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# minimize(method=’SLSQP’)

scipy.optimize.minimize(fun, x0, args=(), method=None, jac=None, hess=None, hessp=None, bounds=None, constraints=(), tol=None, callback=None, options=None)

  Minimize a scalar function of one or more variables using Sequential Least Squares Programming (SLSQP).

  Parameters:
    ftolfloat

      Precision target for the value of f in the stopping criterion. This value controls the final accuracy for checking various optimality conditions; gradient of the lagrangian and absolute sum of the constraint violations should be lower than `ftol`. Similarly, computed step size and the objective function changes are checked against this value. Default is 1e-6.

    epsfloat

      Step size used for numerical approximation of the Jacobian.

    dispbool

      Set to True to print convergence messages. If False, verbosity is ignored and set to 0.

    maxiterint

      Maximum number of iterations.

    finite_diff_rel_stepNone or array_like, optional

      If `jac in ['2-point', '3-point', 'cs']` the relative step size to use for numerical approximation of jac. The absolute step size is computed as `h = rel_step * sign(x) * max(1, abs(x))`, possibly adjusted to fit into the bounds. For `method='3-point'` the sign of h is ignored. If None (default) then step is selected automatically.

    workersint, map-like callable, optional

      A map-like callable, such as multiprocessing.Pool.map for evaluating any numerical differentiation in parallel. This evaluation is carried out as `workers(fun, iterable)`.

      Added in version 1.16.0.

  Returns:
    resOptimizeResult

      The optimization result represented as an `OptimizeResult` object. In this dict-like object the following fields are of particular importance: `x` the solution array, `success` a Boolean flag indicating if the optimizer exited successfully, `message` which describes the reason for termination, and `multipliers` which contains the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) multipliers for the QP approximation used in solving the original nonlinear problem. See `Notes` below. See also `OptimizeResult` for a description of other attributes.

  Notes

  The KKT multipliers are returned in the `OptimizeResult.multipliers` attribute as a NumPy array. Denoting the dimension of the equality constraints with `meq`, and of inequality constraints with `mineq`, then the returned array slice `m[:meq]` contains the multipliers for the equality constraints, and the remaining `m[meq:meq + mineq]` contains the multipliers for the inequality constraints. The multipliers corresponding to bound inequalities are not returned. See [1] pp. 321 or [2] for an explanation of how to interpret these multipliers. The internal QP problem is solved using the methods given in [3] Chapter 25.

  Note that if new-style `NonlinearConstraint` or `LinearConstraint` were used, then `minimize` converts them first to old-style constraint dicts. It is possible for a single new-style constraint to simultaneously contain both inequality and equality constraints. This means that if there is mixing within a single constraint, then the returned list of multipliers will have a different length than the original new-style constraints.

  References

  [1]

  Nocedal, J., and S J Wright, 2006, “Numerical Optimization”, Springer, New York.

  [2]

  Kraft, D., “A software package for sequential quadratic programming”, 1988, Tech. Rep. DFVLR-FB 88-28, DLR German Aerospace Center, Germany.

  [3]

  Lawson, C. L., and R. J. Hanson, 1995, “Solving Least Squares Problems”, SIAM, Philadelphia, PA.