2014-02-25 22:37 GMT+01:00 Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com>:
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:25 PM, Evgeni Burovski
<evgeny.burovskiy@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, One other possiblity for constrained minimization would be to
> wrap BOBYQA by Powell.
>
> (Disclaimer: All I know about it is from skimming this paper
> www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/NA_papers/NA2009_06.pdf‎
> and talking to people in PyData London last weekend.)
>
> As far as I understand,
>
> * it's a state of the art minimizer
> * the original Fortran code is in public domain

I see no indication of this.

:-)
Apart from that, they are not LM, so if added, should be an extra name in optimize.
Looking at it fast, I don't expect the benefits to be that great to warrant moving there myself.

Benny



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