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Description:
Linear optimization software
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: optimization linear-programming mip operations-research solver
Install: brew install highs
About:
HiGHS is a high-performance linear optimization solver designed for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed-integer programming (MIP), and quadratic programming (QP) problems. It serves as a robust backend for modeling systems like Pyomo and JuMP, offering both primal and dual simplex methods as well as an interior-point solver. The software is widely used in operations research and supply chain management for finding optimal solutions to complex resource allocation problems.
Key Features:
  • Dual and primal simplex solvers
  • Interior-point solver for LP
  • High-performance branch-and-bound MIP solver
  • Support for quadratic programming (QP)
  • C++ library with C, Fortran, and Python interfaces
Use Cases:
  • Supply chain and logistics optimization
  • Financial portfolio optimization
  • Production scheduling and resource allocation
  • Energy system modeling
Alternatives:
  • CBC – Open-source MIP solver; generally slower than HiGHS on large-scale problems
  • Gurobi – Commercial solver with superior performance but restrictive licensing
  • SCIP – Open-source framework with strong MIP capabilities but more complex setup
Version History
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Dec 21, 2024 2:46am 0 VERSION_BUMP 568493a0
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