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bkloppenborg / simtoi

The SImulation and Modeling Tool for Optical Interferometry
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Enhancements to Minimizer tab #106

Open fabienbaron opened 9 years ago

fabienbaron commented 9 years ago

I propose to add not only new minimizers, but to revamp the minimizer tab to also allow modifying the minimizer's tweaking parameters (e.g. tolerances, stopping criterion, etc.). I will start implementing this next year and close the issue when done.

bkloppenborg commented 9 years ago

I agree. We need to have an easier method of letting the user change these parameters. Sadly, many of the engines have a lot of configuration options and they shouldn't be tweaked without an understanding of what each parameter does. Instead of tweaking these things in the GUI, what do you think about letting the user provide an alternate configuration file (perhaps JSON) for a given minimization engine as a command-line option?

If you decide to tweak the GUI, please base your changes off of the gui_overhaul branch and make the minimization engine be a completely intact part of the program (i.e. see the new animization gui).

fabienbaron commented 9 years ago

Seems cumbersome to use command line everytime you want e.g. to change the number of live points in multinest. However there should be a command line switch to setup parameters, yes.