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.

• OptFrame, a C++ based framework