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WesleyyC / symbolic_rxn

Integrating Deep Neural Networks and Symbolic Inference for Organic Reactivity Prediction
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making gurobi an optional dependency #2

Open joergkurtwegner opened 4 years ago

joergkurtwegner commented 4 years ago

Hi, from an industry perspective with multiple academic partners is gurobi raising some concerns for collaboration projects. It seems their licensing model is rather inflexible for us coordinating academic partnerships. If this is the best tool for ILP, great. Then again, we would like to at least have the option to take the second best in line that does not impose a vendor lock-down, or license incompatibilities for (ongoing) collaborations (that did not foresee budget for extra licenses). Thus, we would like to have the freedom to operate to compare this with tools from other academic collaborations.

joergkurtwegner commented 4 years ago

Is this of any use as alternative https://github.com/coin-or/CyLP

nate-russell commented 4 years ago

Thanks for raising this topic. During development we relied on gorubi's simple interface for efficiently generating a solution pool as well as warm restarting the optimization with additional constraints. At a first glance it looks like CyLP and other alternatives provide this functionality as well. If interest picks up, this would be a good accessibility feature for folks without easy access to academic licensing.