argmin
Library Featured
Numerical optimization in pure Rust
- Downloads
- 310,783
- Dependents
- 98
- Stars
- 1,278
- Forks
- 118
- Contributors
- 42
- Commits
- 1,347
- Latest release
- 0.11.0 ·
About
Mathematical optimization in pure Rust
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argmin is a numerical optimization library written entirely in Rust.
argmin's goal is to offer a wide range of optimization algorithms with a consistent interface.
It is type-agnostic by design, meaning that any type and/or math backend, such as nalgebra or ndarray can be used -- even your own.
Observers allow one to track the progress of iterations, either by using one of the provided ones for logging to screen or disk or by implementing your own.
An optional checkpointing mechanism helps to mitigate the negative effects of crashes in unstable computing environments.
Due to Rust's powerful generics and traits, most features can be exchanged for your own tailored implementations.
argmin is designed to simplify the implementation of optimization algorithms and as such can also be used as a toolbox for the development of new algorithms. One can focus on the algorithm itself, while the handling of termination, parameter vectors, populations, gradients, Jacobians and Hessians is taken care of by the library.
Read the full README
Algorithms
- Line searches
- Backtracking line search
- More-Thuente line search
- Hager-Zhang line search
- Trust region method
- Cauchy point method
- Dogleg method
- Steihaug method
- Steepest descent
- Conjugate gradient method
- Nonlinear conjugate gradient method
- Newton methods
- Newton’s method
- Newton-CG
- Quasi-Newton methods
- BFGS
- L-BFGS
- DFP
- SR1
- SR1-TrustRegion
- Gauss-Newton method
- Gauss-Newton method with linesearch
- Golden-section search
- Landweber iteration
- Brent’s method
- Nelder-Mead method
- Simulated Annealing
- Particle Swarm Optimization
External solvers compatible with argmin
External solvers which implement the Solver trait are compatible with argmin's Executor,
and as such can leverage features like checkpointing and observers.
License
Licensed under either of
- Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT License (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)
at your option.
Contribution
Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.
Compatibility
- Runs on
- GPU support unknown
What shows it
- no dependency or feature matches a backend row
- Native code
- Optional
- Binds native code: lapack-sys (feature ndarray_v0_15)
- Python bindings
- No Python binding crate found
- License
- Apache-2.0 OR MIT
Compare with similar projects
Order: strongest tier first, then most downloads, then name, with unmeasured values last. A library counts downloads over 30 days. An app counts binary downloads per release. An app with none counts its crate downloads over 30 days. ML Rust runs this catalogue, so its closest project always gets a row.
| Project | Downloads | Dependents | Stars | Latest release | Runs on (GPU) | Native code | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Numerical optimization in pure Rust |
310,783 downloads over 30 days | 98 | 1,278 | 0.11.0 | GPU support unknown | Binds native code: lapack-sys (feature ndarray_v0_15) | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
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High-performance FFT library written in pure Rust. |
4,266,035 downloads over 30 days | 571 | 963 | 6.4.1 | GPU support unknown | No native code found | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
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198,623 downloads over 30 days | 20 | 39 | 0.2.1 | GPU support unknown | No native code found | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
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peroxide Listed
Rust comprehensive scientific computation library contains linear algebra, numerical analysis, statistics and machine learning tools with familiar syntax Python bindings |
56,548 downloads over 30 days | 9 | 732 | 0.43.1 | GPU support unknown | Binds native code: openblas-src (feature O3-openblas-system), blas-sys (feature O3), hdf5-metno-sys (feature nc), lapack-sys (feature O3), libz-sys (feature nc) and 1 more | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
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basin Listed
Numerical optimization in pure Rust, with pluggable linear-algebra backends and WASM support. |
22,519 downloads over 30 days | 9 | 128 | 3.2.0 | GPU support unknown | Binds native code: blas-sys (feature nalgebra_latest-lapack), lapack-sys (feature nalgebra_latest-lapack) | Apache-2.0 OR MIT |
|
numr Listed
The base for numerical code in Rust, in the role NumPy has in Python: n-dimensional tensors, linear algebra, FFT, statistics and autograd on CPU, CUDA and WebGPU. The backends use native kernels, with no cuBLAS, MKL or other vendor math library. |
1,673 downloads over 30 days | 7 | 59 | 0.15.2 | CUDA, WebGPU | Binds native code: ring (feature distributed) | Apache-2.0 |
Why FeaturedIt passes every Featured gate.
What it meets
- It has 39 active dependents and 22 new dependents in 365 days. Featured needs 11 active dependents or 9 new dependents in 365 days.
- Active dependents are at 97% of their peak. Featured needs at least 50%.
- Docs are present. The release commit or a manifest ties the crate to the repository.
- No vulnerability advisory stays unpatched past the grace window. At least one version is neither a prerelease nor 0.0.x.
- The last activity is on 2 Oct 2025, 403 days ago. The rules expect an update within 560 days. Dormancy rule
What else the check found
- The oldest outside issue waits 714 days for a reply, past the limit of 270. No maintainer replied in 365 days. Rot signals rule
- The latest release requires the deprecated dependency paste. RUSTSEC-2024-0436 Rot signals rule
Exact rules: Featured library. The check on applied thresholds version 9.
Every rule outcome, as the check records it
expected-interval: version 0.11.0 base 140, doubled for 310783 downloads per month, doubled for 38.5 active users: E = 560 daysdormancy: last activity 2025-10-02, 403 days ago, E = 560: activerot: oldest unanswered issue 714 days (limit 270), no maintainer reply in 365 daysrot: deprecated requirement `paste (RUSTSEC-2024-0436, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0436.html)`featured: featured: active_users 38.5, new_adopters 22, former_glory 0.97
Crates8 crates
Measurements and sources
Each signal row shows the raw value, its source and the fetch date. The Sources list gathers every distinct source on this page. Movement needs more history.
Sources6 sources
- Description: the crates.io description
- crates.io database dump, fetched
- RustSec advisory database, fetched
- GitHub repository, fetched
- crates.io package, fetched
- GitHub contributors, fetched
Adoption39 active dependents, 22 new dependents in 365 days1 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active dependents | 38.5 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| New dependents (365 days) | 22 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Peak active dependents | 41 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Active dependents as a share of the peak | 0.9706 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Binary downloads per release | Not measured | Yes |
MaintenanceLatest human commit: 13 months ago3 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latest human commit | 2025-10-02 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Latest release | 2025-10-02 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| First release | 2018-01-31 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Latest version | 0.11.0 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Days the oldest outside issue waits for a reply | 714 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Maintainer replies over 365 days | 0 | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository archived | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Repository gone | false | GitHub repository | Yes | |
| Release commit or manifest in the repo | true | crates.io package | Yes | |
| Published docs | true | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Latest release fails cargo check | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check date | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Build check toolchain | Not measured | Yes |
SecurityUnpatched vulnerabilities: none
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unpatched vulnerabilities past the grace window | none | RustSec advisory database | Yes | |
| RustSec unmaintained advisory | none | RustSec advisory database | Yes | |
| Deprecation notice | none | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Deprecated requirement | paste (RUSTSEC-2024-0436, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0436.html) | crates.io database dump | Yes |
Distribution46 releases, 310,783 downloads over 30 days5 not measured
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Releases | 46 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Downloads over 30 days | 310783 | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Binary downloads over the last 3 releases | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Homebrew installs on request over 365 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Repology repository families | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pull growth over 90 days | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Docker pulls at the growth baseline | Not measured | Yes | ||
| Every version a prerelease | false | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Every version 0.0.x | false | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Every version yanked | false | crates.io database dump | Yes | |
| Crate deleted from crates.io | false | crates.io database dump | Yes |
Repository1,278 stars, 118 forks, 42 contributors, 1,347 commits. Stars alone never qualify a project.
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 1278 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| GitHub forks | 118 | GitHub repository | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Contributors with a GitHub account | 42 | GitHub contributors | Yes — one part of the repository route | |
| Commits on the default branch | 1347 | GitHub repository | No | |
| Repository's main crate left out of the entry | none | crates.io database dump | Yes |
Facts that never count
| Signal | Value | Source | Fetched | Counts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Apache-2.0 OR MIT | crates.io database dump | No | |
| Runs on, from listed crates and their direct dependencies | GPU support unknown | crates.io database dump | No | |
| What shows each backend | no dependency or feature matches a backend row | crates.io database dump | No | |
| Native code, from listed crates and their dependencies | Binds native code: lapack-sys (feature ndarray_v0_15) | crates.io database dump | No | |
| Python bindings, from direct dependencies of listed crates | No Python binding crate found | crates.io database dump | No | |
| Crates that depend on a listed crate directly | 98 | crates.io database dump | No |
Corrections and review history
No correction applies to this entry.
Judgments
A judgment enters only through an approved issue and a merged pull request.
No judgment applies to this entry.