Release Notes

0.12.3

New Features

  • Add compress keyword argument to ConstrainedQuadraticModel.to_file().

  • Add ConstraintView.set_weight() method. This allows users to set the weight of existing constraints.

Upgrade Notes

  • When the constraint is hard, ConstraintView.penalty() now returns None. Previously it would return either 'linear' or 'quadratic'.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the copy keyword argument of ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_constraint_from_model(). Previously it would always make a copy.

  • Add missing #include in dimod/include/dimod/abc.h.

  • Fix ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_constraint_from_iterable() to no longer raise a NotImplementedError when given a weight.

  • Fix ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_constraint() to raise a ValueError rather than a NotImplementedError when given an invalid penalty.

0.12.2

New Features

  • Implement Expression::remove_variable() method in the C++ code.

  • Implement Expression.remove_variable() method in the Python code.

  • Add dimod/libcpp/expression.pxd and dimod/libcpp/constraint.pxd.

0.12.1

Bug Fixes

  • Add the ability to set offsets on ObjectiveView and ConstraintView. This was previously removed in dimod 0.12.0. See #1287

  • Add ObjectiveView.add_linear_from() and ConstraintView.add_linear_from() methods. These were previously removed in dimod 0.12.0.

  • Add ObjectiveView.add_variable() and ConstraintView.add_variable() methods. These were previously removed in dimod 0.12.0.

0.12.0

Bug Fixes

  • Fix constrained quadratic model serialziation to correctly encode all variables in the objective.

0.12.0rc1

Deprecation Notes

  • Deprecate the cascade keyword argument in ConstrainedQuadraticModel.fix_variable().

  • Deprecate the cascade keyword argument in ConstrainedQuadraticModel.fix_variables().

0.12.0.dev3

New Features

  • Add C++ dimod::ConstrainedQuadraticModel class.

  • Add C++ ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_constraint() overload that allows a user to move a binary quadratic model or quadratic model as a constraint.

  • Add C++ ConstrainedQuadraticModel.constraint_weak_ptr() method.

  • Make BinaryQuadraticModel.vartype callable. This allows for more uniform syntax between binary quadratic models, quadratic models and constrained quadratic models.

  • Replace current ConstrainedQuadraticModel implementation with one implemented in Cython.

  • Add ConstrainedQuadraticModel.clear() method.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a performance regression introduced in 0.10.0 when loading linear binary quadratic models from files.

  • Fix the handling of self-loops in dimod::Expression::add_quadratic() and similar methods.

  • Fix C++ ConstrainedQuadraticModel.remove_variable() method. Previously it would segmentation fault.

0.12.0.dev0

Prelude

The entire C++ library has been rewritten for performance and consistency.

New Features

  • New dimod::abc::QuadraticModelBase abstract base class.

  • Better performance for linear models.

  • Add dimod.cyqmbase.cyQMBase_template Cython class to serve as an abstract base class for Cython quadratic models.

  • Break dimod/libcpp.pxd into a full Cython subpackage to mirror the structure under dimod/include/. This allows for better organization, and less need to recompile all Cython files when changing parts of the C++ library. Packages that depend on dimod are still encouraged to use the from dimod.libcpp cimport ... syntax.

  • Build wheels for Python 3.11.

Upgrade Notes

  • Rewrite dimod::QuadraticModelBase and move it to dimod::abc::QuadraticModelBase in abc.h.

  • Move dimod::Vartype, dimod::vartype_info, and dimod::vartype_limits` to ``vartypes.h.

  • Remove the dimod::Neighborhood class.

  • Remove iterators.h.

  • Move dimod::BinaryQuadraticModel to binary_quadratic_model.h.

  • Remove dimod.binary.cybqm.cyBQMBase class.

  • Remove dimod.quadratic.cyqm.cyQMBase class.

  • Build manylinux2014 wheels. Previously we built manylinux2010.

  • Build arm64 and x86_64 wheels for macos. Previously we built x86_64 and universal2.

0.11.6.dev2

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the type of soft constraint weights when loaded from files. The issue was introduced in 0.11.6.dev1.

0.11.6.dev1

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the performance of ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_file() for constrained quadratic models with a large number of constraints. The poor performanc was accidentally introduced in 0.11.6.dev0.

0.11.6.dev0

New Features

  • Add Variables._remove() method.

  • Added weight and penalty parameters on ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_constraint methods to encoded weighted constraints.

  • Add constrained quadratic model serialization version 1.3 to support soft constraints.

0.11.5

New Features

  • Add ConstrainedQuadraticModel.is_linear() method.

  • Add ConstrainedQuadraticModel.spin_to_binary() method.

  • Add Variables._clear() method for use by classes that have Variables as an attribute.

  • Add C++ dimod::QuadraticModel::clear() method.

  • Add C++ dimod::BinaryQuadraticModel::clear() method.

  • Add QuadraticModel.clear() method.

  • Add BinaryQuadraticModel.clear() method.

  • Add typing support for the dimod.variables.Variables class. See #1221.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix as_samples() when given a SampleSet and using the labels_type keyword argument. Previously it would raise a TypeError. This fix allows constructions like bqm.energies(sampleset) to function correctly.

  • Refactor dimod.typing.SamplesLike and dimod.typing.SampleLike. SampleLike now correctly includes constructions like ([0, 1], 'ab').

  • Make Vartype.INTEGER and Vartype.REAL pickleable. This fixes the pickling of many downstream objects like QuadraticModel and SampleSet.

0.11.4

New Features

  • Add ConstrainedQuadraticModel.__str__() method. See #1188.

  • Speed up the construction of Variables objects from a range or another Variables.

  • Add optional keyword argument labels_type to the as_samples() function.

  • Speed up BinaryQuadraticModel.energies() and QuadraticModel.energies() in cases where the model has a small subset of the variables in the samples.

  • Speed up SampleSet.from_samples_cqm() in cases where there are constraints with a small number of variables relative to the objective.

0.11.3

New Features

  • Add dimod::QuadraticModelBase::energy() method to dimod/libcpp.pxd for Cython access.

  • Randomly generated variable and constraint labels now begin with a letter and do not contain dashes. This ensures that they can be serialized to LP files. See #1206.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix dimod.lp.dump() and dimod.lp.dumps() to output bounds for REAL variables.

0.11.2

New Features

  • Add dimod.lp.dump() and dimod.lp.dumps() functions to encode constrained quadratic models as LP files.

  • Expand supported NumPy version range to numpy>=1.17.3,<2.0.0

  • Add plant_solution keyword argument to dimod.generators.random_nae3sat(), dimod.generators.random_2in4sat() and dimod.generators.frustrated_loop functions. Add

  • Add dimod::QuadraticModel::add_quadratic_back() and dimod::BinaryQuadraticModel::add_quadratic_back() methods in C++ code.

  • Improve the performance of QuadraticModel.from_file(), which also improves the performance of ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_file().

Deprecation Notes

  • Deprecated planted_solution keyword argument in dimod.generators.frustrated_loop().

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a performance regression to QuadraticModel.add_linear_from() introduced by #1170 as part of the 0.11.0 release.

0.11.1

New Features

  • Add dimod.generators.random_nae3sat() function for generating not-all-equal 3-satisfiability problems as binary quadratic models.

  • Add dimod.generators.random_2in4sat() function for generating 2-in-4 satisfiability problems as binary quadratic models.

Bug Fixes

  • Drop pyparsing dependency. The functionality that required it was removed in version 0.11.0.

  • Added missing import of BinaryQuadraticModel required by dimod.serialization.json.DimodDecoder

0.11.0

New Features

  • Add the ability to specify a default variable type and bounds for missing variables when calling QuadraticModel.add_linear() and QuadraticModel.add_linear_from().

  • Add QuadraticModel::swap() and BinaryQuadraticModel::swap() methods to the C++ code. See #928.

  • Add lp.loads() and lp.load() functions.

  • Improve the performance of the ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_lp_file() method.

  • Improve the performance of iteration over Variables objects.

Upgrade Notes

  • Drop support for Numpy 1.19

  • Some malformed LP-files that previously caused ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_lp_file() to emit a warning now raise an error instead.

  • Provide manylinux2014 wheels for Python 3.10 rather than manylinux2010.

Deprecation Notes

  • Deprecate ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_lp_file() method. Users should use the more explicit lp.loads() and lp.load() functions instead. The ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_lp_file() will be removed in dimod 0.13.0.

  • The default_lower_bounds and default_upper_bounds keyword arguments for ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_lp_file() are deprecated and do nothing.

Bug Fixes

  • In the cqm_to_bqm function, set the Lagrange multiplier to one if the maximum absolute bias is zero.

  • dimod.variables.Variables objects now correctly raise an IndexError when given negative indices that are out of range.

0.10.17

New Features

  • Add BinaryQuadraticModel::lower_bound() and BinaryQuadraticModel::upper_bound() methods to the C++ code.

  • Improve the performance of the QuadraticModel.update() method.

  • Improve the performance of the ConstrainedQuadraticModel.set_objective() method.

  • QuadraticModel.update() now accepts binary quadratic models in addition to quadratic models.

  • Add QuadraticModel.add_variables_from_model() method. See #1157.

0.11.0rc1

Prelude

Add support for real-valued variables.

New Features

  • Improved deprecation warnings and documentation. See #192.

  • Add C++ Vartype::REAL, a new variable type for real-valued variables.

  • Support variables with Vartype::REAL in C++ QuadraticModel.

  • Add Vartype.REAL, a new variable type for real-valued variables.

  • Add Real() and Reals() functions for creating quadratic models with a single real-valued variable.

  • Support variables with Vartype.REAL in QuadraticModel.

  • ConstrainedQuadraticModel.to_file() now uses serialization format 1.2. This format is backwards compatibile.

  • Add vartype and linear_only arguments to ConstrainedQuadraticModel.num_biases().

  • Add vartype and include_objective arguments to ConstrainedQuadraticModel.num_quadratic_variables().

  • Add check_header keyword-only argument to ConstrainedQuadraticModel.from_file().

  • Add a global flag dimod.REAL_INTERACTIONS. When this flag is set to False, variables with variable type Vartype.REAL cannot have interactions. dimod.REAL_INTERACTIONS is set to False by default.

Upgrade Notes

  • Remove .vartypes, .lower_bounds, and .upper_bounds attributes from ConstrainedQuadraticModel.variables. These were previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.6.

  • Remove .vartype() method from ConstrainedQuadraticModel.variables. It was previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.6.

  • Remove bqm_index_labelled_input decorator. It was previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.8.

  • Remove SampleSet.is_writeable attribute.

  • Remove dimod.generators.knapsack(). It was previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.6.

  • Remove dimod.generators.multi_knapsack(). It was previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.6.

  • Remove dimod.generators.bin_packing(). It was previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.6.

  • Remove HigherOrderComposite.sample_ising() method. It was previously scheduled to be removed in dimod 0.10.0.

  • Remove PolySampler.sample(), PolySampler.sample_ising(), and PolySampler.sample_qubo() methods. These were previously scheduled to be removed in dimod 0.10.0.

  • AdjVectorBQM and AdjDictBQM are now aliases for BinaryQuadraticModel and DictBQM respectively rather than having their own implementation with a slightly different API. They were previously deprecated in dimod 0.10.0.

  • The dimod.bqm namespace has been removed.

  • The dimod.core.bqm namespace has been removed.

  • dimod::AdjVectorBQM has been removed from the C++ code.

  • Some composites were migrated to dwave-preprocessing in dimod0.10.0. Trying to import and use these composites from dimod now raises an exception rather than a warning. The affected composites:

    • ClipComposite

    • ConnectedComponentsComposite

    • FixedVariableComposite

    • RoofDualityComposite

    • ScaleComposite

    • SpinReversalTransformComposite

  • The fix_variables() was migrated to dwave-preprocessing in dimod 0.10.0. Trying to import and use it now raises an exception rather than a warning.

  • Packages that require binary compatibility with dimod and that were compiled with 0.10.0 will not work with 0.11.0.

Deprecation Notes

  • Deprecate support for the ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_variable(v, vartype) argument order. Use ConstrainedQuadraticModel.add_variable(vartype, v) instead. See #969.

  • In the future, ConstrainedQuadraticModel.num_quadratic_variables() will also include the objective towards the count by default.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixes performance regression on energy calculations introduced in 0.10.0. See #1025