Talk:Derivative-free optimization

BBOB - Black Box Optimization

Might be useful for main article to discuss performance of different algorithms in black box optimization, and impact of noise, separability, etc. http://coco.gforge.inria.fr/doku.php?id=bbob-2015-results

Also useful to distinguish between the goals of finding global optima, and goal to minimize function calls when they are expensive.

http://www.ressources-actuarielles.net/EXT/ISFA/1226.nsf/0/f84f7ac703bf5862c12576d8002f5259/$FILE/Jones98.pdf Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Functions DONALD R. JONES, MATTHIAS SCHONLAU, and WILLIAM J. WELCH Journal of Global Optimization 13: 455–492, 1998. 1998 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Needs Examples

Nothing here actually gives the reader any clue as to how Derivative-free optimization works.

Currently the title conveys all of the exact same information in the article. We should provide examples of Derivative-free optimization and explain what methods are used in place of traditional derivative-based optimization. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.234.225.13 (talk) 14:47, 6 June 2018 (UTC)

Need a page on derivative-based methods

Where is a page on derivative based methods for computational optimization? If it doesn't exist, the differentiation between derivative-free and -based methods remains incomplete still! BeBlunt (talk) 11:48, 26 May 2026 (UTC)