===================================================== Optimization and root finding (:mod:`scipy.optimize`) ===================================================== .. module:: scipy.optimize Optimization ============ General-purpose --------------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ fmin fmin_powell fmin_cg fmin_bfgs fmin_ncg leastsq Constrained (multivariate) -------------------------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ fmin_l_bfgs_b fmin_tnc fmin_cobyla fmin_slsqp nnls Global ------ .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ anneal brute Scalar function minimizers -------------------------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ fminbound golden bracket brent Fitting ======= .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ curve_fit Root finding ============ .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ fsolve Scalar function solvers ----------------------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ brentq brenth ridder bisect newton Fixed point finding: .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ fixed_point General-purpose nonlinear (multidimensional) -------------------------------------------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ broyden1 broyden2 broyden3 broyden_generalized anderson anderson2 Utility Functions ================= .. autosummary:: :toctree: generated/ line_search check_grad