[SciPy-Dev] AMPGO - Take 3

[Andrea Gavana]

Andrew,

On 2 October 2014 00:23, Andrew Nelson <andyfaff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 October 2014 05:39, Andrea Gavana <andrea.gavana at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So, after receiving a bunch of requests for the AMPGO global optimization
>> code and the associated benchmarks, I decided to put what I have on the
>> public domain. I don't have that much time to work on it myself *but* I
>> would still appreciate bug reports and feature requests.
>> <SNIP>
>>
>> Comments and suggestions are most welcome - especially if they help
>> improving the overall performance of the AMPGO code (Tunnelling function
>> gradient is a good start) or fixing bugs in the test functions - I'm sure
>> there are a few lurking by, it's not that easy to stay focused while coding
>> so much numerical optimization bruhaha.
>> --
>> Andrea.
>>
>
>
> Andrea,
> thank you for making all that available, that's certainly a large amount
> of work, wow.
> For my part I am particularly interested in the benchmark suite and would
> like to see that eventually included in scipy as a way of benchmarking
> scipy.optimize.  I have a small amount of spare time to work on this and
> would like to take this on.
> Firstly, what do people think about inclusion of such a large set of
> benchmarking functions to the code base for scipy.optimize? We have a small
> amount, but could do with a lot more.
>
> Secondly, Andrea, would you mind if I worked towards this end goal?
>

I don't have any problem with it, and I'd be happy if the benchmark suite
ended up into scipy. I'd be even happier if AMPGO could make it as well...


Andrea.

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