[SciPy-dev] Trouble with optimize.fmin_ncg

[Matthieu Brucher]

Hi,

Here is a link to the diff :
http://projects.scipy.org/scipy/scipy/changeset?old_path=trunk%2FLib%2Foptimize&old=3116&new_path=trunk%2FLib%2Foptimize&new=3189

Matthieu

2007/7/25, Nils Wagner <nwagner at iam.uni-stuttgart.de>:
>
> Stefan van der Walt wrote:
>
> Stefan,
>
> Thank you very much for running the test.
> Is there an easy way to check the differences between r3116 and r3189
> wrt. scipy.optimize ?
>
> Nils
>
> P.S I have send two additional tests to Alan Isaac off-list. They
> exhibit similar "failures" of ncg.
>
>
> > The optimisation converges under scipy r3116:
> >
> > $ python test_tnc.py
> > try fmin_bfgs
> > Optimization terminated successfully.
> >          Current function value: 0.000540
> >          Iterations: 263
> >          Function evaluations: 266
> >          Gradient evaluations: 266
> > Rayleigh quotient BFGS 0.000540272922563
> > fmin_bfgs OK
> > try fmin_ncg
> > Optimization terminated successfully.
> >          Current function value: 0.000538
> >          Iterations: 13
> >          Function evaluations: 33
> >          Gradient evaluations: 13
> >          Hessian evaluations: 13
> > Rayleigh quotient NCG 0.000537952836927
> >
> > Regards
> > Stéfan
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:12:23PM -0400, Alan G Isaac wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, dmitrey apparently wrote:
> >>
> >>> can anyone who didn't update scipy from svn during last
> >>> 10-11 days run Nils example?
> >>>
> >> The core of Nil's example is below.
> >> Get the data from here:
> >> http://math.nist.gov/MatrixMarket/data/Harwell-Boeing/lanpro/nos4.html
> >> Cheers,
> >> Alan Isaac
> >>
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