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  <dc:title>Geometry-Adaptive Lyapunov-Assured Hybrid Optimizer with
Softplus Reparameterization and Trust-Region Control</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package GALAHAD version 2.0.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the GALAHAD algorithm (Geometry-Adaptive
    Lyapunov-Assured Hybrid Optimizer), updated in version 2 to replace the
    hard-clamp positivity constraint of v1 with a numerically smooth softplus
    reparameterization, add rho-based trust-region adaptation (actual vs.
    predicted objective reduction), extend convergence detection to include
    both absolute and relative function-stall criteria, and enrich the
    per-iteration history with Armijo backtrack counts and trust-region
    quality ratios. Parameters constrained to be positive (rates,
    concentrations, scale parameters) are handled in a transformed z-space
    via the softplus map so that gradients remain well-defined at the
    constraint boundary. A two-partition API (positive / euclidean) replaces
    the three-way T/P/E partition of v1; the legacy form is still accepted
    for backwards compatibility. Designed for biological modeling problems
    (germination, dose-response, prion RT-QuIC, survival) where rates,
    concentrations, and unconstrained coefficients coexist. Developed at
    the Minnesota Center for Prion Research and Outreach (MNPRO), University
    of Minnesota. Based on Conn et al. (2000)
    &lt;doi:10.1137/1.9780898719857&gt;, Barzilai and Borwein (1988)
    &lt;doi:10.1093/imanum/8.1.141&gt;, Xu and An (2024)
    &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2409.14383&gt;, Polyak (1969)
    &lt;doi:10.1016/0041-5553(69)90035-4&gt;, Nocedal and Wright (2006,
    ISBN:978-0-387-30303-1), and Dugas et al. (2009)
    &lt;https://www.jmlr.org/papers/v10/dugas09a.html&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.2.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Richard A. Feiss &lt;feiss026@umn.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Richard A. Feiss [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0409-6042&gt;)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=GALAHAD/LICENSE)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-03-08</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=GALAHAD</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.GALAHAD</dc:identifier>
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