Improving the convergence of Nelder-Mead (and so fminsearch) by Emile Simon

This highlights a (common) trick to improve the convergence of NM, and a problem within fminsearch. (optimization, neldermead, restart)

nmsmax(fun, x, stopit, savit, varargin)

BenchmarkXSquared.m

Traditionalized Ackley by George Evers

Implements the traditional benchmark formulation used in optimization literature (ackleyfcn, ackleyfcnm, ackley)

ackleyfcn(x)