Pyomo and Gurobi: Does Pyomo support solver callbacks to Gurobi? - pyomo

Question

I have started using Pyomo for modelling of MILPs and need to add problem specific cutting planes at certain MILP-feasible solutions. I know that it is possible to do that via callbacks in Gurobi's own gurobipy API. However, since I am using Pyomo atm I would like to stick to it if possible. I have seen that there exist persistent/direct solver IO options, however, I could not figure out how to make use of those options for my purposes.
Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

Callbacks and lazy constraints are currently supported by Pyomo for the Gurobi Persistent solver interface. Here is a small example from the documentation of that interface:
from gurobipy import GRB
import pyomo.environ as pe
from pyomo.core.expr.taylor_series import taylor_series_expansion
m = pe.ConcreteModel()
m.x = pe.Var(bounds = (0, 4))
m.y = pe.Var(within = pe.Integers, bounds = (0, None))
m.obj = pe.Objective(expr = 2 * m.x + m.y)
m.cons = pe.ConstraintList() # for the cutting planes
def _add_cut(xval):
# a function to generate the cut
m.x.value = xval
return m.cons.add(m.y >= taylor_series_expansion((m.x - 2) ** 2))
_add_cut(0) # start with 2 cuts at the bounds of x
_add_cut(4) # this is an arbitrary choice
opt = pe.SolverFactory('gurobi_persistent')
opt.set_instance(m)
opt.set_gurobi_param('PreCrush', 1)
opt.set_gurobi_param('LazyConstraints', 1)
def my_callback(cb_m, cb_opt, cb_where):
if cb_where == GRB.Callback.MIPSOL:
cb_opt.cbGetSolution(vars = [m.x, m.y])
if m.y.value < (m.x.value - 2) ** 2 - 1e-6:
print('adding cut')
cb_opt.cbLazy(_add_cut(m.x.value))
opt.set_callback(my_callback)
opt.solve()
assert abs(m.x.value - 1) <= 1e-6
assert abs(m.y.value - 1) <= 1e-6
Changed value of parameter PreCrush to 1
Prev: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Default: 0
Changed value of parameter LazyConstraints to 1
Prev: 0 Min: 0 Max: 1 Default: 0
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For further details on the methods available within this Pyomo callback interface, see the GurobiPersistent class.