I am minimizing a function with the Optim package. I am supplying a gradient (that is calculated using AD). I am using the LBFGS() option. However the following error keeps occuring: AssertionError: isfinite(phi_c) && isfinite(dphi_c) Stacktrace: [1] secant2!(ϕdϕ::LineSearches.var"#ϕdϕ#6"{Optim.…

Optimization Error:

goerch March 4, 2022, 2:05pm 4

It was also discussed here and one of the responses shows how to use alternative line searches…

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