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@michaelbynum michaelbynum commented Apr 15, 2026

Fixes #3878

Summary/Motivation:

This PR adds a module to devel called initialization. The goal of the module is to provide methods to help initialize nonconvex nonlinear programming problems.

Changes proposed in this PR:

  • Add initialization module
  • Add an initialization method that uses a global optimization solver to find a feasible solution
  • Add an initialization method that builds a linear programming approximation using linear least squares
  • Add an initialization method that builds a piecewise linear approximation and iteratively refines it

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@michaelbynum michaelbynum marked this pull request as ready for review May 19, 2026 19:05
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See #3878 for the changes I had to make to contrib.piecewise.

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Thanks for updating the imports, @blnicho!

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Piecewise Nonlinear => PWL nudge

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