minfx version 1.0.1

Item posted by Edward d Auvergne <bugman> on Sun 28 Sep 2008 10:42:31 AM UTC.

Description

This is a minor feature release involving the inevitable switch from Numeric python to numpy, a few improvements in how missing gradients and models with no parameters are handled, and a switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3.

Download

The new minfx versions can be downloaded from http://download.gna.org/minfx/.

Full list of changes

Features

• Full conversion from Numeric python to numpy.
• Improved testing for the Hessian being positive definite in the Cholesky Hessian modification.
• Models of zero size can now be handled.
• More graceful failure for when the gradient is not supplied when needed.

Changes

• Switch from GPLv2 to GPLv3.

Bugfixes

• Module name clash in the Cholesky Hessian modification.