Source: libalgorithm-lbfgs-perl Section: perl Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: Dima Kogan Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120312), perl, libtest-number-delta-perl, libtest-pod-perl, liblbfgs-dev Standards-Version: 3.9.6 Vcs-Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/libalgorithm-lbfgs-perl.git Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-perl/packages/libalgorithm-lbfgs-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Algorithm-LBFGS Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Package: libalgorithm-lbfgs-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Perl interface to an L-BFGS non-linear optimization algorithm Algorithm::LBFGS is an interface to liblbfgs, a C implementation of L-BFGS. . L-BFGS (Limited-memory Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno) is a quasi-Newton method for unconstrained optimization. This method is especially efficient on problems involving a large number of variables. . Generally, it solves a problem described as following: . min f(x), x = (x1, x2, ..., xn)