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January 30, 2024 Highlights of BARON 24.1.30

Version 24.1.30 brings many improvements for NLPs, MIQPs, and MINLPs.


November 13, 2023 Highlights of BARON 23.11.13

Version 23.11.13 brings many improvements for integer linear and nonlinear programs.


June 20, 2023 | Highlights of BARON 23.6.15

Version 23.6.15 brings many improvements and the first release of BARON's new reformulator.


May 2, 2023 | Highlights of BARON 23.4.28

Version 23.4.28 brings many enhancements and now offers BARON for Mac OSX ARM processors.


January 19, 2023 | BARON Still Leads Among MINLP Solvers, New Study Shows

BARON was shown to be the best MINLP solver in a recent study conducted by the SCIP group.


January 6, 2023 | Highlights of BARON 23.1.5

Version 23.1.5 brings significant improvements and is almost twice as fast as Version 22.9.20.


October 7, 2022 | Highlights of ALAMO 22.10.7

Version 22.10.7 provides important bug fixes for customers who use ALAMO with a simulator to compute measurements.


September 30, 2022 | Highlights of BARON 22.9.30

Version 22.9.20 provides more robustness and efficiency as well as bug fixes.


September 14, 2022 | The Optimization Firm Introduces ALAMO: Machine Learning Tool for Building Interpretable Models from Data

We are pleased to announce the official market launch of ALAMO, a modeling tool for building interpretable models from data.


September 6, 2022 | Highlights of BARON 22.9.1

Version 22.9.1 provides powerful performance improvements, algorithm enhancements, and important bug fixes.


June 28, 2022 | Highlights of ALAMO 22.6.4

ALAMO is now completely independent of third-party software.


February 9, 2022 | CEO Nick Sahinidis Elected to National Academy of Engineering

Dr. Nick Sahinidis was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor for engineers.


January 22, 2022 | Highlights of BARON 22.1.22

Version 22.1.22 brings significant changes with expanded capabilities and impressive speedups.


January 13, 2021 | Highlights of BARON 21.1.13

Version 21.1.13 includes bug fixes and improved performance.


November 6, 2020 | 2020 INFORMS Annual Conference

The Optimization Firm will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2020 INFORMS Annual Conference.


October 20, 2020 | Highlights of BARON 20.10.16

Version 20.10.16 includes new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes.


August 14, 2020 | Highlights of ALAMO 20.8.14

Version 20.8.14 brings major improvements for adaptive sampling and the full integration of a new high-performance solver.


April 19, 2020 | Highlights of ALAMO 20.4.19

Version 20.4.19 includes many bug fixes, especially for constrained regression problems.


April 14, 2020 | Highlights of BARON 20.4.14

Version 20.4.14 brings improved performance and new features.


December 13, 2019 | Highlights of BARON 19.12.7

Version 19.12.7 continues to push solver performance for large-scale problems and mixed-integer quadratic programs.


December 6, 2019 | INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference: Launch of ALAMO

The Optimization Firm will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2019 INFORMS Winter Simulation Conference.


October 8, 2019 | INFORMS Annual Conference

The Optimization Firm will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2019 INFORMS Annual Conference.


July 16, 2019 | Highlights of BARON 19.7.13

Version 19.7.13 adds new productivity enhancements and capabilities.


March 21, 2019 | Highlights of BARON 19.3.21

Version 19.3.21 includes major improvements and adds key features specifically for large-scale problems.


January 31, 2019 | The Optimization Firm Secures Funds to Strengthen the Power Grid

BARON is building new software solutions for large-scale power systems.


January 17, 2019 | BARON Is Building a More Resilient Power Grid

The Optimization Firm is embarking on a one-year project devoted to building software solutions for U.S. power grid optimization.


November 14, 2018 | Highlights of BARON 18.11.12

Version 18.11.12 enhances several of BARON's features.


August 28, 2018 | Highlights of BARON 18.8.23

Version 18.8.23 fixed a couple of important bugs and introduced new features.


May 10, 2018 | Highlights of BARON 18.5.9

Version 18.5.9 increases BARON's robustness with several configuration changes and fresh features.


February 28, 2017 | Study: BARON is the Fastest and Most Robust MINLP Solver​

BARON is still ahead of other competing MINLP solvers.