On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:17:02AM +0000, Brian Gough wrote:
> At Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:14:15 -0800,
> Tim Fenn wrote:
> > I know the idea of constrained multimin refinement has come up on
> > several occasions, and I recently made some changes to the multimin
> > code to allow for very simple bound constraints (primarily for some of
> > my own problems, but I thought the code could be useful). I've
> > attached the patches, but I'm curious to hear if the
> > style/format/method I've incorporated seems reasonable.
>
> This certainly does the job. It might be possible to get close to
> that within the existing API, by having the user-defined function
> return +Inf for points outside the constraints. The minimiser could
> be modified to use that as a signal to backtrack. This would allow
> arbitrary constraints, but loses the advantage of knowing exactly
> where the edge of the allowed region is.
>
It won't take long to incorporate a user-callback - I'll see what I
can do over the next day or two. I hadn't given much thought to the
backtracking idea, but that wouldn't be terribly difficult as a next
step.
Regards,
Tim
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