Hello, I’m minimizing the analitic center of a set of inequalities (see problem 9.30 Convex Optimization Boyd and Vandenberghe). I generate a random instance as follows: n=8 m=7 A=rand(m,n) Then I create the necessary functions: f(x) = - sum(log(1-dot(A[i,:],x)) for i=1:m) - sum(log(1 - x[i]^2.…

Optim.jl ArgumentError: Value and slope at step length = 0 must be finite

pkofod June 19, 2018, 9:10am 8

Yes, the line search could / should inform the users of the likely reasons instead of just stating that something is zero

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