[SciPy-Dev] An inconsistency in scipy.optimize.minimize

[Yuxiang Wang]

Hi guys,

Sorry about digging this out again... As well as not knowing how to
contribute my effort to SciPy. Sorry about being ignorant in how to
participate in an open-source project, but what is the suggested step
that I should do next? Should I:

1) Report this issue on github

2) Fix the code

I could do both, but the code would be only on my personal machine and
not thoroughly tested... Could anyone please help and get me started
on that?

Thanks so much!

-Shawn

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:
> Aaron,
>
> Thanks for confirming! I agree that epsilon is better, as in the
> following functions "epsilon" instead of "eps" are used:
>
> scipy.optimize.fmin_cg
> scipy.optimize.fmin_ncg
> scipy.optimize.fmin_tnc
> scipy.optimize.fmin_bfgs
> scipy.optimize.fmin_l_bfgs_b
>
>
> -Shawn
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Aaron Webster <awebster at falsecolour.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Yuxiang Wang <yw5aj at virginia.edu> wrote:
>>> However, by digging into the code, I realize that this value's name is
>>> called "eps" instead of "epsilon" in the minimize wrapper. That is to
>>> say,
>>
>> "epsilon" seems to be the consistent naming convention; I suggest it
>> be changed to that.
>>
>> Good observation.
>>
>> --
>> Aaron Webster
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>
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> Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang
> Gerling Research Lab
> University of Virginia
> yw5aj at virginia.edu
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Yuxiang "Shawn" Wang
Gerling Research Lab
University of Virginia
yw5aj at virginia.edu
+1 (434) 284-0836
https://sites.google.com/a/virginia.edu/yw5aj/