The number of variables in the problem I am trying to solve is \sum_{i=0}^N x_i where x_i is the number of actions that the i^{th} agent takes, i.e. one real variable per action.
The best way to model such variables would be to have a ragged array of variables, but I could not find any way of creating a cell
of variables. Is it possible and is there an example which could guide me?
Creating a N \times (\max_i x_i) matrix of variables and explicitly setting the extra variables to zero will be prohibitively expensive since the number of actions follows a power-law, i.e. few x_i are very large (\approx 10^3), while most are very small (\approx 10).
The solution I have in mind is to create a single variable of length \sum_{i=0}^N x_i and then to index into it manually.