# QPALM

**Repository Path**: jrdtec/QPALM

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: QPALM
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- **License**: LGPL-3.0
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
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- **Created**: 2026-03-03
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-03

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# Proximal Augmented Lagrangian method for Quadratic Programs

QPALM is a numerical optimization package that finds stationary points of (possibly **nonconvex**) quadratic programs, that is

$$
    \begin{equation}
        \begin{aligned}
            & \underset{x}{\textbf{minimize}}
            & & \tfrac12 x^\top Q x + q^\top x\\
            & \textbf{subject to}
            & & b_\mathrm{min} \le Ax \le b_\mathrm{max} \\
        \end{aligned}
    \end{equation}
$$

## Documentation

The documentation can be found at: <https://kul-optec.github.io/QPALM/Doxygen>  
Examples are included as well: <https://kul-optec.github.io/QPALM/Doxygen/examples.html>

## Installation

### Python

The QPALM Python interface is available from [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/qpalm),
you can install it using:
```sh
python3 -m pip install qpalm
```

### Julia

In the Julia console, press `]` to enter the Pkg REPL and install QPALM using:
```sh
add QPALM
```

### Matlab

To install the Matlab interface, download
`qpalm-matlab-{glnxa64,win64,maci64,maca64}.zip` from the 
[releases page](https://github.com/kul-optec/QPALM/releases/latest), and 
extract it into the `~/Documents/MATLAB` folder.  
As a one-liner in the Matlab console:
```matlab
unzip(['https://github.com/kul-optec/QPALM/releases/latest/download/qpalm-matlab-' computer('arch') '.zip'], userpath)
```
Matlab versions R2021a and later are supported (R2023b and later on ARM64).

### C/C++/Fortran

Pre-built C, C++ and Fortran libraries are available from the [releases page](https://github.com/kul-optec/QPALM/releases).

### Building QPALM from source

For detailed instructions on how to build QPALM from source, please see 
<https://kul-optec.github.io/QPALM/Doxygen/installation-md.html>

## Supported platforms

QPALM is written in C, with interfaces for C++, Python, Julia, Matlab and Fortran.  
The code itself is portable across all major platforms. Binaries are available
for Linux, Windows and macOS on x86-64 and ARM64<sup>*</sup>.

## Benchmarks

Check out the papers below for detailed benchmark tests comparing QPALM with state-of-the-art solvers.

 * [QPALM: A Newton-type Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Method for Quadratic Programs](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.02934)
 * [QPALM: A Proximal Augmented Lagrangian Method for Nonconvex Quadratic Programs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02653)

## Citing

If you use QPALM in your research, please cite the following paper:
```bibtex
@inproceedings{hermans2019qpalm,
	author      = {Hermans, B. and Themelis, A. and Patrinos, P.},
	booktitle   = {58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control},
	title       = {{QPALM}: {A} {N}ewton-type {P}roximal {A}ugmented {L}agrangian {M}ethod for {Q}uadratic {P}rograms},
	year        = {2019},
	volume      = {},
	number      = {},
	pages       = {},
	doi         = {},
	issn        = {},
	month       = {Dec.},
}
```

## Previous versions

The original repository by Ben Hermans at <https://github.com/Benny44/QPALM_vLADEL>
will no longer be maintained.

## License

QPALM is licensed under LGPL v3.0. Some modules are used in this software: 
* LADEL: authored by Ben Hermans and licensed under [LGPL-v3](LICENSE).
* LOBPCG: the version of LOBPCG used here was written by Ben Hermans and licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, see [LOBPCG/LICENSE](https://github.com/Benny44/LOBPCG/blob/master/LICENSE).
* LAPACK: authored by The University of Tennessee and The University of Tennessee Research Foundation, The University of California Berkeley, and The University of Colorado Denver, and licensed under BSD-3, see [here](https://github.com/Reference-LAPACK/lapack/blob/master/LICENSE).