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Support constant values in objective

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

The issue points to the Variable class and the multi-objective normalization path. Read those entry points first to determine how constant objectives and Variable operations are represented; done should support direct constant terms in objectives and define and test the requested additional operations, including std.

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Description

data-model enhancement model formulation
  1. if the problem need to convert multi-objectives to singe-objective, it's necessary to make normalization involving some constant variables.
    It's not conveniet to construct objective containing constant, such as x+1
    Here is a trick to add constant
    constant_1=m.add_variables(lower=1, upper=1,name="constant_1")
  2. class Variable only have sum function, other operations are also needed, such as std
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