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ShufeGuoding
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In nlp optimization, when trival errors occurs, objective function can be evaluated as infinite to get around the error. Is there the infinite constant in IML?

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Rick_SAS
SAS Super FREQ

Short answer, no.

Longer answer, I've seen people have IF-THEN statements that result in 1e6 (or -1e6) when "something bad" happens, but the mathematically preferred approach is to define constraints that prevent the algorithm from trying to evaluate the function outside of its domain.  SAS/IML supports defining matrices for linear constraints or defining general functions for more complicated constraints. Here is the portion of the doc that deals with defining constraints.

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