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I have an objective function that depends on a sum of outer products. If I could use Numpy functions, I would write this as:



A = np.ones(m, n)
U = Variable(m, n)
objective = np.trace(sum([np.outer(A[i,:], U[i,:]) for i in range(m)]))


Of course np.outer doesn't work when U is a variable. Is there a cvxpy affine function that would implement this?










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    I have an objective function that depends on a sum of outer products. If I could use Numpy functions, I would write this as:



    A = np.ones(m, n)
    U = Variable(m, n)
    objective = np.trace(sum([np.outer(A[i,:], U[i,:]) for i in range(m)]))


    Of course np.outer doesn't work when U is a variable. Is there a cvxpy affine function that would implement this?










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      I have an objective function that depends on a sum of outer products. If I could use Numpy functions, I would write this as:



      A = np.ones(m, n)
      U = Variable(m, n)
      objective = np.trace(sum([np.outer(A[i,:], U[i,:]) for i in range(m)]))


      Of course np.outer doesn't work when U is a variable. Is there a cvxpy affine function that would implement this?










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      I have an objective function that depends on a sum of outer products. If I could use Numpy functions, I would write this as:



      A = np.ones(m, n)
      U = Variable(m, n)
      objective = np.trace(sum([np.outer(A[i,:], U[i,:]) for i in range(m)]))


      Of course np.outer doesn't work when U is a variable. Is there a cvxpy affine function that would implement this?







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          cvxpy has a kron function that works. Since it only works on 2d Variables and 2d-arrays, you have to reshape the vectors to (n, 1) vectors first:



          cvx.trace(sum([cvx.kron(A[i, :].reshape(n,1), cvx.reshape(U[i,:], (n,1))
          for i in range(m)]))





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            cvxpy has a kron function that works. Since it only works on 2d Variables and 2d-arrays, you have to reshape the vectors to (n, 1) vectors first:



            cvx.trace(sum([cvx.kron(A[i, :].reshape(n,1), cvx.reshape(U[i,:], (n,1))
            for i in range(m)]))





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              cvxpy has a kron function that works. Since it only works on 2d Variables and 2d-arrays, you have to reshape the vectors to (n, 1) vectors first:



              cvx.trace(sum([cvx.kron(A[i, :].reshape(n,1), cvx.reshape(U[i,:], (n,1))
              for i in range(m)]))





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                cvxpy has a kron function that works. Since it only works on 2d Variables and 2d-arrays, you have to reshape the vectors to (n, 1) vectors first:



                cvx.trace(sum([cvx.kron(A[i, :].reshape(n,1), cvx.reshape(U[i,:], (n,1))
                for i in range(m)]))





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                cvxpy has a kron function that works. Since it only works on 2d Variables and 2d-arrays, you have to reshape the vectors to (n, 1) vectors first:



                cvx.trace(sum([cvx.kron(A[i, :].reshape(n,1), cvx.reshape(U[i,:], (n,1))
                for i in range(m)]))






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