[SciPy-Dev] Add cut-plane optimization?

[Ralf Gommers]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am hearing good things about a new local optimization method called
> "cut-plane optimization". I think we should consider to add this method to
> scipy.optimize.
>
>
> http://phys.org/news/2015-10-general-purpose-optimization-algorithm-order-of-magnitude-speedups.html
>

It seems to solve a fairly specific problem. Also, the paper is unreadable
(for me). And not including any benchmarks in a paper like this even though
it's 111 pages long is odd.....

Ralf
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