Introduction

This code aims to provide flexible and extendable implementation of various standard and experimental optimization methods. The development is gradual and priority will be given to those methods that seem to be more exciting to implement (based on personal interests).

This project was mainly motivated by my lake of knowledge in numerical optimization, otherwise there are excellent (open source) tools for almost every task that a machine can do. This occurred while I was working on an other scientific project on global optimization irene.rtfd.io, which tends to provide a tool to find a lower bound for the global minimum of a function when the function and constraints are (algebraically) well presented.

Requirements

Dependencies are minimal as the code is mainly written in python:

Download

Optimithon can be obtained from https://github.com/mghasemi/optimithon.

Installation

To install Optimithon, run the following in terminal:

sudo python setup.py install

Documentation

The documentation is produced by Sphinx and is intended to cover code usage as well as a bit of theory to explain each method briefly. For more details refer to the documentation at optimithon.rtfd.io.

License

This code is distributed under MIT license:

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Mehdi Ghasemi

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