Team

Gradient-Free-Optimizers is created and maintained by Simon Blanke with contributions from the open-source community.

Core Team

Simon Blanke - Creator & Maintainer

Simon created GFO in 2019 as part of a larger effort to make gradient-free optimization more accessible. He continues to maintain the project, review contributions, and guide its development.

Contributors

GFO has benefited from contributions from the community. Contributors have helped with:

Bug fixes and feature additions
Documentation improvements
Testing and issue reporting
Algorithm implementations
Performance optimizations

View all contributors on GitHub: Contributors List

Acknowledgments

Inspiration & Research

GFO builds on decades of optimization research. The algorithms implemented draw from academic literature and open-source implementations.

Related Projects

GFO is part of an ecosystem:

Hyperactive - Uses GFO as backend
Surfaces - Test functions for benchmarking

Join the Team

Interested in contributing? See Contributing for how to get started.

We welcome contributors of all experience levels!