:mod:`optimization` -- Black-box Optimization Algorithms
========================================================

The two base classes
--------------------

.. automodule:: pybrain.optimization.optimizer

.. autoclass:: BlackBoxOptimizer
   :members: __init__, setEvaluator, learn,
   		minimize,
   		maxEvaluations, maxLearningSteps, desiredEvaluation,
   		verbose, storeAllEvaluations, storeAllEvaluated,
   		numParameters

.. autoclass:: ContinuousOptimizer
   :members: __init__
   :show-inheritance:


General Black-box optimizers
----------------------------

.. automodule:: pybrain.optimization

.. autoclass:: RandomSearch
   :members:

.. autoclass:: HillClimber
   :members:

.. autoclass:: StochasticHillClimber
   :members: temperature


Continuous optimizers
---------------------

.. autoclass:: NelderMead
   :members:

.. autoclass:: CMAES
   :members:

.. autoclass:: OriginalNES
   :members:

.. autoclass:: ExactNES
   :members:

.. autoclass:: FEM
   :members:

Finite difference methods
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. autoclass:: FiniteDifferences
   :members:

.. autoclass:: PGPE
   :members:
   :show-inheritance:

.. autoclass:: SimpleSPSA
   :members:
   :show-inheritance:

Population-based
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

.. autoclass:: ParticleSwarmOptimizer
   :members:

.. autoclass:: GA
   :members:



Multi-objective Optimization
----------------------------

.. autoclass:: MultiObjectiveGA
   :members: