[SciPy-dev] connecting tnc 1.3

[dmitrey]

Alan G Isaac wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, dmitrey apparently wrote:
>   
>> So now I decided just remove check for ||x_final-x_opt|| 
>>     
>
> Hmmm.  I am not completely comfortable with this.
>   
But the idea is not mine - it had been already done by someone in 
scipy/sandbox/newoptimize/tnc.py
in function test:

        ex = pow(enorm/norm, 0.5)
        print "X Error =", ex
        ef = abs(fg(xopt)[0] - fg(x)[0])
        print "F Error =", ef
        if ef > 1e-8:
            raise "Test "+fg.__name__+" failed"

so, as you see, check for ex is absent (and I think it's rigth, elseware 
we should provide different error-rising barriers for EACH test func 
from all those lots related to scipy.optimize test).
But in scipy.optimize check of ||x-x_opt|| is still present.

I intend just to move the changes to scipy.optimize.

BTW if someone will run one of the well-known test func Hilbert(50) (or 
other rather big n), the typical ||x-x_opt|| (for different solvers) 
could be something like 100-500, while ||f-f_opt|| can be very small 
(like 1e-6). This is due to ill-conditioned matrix A from the 
unconstrained problem (A = hilb(50), b = sum(A), objfunc = x'Ax - bx)
HTH, D.
D.