I love gradient-free optimisers - there are so many interesting problems where there aren't analytical gradients available.
An I right in thinking this library doesn't contain a simplex / Nelder-Mead optimiser? To me that's the bread and butter of gradient-free optimisation.
Also no Powell algorithms like BOBYQA?
nlopt has these and many more, and a Python wrapper:
An I right in thinking this library doesn't contain a simplex / Nelder-Mead optimiser? To me that's the bread and butter of gradient-free optimisation.
Also no Powell algorithms like BOBYQA?
nlopt has these and many more, and a Python wrapper:
https://nlopt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/NLopt_Algorithms/
So, are those omitted because this library is modern and those are now considered out of date?