patrick-kidger / patrick-kidger/optimistix
Updated Nelder--Mead and Newton and Chord to use search+descent API
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- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Right now these have been implemented as standalone solvers.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inspecting the standalone Nelder–Mead, Newton, and Chord solver implementations and the search+descent API. Compare how each solver currently exposes its work, then verify that all three use the shared API and retain their existing optimization behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100