[OBOE] Fwd: Is it OK to use OBOE only for a smooth function? If so, how good is the performance?

[Tianyang Li 李天阳 Tommy Li]

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From: Nidhi Sawhney <nsawhney at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 2:19 AM
Subject: Re: [OBOE] Is it OK to use OBOE only for a smooth function?
If so, how good is the performance?
To: Tianyang Li 李天阳 Tommy Li <tmy1018 at gmail.com>


Hello,

It should be okay to use OBOE for only smooth functions, since the
non-smooth is  a generalization of a smooth function you can either
have the oracle return the gradient or use the setB functions. Its
hard to say how it compares with other methods, however it is true
that the power of OBOE is for the non-smooth case.

-Nidhi

On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tianyang Li 李天阳 Tommy Li
<tmy1018 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering whether I can use `Oracle` like this
>
>     Oracle oracle(NULL, &smooth_func);
>
> And if so, how good is the performance compared to some other methods
> such as interior-point methods?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best,
> Tianyang
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