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Re:Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version a... by whimsicalism on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:51PM (#35965322)
From my experience with this (in 2018), scipys non-gradient optimizers are not very good/
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Re:Optimization Without Derivatives: Prima Fortran Version a... by domcoltd on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:58PM (#35965419)
Indeed, the author mentions many bugs of the SciPy gradient-free solvers in the readme of the repo of Prima.
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