Christophe Tribes

On version 4.3.1, building and run tests work fine with OpenMP. More tests are required before putting this as a default for next release. To enable OpenMP (if available), the...

For PyNomad, when a user provides an invalid parameter by default we have the following: python simpleExample_basis_tmp.py **Unknown parameter: TOTO** BBE OBJ 1 1.0243 If an exception occurs during the...

For now PSD-Mads cannot be used when running the Python interface version. I do not recommend SSD-Mads. It is an experimental attempt to have PSD-Mads without OpenMP. However, you can...

Here are a few things you can try (one by one or combined): 1- Use DIRECTION_TYPE ortho 2n. The default is Ortho n+1 quad is usually more efficient but not...

> Thanks, especially for the explanation around what would actually be affected by changing each of these parameters, which doesn't usually come out very clearly through the user guide. I...

You can try CMA-ES https://github.com/CMA-ES/pycma It is better than Genetic Algorithm.

When letting Nomad run with default stopping criterion we have some mathematical guaranties to reach a local optimum. Nothing more. But in some cases, the convergence can be extremely slow...

Hot restart is not yet implemented for DMultiMads. I have added a warning message (instead of an exception) whenever user wants to stop before restart. Thanks for reporting this

There is no other bi-objective algorithm in Nomad 4. I suggest to save all evaluations in a cache file and/or history file (see user guide for details). When saved in...

We have a parameter called FIXED_VARIABLES for that. https://nomad-4-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/AdvancedFunctionalities.html And we have an example for Nomad in batch mode. https://github.com/bbopt/nomad/blob/master/examples/advanced/batch/FixedVariable/param.txt