Optimization (scipy.optimize)

Which solver classes satisfy a fixed accuracy and feasibility target on a small declared suite of smooth and constrained problems?

The evaluator recomputes objectives, constraint violations and known-optimum gaps; a solver success flag cannot establish optimality.

What you could produce

• A versioned minimal protocol, evaluator-owned test cases, and a comparison report with numerical/statistical uncertainty and failures.

Before you use it

• SciPy 1.18.0
• Compatible NumPy and native numerical-library build; exact environment not prepared

Limits to keep in view

• No upstream example, source package, build hook or submitted code was executed.
• The current qualified pilot accepts only self-contained Python 3.13 with a 90-second deadline. This reference's package/runtime is not qualified for that path.
• The proposed protocol requires bounded resource estimates and an independently controlled evaluator before any scientific execution claim.

Source and permission context

SciPy documentation. Optimization (scipy.optimize). https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-1.18.0/tutorial/optimize.html; observed version 1.18.0.

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