[SciPy-User] Passing fmin_cg a gradient

[Jason Rennie]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Christian K. <ckkart at hoc.net> wrote:

> I have been working on the same thing a couple of years ago during my
> PhD. In the end I found, that fmin_tnc is performing best among all
> minimizers available in scipy.


I'm actually on the look-out for a good open source CG or L-BFGS
implementation.  Thanks for the fmin_tnc mention---I'll check it out.  Do
you know what the "tnc" refers to and/or what are the differences with the
other implementations?

Thanks,

Jason

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