Talk:L-BFGS

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As it stands, this article is basically an a set of links to, and information about, library packages. It should have a more detailed description of the algorithm itself and fewer links to external content. Does someone with a more thorough background in optimization than myself want to take this on? --Soultaco 15:55, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] software information back

The intention when creating this page was to give software information. Our hope is that users can contribute links to versions of L-BFGS written in different languages. There are various explanations of the L-BFGS algorithm on the web and there is no need for another one here. Therefore I will try to restore the earlier version. Nocedal 06:53, 2 December 2007 (UTC)Jorge Nocedal

Thanks for contributing, but Wikipedia is not a collection of links. It is an online encyclopedia, and while links to software packages for L-BFGS are certainly relevant and worth including, this entry is not here simply to advertise software packages; the Wikipedia entry on L-BFGS should first and foremost be a discussion the algorithm. If no further objection/elaboration is raised, I'm going to re-add the algorithm information and reformat the article to conform with Wikipedia standards. --Soultaco (talk) 04:58, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

I have rewritten the page so that it conforms to Wikipedia standards and informs the reader about the L-BFGS codes. Please feel free to write a separate page about limited memory algorithms, but I propose that we do not try to do both in the same page. Nocedal February, 2008