ithin CVX models requires special care.</p>
</div>
<p>Prior to version 1.2, the functions <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">exp</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">log</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">log_det</span></tt>,
and other functions from the exponential family could not be used within
CVX. Unfortunately, CVX utilizes symmetric primal/dual solvers that
simply cannot support those functions natively <a class="footnote-reference" href="#i