NLP Software


National Science Foundation
Support Gratefully Acknowledged

William Hager and Hongchao Zhang


  • SuiteOPT Version 2.0.3, February 17, 2022 (polyhedral constrained optimization, gradient-based methods, include PASA)
  • Source code for PPROJ Version 1.0, January 9, 2015 (project a point on a polyhedron)
  • Source code for Polyhedral Test Problems, January 9, 2015 (netlib polyhedra with CPLEX presolve)
  • Source code for BLG Version 1.3, May 25, 2014 (solve problems with bound and linear constraints using gradient methods: gradient projection, affine scaling, or Frank-Wolfe).
  • Source code for ASL Version 2.0, June 16, 2010 (affine scaling method, linear constraint, bound constraints)
  • Source code for SVM Version 1.0, September 30, 2010 (affine scaling method, for supporting vector machine problems)
  • Source code for SSM Version 1.1, September 25, 2009 (sequential subspace method for sphere constrained optimization)
  • Source code for ASA_CG Version 4.0 (C and Matlab code), May 30, 2020 (nonlinear optimization with bound constraints) New: function, gradient and Hessian can be coded in MATALB.
  • Source code for CG_DESCENT Version 6.8 (C and Matlab code), March 7, 2015 (unconstrained optimization) New: function and gradient can be coded in MATLAB.
  • Source code for CG_DESCENT Version 1.4 (Fortran code), November 14, 2005 (unconstrained optimization, not maintained anymore)
  • Source code for DFBOLS: a Derivative-Free algorithm for Box constrained Least-Squares minimization is available by email request

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