Optunity 1.1.1

This minor release has the same features as 1.1.0, but incorporates some bug fixes, specifically to the specification of structured search spaces.

Optunity 1.1.0

The second release of Optunity (stable). For documentation, please refer to http://docs.optunity.net.

The following features have been added:

• new solvers
  • tree of Parzen estimators (requires Hyperopt)
  • Sobol sequences
• Octave wrapper
• support for structured search spaces, which can be nested
• improved cross-validation routines to return more detailed results
• most Python examples are now available as notebooks

This release provides Optunity functionality in the following environments:

• MATLAB
• R
• Octave
• Jython

Optunity-1.0.1

The first major release of Optunity (stable). For documentation, please refer to http://docs.optunity.net.

The following features are available:

• wide variety of solvers
  • particle swarm optimization
  • Nelder-Mead
  • grid search
  • random search
  • CMA-ES (requires DEAP and NumPy)
• generic cross-validation functionality
  • support for strata and clusters
  • folds are reusable for multiple learning algorithm/solver combinations
• various quality metrics for models (score/loss functions)
• univariate domain constraints on hyperparameters
• support for parallel objective function evaluations

This release provides Optunity functionality in the following environments:

• MATLAB
• R