Re: [Help-gsl] Comments/questions about BFGS algorithm implemented for the GSL

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-04-18 17:30-0400 Martin Jansche wrote:

> Meanwhile, you could look into other free optimizers, including the
> optimization code in the R project (http://www.r-project.org/, which
> supposedly uses L-BFGS-B as well) or the TAO toolkit
> (http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/tao/).

Thanks, Martin, for those suggestions.  L-BFGS-B is not robust enough for my
free-energy minimization needs. (I suspect there are just too many
complications/transformations in that code so that it is not resilient in
cases where numerical significance loss is occurring.) Also, I am a little
leery of TAO since they want me to sign up for an e-mail list before I can
download it.  Also, I cannot find out anything about the TAO license.  There
is some discussion of the "TAO" license on Debian-legal, but that refers to
different software (a Corba implementation).

It looks pretty straightforward to implement the Fletcher line search
algorithm I have referred to before in this thread so I will concentrate on
that for now.

Alan
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