Re: [eigen] New Levenberg Marquardt stuff

[Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Keir Mierle <mierle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

At the risk of starting a war:

Have you considered punting on the LM library entirely?

Ceres is almost uniformly better than what's there now, is heavily battle tested in production both large (Street View) and small (Android, in every Nexus 4), is BSD licensed, uses Eigen internally, has extensive sparse support.

If the LM components of Ceres  are BSD licensed and they already use Eigen, what about folding them into Eigen instead?  (Assuming they don't need something like SuiteSparse...)

Cheers,
CY

P.S.  As long as we're discussing LM, does http://joachimwuttke.de/lmfit/ look like it might be of any interest for Eigen?