Duals from second-order cone or quadratic model

When it comes to extracting duals for second-order cone programs or quadratically constrained programs, it depends on both solver and the way you modelled the constraint.

CPLEX

The interface YALMIP uses to communicate with CPLEX (cplexqcp.m) does not support extraction of SOCP duals.

Gurobi

To extract duals from second-order cone constraints using GUROBI, the functionality must be activated in the solver first. The solver supports both extraction of the conic vector dual on CONE constraints, and extraction of a dual to a scalarized quadratic constraint.

x = sdpvar(2,1);
Model = [x'*x <= 1];
options = sdpsettings('solver','gurobi','gurobi.qcpdual',1);
optimize(Model,sum(x),options);
dual(Model(1))

ans =

    0.7071

Model = [cone([1;x])];
options = sdpsettings('solver','gurobi','gurobi.qcpdual',1);
optimize(Model,sum(x),options);
dual(Model(1))

ans =

    1.4142
    1.0000
    1.0000

Mosek

With MOSEK, only socp duals on CONE constraints are possible.

x = sdpvar(2,1);
Model = [cone([1;x])];
options = sdpsettings('solver','mosek');
optimize(Model,sum(x),options);
dual(Model(1))

ans =

    1.4142
    1.0000
    1.0000