Take advantage of these complimentary, pre-meeting Exhibitor Workshops for hands-on demonstrations of the latest industry products and software. All attendees are welcome to join onsite or pre-register. You’ll be able to add pre-meeting workshops to your registration in August. All Exhibitor Workshops will be held in the Georgia World Congress Center on Saturday, October 25.
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Hexaly, a New Kind of Global Optimization Solver
Presented by: Fred Gardi
Hexaly is a new type of global optimization solver. Its modeling interface is nonlinear and set-oriented. It also supports user-coded functions, enabling seamless integration of simulation with optimization or machine learning with optimization. The Hexaly API unifies modeling concepts from mixed-integer programming, nonlinear programming, and constraint programming. Under the hood, Hexaly combines various exact and heuristic optimization methods: spatial branch-and-bound, simplex methods, interior-point methods, propagation, automatic branch-cut-price, local search, and surrogate modeling.
Hexaly stands out from traditional solvers like Gurobi, CPLEX, and OR-Tools by delivering super-fast solutions to problems such as routing, sequencing, scheduling, packing, clustering, matching, assignment, and location. For example, Hexaly provides solutions that are close to the best-known results in the literature for vehicle routing problems with thousands of points and scheduling problems with millions of tasks, achieving this in just one minute of runtime on a basic computer.
In addition to the Optimizer, Hexaly offers an innovative platform called Hexaly Studio, designed to prototype, develop, and deploy optimization applications quickly in a low-code fashion. This web-based platform is also well-suited for educational purposes; like all other Hexaly products, it is free for faculty and students.
