Simplified versions of Mathematical Optimizers for derivative free, no gradient, black box optimization.
One can say that this mathematical optimizer is on a class of its own, it solves Rosenbrock 600 Dimensions in less then one hour, on a sinlge thread on a slow computer.
Without any specific optimization for MNIST it can achieve a score of 97.89 percent.
A small recreation of Cell Machine used to test out optimizations. These optimizations may be replicated in TSC.
JADE is an Adaptive Differential Evolution with external archive, p-best selection, and is parallel in this implementation.
A simple but fast mathematical optimizer for no derivatives black-box optimization.
Powerful Mathematical Optimizers for BlackBox Optimization without direct derivatives.