I don't think the gsl Newton optimizer has been used for any real work. It is just there because adding it was almost free.
On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Yannick Spill <yannick@salilab.org> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I was about to write a Newton optimizer (that uses the Hessian) and I
> came across the quasi-newton optimizer in the IMP gsl module. It says
> it's not well tested. Has anyone been using it lately? How is it? Should
> I code a true Newton optimizer?
>
> thanks!
>
> Yannick
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