[SciPy-user] optimizer for complex?

[Neal Becker]

Nils Wagner wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:43:44 -0500
>   Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Do any of the optimizers (n-dim nonlinear minimizer)
>>handle complex values?  It seems not, I seem to get good
>>results by converting to a real vector
>> 
>> That is, instead of calling fmin (f, x0=cmplx_array)
>> 
>> convert x0 to a real array (real(x0), imag (x0), real
>>(x1), imag (x1)....)
>> 
>> And convert back inside the function f from real to
>>complex.
>> 
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> Just curious. Where does that problem appear ?
> 

I'm trying to optimize an FIR filter (for a rather special application)