[SciPy-User] lower bounds argument for scipy.optimize.anneal

[Nathan Harmston]

So is there any way I can hack around this functionality? I only want
to allow my parameters to be zero or higher.

I see that I can use some of these algorithms for constrained optimization:
fmin_slsqp
fmin_l_bfgs_b
fmin_cobyla

but I have never used any of them.......how sensitive are they to local minima?

Thanks

On 4 October 2010 21:47,  <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Nathan Harmston
> <iwanttobeabadger at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> So I'm trying to use the siman function to minimise a likelihood function:
>>
>> print anneal(anneal_ll,[100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0,
>> 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0, 100.0],lower=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
>> 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0],
>> full_output=1,feps=1e-4,maxiter=1000000000,schedule='cauchy')
>>
>> My parameters estimate properly however I get negative values for some
>> of the parameters. I thought the lower argument specified the lowest
>> value a parameter could take? Am I doing something incredibly stupid
>> or is this functionality not implemented?
>
> It's not implemented from what I understand, see
>
> http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/ticket/1126
>
> Josef
>
>>
>> Many thanks in advance,
>>
>> Nathan Harmston
>>
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