Benchmarks

The benchmarks/ directory contains comparison harnesses that run POUNCE against upstream Ipopt across several test suites: the Vanderbei CUTE-in-AMPL collection, Mittelmann ampl-nlp, CHO parameter estimation, GasLib pipelines, water-network design, electrolyte thermodynamics, AC optimal power flow, and large-scale synthetic NLPs. Every suite is .nl-driven — a directory of AMPL .nl files solved by both pounce and ipopt.

Common targets:

make benchmark              # full sweep: every suite + composite report
make benchmark-report       # regenerate benchmarks/BENCHMARK_REPORT.md
make benchmark-cho          # one suite at a time
make benchmark-gas
make benchmark-water
make benchmark-mittelmann
make benchmark-vanderbei    # Vanderbei CUTE-in-AMPL collection (733 problems)

The benchmark inputs themselves — the .nl problem files — and the per-run logs and JSON results are regenerated locally and not tracked in the repository. See benchmarks/README.md for the full list and per-suite details.