On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden@gmail.com> wrote:

I am hearing good things about a new local optimization method called
"cut-plane optimization". I think we should consider to add this method to
scipy.optimize.

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-general-purpose-optimization-algorithm-order-of-magnitude-speedups.html

It seems to solve a fairly specific problem. Also, the paper is unreadable (for me). And not including any benchmarks in a paper like this even though it's 111 pages long is odd.....

Ralf