BiqCrunch documentation
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BiqCrunch uses the Bob branch-and-bound framework and the L-BFGS-B library for quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization.
L-BFGS-B papers
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(2011) J.L. Morales, J. Noceda. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 38(1):1–4
Remark on Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization
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(1997) C. Zhu, R. H. Byrd and J. Nocedal. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, Vol 23, Num. 4, pp. 550 - 560
L-BFGS-B: Algorithm 778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained optimization
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(1995) R. H. Byrd, P. Lu, J. Nocedal. SIAM Journal on Scientific and Statistical Computing 16(5), pp. 1190-1208
A Limited Memory Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization
BOB paper
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(1995) B. Le Cun, C. Roucairol, The PNN Team:
A unified platform for implementing branch-and-bound like algorithms