Register & add a LICENSE file

[GiggleLiu]

Hi, @jbrea This is a very neat package for MADS and it still works in Julia1.7, thanks for writing it. Do you have a plan to register it? I need to use some of its functionality in my own project, but feeling bad if I just copy paste the code.

Also, it would be nice to add a LICENSE file in this project so that people know how to use this package properly.

[jbrea]

Thanks for the kudos :)

I didn't have plans for this package (NOMAD is much more feature rich and other black-box-optimizers worked better for my use cases), but I started registration now. It should be registered in a few days.

[GiggleLiu]

Thank you! I just started using the MADS method, so I am wondering what is the major limitation of this implementation?

If the issue is not fundamental, I wish to stick to the Julia native version because there is a need to access intermediate information during training and the native Julia version is much easier to adapt to an iterator style.

[jbrea]

NOMAD has certainly more features (see e.g. TODO in MeshAdaptiveDirectSearch.jl; they also have some variants that rely on fitted surrogates) and is much better tested. For the implementation here I just followed the respective papers; I don't know if there are some more tricks in packages like NOMAD.

I am happy if this package is useful for you!