How to retrieve the number of cutting planes added by callback?

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Canqi Yao

January 06, 2021 06:37

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• Is there any API aimed for counting the number of cutting planes added by user defined callback?

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  Simranjit Kaur

  • Gurobi Staff

  June 23, 2025 03:02 Edited

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  Jaromił Najman

  • Gurobi Staff

  January 06, 2021 13:48 Edited

  Hi,

  There is no dedicated attribute or API call to retrieve the number of cutting planes added by a user defined callback but it is possible to make the bookkeeping on your own.

  For example, to count the number of added cuts in the tsp.py example, you can add the private variable \(\texttt{_cbCuts}\) to the model

  ...
  # Optimize model
  m._cbCuts = 0
  m._vars = vars
  m.Params.lazyConstraints = 1
  m.optimize(subtourelim)
  ...

  and increase it by 1 every time a cut gets added to the problem in the callback

  def subtourelim(model, where):
      ...
          if len(tour) < n:
              # add subtour elimination constr. for every pair of cities in tour
              model.cbLazy(gp.quicksum(model._vars[i, j]
                                       for i, j in combinations(tour, 2))
                           <= len(tour)-1)
              model._cbCuts += 1

  After optimization, you can then access the number of added cuts

  print("Added "+str(m._cbCuts)+" cuts.")

  Best regards,
  Jaromił

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