Paul Stapor

Might indeed be interesting, but it's not directly next on the list... What CeSS implementation do you have in mind? There are several ones, most of them from CSIC and...

Problem here is that this is all Matlab code, and afaik there is no Python version of it available... How to deal with that? * Recode ourselves? * Talk to...

> > Something else? > > Calling Matlab from Python? Not so sure we want to do this: Matlab needs a license... Might work for the moment, but not sure...

> https://bitbucket.org/DavidPenas/sacess-library/src/master/ looks like good old C to me, not matlab. yeah, sacess goes way beyond (C)eSS... and relies on MPI afaik, and is made for large computing clusters... Obviously,...

Just asked: Julio said that one way might be using the interface to meigoR, pymeigo, which is written collaborates of his at the EBI. meigoR and Matlab-Meigo were at least...

This is why I brought up the question whether we might want to just recode this in the first place... :smile: Should be only some few hundred lines of code,...

> I had a look at the `eSS_kernel.m` and `essR.R` scripts. They are about 1000 lines of code. In addition, they call a bunch of other functions that would need...

The main idea of eSS is 1. Create a random initial population (called refset) 2. perform some steps of genetic algorithm 3. choose a "balanced" set of points from the...

Not directly planned in the next time (this is what we had parPE for)... However, implementing a rough version of such an optimizer would not be super-complicated. We had that...

Back here @paulflang : I was thinking about the mini-batch optimization... If you know any python package, which implements mini-batch optimizers with black-box objective functions (i.e., without assuming a neural...