| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546474849505152535455565758596061626364656667686970717273747576777879 | .. Ceres Solver documentation master file, created by   sphinx-quickstart on Sat Jan 19 00:07:33 2013.   You can adapt this file completely to your liking, but it should at least   contain the root `toctree` directive.============Ceres Solver============.. toctree::   :maxdepth: 3   :hidden:   features   building   tutorial   api   faqs   users   contributing   version_history   bibliography   licenseCeres Solver [#f1]_ is an open source C++ library for modeling andsolving large, complicated optimization problems. It is a featurerich, mature and performant library which has been used in productionat 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... _Non-linear Least Squares: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_least_squaresGetting started===============* Download the `latest stable release  <http://ceres-solver.org/ceres-solver-1.10.0.tar.gz>`_ or clone the  Git repository for the latest development version.  .. code-block:: bash       git clone https://ceres-solver.googlesource.com/ceres-solver* Read the :ref:`chapter-tutorial` and browse the :ref:`chapter-api`.* Join the `mailing list  <https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/ceres-solver>`_  and ask questions.* File bugs, feature requests on `GitHub  <https://github.com/ceres-solver/ceres-solver/issues>`_.Cite Us=======If you use Ceres Solver for a publication, please cite it as::    @misc{ceres-solver,      author = "Sameer Agarwal and Keir Mierle and Others",      title = "Ceres Solver",      howpublished = "\url{http://ceres-solver.org}",    }.. rubric:: Footnotes.. [#f1] While there is some debate as to who invented the method of         Least Squares [Stigler]_, there is no questioning the fact         that it was `Carl Friedrich Gauss         <http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Gauss.html>`_         who brought it to the attention of the world. Using just 22         observations of the newly discovered asteroid `Ceres         <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(dwarf_planet)>`_, Gauss         used the method of least squares to correctly predict when         and where the asteroid will emerge from behind the Sun         [TenenbaumDirector]_. We named our solver after Ceres to         celebrate this seminal event in the history of astronomy,         statistics and optimization.
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