README

This package contains the code for the numerical experiments found in our paper
"Quasi-Newton Methods: Superlinear Convergence Without Line Search For 
Self-Concordant Functions". The data for the tests is contained in the matlab
environment 'logregEnv.mat', distributed separately. You should download the
data and place it in the same directory as the rest of the files.

The data comes from the LIBSVM project [1].

You will also need WolfeLineSearch from the minFunc library [2].
For the plotting function, line-fewer-markers [3] and subtightplot[4] 
are used.

Wenbo Gao (wg2279@columbia.edu)
Dec 2016

[1] https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvmtools/datasets/
[2] https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~schmidtm/Software/minFunc.html
[3] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/42560-line-fewer-markers
[4] https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/39664-subtightplot


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