[SciPy-Dev] WIP: Class based Optimizers

[Phillip Feldman]

>From the (beautifully written) draft PEP:

"Different optimization algorithms can inherit from Optimizer, with each of
the subclasses overriding the __next__ method ..."

I'm unclear re. whether this approach would allow something like a parallel
implementation of Nelder-Mead.

Phillip

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Nelson <andyfaff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott Sievert and I have put a lot of work into preparing a draft of the
> PEP for class based scalar minimizers:
>
> https://github.com/andyfaff/scipy/blob/a52bb4f9029389da3ab072c92c609d
> 71ed6943c6/PEP/1-Optimizer.rst
>
> where we've tried to address comments already made in this thread, and
> from the WIP github PR. Scott and I look forward to hearing any
> comments/concerns/feedback about the proposal. We can field any questions
> and address them in an updated PEP, as well as on here.
>
> Andrew.
>
>
> p.s. Ralf/Pauli, could we add the PEP to a scipy/PEP, or scipy/scipep,
> repo? How should we discuss such this, and any further PEP? Should we have
> a scipep process, or shall we keep things simple?
>
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