NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization, providing a common interface for a number of different free optimization routines available online as well as original implementations of various other algorithms. Its features include:
. Callable from C, C++, Fortran, GNU Octave, Python, GNU Guile, GNU R.
- A common interface for many different algorithms
- Support for large-scale optimization.
- Both global and local optimization algorithms.
- Algorithms using function values only (derivative-free) and also algorithms exploiting user-supplied gradients.
- Algorithms for unconstrained optimization, bound-constrained optimization, and general nonlinear inequality/equality constraints.
This package provides the shared libraries required to run programs compiled with NLopt. To compile your own programs you also need to install libnlopt-dev.
Related packages:
libnlopt-dev, libnlopt-guile0, octave-nlopt, python-nlopt