| ============ |
| Ceres Solver |
| ============ |
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| Ceres Solver [#f1]_ is an open source C++ library for modeling and |
| solving large, complicated optimization problems. It can be used to |
| solve `Non-linear Least Squares`_ problems with bounds constraints and |
| general unconstrained optimization problems. It is a mature, feature |
| rich, and performant library that has been used in production at |
| Google since 2010. For more, see :doc:`features`. |
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| `ceres-solver@googlegroups.com |
| <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ceres-solver>`_ is |
| the place for discussions and questions about Ceres Solver. We use the |
| `GitHub Issue Tracker |
| <https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues>`_ to manage bug |
| reports and feature requests. |
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| .. toctree:: |
| :maxdepth: 1 |
| :hidden: |
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| features |
| installation |
| tutorial |
| derivatives |
| nnls_modeling |
| nnls_solving |
| nnls_covariance |
| gradient_solver |
| faqs |
| users |
| contributing |
| version_history |
| bibliography |
| license |
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| .. _Non-linear Least Squares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_least_squares |
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| Cite Us |
| ======= |
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| If you use Ceres Solver for a publication, please cite it as:: |
| |
| @misc{ceres-solver, |
| author = "Sameer Agarwal and Keir Mierle and Others", |
| title = "Ceres Solver", |
| howpublished = "\url{http://ceres-solver.org}", |
| } |
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| .. rubric:: Footnotes |
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| .. [#f1] While there is some debate as to who invented the method of |
| Least Squares [Stigler]_, there is no questioning the fact |
| that it was `Carl Friedrich Gauss |
| <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Gauss.html>`_ |
| who brought it to the attention of the world. Using just 22 |
| observations of the newly discovered asteroid `Ceres |
| <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)>`_, Gauss |
| used the method of least squares to correctly predict when |
| and where the asteroid will emerge from behind the Sun |
| [TenenbaumDirector]_. We named our solver after Ceres to |
| celebrate this seminal event in the history of astronomy, |
| statistics and optimization. |