Unconstrained Minimization

FMIN Function—(Univariate Function) Using function and possibly first derivative values.

MIN_UNCON_GOLDEN Function—(Univariate Function) Finds the minimum point of a nonsmooth function of a single variable using the golden section search method.

FMINV Function—(Multivariate Function) Using quasi-Newton method.

NLINLSQ Function—(Nonlinear Least Squares) Using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm.

Linearly Constrained Minimization

LINEAR_PROGRAMMING Function—Minimizes the Euclidean scalar product <c,x> on Rn, for fixed c, linear constraints bl ≤  Ax ≤  bu, and bounds xl ≤  x ≤  xu.

LINPROG Function—Dense linear programming.

QUADPROG Function—Quadratic programming.

MINCONGEN Function—Minimize a general objective function.

Nonlinearly Constrained Minimization

NONLINPROG Function—Using successive quadratic programming method.

CONSTRAINED_NLP Function—Using a sequential equality constrained quadratic programming method.