[mlpack-svn] [MLPACK] #258: NCA should allow an arbitrary optimizer

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#258: NCA should allow an arbitrary optimizer
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 Reporter:  rcurtin   |        Owner:                            
     Type:  wishlist  |       Status:  new                       
 Priority:  trivial   |    Milestone:                            
Component:  mlpack    |     Keywords:  nca, optimizer, sgd, lbfgs
 Blocking:            |   Blocked By:                            
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 Previously (before #254) NCA used the L-BFGS optimizer, and now it uses
 the SGD optimizer.  Realistically we should allow the user the option of
 whichever optimizer they like; there are situations where one optimizer
 may turn out to be better than others.  After all, what NCA really is is
 just an objective function anyway.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.research.cc.gatech.edu/fastlab/ticket/258>
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