Exemple #1
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def minimize(fun, x0, args=(), method='BFGS', jac=None, hess=None,
             hessp=None, bounds=None, constraints=(),
             options=dict(), full_output=False, callback=None,
             retall=False):
    """
    Minimization of scalar function of one or more variables.

    Parameters
    ----------
    fun : callable
        Objective function.
    x0 : ndarray
        Initial guess.
    args : tuple, optional
        Extra arguments passed to the objective function and its
        derivatives (Jacobian, Hessian).
    method : str, optional
        Type of solver.  Should be one of:
            {'Nelder-Mead', 'Powell', 'CG', 'BFGS', 'Newton-CG', 'Anneal',
             'L-BFGS-B', 'TNC', 'COBYLA', 'SLSQP'}.
    jac : bool or callable, optional
        Jacobian of objective function. Only for CG, BFGS, Newton-CG.
        If `jac` is a Boolean and is True, `fun` is assumed to return the
        value of Jacobian along with the objective function. If False, the
        Jacobian will be estimated numerically.
        `jac` can also be a callable returning the Jacobian of the
        objective. In this case, it must accept the same arguments as
        `fun`.
    hess, hessp : callable, optional
        Hessian of objective function or Hessian of objective function
        times an arbitrary vector p.  Only for Newton-CG.
        Only one of `hessp` or `hess` needs to be given.  If `hess` is
        provided, then `hessp` will be ignored.  If neither `hess` nor
        `hessp` is provided, then the hessian product will be approximated
        using finite differences on `jac`. `hessp` must compute the Hessian
        times an arbitrary vector.
    bounds : sequence, optional
        Bounds for variables (only for L-BFGS-B, TNC, COBYLA and SLSQP).
        ``(min, max)`` pairs for each element in ``x``, defining
        the bounds on that parameter. Use None for one of ``min`` or
        ``max`` when there is no bound in that direction.
    constraints : dict or sequence of dict, optional
        Constraints definition (only for COBYLA and SLSQP).
        Each constraint is defined in a dictionary with fields:
            type: str
                Constraint type: 'eq' for equality, 'ineq' for inequality.
            fun: callable
                The function defining the constraint.
            jac: callable, optional
                The Jacobian of `fun` (only for SLSQP).
            args: sequence, optional
                Extra arguments to be passed to the function and Jacobian.
        Equality constraint means that the constraint function result is to
        be zero whereas inequality means that it is to be non-negative.
        Note that COBYLA only supports inequality constraints.
    options : dict, optional
        A dictionary of solver options. All methods accept the following
        generic options:
            maxiter : int
                Maximum number of iterations to perform.
            disp : bool
                Set to True to print convergence messages.
        For method-specific options, see `show_minimize_options`.
    full_output : bool, optional
        If True, return optional outputs.  Default is False.
    callback : callable, optional
        Called after each iteration, as ``callback(xk)``, where ``xk`` is the
        current parameter vector.
    retall : bool, optional
        If True, return a list of the solution at each iteration.  This is only
        done if `full_output` is True.

    Returns
    -------
    xopt : ndarray
        The solution.
    info : dict
        A dictionary of optional outputs (depending on the chosen method)
        with the keys:
            solution : ndarray
                The solution (same as `xopt`).
            success : bool
                Boolean flag indicating if a solution was found.
            status : int
                An integer flag indicating the type of termination.  Its
                value depends on the underlying solver.  Refer to `message`
                for more information.
            message : str
                A string message giving information about the cause of the
                termination.
            fun, jac, hess : ndarray
                Values of objective function, Jacobian and Hessian (if
                available).
            nfev, njev, nhev: int
                Number of evaluations of the objective functions and of its
                jacobian and hessian.
            nit: int
                Number of iterations.
            direc: ndarray
                Current set of direction vectors for the Powell method.
            T : float
                Final temperature for simulated annealing.
            accept : int
                Number of tests accepted.
            allvecs : list
                Solution at each iteration (if ``retall == True``).

    Notes
    -----
    This section describes the available solvers that can be selected by the
    'method' parameter. The default method is *BFGS*.

    Unconstrained minimization
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Method *Nelder-Mead* uses the Simplex algorithm [1]_, [2]_. This
    algorithm has been successful in many applications but other algorithms
    using the first and/or second derivatives information might be preferred
    for their better performances and robustness in general.

    Method *Powell* is a modification of Powell's method [3]_, [4]_ which
    is a conjugate direction method. It performs sequential one-dimensional
    minimizations along each vector of the directions set (`direc` field in
    `options` and `info`), which is updated at each iteration of the main
    minimization loop. The function need not be differentiable, and no
    derivatives are taken.

    Method *CG* uses a nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm by Polak and
    Ribiere, a variant of the Fletcher-Reeves method described in [5]_ pp.
    120-122. Only the first derivatives are used.

    Method *BFGS* uses the quasi-Newton method of Broyden, Fletcher,
    Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) [5]_ pp. 136. It uses the first derivatives
    only. BFGS has proven good performance even for non-smooth
    optimizations

    Method *Newton-CG* uses a Newton-CG algorithm [5]_ pp. 168 (also known
    as the truncated Newton method). It uses a CG method to the compute the
    search direction. See also *TNC* method for a box-constrained
    minimization with a similar algorithm.

    Method *Anneal* uses simulated annealing, which is a probabilistic
    metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization. It uses no derivative
    information from the function being optimized.

    Constrained minimization
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Method *L-BFGS-B* uses the L-BFGS-B algorithm [6]_, [7]_ for bound
    constrained minimization.

    Method *TNC* uses a truncated Newton algorithm [5]_, [8]_ to minimize a
    function with variables subject to bounds. This algorithm is uses
    gradient information; it is also called Newton Conjugate-Gradient. It
    differs from the *Newton-CG* method described above as it wraps a C
    implementation and allows each variable to be given upper and lower
    bounds.

    Method *COBYLA* uses the Constrained Optimization BY Linear
    Approximation (COBYLA) method [9]_, [10]_, [11]_. The algorithm is
    based on linear approximations to the objective function and each
    constraint. The method wraps a FORTRAN implementation of the algorithm.

    Method *SLSQP* uses Sequential Least SQuares Programming to minimize a
    function of several variables with any combination of bounds, equality
    and inequality constraints. The method wraps the SLSQP Optimization
    subroutine originally implemented by Dieter Kraft [12]_.

    References
    ----------
    .. [1] Nelder, J A, and R Mead. 1965. A Simplex Method for Function
        Minimization. The Computer Journal 7: 308-13.
    .. [2] Wright M H. 1996. Direct search methods: Once scorned, now
        respectable, in Numerical Analysis 1995: Proceedings of the 1995
        Dundee Biennial Conference in Numerical Analysis (Eds. D F
        Griffiths and G A Watson). Addison Wesley Longman, Harlow, UK.
        191-208.
    .. [3] Powell, M J D. 1964. An efficient method for finding the minimum of
       a function of several variables without calculating derivatives. The
       Computer Journal 7: 155-162.
    .. [4] Press W, S A Teukolsky, W T Vetterling and B P Flannery.
       Numerical Recipes (any edition), Cambridge University Press.
    .. [5] Nocedal, J, and S J Wright. 2006. Numerical Optimization.
       Springer New York.
    .. [6] Byrd, R H and P Lu and J. Nocedal. 1995. A Limited Memory
       Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization. SIAM Journal on
       Scientific and Statistical Computing 16 (5): 1190-1208.
    .. [7] Zhu, C and R H Byrd and J Nocedal. 1997. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm
       778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained
       optimization. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 23 (4):
       550-560.
    .. [8] Nash, S G. Newton-Type Minimization Via the Lanczos Method.
       1984. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 21: 770-778.
    .. [9] Powell, M J D. A direct search optimization method that models
       the objective and constraint functions by linear interpolation.
       1994. Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, eds. S. Gomez
       and J-P Hennart, Kluwer Academic (Dordrecht), 51-67.
    .. [10] Powell M J D. Direct search algorithms for optimization
       calculations. 1998. Acta Numerica 7: 287-336.
    .. [11] Powell M J D. A view of algorithms for optimization without
       derivatives. 2007.Cambridge University Technical Report DAMTP
       2007/NA03
    .. [12] Kraft, D. A software package for sequential quadratic
       programming. 1988. Tech. Rep. DFVLR-FB 88-28, DLR German Aerospace
       Center -- Institute for Flight Mechanics, Koln, Germany.

    Examples
    --------
    Let us consider the problem of minimizing the Rosenbrock function. This
    function (and its respective derivatives) is implemented in `rosen`
    (resp. `rosen_der`, `rosen_hess`) in the `scipy.optimize`.

    >>> from scipy.optimize import minimize, rosen, rosen_der

    A simple application of the *Nelder-Mead* method is:

    >>> x0 = [1.3, 0.7, 0.8, 1.9, 1.2]
    >>> xopt = minimize(rosen, x0, method='Nelder-Mead')
    Optimization terminated successfully.
         Current function value: 0.000066
         Iterations: 141
         Function evaluations: 243
    >>> print xopt
    [ 1.  1.  1.  1.  1.]

    Now using the *BFGS* algorithm, using the first derivative and a few
    options:

    >>> xopt, info = minimize(rosen, x0, method='BFGS', jac=rosen_der,
    ...                       options={'gtol': 1e-6, 'disp': False},
    ...                       full_output=True)

    >>> print info['message']
    Optimization terminated successfully.
    >>> print info['solution']
    [ 1.  1.  1.  1.  1.]
    >>> print info['hess']
    [[ 0.00749589  0.01255155  0.02396251  0.04750988  0.09495377]
     [ 0.01255155  0.02510441  0.04794055  0.09502834  0.18996269]
     [ 0.02396251  0.04794055  0.09631614  0.19092151  0.38165151]
     [ 0.04750988  0.09502834  0.19092151  0.38341252  0.7664427 ]
     [ 0.09495377  0.18996269  0.38165151  0.7664427   1.53713523]]


    Next, consider a minimization problem with several constraints (namely
    Example 16.4 from [5]_). The objective function is:

    >>> fun = lambda x: (x[0] - 1)**2 + (x[1] - 2.5)**2

    There are three constraints defined as:

    >>> cons = ({'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x:  x[0] - 2 * x[1] + 2},
    ...         {'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x: -x[0] - 2 * x[1] + 6},
    ...         {'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x: -x[0] + 2 * x[1] + 2})

    And variables must be positive, hence the following bounds:

    >>> bnds = ((0, None), (0, None))

    The optimization problem is solved using the SLSQP method as:

    >>> xopt, info = minimize(fun, (2, 0), method='SLSQP', bounds=bnds,
    ...                       constraints=cons, full_output=True)

    It should converge to the theoretical solution (1.4 ,1.7).
    """
    meth = method.lower()
    # check if optional parameters are supported by the selected method
    # - jac
    if meth in ['nelder-mead', 'powell', 'anneal', 'cobyla'] and bool(jac):
        warn('Method %s does not use gradient information (jac).' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - hess
    if meth != 'newton-cg' and hess is not None:
        warn('Method %s does not use Hessian information (hess).' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - constraints or bounds
    if meth in ['nelder-mead', 'powell', 'cg', 'bfgs', 'newton-cg'] and \
        (bounds is not None or any(constraints)):
        warn('Method %s cannot handle constraints nor bounds.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    if meth in ['l-bfgs-b', 'tnc'] and any(constraints):
        warn('Method %s cannot handle constraints.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    if meth is 'cobyla' and bounds is not None:
        warn('Method %s cannot handle bounds.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - callback
    if meth in ['anneal', 'l-bfgs-b', 'tnc', 'cobyla', 'slsqp'] and \
       callback is not None:
        warn('Method %s does not support callback.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - retall
    if meth in ['anneal', 'l-bfgs-b', 'tnc', 'cobyla', 'slsqp'] and \
       retall:
        warn('Method %s does not support retall.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)

    # fun also returns the jacobian
    if not callable(jac):
        if bool(jac):
            fun = MemoizeJac(fun)
            jac = fun.derivative
        else:
            jac = None

    if meth == 'nelder-mead':
        return _minimize_neldermead(fun, x0, args, options, full_output,
                                    retall, callback)
    elif meth == 'powell':
        return _minimize_powell(fun, x0, args, options, full_output,
                                retall, callback)
    elif meth == 'cg':
        return _minimize_cg(fun, x0, args, jac, options, full_output,
                            retall, callback)
    elif meth == 'bfgs':
        return _minimize_bfgs(fun, x0, args, jac, options, full_output,
                              retall, callback)
    elif meth == 'newton-cg':
        return _minimize_newtoncg(fun, x0, args, jac, hess, hessp, options,
                                  full_output, retall, callback)
    elif meth == 'anneal':
        return _minimize_anneal(fun, x0, args, options, full_output)
    elif meth == 'l-bfgs-b':
        return _minimize_lbfgsb(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds, options,
                                full_output)
    elif meth == 'tnc':
        return _minimize_tnc(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds, options,
                             full_output)
    elif meth == 'cobyla':
        return _minimize_cobyla(fun, x0, args, constraints, options,
                                full_output)
    elif meth == 'slsqp':
        return _minimize_slsqp(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds,
                               constraints, options, full_output)
    else:
        raise ValueError('Unknown solver %s' % method)
Exemple #2
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def minimize(fun, x0, args=(), method='BFGS', jac=None, hess=None,
             hessp=None, bounds=None, constraints=(), tol=None,
             callback=None, options=None):
    """
    Minimization of scalar function of one or more variables.

    .. versionadded:: 0.11.0

    Parameters
    ----------
    fun : callable
        Objective function.
    x0 : ndarray
        Initial guess.
    args : tuple, optional
        Extra arguments passed to the objective function and its
        derivatives (Jacobian, Hessian).
    method : str, optional
        Type of solver.  Should be one of

            - 'Nelder-Mead'
            - 'Powell'
            - 'CG'
            - 'BFGS'
            - 'Newton-CG'
            - 'Anneal'
            - 'L-BFGS-B'
            - 'TNC'
            - 'COBYLA'
            - 'SLSQP'

    jac : bool or callable, optional
        Jacobian of objective function. Only for CG, BFGS, Newton-CG.
        If `jac` is a Boolean and is True, `fun` is assumed to return the
        value of Jacobian along with the objective function. If False, the
        Jacobian will be estimated numerically.
        `jac` can also be a callable returning the Jacobian of the
        objective. In this case, it must accept the same arguments as `fun`.
    hess, hessp : callable, optional
        Hessian of objective function or Hessian of objective function
        times an arbitrary vector p.  Only for Newton-CG.
        Only one of `hessp` or `hess` needs to be given.  If `hess` is
        provided, then `hessp` will be ignored.  If neither `hess` nor
        `hessp` is provided, then the hessian product will be approximated
        using finite differences on `jac`. `hessp` must compute the Hessian
        times an arbitrary vector.
    bounds : sequence, optional
        Bounds for variables (only for L-BFGS-B, TNC, COBYLA and SLSQP).
        ``(min, max)`` pairs for each element in ``x``, defining
        the bounds on that parameter. Use None for one of ``min`` or
        ``max`` when there is no bound in that direction.
    constraints : dict or sequence of dict, optional
        Constraints definition (only for COBYLA and SLSQP).
        Each constraint is defined in a dictionary with fields:
            type: str
                Constraint type: 'eq' for equality, 'ineq' for inequality.
            fun: callable
                The function defining the constraint.
            jac: callable, optional
                The Jacobian of `fun` (only for SLSQP).
            args: sequence, optional
                Extra arguments to be passed to the function and Jacobian.
        Equality constraint means that the constraint function result is to
        be zero whereas inequality means that it is to be non-negative.
        Note that COBYLA only supports inequality constraints.
    tol : float, optional
        Tolerance for termination. For detailed control, use solver-specific
        options.
    options : dict, optional
        A dictionary of solver options. All methods accept the following
        generic options:
            maxiter : int
                Maximum number of iterations to perform.
            disp : bool
                Set to True to print convergence messages.
        For method-specific options, see `show_options('minimize', method)`.
    callback : callable, optional
        Called after each iteration, as ``callback(xk)``, where ``xk`` is the
        current parameter vector.

    Returns
    -------
    res : Result
        The optimization result represented as a ``Result`` object.
        Important attributes are: ``x`` the solution array, ``success`` a
        Boolean flag indicating if the optimizer exited successfully and
        ``message`` which describes the cause of the termination. See
        `Result` for a description of other attributes.


    See also
    --------
    minimize_scalar: Interface to minimization algorithms for scalar
        univariate functions.

    Notes
    -----
    This section describes the available solvers that can be selected by the
    'method' parameter. The default method is *BFGS*.

    **Unconstrained minimization**

    Method *Nelder-Mead* uses the Simplex algorithm [1]_, [2]_. This
    algorithm has been successful in many applications but other algorithms
    using the first and/or second derivatives information might be preferred
    for their better performances and robustness in general.

    Method *Powell* is a modification of Powell's method [3]_, [4]_ which
    is a conjugate direction method. It performs sequential one-dimensional
    minimizations along each vector of the directions set (`direc` field in
    `options` and `info`), which is updated at each iteration of the main
    minimization loop. The function need not be differentiable, and no
    derivatives are taken.

    Method *CG* uses a nonlinear conjugate gradient algorithm by Polak and
    Ribiere, a variant of the Fletcher-Reeves method described in [5]_ pp.
    120-122. Only the first derivatives are used.

    Method *BFGS* uses the quasi-Newton method of Broyden, Fletcher,
    Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) [5]_ pp. 136. It uses the first derivatives
    only. BFGS has proven good performance even for non-smooth
    optimizations

    Method *Newton-CG* uses a Newton-CG algorithm [5]_ pp. 168 (also known
    as the truncated Newton method). It uses a CG method to the compute the
    search direction. See also *TNC* method for a box-constrained
    minimization with a similar algorithm.

    Method *Anneal* uses simulated annealing, which is a probabilistic
    metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization. It uses no derivative
    information from the function being optimized.

    **Constrained minimization**

    Method *L-BFGS-B* uses the L-BFGS-B algorithm [6]_, [7]_ for bound
    constrained minimization.

    Method *TNC* uses a truncated Newton algorithm [5]_, [8]_ to minimize a
    function with variables subject to bounds. This algorithm is uses
    gradient information; it is also called Newton Conjugate-Gradient. It
    differs from the *Newton-CG* method described above as it wraps a C
    implementation and allows each variable to be given upper and lower
    bounds.

    Method *COBYLA* uses the Constrained Optimization BY Linear
    Approximation (COBYLA) method [9]_, [10]_, [11]_. The algorithm is
    based on linear approximations to the objective function and each
    constraint. The method wraps a FORTRAN implementation of the algorithm.

    Method *SLSQP* uses Sequential Least SQuares Programming to minimize a
    function of several variables with any combination of bounds, equality
    and inequality constraints. The method wraps the SLSQP Optimization
    subroutine originally implemented by Dieter Kraft [12]_.

    References
    ----------
    .. [1] Nelder, J A, and R Mead. 1965. A Simplex Method for Function
        Minimization. The Computer Journal 7: 308-13.
    .. [2] Wright M H. 1996. Direct search methods: Once scorned, now
        respectable, in Numerical Analysis 1995: Proceedings of the 1995
        Dundee Biennial Conference in Numerical Analysis (Eds. D F
        Griffiths and G A Watson). Addison Wesley Longman, Harlow, UK.
        191-208.
    .. [3] Powell, M J D. 1964. An efficient method for finding the minimum of
       a function of several variables without calculating derivatives. The
       Computer Journal 7: 155-162.
    .. [4] Press W, S A Teukolsky, W T Vetterling and B P Flannery.
       Numerical Recipes (any edition), Cambridge University Press.
    .. [5] Nocedal, J, and S J Wright. 2006. Numerical Optimization.
       Springer New York.
    .. [6] Byrd, R H and P Lu and J. Nocedal. 1995. A Limited Memory
       Algorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization. SIAM Journal on
       Scientific and Statistical Computing 16 (5): 1190-1208.
    .. [7] Zhu, C and R H Byrd and J Nocedal. 1997. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm
       778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrained
       optimization. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 23 (4):
       550-560.
    .. [8] Nash, S G. Newton-Type Minimization Via the Lanczos Method.
       1984. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 21: 770-778.
    .. [9] Powell, M J D. A direct search optimization method that models
       the objective and constraint functions by linear interpolation.
       1994. Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, eds. S. Gomez
       and J-P Hennart, Kluwer Academic (Dordrecht), 51-67.
    .. [10] Powell M J D. Direct search algorithms for optimization
       calculations. 1998. Acta Numerica 7: 287-336.
    .. [11] Powell M J D. A view of algorithms for optimization without
       derivatives. 2007.Cambridge University Technical Report DAMTP
       2007/NA03
    .. [12] Kraft, D. A software package for sequential quadratic
       programming. 1988. Tech. Rep. DFVLR-FB 88-28, DLR German Aerospace
       Center -- Institute for Flight Mechanics, Koln, Germany.

    Examples
    --------
    Let us consider the problem of minimizing the Rosenbrock function. This
    function (and its respective derivatives) is implemented in `rosen`
    (resp. `rosen_der`, `rosen_hess`) in the `scipy.optimize`.

    >>> from scipy.optimize import minimize, rosen, rosen_der

    A simple application of the *Nelder-Mead* method is:

    >>> x0 = [1.3, 0.7, 0.8, 1.9, 1.2]
    >>> res = minimize(rosen, x0, method='Nelder-Mead')
    >>> res.x
    [ 1.  1.  1.  1.  1.]

    Now using the *BFGS* algorithm, using the first derivative and a few
    options:

    >>> res = minimize(rosen, x0, method='BFGS', jac=rosen_der,
    ...                options={'gtol': 1e-6, 'disp': True})
    Optimization terminated successfully.
             Current function value: 0.000000
             Iterations: 52
             Function evaluations: 64
             Gradient evaluations: 64
    >>> res.x
    [ 1.  1.  1.  1.  1.]
    >>> print res.message
    Optimization terminated successfully.
    >>> res.hess
    [[ 0.00749589  0.01255155  0.02396251  0.04750988  0.09495377]
     [ 0.01255155  0.02510441  0.04794055  0.09502834  0.18996269]
     [ 0.02396251  0.04794055  0.09631614  0.19092151  0.38165151]
     [ 0.04750988  0.09502834  0.19092151  0.38341252  0.7664427 ]
     [ 0.09495377  0.18996269  0.38165151  0.7664427   1.53713523]]


    Next, consider a minimization problem with several constraints (namely
    Example 16.4 from [5]_). The objective function is:

    >>> fun = lambda x: (x[0] - 1)**2 + (x[1] - 2.5)**2

    There are three constraints defined as:

    >>> cons = ({'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x:  x[0] - 2 * x[1] + 2},
    ...         {'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x: -x[0] - 2 * x[1] + 6},
    ...         {'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda x: -x[0] + 2 * x[1] + 2})

    And variables must be positive, hence the following bounds:

    >>> bnds = ((0, None), (0, None))

    The optimization problem is solved using the SLSQP method as:

    >>> res = minimize(fun, (2, 0), method='SLSQP', bounds=bnds,
    ...                constraints=cons)

    It should converge to the theoretical solution (1.4 ,1.7).

    """
    meth = method.lower()
    if options is None:
        options = {}
    # check if optional parameters are supported by the selected method
    # - jac
    if meth in ['nelder-mead', 'powell', 'anneal', 'cobyla'] and bool(jac):
        warn('Method %s does not use gradient information (jac).' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - hess
    if meth != 'newton-cg' and hess is not None:
        warn('Method %s does not use Hessian information (hess).' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - constraints or bounds
    if (meth in ['nelder-mead', 'powell', 'cg', 'bfgs', 'newton-cg'] and
        (bounds is not None or any(constraints))):
        warn('Method %s cannot handle constraints nor bounds.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    if meth in ['l-bfgs-b', 'tnc'] and any(constraints):
        warn('Method %s cannot handle constraints.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    if meth is 'cobyla' and bounds is not None:
        warn('Method %s cannot handle bounds.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - callback
    if (meth in ['anneal', 'tnc', 'cobyla', 'slsqp'] and
        callback is not None):
        warn('Method %s does not support callback.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)
    # - return_all
    if (meth in ['anneal', 'l-bfgs-b', 'tnc', 'cobyla', 'slsqp'] and
        options.get('return_all', False)):
        warn('Method %s does not support the return_all option.' % method,
             RuntimeWarning)

    # fun also returns the jacobian
    if not callable(jac):
        if bool(jac):
            fun = MemoizeJac(fun)
            jac = fun.derivative
        else:
            jac = None

    # set default tolerances
    if tol is not None:
        options = dict(options)
        if meth in ['nelder-mead', 'newton-cg', 'powell', 'tnc']:
            options.setdefault('xtol', tol)
        if meth in ['nelder-mead', 'powell', 'anneal', 'l-bfgs-b', 'tnc',
                    'slsqp']:
            options.setdefault('ftol', tol)
        if meth in ['bfgs', 'cg', 'l-bfgs-b', 'tnc']:
            options.setdefault('gtol', tol)
        if meth in ['cobyla']:
            options.setdefault('tol', tol)

    if meth == 'nelder-mead':
        return _minimize_neldermead(fun, x0, args, callback, **options)
    elif meth == 'powell':
        return _minimize_powell(fun, x0, args, callback, **options)
    elif meth == 'cg':
        return _minimize_cg(fun, x0, args, jac, callback, **options)
    elif meth == 'bfgs':
        return _minimize_bfgs(fun, x0, args, jac, callback, **options)
    elif meth == 'newton-cg':
        return _minimize_newtoncg(fun, x0, args, jac, hess, hessp, callback,
                                  **options)
    elif meth == 'anneal':
        return _minimize_anneal(fun, x0, args, **options)
    elif meth == 'l-bfgs-b':
        return _minimize_lbfgsb(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds, callback=callback,
                                **options)
    elif meth == 'tnc':
        return _minimize_tnc(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds, **options)
    elif meth == 'cobyla':
        return _minimize_cobyla(fun, x0, args, constraints, **options)
    elif meth == 'slsqp':
        return _minimize_slsqp(fun, x0, args, jac, bounds,
                               constraints, **options)
    else:
        raise ValueError('Unknown solver %s' % method)