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Thanks @MichaelClerx and @ben18785 I'd really like to get #1083 and #1160 done so that we have some 1st order sensitivity optimisers, but as you know I'm working on those...

A starting points for this could be just getting a working line search algorithm (maybe even start just as a for loop) in a Jupyter notebook for a simply parabola...

This is the paper referenced: https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/030601880?casa_token=GhCspIQb5DUAAAAA:aVcINgBT6bK9q154vVI9UDxbnPuwNEUCc-Ph_tTVKR6hyfEjkWsk6xNZD6KQMG0ZGH7Xa8XnVCplew

I've made a rookie mistake and used pythons 3 feature of specifying what type a variable should be in a function, Python 2 doesn't support it I'll fix before I...

Thanks @MichaelClerx and @ben18785, It could definitely be an issue of scale or tuning I hadn't thought of that I will start by trying this!

Hi Michael, I think there might be some uncommitted changes, I'll check and get back to you. I am/was intending to pick this up again as well! Best, Alister ________________________________...

Hi @MichaelClerx, I've taken another look at this and done the following: - Split the line search and LBFGS optimiser so that the line search can be used with other...