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-Ceres Solver - A non-linear least squares minimizer
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+Ceres Solver - A large scale non-linear optimization library
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+Ceres Solver is an open source C++ library for modeling and solving
+large, complicated optimization problems. It is a feature rich, mature
+and performant library which has been used in production at Google
+since 2010. Ceres Solver can solve two kinds of problems.
+
+1. Non-linear Least Squares problems with bounds constraints.
+2. General unconstrained optimization problems.
 
 Please see [ceres-solver.org](http://ceres-solver.org/) for more
 information.