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Global optimizers?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:11 am
by matt
What are your thoughts on including basic global optimizers in tsse to go along with the local ones?

Re: Global optimizers?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:35 am
by ryeterrell
I would like that, myself.

Re: Global optimizers?

Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 2:18 am
by graeme
Yes, it would be great to see basin hopping, simulated annealing, and perhaps even parallel tempering / replica exchange in tsse.

Re: Global optimizers?

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:25 pm
by matt
About the architecture:

For simulated annealing and parallel tempering, it makes sense to have these classes possess a "move" object (i.e. Metropolis). I'm not sure whether this makes sense for Basin Hopping, however, because Basin Hopping is a surface transformation. Should the move object own a set of surface transformation objects, or should surface transformations occur outside of the move object (perhaps a sort of potential factory)?