Optimum: a Rust-based Optimization Framework
Current state: Design, Research and Experimentation. Be aware that I will change a lot of things until the project reaches an initial version.
Based on my experience working with Metaheuristics, I plan to build a framework capable of accelerating the development of solutions efficiently by leveraging Rust features that ease the creation of reliable and efficient software.
Goals
Optimum will be:
- Flexible
- It must be reasonably easy to design new metaheuristics and solve many kinds of problems using Optimum. Therefore it needs to be extensible and configurable.
- Fast
- Based of zero-cost abstractions, using the framework shouldn't imply in a significant computational overhead.
- Complete
- Coding the heuristic is not the only task we have when solving a problem. Parameter tuning, validation of generated solutions, instances, result analysis... It should be easier to get all this done in a convenient, standardized way.
Optimum will have:
- Increasing support for many kinds of Metaheuristics
- Common building blocks for the development of problem-specific solutions
- Evaluation tools to speed up the analysis of the heuristics built
- And whatever makes sense for us as developers and researchers!
Inspirations
To learn from others is key to design a solution which pushes things forward.