I design and deploy high-impact systems built on LLMs, local inference, and agent architectures. I design and deploy high-impact systems built on LLMs, local inference, and agent architectures. I ...

Dedicated to the late Professor M. J. D. Powell FRS (1936–2015). To use the Python version of PDFO on Linux, Mac, or Windows, you need Python (version 3.8 or above). It is highly recommended to ...

PRIMA is a package for solving general nonlinear optimization problems without using derivatives. It provides the reference implementation for Powell's renowned derivative-free optimization methods, i ...

We present two frameworks for design optimization of a multi-chamber pneumatic-driven soft actuator to optimize its mechanical performance. The design goal is to achieve maximal horizontal motion of ...

ABSTRACT: Simulated annealing (SA) has been a very useful stochastic method for solving problems of multidimensional global optimization that ensures convergence to a global optimum. This paper ...

1 Department of Computer Science, Catholic University College of Ghana, Sunyani, Ghana. 2 Department of Mathematics, College of Science, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, ...

Even though the Hartley-entropy-based contrast function guarantees an unmixing local minimum, the reported nonsmooth optimization techniques that minimize this nondifferentiable function encounter ...