon instead of selecting one // initially and then always taking this choice. optional double random_polarity_ratio = 45 [default = 0.0]; // A number between 0 and 1 that indicates the proportion of branching // variables that are selected randomly instead of choosing the first variable // from the given variable_ordering strategy. optional double random_branches_ratio = 32 [default = 0.0]; // Whether we use the ERWA (Exponential Recency Weighted Average) heuristic as // described in "Learning Rate Based Branching Heuristic for SAT solvers", // J.H.Liang, V. Ganesh, P. Poupart, K.Czarnecki, SAT 2016. optional bool use_erwa_heuristic = 75 [default = false]; // The initial value of the variables activity. A non-zero value only make // sense when use_erwa_heuristic is true. Experiments with a value of 1e-2 // together with the ERWA heuristic showed slighthly better result than simply // using zero. The idea is that when the "learning rate" of a variable becomes // lower than this value, then we prefer to branch on never explored before // variables. This is not in the ERWA paper. optional double initial_variables_activity = 76 [default = 0.0]; // When this is true, then the variables that appear in any of the reason of // the variables in a conflict have their activity bumped. This is addition to // the variables in the conflict, and the one that were used during conflict // resolution. optional bool also_bump_variables_in_conflict_reasons = 77 [default = false]; // ========================================================================== // Conflict analysis // ========================================================================== // Do we try to minimize conflicts (greedily) when creating them. enum ConflictMinimizationAlgorithm { reserved 3; NONE = 0; SIMPLE = 1; RECURSIVE = 2; } optional ConflictMinimizationAlgorithm minimization_algorithm = 4 [default = RECURSIVE]; // Whether to expoit the binary clause to minimize learned clauses further. enum BinaryMinizationAlgorithm { reserved 2, 3, 4; NO_BINARY_MINIMIZATION = 0; BINARY_MINIMIZATION_FROM_UIP = 1; BINARY_MINIMIZATION_FROM_UIP_AND_DECISIONS = 5; } optional BinaryMinizationAlgorithm binary_minimization_algorithm = 34 [default = BINARY_MINIMIZATION_FROM_UIP_AND_DECISIONS]; // At a really low cost, during the 1-UIP conflict computation, it is easy to // detect if some of the involved reasons are subsumed by the current // conflict. When this is true, such clauses are detached and later removed // from the problem. optional bool subsumption_during_conflict_analysis = 56 [default = true]; // It is possible that "intermediate" clauses during conflict resolution // subsumes some of the clauses that propagated. This is quite cheap to detect // and result in more subsumption/strengthening of clauses. optional bool extra_subsumption_during_conflict_analysis = 351 [default = true]; // Try even more subsumption options during conflict analysis. optional bool decision_subsumption_during_conflict_analysis = 353 [default = true]; // If >=0, each time we have a conflict, we try to subsume the last n learned // clause with it. optional int32 eagerly_subsume_last_n_conflicts = 343 [default = 4]; // If we remove clause that we now are "implied" by others. Note that this // might not always be good as we might loose some propagation power. optional bool subsume_during_vivification = 355 [default = true]; // If true, try to backtrack as little as possible on conflict and re-imply // the clauses later. // This means we discard less propagation than traditional backjumping, but // requites additional bookkeeping to handle reimplication. // See: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94144-8_7 optional bool use_chronological_backtracking = 330 [default = false]; // If chronological backtracking is enabled, this is the maximum number of // levels we will backjump over, otherwise we will backtrack. optional int32 max_backjump_levels = 331 [default = 50]; // If chronological backtracking is enabled, this is the minimum number of // conflicts before we will consider backjumping. optional int32 chronological_backtrack_min_conflicts = 332 [default = 1000]; // ========================================================================== // Clause database management // ========================================================================== // Trigger a cleanup when this number of "deletable" clauses is learned. optional int32 clause_cleanup_period = 11 [default = 10000]; // Increase clause_cleanup_period by this amount after each cleanup. optional int32 clause_cleanup_period_increment = 337 [default = 0]; // During a cleanup, we will always keep that number of "deletable" clauses. // Note that this doesn't include the "protected" clauses. optional int32 clause_cleanup_target = 13 [default = 0]; // During a cleanup, if clause_cleanup_target is 0, we will delete the // clause_cleanup_ratio of "deletable" clauses instead of aiming for a fixed // target of clauses to keep. optional double clause_cleanup_ratio = 190 [default = 0.5]; // All the clauses with a LBD (literal blocks distance) lower or equal to this // parameters will always be kept. // // Note that the LBD of a clause that just propagated is 1 + number of // different decision levels of its literals. So that the "classic" LBD of a // learned conflict is the same as its LBD when we backjump and then propagate // it. optional int32 clause_cleanup_lbd_bound = 59 [default = 5]; // All the clause with a LBD lower or equal to this will be kept except if // its activity hasn't been bumped in the last 32 cleanup phase. Note that // this has no effect if it is <= clause_cleanup_lbd_bound. optional int32 clause_cleanup_lbd_tier1 = 349 [default = 0]; // All the clause with a LBD lower or equal to this will be kept except if its // activity hasn't been bumped since the previous cleanup phase. Note that // this has no effect if it is <= clause_cleanup_lbd_bound or <= // clause_cleanup_lbd_tier1. optional int32 clause_cleanup_lbd_tier2 = 350 [default = 0]; // The clauses that will be kept during a cleanup are the ones that come // first under this order. We always keep or exclude ties together. enum ClauseOrdering { // Order clause by decreasing activity, then by increasing LBD. CLAUSE_ACTIVITY = 0; // Order clause by increasing LBD, then by decreasing activity. CLAUSE_LBD = 1; } optional ClauseOrdering clause_cleanup_ordering = 60 [default = CLAUSE_ACTIVITY]; // Same as for the clauses, but for the learned pseudo-Boolean constraints. optional int32 pb_cleanup_increment = 46 [default = 200]; optional double pb_cleanup_ratio = 47 [default = 0.5]; // ========================================================================== // Variable and clause activities // ========================================================================== // Each time a conflict is found, the activities of some variables are // increased by one. Then, the activity of all variables are multiplied by // variable_activity_decay. // // To implement this efficiently, the activity of all the variables is not // decayed at each conflict. Instead, the activity increment is multiplied by // 1 / decay. When an activity reach max_variable_activity_value, all the // activity are multiplied by 1 / max_variable_activity_value. optional double variable_activity_decay = 15 [default = 0.8]; optional double max_variable_activity_value = 16 [default = 1e100]; // The activity starts at 0.8 and increment by 0.01 every 5000 conflicts until // 0.95. This "hack" seems to work well and comes from: // // Glucose 2.3 in the SAT 2013 Competition - SAT Competition 2013 // http://edacc4.informatik.uni-ulm.de/SC13/solver-description-download/136 optional double glucose_max_decay = 22 [default = 0.95]; optional double glucose_decay_increment = 23 [default = 0.01]; optional int32 glucose_decay_increment_period = 24 [default = 5000]; // Clause activity parameters (same effect as the one on the variables). optional double clause_activity_decay = 17 [default = 0.999]; optional double max_clause_activity_value = 18 [default = 1e20]; // ========================================================================== // Restart // ========================================================================== // Restart algorithms. // // A reference for the more advanced ones is: // Gilles Audemard, Laurent Simon, "Refining Restarts Strategies for SAT // and UNSAT", Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming Lecture // Notes in Computer Science 2012, pp 118-126 enum RestartAlgorithm { NO_RESTART = 0; // Just follow a Luby sequence times restart_period. LUBY_RESTART = 1; // Moving average restart based on the decision level of conflicts. DL_MOVING_AVERAGE_RESTART = 2; // Moving average restart based on the LBD of conflicts. LBD_MOVING_AVERAGE_RESTART = 3; // Fixed period restart every restart period. FIXED_RESTART = 4; } // The restart strategies will change each time the strategy_counter is // increased. The current strategy will simply be the one at index // strategy_counter modulo the number of strategy. Note that if this list // includes a NO_RESTART, nothing will change when it is reached because the // strategy_counter will only increment after a restart. // // The idea of switching of search strategy tailored for SAT/UNSAT comes from // Chanseok Oh with his COMiniSatPS solver, see http://cs.nyu.edu/~chanseok/. // But more generally, it seems REALLY beneficial to try different strategy. repeated RestartAlgorithm restart_algorithms = 61; optional string default_restart_algorithms = 70 [default = "LUBY_RESTART,LBD_MOVING_AVERAGE_RESTART,DL_MOVING_AVERAGE_RESTART"]; // Restart period for the FIXED_RESTART strategy. This is also the multiplier // used by the LUBY_RESTART strategy. optional int32 restart_period = 30 [default = 50]; // Size of the window for the moving average restarts. optional int32 restart_running_window_size = 62 [default = 50]; // In the moving average restart algorithms, a restart is triggered if the // window average times this ratio is greater that the global average. optional double restart_dl_average_ratio = 63 [default = 1.0]; optional double restart_lbd_average_ratio = 71 [default = 1.0]; // Block a moving restart algorithm if the trail size of the current conflict // is greater than the multiplier times the moving average of the trail size // at the previous conflicts. optional bool use_blocking_restart = 64 [default = false]; optional int32 blocking_restart_window_size = 65 [default = 5000]; optional double blocking_restart_multiplier = 66 [default = 1.4]; // After each restart, if the number of conflict since the last strategy // change is greater that this, then we increment a "strategy_counter" that // can be use to change the search strategy used by the following restarts. optional int32 num_conflicts_before_strategy_changes = 68 [default = 0]; // The parameter num_conflicts_before_strategy_changes is increased by that // much after each strategy change. optional double strategy_change_increase_ratio = 69 [default = 0.0]; // ========================================================================== // Limits // ========================================================================== // Maximum time allowed in seconds to solve a problem. // The counter will starts at the beginning of the Solve() call. optional double max_time_in_seconds = 36 [default = inf]; // Maximum time allowed in deterministic time to solve a problem. // The deterministic time should be correlated with the real time used by the // solver, the time unit being as close as possible to a second. optional double max_deterministic_time = 67 [default = inf]; // Stops after that number of batches has been scheduled. This only make sense // when interleave_search is true. optional int32 max_num_deterministic_batches = 291 [default = 0]; // Maximum number of conflicts allowed to solve a problem. // // TODO(user): Maybe change the way the conflict limit is enforced? // currently it is enforced on each independent internal SAT solve, rather // than on the overall number of conflicts across all solves. So in the // context of an optimization problem, this is not really usable directly by a // client. optional int64 max_number_of_conflicts = 37 [default = 0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF]; // kint64max // Maximum memory allowed for the whole thread containing the solver. The // solver will abort as soon as it detects that this limit is crossed. As a // result, this limit is approximative, but usually the solver will not go too // much over. // // TODO(user): This is only used by the pure SAT solver, generalize to CP-SAT. optional int64 max_memory_in_mb = 40 [default = 10000]; // Stop the search when the gap between the best feasible objective (O) and // our best objective bound (B) is smaller than a limit. // The exact definition is: // - Absolute: abs(O - B) // - Relative: abs(O - B) / max(1, abs(O)). // // Important: The relative gap depends on the objective offset! If you // artificially shift the objective, you will get widely different value of // the relative gap. // // Note that if the gap is reached, the search status will be OPTIMAL. But // one can check the best objective bound to see the actual gap. // // If the objective is integer, then any absolute gap < 1 will lead to a true // optimal. If the objective is floating point, a gap of zero make little // sense so is is why we use a non-zero default value. At the end of the // search, we will display a warning if OPTIMAL is reported yet the gap is // greater than this absolute gap. optional double absolute_gap_limit = 159 [default = 1e-4]; optional double relative_gap_limit = 160 [default = 0.0]; // ========================================================================== // Other parameters // ========================================================================== // At the beginning of each solve, the random number generator used in some // part of the solver is reinitialized to this seed. If you change the random // seed, the solver may make different choices during the solving process. // // For some problems, the running time may vary a lot depending on small // change in the solving algorithm. Running the solver with different seeds // enables to have more robust benchmarks when evaluating new features. optional int32 random_seed = 31 [default = 1]; // This is mainly here to test the solver variability. Note that in tests, if // not explicitly set to false, all 3 options will be set to true so that // clients do not rely on the solver returning a specific solution if they are // many equivalent optimal solutions. optional bool permute_variable_randomly = 178 [default = false]; optional bool permute_presolve_constraint_order = 179 [default = false]; optional bool use_absl_random = 180 [default = false]; // Whether the solver should log the search progress. This is the maing // logging parameter and if this is false, none of the logging (callbacks, // log_to_stdout, log_to_response, ...) will do anything. optional bool log_search_progress = 41 [default = false]; // Whether the solver should display per sub-solver search statistics. // This is only useful is log_search_progress is set to true, and if the // number of search workers is > 1. Note that in all case we display a bit // of stats with one line per subsolver. optional bool log_subsolver_statistics = 189 [default = false]; // Add a prefix to all logs. optional string log_prefix = 185 [default = ""]; // Log to stdout. optional bool log_to_stdout = 186 [default = true]; // Log to response proto. optional bool log_to_response = 187 [default = false]; // Experimental. // // This is an old experiment, it might cause crashes in multi-thread and you // should double check the solver result. It can still be used if you only // care about feasible solutions (these are checked) and it gives good result // on your problem. We might revive it at some point. // // Whether to use pseudo-Boolean resolution to analyze a conflict. Note that // this option only make sense if your problem is modelized using // pseudo-Boolean constraints. If you only have clauses, this shouldn't change // anything (except slow the solver down). optional bool use_pb_resolution = 43 [default = false]; // A different algorithm during PB resolution. It minimizes the number of // calls to ReduceCoefficients() which can be time consuming. However, the // search space will be different and if the coefficients are large, this may // lead to integer overflows that could otherwise be prevented. optional bool minimize_reduction_during_pb_resolution = 48 [default = false]; // Whether or not the assumption levels are taken into account during the LBD // computation. According to the reference below, not counting them improves // the solver in some situation. Note that this only impact solves under // assumptions. // // Gilles Audemard, Jean-Marie Lagniez, Laurent Simon, "Improving Glucose for // Incremental SAT Solving with Assumptions: Application to MUS Extraction" // Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing - SAT 2013, Lecture Notes // in Computer Science Volume 7962, 2013, pp 309-317. optional bool count_assumption_levels_in_lbd = 49 [default = true]; // ========================================================================== // Presolve // ========================================================================== // During presolve, only try to perform the bounded variable elimination (BVE) // of a variable x if the number of occurrences of x times the number of // occurrences of not(x) is not greater than this parameter. optional int32 presolve_bve_threshold = 54 [default = 500]; // Internal parameter. During BVE, if we eliminate a variable x, by default we // will push all clauses containing x and all clauses containing not(x) to the // postsolve. However, it is possible to write the postsolve code so that only // one such set is needed. The idea is that, if we push the set containing a // literal l, is to set l to false except if it is needed to satisfy one of // the clause in the set. This is always beneficial, but for historical // reason, not all our postsolve algorithm support this. optional bool filter_sat_postsolve_clauses = 324 [default = false]; // During presolve, we apply BVE only if this weight times the number of // clauses plus the number of clause literals is not increased. optional int32 presolve_bve_clause_weight = 55 [default = 3]; // The maximum "deterministic" time limit to spend in probing. A value of // zero will disable the probing. // // TODO(user): Clean up. The first one is used in CP-SAT, the other in pure // SAT presolve. optional double probing_deterministic_time_limit = 226 [default = 1.0]; optional double presolve_probing_deterministic_time_limit = 57 [default = 30.0]; // Whether we use an heuristic to detect some basic case of blocked clause // in the SAT presolve. optional bool presolve_blocked_clause = 88 [default = true]; // Whether or not we use Bounded Variable Addition (BVA) in the presolve. optional bool presolve_use_bva = 72 [default = true]; // Apply Bounded Variable Addition (BVA) if the number of clauses is reduced // by stricly more than this threshold. The algorithm described in the paper // uses 0, but quick experiments showed that 1 is a good value. It may not be // worth it to add a new variable just to remove one clause. optional int32 presolve_bva_threshold = 73 [default = 1]; // In case of large reduction in a presolve iteration, we perform multiple // presolve iterations. This parameter controls the maximum number of such // presolve iterations. optional int32 max_presolve_iterations = 138 [default = 3]; // Whether we presolve the cp_model before solving it. optional bool cp_model_presolve = 86 [default = true]; // How much effort do we spend on probing. 0 disables it completely. optional int32 cp_model_probing_level = 110 [default = 2]; // Whether we also use the sat presolve when cp_model_presolve is true. optional bool cp_model_use_sat_presolve = 93 [default = true]; // If we try to load at most ones and exactly ones constraints when running // the pure SAT presolve. Or if we just ignore them. // // If one detects at_most_one via merge_at_most_one_work_limit or exactly one // with find_clauses_that_are_exactly_one, it might be good to also set this // to true. optional bool load_at_most_ones_in_sat_presolve = 335 [default = false]; // If cp_model_presolve is true and there is a large proportion of fixed // variable after the first model copy, remap all the model to a dense set of // variable before the full presolve even starts. This should help for LNS on // large models. optional bool remove_fixed_variables_early = 310 [default = true]; // If true, we detect variable that are unique to a table constraint and only // there to encode a cost on each tuple. This is usually the case when a WCSP // (weighted constraint program) is encoded into CP-SAT format. // // This can lead to a dramatic speed-up for such problems but is still // experimental at this point. optional bool detect_table_with_cost = 216 [default = false]; // How much we try to "compress" a table constraint. Compressing more leads to // less Booleans and faster propagation but can reduced the quality of the lp // relaxation. Values goes from 0 to 3 where we always try to fully compress a // table. At 2, we try to automatically decide if it is worth it. optional int32 table_compression_level = 217 [default = 2]; // If true, expand all_different constraints that are not permutations. // Permutations (#Variables = #Values) are always expanded. optional bool expand_alldiff_constraints = 170 [default = false]; // Max domain size for all_different constraints to be expanded. optional int32 max_alldiff_domain_size = 320 [default = 256]; // If true, expand the reservoir constraints by creating booleans for all // possible precedences between event and encoding the constraint. optional bool expand_reservoir_constraints = 182 [default = true]; // Max domain size for expanding linear2 constraints (ax + by ==/!= c). optional int32 max_domain_size_for_linear2_expansion = 340 [default = 8]; // Mainly useful for testing. // // If this and expand_reservoir_constraints is true, we use a different // encoding of the reservoir constraint using circuit instead of precedences. // Note that this is usually slower, but can exercise different part of the // solver. Note that contrary to the precedence encoding, this easily support // variable demands. // // WARNING: with this encoding, the constraint takes a slightly different // meaning. There must exist a permutation of the events occurring at the same // time such that the level is within the reservoir after each of these events // (in this permuted order). So we cannot have +100 and -100 at the same time // if the level must be between 0 and 10 (as authorized by the reservoir // constraint). optional bool expand_reservoir_using_circuit = 288 [default = false]; // Encore cumulative with fixed demands and capacity as a reservoir // constraint. The only reason you might want to do that is to test the // reservoir propagation code! optional bool encode_cumulative_as_reservoir = 287 [default = false]; // If the number of expressions in the lin_max is less that the max size // parameter, model expansion replaces target = max(xi) by linear constraint // with the introduction of new booleans bi such that bi => target == xi. // // This is mainly for experimenting compared to a custom lin_max propagator. optional int32 max_lin_max_size_for_expansion = 280 [default = 0]; // If true, it disable all constraint expansion. // This should only be used to test the presolve of expanded constraints. optional bool disable_constraint_expansion = 181 [default = false]; // Linear constraint with a complex right hand side (more than a single // interval) need to be expanded, there is a couple of way to do that. optional bool encode_complex_linear_constraint_with_integer = 223 [default = false]; // During presolve, we use a maximum clique heuristic to merge together // no-overlap constraints or at most one constraints. This code can be slow, // so we have a limit in place on the number of explored nodes in the // underlying graph. The internal limit is an int64, but we use double here to // simplify manual input. optional double merge_no_overlap_work_limit = 145 [default = 1e12]; optional double merge_at_most_one_work_limit = 146 [default = 1e8]; // How much substitution (also called free variable aggregation in MIP // litterature) should we perform at presolve. This currently only concerns // variable appearing only in linear constraints. For now the value 0 turns it // off and any positive value performs substitution. optional int32 presolve_substitution_level = 147 [default = 1]; // If true, we will extract from linear constraints, enforcement literals of // the form "integer variable at bound => simplified constraint". This should // always be beneficial except that we don't always handle them as efficiently // as we could for now. This causes problem on manna81.mps (LP relaxation not // as tight it seems) and on neos-3354841-apure.mps.gz (too many literals // created this way). optional bool presolve_extract_integer_enforcement = 174 [default = false]; // A few presolve operations involve detecting constraints included in other // constraint. Since there can be a quadratic number of such pairs, and // processing them usually involve scanning them, the complexity of these // operations can be big. This enforce a local deterministic limit on the // number of entries scanned. Default is 1e8. // // A value of zero will disable these presolve rules completely. optional int64 presolve_inclusion_work_limit = 201 [default = 100000000]; // If true, we don't keep names in our internal copy of the user given model. optional bool ignore_names = 202 [default = true]; // Run a max-clique code amongst all the x != y we can find and try to infer // set of variables that are all different. This allows to close neos16.mps // for instance. Note that we only run this code if there is no all_diff // already in the model so that if a user want to add some all_diff, we assume // it is well done and do not try to add more. // // This will also detect and add no_overlap constraints, if all the relations // x != y have "offsets" between them. I.e. x > y + offset. optional bool infer_all_diffs = 233 [default = true]; // Try to find large "rectangle" in the linear constraint matrix with // identical lines. If such rectangle is big enough, we can introduce a new // integer variable corresponding to the common expression and greatly reduce // the number of non-zero. optional bool find_big_linear_overlap = 234 [default = true]; // By propagating (or just using binary clauses), one can detect that all // literal of a clause are actually in at most one relationship. Thus this // constraint can be promoted to an exactly one constraints. This should help // as it convey more structure. Note that this is expensive, so we have a // deterministic limit in place. optional bool find_clauses_that_are_exactly_one = 333 [default = true]; // ========================================================================== // Inprocessing // ========================================================================== // Enable or disable "inprocessing" which is some SAT presolving done at // each restart to the root level. optional bool use_sat_inprocessing = 163 [default = true]; // Proportion of deterministic time we should spend on inprocessing. // At each "restart", if the proportion is below this ratio, we will do some // inprocessing, otherwise, we skip it for this restart. optional double inprocessing_dtime_ratio = 273 [default = 0.2]; // The amount of dtime we should spend on probing for each inprocessing round. optional double inprocessing_probing_dtime = 274 [default = 1.0]; // Parameters for an heuristic similar to the one described in "An effective // learnt clause minimization approach for CDCL Sat Solvers", // https://www.ijcai.org/proceedings/2017/0098.pdf // // This is the amount of dtime we should spend on this technique during each // inprocessing phase. // // The minimization technique is the same as the one used to minimize core in // max-sat. We also minimize problem clauses and not just the learned clause // that we keep forever like in the paper. optional double inprocessing_minimization_dtime = 275 [default = 1.0]; optional bool inprocessing_minimization_use_conflict_analysis = 297 [default = true]; optional bool inprocessing_minimization_use_all_orderings = 298 [default = false]; // Whether we use the algorithm described in "Clausal Congruence closure", // Armin Biere, Katalin Fazekas, Mathias Fleury, Nils Froleyks, 2024. // // Note that we only have a basic version currently. optional bool inprocessing_use_congruence_closure = 342 [default = true]; // Whether we use the SAT sweeping algorithm described in "Clausal Equivalence // Sweeping", Armin Biere, Katalin Fazekas, Mathias Fleury, Nils Froleyks, // 2025. optional bool inprocessing_use_sat_sweeping = 354 [default = false]; // ========================================================================== // Multithread // ========================================================================== // Specify the number of parallel workers (i.e. threads) to use during search. // This should usually be lower than your number of available cpus + // hyperthread in your machine. // // A value of 0 means the solver will try to use all cores on the machine. // A number of 1 means no parallelism. // // Note that 'num_workers' is the preferred name, but if it is set to zero, // we will still read the deprecated 'num_search_workers'. // // As of 2020-04-10, if you're using SAT via MPSolver (to solve integer // programs) this field is overridden with a value of 8, if the field is not // set *explicitly*. Thus, always set this field explicitly or via // MPSolver::SetNumThreads(). optional int32 num_workers = 206 [default = 0]; optional int32 num_search_workers = 100 [default = 0]; // We distinguish subsolvers that consume a full thread, and the ones that are // always interleaved. If left at zero, we will fix this with a default // formula that depends on num_workers. But if you start modifying what runs, // you might want to fix that to a given value depending on the num_workers // you use. optional int32 num_full_subsolvers = 294 [default = 0]; // In multi-thread, the solver can be mainly seen as a portfolio of solvers // with different parameters. This field indicates the names of the parameters // that are used in multithread. This only applies to "full" subsolvers. // // See cp_model_search.cc to see a list of the names and the default value (if // left empty) that looks like: // - default_lp (linearization_level:1) // - fixed (only if fixed search specified or scheduling) // - no_lp (linearization_level:0) // - max_lp (linearization_level:2) // - pseudo_costs (only if objective, change search heuristic) // - reduced_costs (only if objective, change search heuristic) // - quick_restart (kind of probing) // - quick_restart_no_lp (kind of probing with linearization_level:0) // - lb_tree_search (to improve lower bound, MIP like tree search) // - probing (continuous probing and shaving) // // Also, note that some set of parameters will be ignored if they do not make // sense. For instance if there is no objective, pseudo_cost or reduced_cost // search will be ignored. Core based search will only work if the objective // has many terms. If there is no fixed strategy fixed will be ignored. And so // on. // // The order is important, as only the first num_full_subsolvers will be // scheduled. You can see in the log which one are selected for a given run. repeated string subsolvers = 207; // A convenient way to add more workers types. // These will be added at the beginning of the list. repeated string extra_subsolvers = 219; // Rather than fully specifying subsolvers, it is often convenient to just // remove the ones that are not useful on a given problem or only keep // specific ones for testing. Each string is interpreted as a "glob", so we // support '*' and '?'. // // The way this work is that we will only accept a name that match a filter // pattern (if non-empty) and do not match an ignore pattern. Note also that // these fields work on LNS or LS names even if these are currently not // specified via the subsolvers field. repeated string ignore_subsolvers = 209; repeated string filter_subsolvers = 293; // It is possible to specify additional subsolver configuration. These can be // referred by their params.name() in the fields above. Note that only the // specified field will "overwrite" the ones of the base parameter. If a // subsolver_params has the name of an existing subsolver configuration, the // named parameters will be merged into the subsolver configuration. repeated SatParameters subsolver_params = 210; // Experimental. If this is true, then we interleave all our major search // strategy and distribute the work amongst num_workers. // // The search is deterministic (independently of num_workers!), and we // schedule and wait for interleave_batch_size task to be completed before // synchronizing and scheduling the next batch of tasks. optional bool interleave_search = 136 [default = false]; optional int32 interleave_batch_size = 134 [default = 0]; // Allows objective sharing between workers. optional bool share_objective_bounds = 113 [default = true]; // Allows sharing of the bounds of modified variables at level 0. optional bool share_level_zero_bounds = 114 [default = true]; // Allows sharing of the bounds on linear2 discovered at level 0. This is // mainly interesting on scheduling type of problems when we branch on // precedences. // // Warning: This currently non-deterministic. optional bool share_linear2_bounds = 326 [default = false]; // Allows sharing of new learned binary clause between workers. optional bool share_binary_clauses = 203 [default = true]; // Allows sharing of short glue clauses between workers. // Implicitly disabled if share_binary_clauses is false. optional bool share_glue_clauses = 285 [default = true]; // Minimize and detect subsumption of shared clauses immediately after they // are imported. optional bool minimize_shared_clauses = 300 [default = true]; // The amount of dtime between each export of shared glue clauses. optional double share_glue_clauses_dtime = 322 [default = 1.0]; // ========================================================================== // Proofs // ========================================================================== // If true, inferred clauses are checked with an LRAT checker as they are // learned, in presolve (reduced to trivial simplifications if // cp_model_presolve is false), and in each worker. As of December 2025, this // only works with pure SAT problems, with // - cp_model_presolve = false, // - linearization_level <= 1, // - symmetry_level <= 1. optional bool check_lrat_proof = 344 [default = false]; // If true, and if output_lrat_proof is true and the problem is UNSAT, check // that the merged proof file is valid, i.e., that clause sharing between // workers is correct. This checks each inferred clause, so you might want to // disable check_lrat_proof to avoid redundant work. As of November 2025, this // only works for pure SAT problems, with num_workers = 1. optional bool check_merged_lrat_proof = 352 [default = false]; // If true, an LRAT proof that all the clauses inferred by the solver are // valid is output to several files (one for presolve -- reduced to trivial // simplifications if cp_model_presolve is false, one per worker, and one for // the merged proof). As of December 2025, this only works for pure SAT // problems, with // - cp_model_presolve = false, // - linearization_level <= 1, // - symmetry_level <= 1. optional bool output_lrat_proof = 345 [default = false]; // If true, and if the problem is UNSAT, a DRAT proof of this UNSAT property // is checked after the solver has finished. As of November 2025, this only // works for pure SAT problems, with // - num_workers = 1, // - cp_model_presolve = false, // - linearization_level <= 1, // - symmetry_level <= 1. optional bool check_drat_proof = 346 [default = false]; // If true, a DRAT proof that all the clauses inferred by the solver are valid // is output to a file. As of December 2025, this only works for pure SAT // problems, with // - num_workers = 1, // - cp_model_presolve = false, // - linearization_level <= 1, // - symmetry_level <= 1. optional bool output_drat_proof = 347 [default = false]; // The maximum time allowed to check the DRAT proof (this can take more time // than the solve itself). Only used if check_drat_proof is true. optional double max_drat_time_in_seconds = 348 [default = inf]; // ========================================================================== // Debugging parameters // ========================================================================== // We have two different postsolve code. The default one should be better and // it allows for a more powerful presolve, but it can be useful to postsolve // using the full solver instead. optional bool debug_postsolve_with_full_solver = 162 [default = false]; // If positive, try to stop just after that many presolve rules have been // applied. This is mainly useful for debugging presolve. optional int32 debug_max_num_presolve_operations = 151 [default = 0]; // Crash if we do not manage to complete the hint into a full solution. optional bool debug_crash_on_bad_hint = 195 [default = false]; // Crash if presolve breaks a feasible hint. optional bool debug_crash_if_presolve_breaks_hint = 306 [default = false]; // Crash if the LRAT UNSAT proof is invalid. optional bool debug_crash_if_lrat_check_fails = 339 [default = false]; // ========================================================================== // Max-sat parameters // ========================================================================== // For an optimization problem, whether we follow some hints in order to find // a better first solution. For a variable with hint, the solver will always // try to follow the hint. It will revert to the variable_branching default // otherwise. optional bool use_optimization_hints = 35 [default = true]; // If positive, we spend some effort on each core: // - At level 1, we use a simple heuristic to try to minimize an UNSAT core. // - At level 2, we use propagation to minimize the core but also identify // literal in at most one relationship in this core. optional int32 core_minimization_level = 50 [default = 2]; // Whether we try to find more independent cores for a given set of // assumptions in the core based max-SAT algorithms. optional bool find_multiple_cores = 84 [default = true]; // If true, when the max-sat algo find a core, we compute the minimal number // of literals in the core that needs to be true to have a feasible solution. // This is also called core exhaustion in more recent max-SAT papers. optional bool cover_optimization = 89 [default = true]; // In what order do we add the assumptions in a core-based max-sat algorithm enum MaxSatAssumptionOrder { DEFAULT_ASSUMPTION_ORDER = 0; ORDER_ASSUMPTION_BY_DEPTH = 1; ORDER_ASSUMPTION_BY_WEIGHT = 2; } optional MaxSatAssumptionOrder max_sat_assumption_order = 51 [default = DEFAULT_ASSUMPTION_ORDER]; // If true, adds the assumption in the reverse order of the one defined by // max_sat_assumption_order. optional bool max_sat_reverse_assumption_order = 52 [default = false]; // What stratification algorithm we use in the presence of weight. enum MaxSatStratificationAlgorithm { // No stratification of the problem. STRATIFICATION_NONE = 0; // Start with literals with the highest weight, and when SAT, add the // literals with the next highest weight and so on. STRATIFICATION_DESCENT = 1; // Start with all literals. Each time a core is found with a given minimum // weight, do not consider literals with a lower weight for the next core // computation. If the subproblem is SAT, do like in STRATIFICATION_DESCENT // and just add the literals with the next highest weight. STRATIFICATION_ASCENT = 2; } optional MaxSatStratificationAlgorithm max_sat_stratification = 53 [default = STRATIFICATION_DESCENT]; // ========================================================================== // Constraint programming parameters // ========================================================================== // Some search decisions might cause a really large number of propagations to // happen when integer variables with large domains are only reduced by 1 at // each step. If we propagate more than the number of variable times this // parameters we try to take counter-measure. Setting this to 0.0 disable this // feature. // // TODO(user): Setting this to something like 10 helps in most cases, but the // code is currently buggy and can cause the solve to enter a bad state where // no progress is made. optional double propagation_loop_detection_factor = 221 [default = 10.0]; // When this is true, then a disjunctive constraint will try to use the // precedence relations between time intervals to propagate their bounds // further. For instance if task A and B are both before C and task A and B // are in disjunction, then we can deduce that task C must start after // duration(A) + duration(B) instead of simply max(duration(A), duration(B)), // provided that the start time for all task was currently zero. // // This always result in better propagation, but it is usually slow, so // depending on the problem, turning this off may lead to a faster solution. optional bool use_precedences_in_disjunctive_constraint = 74 [default = true]; // At root level, we might compute the transitive closure of "precedences" // relations so that we can exploit that in scheduling problems. Setting this // to zero disable the feature. optional int32 transitive_precedences_work_limit = 327 [default = 1000000]; // Create one literal for each disjunction of two pairs of tasks. This slows // down the solve time, but improves the lower bound of the objective in the // makespan case. This will be triggered if the number of intervals is less or // equal than the parameter and if use_strong_propagation_in_disjunctive is // true. optional int32 max_size_to_create_precedence_literals_in_disjunctive = 229 [default = 60]; // Enable stronger and more expensive propagation on no_overlap constraint. optional bool use_strong_propagation_in_disjunctive = 230 [default = false]; // Whether we try to branch on decision "interval A before interval B" rather // than on intervals bounds. This usually works better, but slow down a bit // the time to find the first solution. // // These parameters are still EXPERIMENTAL, the result should be correct, but // it some corner cases, they can cause some failing CHECK in the solver. optional bool use_dynamic_precedence_in_disjunctive = 263 [default = false]; optional bool use_dynamic_precedence_in_cumulative = 268 [default = false]; // When this is true, the cumulative constraint is reinforced with overload // checking, i.e., an additional level of reasoning based on energy. This // additional level supplements the default level of reasoning as well as // timetable edge finding. // // This always result in better propagation, but it is usually slow, so // depending on the problem, turning this off may lead to a faster solution. optional bool use_overload_checker_in_cumulative = 78 [default = false]; // Enable a heuristic to solve cumulative constraints using a modified energy // constraint. We modify the usual energy definition by applying a // super-additive function (also called "conservative scale" or "dual-feasible // function") to the demand and the durations of the tasks. // // This heuristic is fast but for most problems it does not help much to find // a solution. optional bool use_conservative_scale_overload_checker = 286 [default = false]; // When this is true, the cumulative constraint is reinforced with timetable // edge finding, i.e., an additional level of reasoning based on the // conjunction of energy and mandatory parts. This additional level // supplements the default level of reasoning as well as overload_checker. // // This always result in better propagation, but it is usually slow, so // depending on the problem, turning this off may lead to a faster solution. optional bool use_timetable_edge_finding_in_cumulative = 79 [default = false]; // Max number of intervals for the timetable_edge_finding algorithm to // propagate. A value of 0 disables the constraint. optional int32 max_num_intervals_for_timetable_edge_finding = 260 [default = 100]; // If true, detect and create constraint for integer variable that are "after" // a set of intervals in the same cumulative constraint. // // Experimental: by default we just use "direct" precedences. If // exploit_all_precedences is true, we explore the full precedence graph. This // assumes we have a DAG otherwise it fails. optional bool use_hard_precedences_in_cumulative = 215 [default = false]; optional bool exploit_all_precedences = 220 [default = false]; // When this is true, the cumulative constraint is reinforced with propagators // from the disjunctive constraint to improve the inference on a set of tasks // that are disjunctive at the root of the problem. This additional level // supplements the default level of reasoning. // // Propagators of the cumulative constraint will not be used at all if all the // tasks are disjunctive at root node. // // This always result in better propagation, but it is usually slow, so // depending on the problem, turning this off may lead to a faster solution. optional bool use_disjunctive_constraint_in_cumulative = 80 [default = true]; // If less than this number of boxes are present in a no-overlap 2d, we // create 4 Booleans per pair of boxes: // - Box 2 is after Box 1 on x. // - Box 1 is after Box 2 on x. // - Box 2 is after Box 1 on y. // - Box 1 is after Box 2 on y. // // Note that at least one of them must be true, and at most one on x and one // on y can be true. // // This can significantly help in closing small problem. The SAT reasoning // can be a lot more powerful when we take decision on such positional // relations. optional int32 no_overlap_2d_boolean_relations_limit = 321 [default = 10]; // When this is true, the no_overlap_2d constraint is reinforced with // propagators from the cumulative constraints. It consists of ignoring the // position of rectangles in one position and projecting the no_overlap_2d on // the other dimension to create a cumulative constraint. This is done on both // axis. This additional level supplements the default level of reasoning. optional bool use_timetabling_in_no_overlap_2d = 200 [default = false]; // When this is true, the no_overlap_2d constraint is reinforced with // energetic reasoning. This additional level supplements the default level of // reasoning. optional bool use_energetic_reasoning_in_no_overlap_2d = 213 [default = false]; // When this is true, the no_overlap_2d constraint is reinforced with // an energetic reasoning that uses an area-based energy. This can be combined // with the two other overlap heuristics above. optional bool use_area_energetic_reasoning_in_no_overlap_2d = 271 [default = false]; optional bool use_try_edge_reasoning_in_no_overlap_2d = 299 [default = false]; // If the number of pairs to look is below this threshold, do an extra step of // propagation in the no_overlap_2d constraint by looking at all pairs of // intervals. optional int32 max_pairs_pairwise_reasoning_in_no_overlap_2d = 276 [default = 1250]; // Detects when the space where items of a no_overlap_2d constraint can placed // is disjoint (ie., fixed boxes split the domain). When it is the case, we // can introduce a boolean for each pair encoding whether // the item is in the component or not. Then we replace the original // no_overlap_2d constraint by one no_overlap_2d constraint for each // component, with the new booleans as the enforcement_literal of the // intervals. This is equivalent to expanding the original no_overlap_2d // constraint into a bin packing problem with each connected component being a // bin. This heuristic is only done when the number of regions to split // is less than this parameter and <= 1 disables it. optional int32 maximum_regions_to_split_in_disconnected_no_overlap_2d = 315 [default = 0]; // When set, this activates a propagator for the no_overlap_2d constraint that // uses any eventual linear constraints of the model in the form // `{start interval 1} - {end interval 2} + c*w <= ub` to detect that two // intervals must overlap in one dimension for some values of `w`. This is // particularly useful for problems where the distance between two boxes is // part of the model. optional bool use_linear3_for_no_overlap_2d_precedences = 323 [default = true]; // When set, it activates a few scheduling parameters to improve the lower // bound of scheduling problems. This is only effective with multiple workers // as it modifies the reduced_cost, lb_tree_search, and probing workers. optional bool use_dual_scheduling_heuristics = 214 [default = true]; // Turn on extra propagation for the circuit constraint. // This can be quite slow. optional bool use_all_different_for_circuit = 311 [default = false]; // If the size of a subset of nodes of a RoutesConstraint is less than this // value, use linear constraints of size 1 and 2 (such as capacity and time // window constraints) enforced by the arc literals to compute cuts for this // subset (unless the subset size is less than // routing_cut_subset_size_for_tight_binary_relation_bound, in which case the // corresponding algorithm is used instead). The algorithm for these cuts has // a O(n^3) complexity, where n is the subset size. Hence the value of this // parameter should not be too large (e.g. 10 or 20). optional int32 routing_cut_subset_size_for_binary_relation_bound = 312 [default = 0]; // Similar to above, but with a different algorithm producing better cuts, at // the price of a higher O(2^n) complexity, where n is the subset size. Hence // the value of this parameter should be small (e.g. less than 10). optional int32 routing_cut_subset_size_for_tight_binary_relation_bound = 313 [default = 0]; // Similar to above, but with an even stronger algorithm in O(n!). We try to // be defensive and abort early or not run that often. Still the value of // that parameter shouldn't really be much more than 10. optional int32 routing_cut_subset_size_for_exact_binary_relation_bound = 316 [default = 8]; // Similar to routing_cut_subset_size_for_exact_binary_relation_bound but // use a bound based on shortest path distances (which respect triangular // inequality). This allows to derive bounds that are valid for any superset // of a given subset. This is slow, so it shouldn't really be larger than 10. optional int32 routing_cut_subset_size_for_shortest_paths_bound = 318 [default = 8]; // The amount of "effort" to spend in dynamic programming for computing // routing cuts. This is in term of basic operations needed by the algorithm // in the worst case, so a value like 1e8 should take less than a second to // compute. optional double routing_cut_dp_effort = 314 [default = 1e7]; // If the length of an infeasible path is less than this value, a cut will be // added to exclude it. optional int32 routing_cut_max_infeasible_path_length = 317 [default = 6]; // The search branching will be used to decide how to branch on unfixed nodes. enum SearchBranching { // Try to fix all literals using the underlying SAT solver's heuristics, // then generate and fix literals until integer variables are fixed. New // literals on integer variables are generated using the fixed search // specified by the user or our default one. AUTOMATIC_SEARCH = 0; // If used then all decisions taken by the solver are made using a fixed // order as specified in the API or in the CpModelProto search_strategy // field. FIXED_SEARCH = 1; // Simple portfolio search used by LNS workers. PORTFOLIO_SEARCH = 2; // If used, the solver will use heuristics from the LP relaxation. This // exploit the reduced costs of the variables in the relaxation. LP_SEARCH = 3; // If used, the solver uses the pseudo costs for branching. Pseudo costs // are computed using the historical change in objective bounds when some // decision are taken. Note that this works whether we use an LP or not. PSEUDO_COST_SEARCH = 4; // Mainly exposed here for testing. This quickly tries a lot of randomized // heuristics with a low conflict limit. It usually provides a good first // solution. PORTFOLIO_WITH_QUICK_RESTART_SEARCH = 5; // Mainly used internally. This is like FIXED_SEARCH, except we follow the // solution_hint field of the CpModelProto rather than using the information // provided in the search_strategy. HINT_SEARCH = 6; // Similar to FIXED_SEARCH, but differ in how the variable not listed into // the fixed search heuristics are branched on. This will always start the // search tree according to the specified fixed search strategy, but will // complete it using the default automatic search. PARTIAL_FIXED_SEARCH = 7; // Randomized search. Used to increase entropy in the search. RANDOMIZED_SEARCH = 8; } optional SearchBranching search_branching = 82 [default = AUTOMATIC_SEARCH]; // Conflict limit used in the phase that exploit the solution hint. optional int32 hint_conflict_limit = 153 [default = 10]; // If true, the solver tries to repair the solution given in the hint. This // search terminates after the 'hint_conflict_limit' is reached and the solver // switches to regular search. If false, then we do a FIXED_SEARCH using the // hint until the hint_conflict_limit is reached. optional bool repair_hint = 167 [default = false]; // If true, variables appearing in the solution hints will be fixed to their // hinted value. optional bool fix_variables_to_their_hinted_value = 192 [default = false]; // If true, search will continuously probe Boolean variables, and integer // variable bounds. This parameter is set to true in parallel on the probing // worker. optional bool use_probing_search = 176 [default = false]; // Use extended probing (probe bool_or, at_most_one, exactly_one). optional bool use_extended_probing = 269 [default = true]; // How many combinations of pairs or triplets of variables we want to scan. optional int32 probing_num_combinations_limit = 272 [default = 20000]; // Add a shaving phase (where the solver tries to prove that the lower or // upper bound of a variable are infeasible) to the probing search. (<= 0 // disables it). optional double shaving_deterministic_time_in_probing_search = 204 [default = 0.001]; // Specifies the amount of deterministic time spent of each try at shaving a // bound in the shaving search. optional double shaving_search_deterministic_time = 205 [default = 0.1]; // Specifies the threshold between two modes in the shaving procedure. // If the range of the variable/objective is less than this threshold, then // the shaving procedure will try to remove values one by one. Otherwise, it // will try to remove one range at a time. optional int64 shaving_search_threshold = 290 [default = 64]; // If true, search will search in ascending max objective value (when // minimizing) starting from the lower bound of the objective. optional bool use_objective_lb_search = 228 [default = false]; // This search differs from the previous search as it will not use assumptions // to bound the objective, and it will recreate a full model with the // hardcoded objective value. optional bool use_objective_shaving_search = 253 [default = false]; // This search takes all Boolean or integer variables, and maximize or // minimize them in order to reduce their domain. -1 is automatic, otherwise // value 0 disables it, and 1, 2, or 3 changes something. optional int32 variables_shaving_level = 289 [default = -1]; // The solver ignores the pseudo costs of variables with number of recordings // less than this threshold. optional int64 pseudo_cost_reliability_threshold = 123 [default = 100]; // The default optimization method is a simple "linear scan", each time trying // to find a better solution than the previous one. If this is true, then we // use a core-based approach (like in max-SAT) when we try to increase the // lower bound instead. optional bool optimize_with_core = 83 [default = false]; // Do a more conventional tree search (by opposition to SAT based one) where // we keep all the explored node in a tree. This is meant to be used in a // portfolio and focus on improving the objective lower bound. Keeping the // whole tree allow us to report a better objective lower bound coming from // the worst open node in the tree. optional bool optimize_with_lb_tree_search = 188 [default = false]; // Experimental. Save the current LP basis at each node of the search tree so // that when we jump around, we can load it and reduce the number of LP // iterations needed. // // It currently works okay if we do not change the lp with cuts or // simplification... More work is needed to make it robust in all cases. optional bool save_lp_basis_in_lb_tree_search = 284 [default = false]; // If non-negative, perform a binary search on the objective variable in order // to find an [min, max] interval outside of which the solver proved unsat/sat // under this amount of conflict. This can quickly reduce the objective domain // on some problems. optional int32 binary_search_num_conflicts = 99 [default = -1]; // This has no effect if optimize_with_core is false. If true, use a different // core-based algorithm similar to the max-HS algo for max-SAT. This is a // hybrid MIP/CP approach and it uses a MIP solver in addition to the CP/SAT // one. This is also related to the PhD work of tobyodavies@ // "Automatic Logic-Based Benders Decomposition with MiniZinc" // http://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI17/paper/view/14489 optional bool optimize_with_max_hs = 85 [default = false]; // Parameters for an heuristic similar to the one described in the paper: // "Feasibility Jump: an LP-free Lagrangian MIP heuristic", Bjørnar // Luteberget, Giorgio Sartor, 2023, Mathematical Programming Computation. optional bool use_feasibility_jump = 265 [default = true]; // Disable every other type of subsolver, setting this turns CP-SAT into a // pure local-search solver. optional bool use_ls_only = 240 [default = false]; // On each restart, we randomly choose if we use decay (with this parameter) // or no decay. optional double feasibility_jump_decay = 242 [default = 0.95]; // How much do we linearize the problem in the local search code. optional int32 feasibility_jump_linearization_level = 257 [default = 2]; // This is a factor that directly influence the work before each restart. // Increasing it leads to longer restart. optional int32 feasibility_jump_restart_factor = 258 [default = 1]; // How much dtime for each LS batch. optional double feasibility_jump_batch_dtime = 292 [default = 0.1]; // Probability for a variable to have a non default value upon restarts or // perturbations. optional double feasibility_jump_var_randomization_probability = 247 [default = 0.05]; // Max distance between the default value and the pertubated value relative to // the range of the domain of the variable. optional double feasibility_jump_var_perburbation_range_ratio = 248 [default = 0.2]; // When stagnating, feasibility jump will either restart from a default // solution (with some possible randomization), or randomly pertubate the // current solution. This parameter selects the first option. optional bool feasibility_jump_enable_restarts = 250 [default = true]; // Maximum size of no_overlap or no_overlap_2d constraint for a quadratic // expansion. This might look a lot, but by expanding such constraint, we get // a linear time evaluation per single variable moves instead of a slow O(n // log n) one. optional int32 feasibility_jump_max_expanded_constraint_size = 264 [default = 500]; // This will create incomplete subsolvers (that are not LNS subsolvers) // that use the feasibility jump code to find improving solution, treating // the objective improvement as a hard constraint. optional int32 num_violation_ls = 244 [default = 0]; // How long violation_ls should wait before perturbating a solution. optional int32 violation_ls_perturbation_period = 249 [default = 100]; // Probability of using compound move search each restart. // TODO(user): Add reference to paper when published. optional double violation_ls_compound_move_probability = 259 [default = 0.5]; // Enables shared tree search. // If positive, start this many complete worker threads to explore a shared // search tree. These workers communicate objective bounds and simple decision // nogoods relating to the shared prefix of the tree, and will avoid exploring // the same subtrees as one another. // Specifying a negative number uses a heuristic to select an appropriate // number of shared tree workeres based on the total number of workers. optional int32 shared_tree_num_workers = 235 [default = -1]; // Set on shared subtree workers. Users should not set this directly. optional bool use_shared_tree_search = 236 [default = false]; // Minimum restarts before a worker will replace a subtree // that looks "bad" based on the average LBD of learned clauses. optional int32 shared_tree_worker_min_restarts_per_subtree = 282 [default = 1]; // If true, workers share more of the information from their local trail. // Specifically, literals implied by the shared tree decisions. optional bool shared_tree_worker_enable_trail_sharing = 295 [default = true]; // If true, shared tree workers share their target phase when returning an // assigned subtree for the next worker to use. optional bool shared_tree_worker_enable_phase_sharing = 304 [default = true]; // How many open leaf nodes should the shared tree maintain per worker. optional double shared_tree_open_leaves_per_worker = 281 [default = 2.0]; // In order to limit total shared memory and communication overhead, limit the // total number of nodes that may be generated in the shared tree. If the // shared tree runs out of unassigned leaves, workers act as portfolio // workers. Note: this limit includes interior nodes, not just leaves. optional int32 shared_tree_max_nodes_per_worker = 238 [default = 10000]; enum SharedTreeSplitStrategy { // Uses the default strategy, currently equivalent to // SPLIT_STRATEGY_DISCREPANCY. SPLIT_STRATEGY_AUTO = 0; // Only accept splits if the node to be split's depth+discrepancy is minimal // for the desired number of leaves. // The preferred child for discrepancy calculation is the one with the // lowest objective lower bound or the original branch direction if the // bounds are equal. This rule allows twice as many workers to work in the // preferred subtree as non-preferred. SPLIT_STRATEGY_DISCREPANCY = 1; // Only split nodes with an objective lb equal to the global lb. If there is // no objective, this is equivalent to SPLIT_STRATEGY_FIRST_PROPOSAL. SPLIT_STRATEGY_OBJECTIVE_LB = 2; // Attempt to keep the shared tree balanced. SPLIT_STRATEGY_BALANCED_TREE = 3; // Workers race to split their subtree, the winner's proposal is accepted. SPLIT_STRATEGY_FIRST_PROPOSAL = 4; } optional SharedTreeSplitStrategy shared_tree_split_strategy = 239 [default = SPLIT_STRATEGY_AUTO]; // How much deeper compared to the ideal max depth of the tree is considered // "balanced" enough to still accept a split. Without such a tolerance, // sometimes the tree can only be split by a single worker, and they may not // generate a split for some time. In contrast, with a tolerance of 1, at // least half of all workers should be able to split the tree as soon as a // split becomes required. This only has an effect on // SPLIT_STRATEGY_BALANCED_TREE and SPLIT_STRATEGY_DISCREPANCY. optional int32 shared_tree_balance_tolerance = 305 [default = 1]; // How much dtime a worker will wait between proposing splits. // This limits the contention in splitting the shared tree, and also reduces // the number of too-easy subtrees that are generates. optional double shared_tree_split_min_dtime = 328 [default = 0.1]; // Whether we enumerate all solutions of a problem without objective. // // WARNING: // - This can be used with num_workers > 1 but then each solutions can be // found more than once, so it is up to the client to deduplicate them. // - If keep_all_feasible_solutions_in_presolve is unset, we will set it to // true as otherwise, many feasible solution can just be removed by the // presolve. It is still possible to manually set this to false if one only // wants to enumerate all solutions of the presolved model. optional bool enumerate_all_solutions = 87 [default = false]; // If true, we disable the presolve reductions that remove feasible solutions // from the search space. Such solution are usually dominated by a "better" // solution that is kept, but depending on the situation, we might want to // keep all solutions. // // A trivial example is when a variable is unused. If this is true, then the // presolve will not fix it to an arbitrary value and it will stay in the // search space. optional bool keep_all_feasible_solutions_in_presolve = 173 [default = false]; // If true, add information about the derived variable domains to the // CpSolverResponse. It is an option because it makes the response slighly // bigger and there is a bit more work involved during the postsolve to // construct it, but it should still have a low overhead. See the // tightened_variables field in CpSolverResponse for more details. optional bool fill_tightened_domains_in_response = 132 [default = false]; // If true, the final response addition_solutions field will be filled with // all solutions from our solutions pool. // // Note that if both this field and enumerate_all_solutions is true, we will // copy to the pool all of the solution found. So if solution_pool_size is big // enough, you can get all solutions this way instead of using the solution // callback. // // Note that this only affect the "final" solution, not the one passed to the // solution callbacks. optional bool fill_additional_solutions_in_response = 194 [default = false]; // If true, the solver will add a default integer branching strategy to the // already defined search strategy. If not, some variable might still not be // fixed at the end of the search. For now we assume these variable can just // be set to their lower bound. optional bool instantiate_all_variables = 106 [default = true]; // If true, then the precedences propagator try to detect for each variable if // it has a set of "optional incoming arc" for which at least one of them is // present. This is usually useful to have but can be slow on model with a lot // of precedence. optional bool auto_detect_greater_than_at_least_one_of = 95 [default = true]; // For an optimization problem, stop the solver as soon as we have a solution. optional bool stop_after_first_solution = 98 [default = false]; // Mainly used when improving the presolver. When true, stops the solver after // the presolve is complete (or after loading and root level propagation). optional bool stop_after_presolve = 149 [default = false]; optional bool stop_after_root_propagation = 252 [default = false]; // LNS parameters. // Initial parameters for neighborhood generation. optional double lns_initial_difficulty = 307 [default = 0.5]; optional double lns_initial_deterministic_limit = 308 [default = 0.1]; // Testing parameters used to disable all lns workers. optional bool use_lns = 283 [default = true]; // Experimental parameters to disable everything but lns. optional bool use_lns_only = 101 [default = false]; // Size of the top-n different solutions kept by the solver. // This parameter must be > 0. Currently, having this larger than one mainly // impact the "base" solution chosen for a LNS/LS fragment. optional int32 solution_pool_size = 193 [default = 3]; // If solution_pool_size is <= this, we will use DP to keep a "diverse" set // of solutions (the one further apart via hamming distance) in the pool. // Setting this to large value might be slow, especially if your solution are // large. optional int32 solution_pool_diversity_limit = 329 [default = 10]; // In order to not get stuck in local optima, when this is non-zero, we try to // also work on "older" solutions with a worse objective value so we get a // chance to follow a different LS/LNS trajectory. optional int32 alternative_pool_size = 325 [default = 1]; // Turns on relaxation induced neighborhood generator. optional bool use_rins_lns = 129 [default = true]; // Adds a feasibility pump subsolver along with lns subsolvers. optional bool use_feasibility_pump = 164 [default = true]; // Turns on neighborhood generator based on local branching LP. Based on Huang // et al., "Local Branching Relaxation Heuristics for Integer Linear // Programs", 2023. optional bool use_lb_relax_lns = 255 [default = true]; // Only use lb-relax if we have at least that many workers. optional int32 lb_relax_num_workers_threshold = 296 [default = 16]; // Rounding method to use for feasibility pump. enum FPRoundingMethod { // Rounds to the nearest integer value. NEAREST_INTEGER = 0; // Counts the number of linear constraints restricting the variable in the // increasing values (up locks) and decreasing values (down locks). Rounds // the variable in the direction of lesser locks. LOCK_BASED = 1; // Similar to lock based rounding except this only considers locks of active // constraints from the last lp solve. ACTIVE_LOCK_BASED = 3; // This is expensive rounding algorithm. We round variables one by one and // propagate the bounds in between. If none of the rounded values fall in // the continuous domain specified by lower and upper bound, we use the // current lower/upper bound (whichever one is closest) instead of rounding // the fractional lp solution value. If both the rounded values are in the // domain, we round to nearest integer. PROPAGATION_ASSISTED = 2; } optional FPRoundingMethod fp_rounding = 165 [default = PROPAGATION_ASSISTED]; // If true, registers more lns subsolvers with different parameters. optional bool diversify_lns_params = 137 [default = false]; // Randomize fixed search. optional bool randomize_search = 103 [default = false]; // Search randomization will collect the top // 'search_random_variable_pool_size' valued variables, and pick one randomly. // The value of the variable is specific to each strategy. optional int64 search_random_variable_pool_size = 104 [default = 0]; // Experimental code: specify if the objective pushes all tasks toward the // start of the schedule. optional bool push_all_tasks_toward_start = 262 [default = false]; // If true, we automatically detect variables whose constraint are always // enforced by the same literal and we mark them as optional. This allows // to propagate them as if they were present in some situation. // // TODO(user): This is experimental and seems to lead to wrong optimal in // some situation. It should however gives correct solutions. Fix. optional bool use_optional_variables = 108 [default = false]; // The solver usually exploit the LP relaxation of a model. If this option is // true, then whatever is infered by the LP will be used like an heuristic to // compute EXACT propagation on the IP. So with this option, there is no // numerical imprecision issues. optional bool use_exact_lp_reason = 109 [default = true]; // This can be beneficial if there is a lot of no-overlap constraints but a // relatively low number of different intervals in the problem. Like 1000 // intervals, but 1M intervals in the no-overlap constraints covering them. optional bool use_combined_no_overlap = 133 [default = false]; // All at_most_one constraints with a size <= param will be replaced by a // quadratic number of binary implications. optional int32 at_most_one_max_expansion_size = 270 [default = 3]; // Indicates if the CP-SAT layer should catch Control-C (SIGINT) signals // when calling solve. If set, catching the SIGINT signal will terminate the // search gracefully, as if a time limit was reached. optional bool catch_sigint_signal = 135 [default = true]; // Stores and exploits "implied-bounds" in the solver. That is, relations of // the form literal => (var >= bound). This is currently used to derive // stronger cuts. optional bool use_implied_bounds = 144 [default = true]; // Whether we try to do a few degenerate iteration at the end of an LP solve // to minimize the fractionality of the integer variable in the basis. This // helps on some problems, but not so much on others. It also cost of bit of // time to do such polish step. optional bool polish_lp_solution = 175 [default = false]; // The internal LP tolerances used by CP-SAT. These applies to the internal // and scaled problem. If the domains of your variables are large it might be // good to use lower tolerances. If your problem is binary with low // coefficients, it might be good to use higher ones to speed-up the lp // solves. optional double lp_primal_tolerance = 266 [default = 1e-7]; optional double lp_dual_tolerance = 267 [default = 1e-7]; // Temporary flag util the feature is more mature. This convert intervals to // the newer proto format that support affine start/var/end instead of just // variables. optional bool convert_intervals = 177 [default = true]; // Whether we try to automatically detect the symmetries in a model and // exploit them. Currently, at level 1 we detect them in presolve and try // to fix Booleans. At level 2, we also do some form of dynamic symmetry // breaking during search. At level 3, we also detect symmetries for very // large models, which can be slow. At level 4, we try to break as much // symmetry as possible in presolve. optional int32 symmetry_level = 183 [default = 2]; // When we have symmetry, it is possible to "fold" all variables from the same // orbit into a single variable, while having the same power of LP relaxation. // This can help significantly on symmetric problem. However there is // currently a bit of overhead as the rest of the solver need to do some // translation between the folded LP and the rest of the problem. optional bool use_symmetry_in_lp = 301 [default = false]; // Experimental. This will compute the symmetry of the problem once and for // all. All presolve operations we do should keep the symmetry group intact // or modify it properly. For now we have really little support for this. We // will disable a bunch of presolve operations that could be supported. optional bool keep_symmetry_in_presolve = 303 [default = false]; // Deterministic time limit for symmetry detection. optional double symmetry_detection_deterministic_time_limit = 302 [default = 1.0]; // The new linear propagation code treat all constraints at once and use // an adaptation of Bellman-Ford-Tarjan to propagate constraint in a smarter // order and potentially detect propagation cycle earlier. optional bool new_linear_propagation = 224 [default = true]; // Linear constraints that are not pseudo-Boolean and that are longer than // this size will be split into sqrt(size) intermediate sums in order to have // faster propation in the CP engine. optional int32 linear_split_size = 256 [default = 100]; // ========================================================================== // Linear programming relaxation // ========================================================================== // A non-negative level indicating the type of constraints we consider in the // LP relaxation. At level zero, no LP relaxation is used. At level 1, only // the linear constraint and full encoding are added. At level 2, we also add // all the Boolean constraints. optional int32 linearization_level = 90 [default = 1]; // A non-negative level indicating how much we should try to fully encode // Integer variables as Boolean. optional int32 boolean_encoding_level = 107 [default = 1]; // When loading a*x + b*y ==/!= c when x and y are both fully encoded. // The solver may decide to replace the linear equation by a set of clauses. // This is triggered if the sizes of the domains of x and y are below the // threshold. optional int32 max_domain_size_when_encoding_eq_neq_constraints = 191 [default = 16]; // The limit on the number of cuts in our cut pool. When this is reached we do // not generate cuts anymore. // // TODO(user): We should probably remove this parameters, and just always // generate cuts but only keep the best n or something. optional int32 max_num_cuts = 91 [default = 10000]; // Control the global cut effort. Zero will turn off all cut. For now we just // have one level. Note also that most cuts are only used at linearization // level >= 2. optional int32 cut_level = 196 [default = 1]; // For the cut that can be generated at any level, this control if we only // try to generate them at the root node. optional bool only_add_cuts_at_level_zero = 92 [default = false]; // When the LP objective is fractional, do we add the cut that forces the // linear objective expression to be greater or equal to this fractional value // rounded up? We can always do that since our objective is integer, and // combined with MIR heuristic to reduce the coefficient of such cut, it can // help. optional bool add_objective_cut = 197 [default = false]; // Whether we generate and add Chvatal-Gomory cuts to the LP at root node. // Note that for now, this is not heavily tuned. optional bool add_cg_cuts = 117 [default = true]; // Whether we generate MIR cuts at root node. // Note that for now, this is not heavily tuned. optional bool add_mir_cuts = 120 [default = true]; // Whether we generate Zero-Half cuts at root node. // Note that for now, this is not heavily tuned. optional bool add_zero_half_cuts = 169 [default = true]; // Whether we generate clique cuts from the binary implication graph. Note // that as the search goes on, this graph will contains new binary clauses // learned by the SAT engine. optional bool add_clique_cuts = 172 [default = true]; // Whether we generate RLT cuts. This is still experimental but can help on // binary problem with a lot of clauses of size 3. optional bool add_rlt_cuts = 279 [default = true]; // Cut generator for all diffs can add too many cuts for large all_diff // constraints. This parameter restricts the large all_diff constraints to // have a cut generator. optional int32 max_all_diff_cut_size = 148 [default = 64]; // For the lin max constraints, generates the cuts described in "Strong // mixed-integer programming formulations for trained neural networks" by Ross // Anderson et. (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01988.pdf) optional bool add_lin_max_cuts = 152 [default = true]; // In the integer rounding procedure used for MIR and Gomory cut, the maximum // "scaling" we use (must be positive). The lower this is, the lower the // integer coefficients of the cut will be. Note that cut generated by lower // values are not necessarily worse than cut generated by larger value. There // is no strict dominance relationship. // // Setting this to 2 result in the "strong fractional rouding" of Letchford // and Lodi. optional int32 max_integer_rounding_scaling = 119 [default = 600]; // If true, we start by an empty LP, and only add constraints not satisfied // by the current LP solution batch by batch. A constraint that is only added // like this is known as a "lazy" constraint in the literature, except that we // currently consider all constraints as lazy here. optional bool add_lp_constraints_lazily = 112 [default = true]; // Even at the root node, we do not want to spend too much time on the LP if // it is "difficult". So we solve it in "chunks" of that many iterations. The // solve will be continued down in the tree or the next time we go back to the // root node. optional int32 root_lp_iterations = 227 [default = 2000]; // While adding constraints, skip the constraints which have orthogonality // less than 'min_orthogonality_for_lp_constraints' with already added // constraints during current call. Orthogonality is defined as 1 - // cosine(vector angle between constraints). A value of zero disable this // feature. optional double min_orthogonality_for_lp_constraints = 115 [default = 0.05]; // Max number of time we perform cut generation and resolve the LP at level 0. optional int32 max_cut_rounds_at_level_zero = 154 [default = 1]; // If a constraint/cut in LP is not active for that many consecutive OPTIMAL // solves, remove it from the LP. Note that it might be added again later if // it become violated by the current LP solution. optional int32 max_consecutive_inactive_count = 121 [default = 100]; // These parameters are similar to sat clause management activity parameters. // They are effective only if the number of generated cuts exceed the storage // limit. Default values are based on a few experiments on miplib instances. optional double cut_max_active_count_value = 155 [default = 1e10]; optional double cut_active_count_decay = 156 [default = 0.8]; // Target number of constraints to remove during cleanup. optional int32 cut_cleanup_target = 157 [default = 1000]; // Add that many lazy constraints (or cuts) at once in the LP. Note that at // the beginning of the solve, we do add more than this. optional int32 new_constraints_batch_size = 122 [default = 50]; // All the "exploit_*" parameters below work in the same way: when branching // on an IntegerVariable, these parameters affect the value the variable is // branched on. Currently the first heuristic that triggers win in the order // in which they appear below. // // TODO(user): Maybe do like for the restart algorithm, introduce an enum // and a repeated field that control the order on which these are applied? // If true and the Lp relaxation of the problem has an integer optimal // solution, try to exploit it. Note that since the LP relaxation may not // contain all the constraints, such a solution is not necessarily a solution // of the full problem. optional bool exploit_integer_lp_solution = 94 [default = true]; // If true and the Lp relaxation of the problem has a solution, try to exploit // it. This is same as above except in this case the lp solution might not be // an integer solution. optional bool exploit_all_lp_solution = 116 [default = true]; // When branching on a variable, follow the last best solution value. optional bool exploit_best_solution = 130 [default = false]; // When branching on a variable, follow the last best relaxation solution // value. We use the relaxation with the tightest bound on the objective as // the best relaxation solution. optional bool exploit_relaxation_solution = 161 [default = false]; // When branching an a variable that directly affect the objective, // branch on the value that lead to the best objective first. optional bool exploit_objective = 131 [default = true]; // Infer products of Boolean or of Boolean time IntegerVariable from the // linear constrainst in the problem. This can be used in some cuts, altough // for now we don't really exploit it. optional bool detect_linearized_product = 277 [default = false]; // This should be better on integer problems. // But it is still work in progress. optional bool use_new_integer_conflict_resolution = 336 [default = false]; // If true, and during integer conflict resolution (icr) the 1-UIP is an // integer literal for which we do not have an associated Boolean. Create one. optional bool create_1uip_boolean_during_icr = 341 [default = true]; // ========================================================================== // MIP -> CP-SAT (i.e. IP with integer coeff) conversion parameters that are // used by our automatic "scaling" algorithm. // // Note that it is hard to do a meaningful conversion automatically and if // you have a model with continuous variables, it is best if you scale the // domain of the variable yourself so that you have a relevant precision for // the application at hand. Same for the coefficients and constraint bounds. // ========================================================================== // We need to bound the maximum magnitude of the variables for CP-SAT, and // that is the bound we use. If the MIP model expect larger variable value in // the solution, then the converted model will likely not be relevant. optional double mip_max_bound = 124 [default = 1e7]; // All continuous variable of the problem will be multiplied by this factor. // By default, we don't do any variable scaling and rely on the MIP model to // specify continuous variable domain with the wanted precision. optional double mip_var_scaling = 125 [default = 1.0]; // If this is false, then mip_var_scaling is only applied to variables with // "small" domain. If it is true, we scale all floating point variable // independenlty of their domain. optional bool mip_scale_large_domain = 225 [default = false]; // If true, some continuous variable might be automatically scaled. For now, // this is only the case where we detect that a variable is actually an // integer multiple of a constant. For instance, variables of the form k * 0.5 // are quite frequent, and if we detect this, we will scale such variable // domain by 2 to make it implied integer. optional bool mip_automatically_scale_variables = 166 [default = true]; // If one try to solve a MIP model with CP-SAT, because we assume all variable // to be integer after scaling, we will not necessarily have the correct // optimal. Note however that all feasible solutions are valid since we will // just solve a more restricted version of the original problem. // // This parameters is here to prevent user to think the solution is optimal // when it might not be. One will need to manually set this to false to solve // a MIP model where the optimal might be different. // // Note that this is tested after some MIP presolve steps, so even if not // all original variable are integer, we might end up with a pure IP after // presolve and after implied integer detection. optional bool only_solve_ip = 222 [default = false]; // When scaling constraint with double coefficients to integer coefficients, // we will multiply by a power of 2 and round the coefficients. We will choose // the lowest power such that we have no potential overflow (see // mip_max_activity_exponent) and the worst case constraint activity error // does not exceed this threshold. // // Note that we also detect constraint with rational coefficients and scale // them accordingly when it seems better instead of using a power of 2. // // We also relax all constraint bounds by this absolute value. For pure // integer constraint, if this value if lower than one, this will not change // anything. However it is needed when scaling MIP problems. // // If we manage to scale a constraint correctly, the maximum error we can make // will be twice this value (once for the scaling error and once for the // relaxed bounds). If we are not able to scale that well, we will display // that fact but still scale as best as we can. optional double mip_wanted_precision = 126 [default = 1e-6]; // To avoid integer overflow, we always force the maximum possible constraint // activity (and objective value) according to the initial variable domain to // be smaller than 2 to this given power. Because of this, we cannot always // reach the "mip_wanted_precision" parameter above. // // This can go as high as 62, but some internal algo currently abort early if // they might run into integer overflow, so it is better to keep it a bit // lower than this. optional int32 mip_max_activity_exponent = 127 [default = 53]; // As explained in mip_precision and mip_max_activity_exponent, we cannot // always reach the wanted precision during scaling. We use this threshold to // enphasize in the logs when the precision seems bad. optional double mip_check_precision = 128 [default = 1e-4]; // Even if we make big error when scaling the objective, we can always derive // a correct lower bound on the original objective by using the exact lower // bound on the scaled integer version of the objective. This should be fast, // but if you don't care about having a precise lower bound, you can turn it // off. optional bool mip_compute_true_objective_bound = 198 [default = true]; // Any finite values in the input MIP must be below this threshold, otherwise // the model will be reported invalid. This is needed to avoid floating point // overflow when evaluating bounds * coeff for instance. We are a bit more // defensive, but in practice, users shouldn't use super large values in a // MIP. optional double mip_max_valid_magnitude = 199 [default = 1e20]; // By default, any variable/constraint bound with a finite value and a // magnitude greater than the mip_max_valid_magnitude will result with a // invalid model. This flags change the behavior such that such bounds are // silently transformed to +∞ or -∞. // // It is recommended to keep it at false, and create valid bounds. optional bool mip_treat_high_magnitude_bounds_as_infinity = 278 [default = false]; // Any value in the input mip with a magnitude lower than this will be set to // zero. This is to avoid some issue in LP presolving. optional double mip_drop_tolerance = 232 [default = 1e-16]; // When solving a MIP, we do some basic floating point presolving before // scaling the problem to integer to be handled by CP-SAT. This control how // much of that presolve we do. It can help to better scale floating point // model, but it is not always behaving nicely. optional int32 mip_presolve_level = 261 [default = 2]; }