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| 1 | +2010-xx-xx Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + * libLBFGS 1.10: |
| 4 | + - Fixed compiling errors on Mac OS X; this patch was kindly submitted by Nic Schraudolph. |
| 5 | + - Reduced compiling warnings on Mac OS X; this patch was kindly submitted by Tamas Nepusz. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | + |
| 8 | +2010-01-29 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | + * libLBFGS 1.9: |
| 11 | + - Fixed a mistake in checking the validity of the parameters "ftol" and "wolfe"; this mistake was discovered by Kevin S. Van Horn. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +2009-07-13 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | + * libLBFGS 1.8: |
| 17 | + - Accepted the patch submitted by Takashi Imamichi; the backtracking method now has three criteria for choosing the step length. |
| 18 | + - Updated the documentation to explain the above three criteria. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +2009-02-28 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | + * libLBFGS 1.7: |
| 24 | + - Improved OWL-QN routines for stability. |
| 25 | + - Removed the support of OWL-QN method in MoreThuente algorithm |
| 26 | + because it accidentally fails in early stages of iterations for some |
| 27 | + objectives. Because of this change, the OW-LQN method must be used |
| 28 | + with the backtracking algorithm (LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING), or |
| 29 | + the library returns LBFGSERR_INVALID_LINESEARCH. |
| 30 | + - Renamed line search algorithms as follows: |
| 31 | + - LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING: regular Wolfe condition. |
| 32 | + - LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING_LOOSE: regular Wolfe condition. |
| 33 | + - LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING_STRONG: strong Wolfe condition. |
| 34 | + - Source code clean-up. |
| 35 | + |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +2008-11-02 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | + * libLBFGS 1.6: |
| 40 | + - Improved line-search algorithm with strong Wolfe condition, which |
| 41 | + was contributed by Takashi Imamichi. This routine is now default for |
| 42 | + LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING. The previous line search algorithm |
| 43 | + with regular Wolfe condition is still available as |
| 44 | + LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING_LOOSE. |
| 45 | + - Configurable stop index for L1-norm computation. A member variable |
| 46 | + lbfgs_parameter_t::orthantwise_end was added to specify the index |
| 47 | + number at which the library stops computing the L1 norm of the |
| 48 | + variables. This is useful to prevent some variables from being |
| 49 | + regularized by the OW-LQN method. |
| 50 | + - A sample program written in C++ (sample/sample.cpp). |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +2008-07-10 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | + * libLBFGS 1.5: |
| 56 | + - Configurable starting index for L1-norm computation. A member |
| 57 | + variable lbfgs_parameter_t::orthantwise_start was added to specify |
| 58 | + the index number from which the library computes the L1 norm of the |
| 59 | + variables. |
| 60 | + - Fixed a zero-division error when the initial variables have already |
| 61 | + been a minimizer (reported by Takashi Imamichi). In this case, the |
| 62 | + library returns LBFGS_ALREADY_MINIMIZED status code. |
| 63 | + - Defined LBFGS_SUCCESS status code as zero; removed unused constants, |
| 64 | + LBFGSFALSE and LBFGSTRUE. |
| 65 | + - Fixed a compile error in an implicit down-cast. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +2008-04-25 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | + * libLBFGS 1.4: |
| 71 | + - Configurable line search algorithms. A member variable |
| 72 | + lbfgs_parameter_t::linesearch was added to choose either MoreThuente |
| 73 | + method (LBFGS_LINESEARCH_MORETHUENTE) or backtracking algorithm |
| 74 | + (LBFGS_LINESEARCH_BACKTRACKING). |
| 75 | + - Fixed a bug: the previous version did not compute psuedo-gradients |
| 76 | + properly in the line search routines for OW-LQN. This bug might quit |
| 77 | + an iteration process too early when the OW-LQN routine was activated |
| 78 | + (0 < lbfgs_parameter_t::orthantwise_c). |
| 79 | + - Configure script for POSIX environments. |
| 80 | + - SSE/SSE2 optimizations with GCC. |
| 81 | + - New functions lbfgs_malloc and lbfgs_free to use SSE/SSE2 routines |
| 82 | + transparently. It is uncessary to use these functions for libLBFGS |
| 83 | + built without SSE/SSE2 routines; you can still use any memory |
| 84 | + allocators if SSE/SSE2 routines are disabled in libLBFGS. |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +2007-12-16 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | + * libLBFGS 1.3: |
| 90 | + - An API change. An argument was added to lbfgs() function to receive |
| 91 | + the final value of the objective function. This argument can be set |
| 92 | + to NULL if the final value is unnecessary. |
| 93 | + - Fixed a null-pointer bug in the sample code (reported by Takashi |
| 94 | + Imamichi). |
| 95 | + - Added build scripts for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and GCC. |
| 96 | + - Added README file. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | +2007-12-13 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 100 | + |
| 101 | + * libLBFGS 1.2: |
| 102 | + - Fixed a serious bug in orthant-wise L-BFGS. An important variable |
| 103 | + was used without initialization. |
| 104 | + - Configurable L-BFGS parameters (number of limited memories, epsilon). |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | + |
| 107 | +2007-12-01 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | + * libLBFGS 1.1: |
| 110 | + - Implemented orthant-wise L-BFGS. |
| 111 | + - Implemented lbfgs_parameter_init() function. |
| 112 | + - Fixed several bugs. |
| 113 | + - API documentation. |
| 114 | + |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +2007-09-20 Naoaki Okazaki <okazaki at chokkan org> |
| 117 | + |
| 118 | + * libLBFGS 1.0 |
| 119 | + - Initial release. |
| 120 | + |
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