• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.16.0 "Loud Alarm Clock" (2019-08-09)
  • Add option to avoid computing exact objective at the end of the optimization
    (#109).
  • Fix handling of curvature for BigBatchSGD (#118).
  • Reduce runtime of tests (#118).
  • Introduce local-best particle swarm optimization, LBestPSO, for
    unconstrained optimization problems (#86).
• Fix return type error in PSO (#123)

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.15.0 "Wrong Side Of The Road" (2019-05-14)
  • Added QHAdam and QHSGD optimizers (#81).
• Fix -Wreorder in qhadam warning (#115).
• Fix -Wunused-private-field warning in spsa (#115).

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.14.4 "Difficult Crimp" (2019-05-12)
  • Fixes for BigBatchSGD (#91).
  • Handle eig_sym() failures correctly (#100).
  • SPSA test tolerance fix (#97).
  • Minor documentation fixes (#95, #98).
  • Fix newlines at end of file (#92).

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.14.1 "Difficult Crimp" (2019-03-09)
  • Fixes for SPSA (#87).
  • Optimized CNE and DE (#90). Changed initial population generation
    in CNE to be a normal distribution about the given starting point,
    which should accelerate convergence.
  • Add DE optimizer (#77).
  • Fix for Cholesky decomposition in CMAES (#83).

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.13.0 "Coronavirus Invasion" (2019-01-14)
  • Enhance options for AugLagrangian optimizer (#66).
  • Add SPSA optimizer (#69).
  • Fix list of contributors.
  • Make sure all files end with newlines.
• Reordered SPSA parameters to quiet initialization error surfaced with -Wreorder.

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.12.0 "New Year's Party" (2018-12-30)
  • Add link to ensmallen PDF to README.md.
  • Minor documentation fixes. Remove too-verbose documentation from source for
    each optimizer (#61).
  • Add FTML optimizer (#48).
  • Add SWATS optimizer (#42).
  • Add Padam optimizer (#46).
  • Add Eve optimizer (#45).
  • Add ResetPolicy() to SGD-like optimizers (#60).
• Updated citation information
• Fixed header files missing a terminal newline

RcppEnsmallen 0.1.11.1.1

• Upgraded to ensmallen release 1.11.1 "Jet Lag" (2018-11-28)
  • Minor documentation fixes.
  • Add WNGrad optimizer.
  • Fix header name in documentation samples.
• Added citation information

New

• Support for compiling via R the mathematical optimizers in the C++
  ensmallen library.
• Includes ensmallen release 1.10.0 "Corporate Catabolism" (2018-10-19)

Special Thanks

• The crux of this package has largely been developed by
  Ensmallen development team that consists of Conrad Sanderson, Ryan Curtin,
  and the MLPACK developers