L-BFGS-B


Software for Large-scale Bound-constrained or Unconstrained Optimization

L-BFGS-B is a limited-memory quasi-Newton code for large-scale bound-constrained or unconstrained optimization. The code has been developed at the Optimization Technology Center, a joint venture of Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University.

The current release is version 2.1. The distribution file was last changed on 02/09/97.

Downloading and Installing L-BFGS-B

You are welcome to grab the full Unix distribution, containing source code, Makefiles and User Guide.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE L-BFGS-B DISTRIBUTION FILE

Save the gz file in a fresh subdirectory on your system. To install, first type

gunzip Lbfgsb.2.1.tar.gz

to produce a file Lbfgsb.2.1.tar. (If your system doesn't have the gunzip utility, you'll need to install it. Here's the tar file for gzip.) Then, type

tar -xvf Lbfgsb.2.1.tar

to create the directory Lbfgsb.2.1 containing the source code, Makefiles and User Guide.

Authors

Ciyou Zhu, Richard Byrd, Peihuang Lu, Jorge Nocedal.


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