[SciPy-Dev] Callback for SLSQP minimization

Denis Laxalde denis at laxalde.org
Mon Dec 2 14:55:03 EST 2013


Hi,

2013/12/2 Matthias Kümmerer <matthias at matthias-k.org>:
> in scipy.optimize, there is at the moment no possibility to add a callback
> function when minimizing using the SLSQP method. I was wondering whether there
> is some deeper reason for that. If there are no reasons against that, I would
> like to implement a callback for this method. Guessing from the code, it
> should be quite easy. I thought, the callback should be called after each
> function evaluation in _minimize_slsqp, that is around [1].

The deep reason is that nobody tackled the problem so far ,though It
does not look too difficult. Feel free to open an issue, or better a
pull request, on github.

Cheers,
Denis



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