Hello Marcus, > Sounds good, don't feel obligated to work on the parts before GSoC has started, > but it might be a good opportunity to get familiar with the codebase, your call.
Just finished a basic implementation of the lbest variant of PSO. It was indeed a good opportunity to get familiar with the codebase. Tested it out on the Rastrigin and Rosenbrock functions (8 particles, 2 dimensions, 1000 iterations) and the tests passed. Will be testing more rigorously tomorrow, add proper comments/documentation, and will also submit a PR. Small doubt: what format are we using for documenting mathematical formulae in the code? Is it Tex? I was also wondering if using OpenMP would speed up the execution of the algorithm, since PSO is embarrassingly parallel. I am not sure if OpenBLAS uses threading by default, so it is difficult to comment on the outcome without running a few timing tests. Will be carrying out those as well on substantially larger parameters and more particles to confirm results. As for the application, it is still a WIP; should get a decent first draft done over the weekend. Thanks for all the help. Regards, Chintan.
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