Changelog

All notable changes of this project will be documented here.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Version 3.0.3 (May 2021)

Changed

  • Documentation fixes and improvements.

Version 3.0.2 (April 2021)

Changed

  • First open source release!

Fixed

  • Dependency version issue for python 3.8 (pyside2).

Version 3.0.1 (April 2021)

Fixed

  • Permission issue with a test.

  • Robustness of the excel discipline wrapper.

Version 3.0.0 (January 2021)

Added

  • Licenses materials

Changed

  • Renamed gems package to gemseo.

Removed

  • OpenOPT backend which is no longer maintained and has features overlap with other backends.

Fixed

  • Better error handling of the study CLI with missing latex tools.

Version 2.0.1 (December 2020)

Fixed

Version 2.0.0 (July 2020)

Added

  • Support for Python3

  • String encoding: all the strings shall now be encoded in unicode. For Python 2 users, please read carefuly the Python2 and Python3 compatibility note to migrate your existing GEMS scripts.

  • Documentation: gallery of examples and tutorials + cheat sheet

  • New conda file to automatically create a Python environment for GEMS under Linux, Windows and Mac OS.

  • ~35% improved performance on Python3

  • pyXDSM to generate latex/PDF XDSM

  • Display XDSM directly in the browser

  • Machine learning capabilities based on scikit-learn, OpenTURNS and scipy: clustering, classification, regression, dimension reduction, data scaling, quality measures, algorithm calibration.

  • Uncertainty package based on OpenTURNS and scipy: distributions, uncertain space, empirical and parametric statistics, Sobol’ indices.

  • AbstractFullCache to cache inputs and outputs in memory

  • New Dataset class to store data from numpy arrays, file, Database and AbstractFullCache; Unique interface to machine learning and uncertainty algorithms.

  • Cache post-processing via Dataset

  • Make a discipline from an executable with a GUI

  • Excel-based discipline

  • Prototype a MDO study without writing any code and generating N2 and XDSM diagrams

  • Automatic finite difference step

  • Post-optimal analysis to compute the jacobian of MDO scenarios

  • Pareto front: computation and plot

  • New scalable problem from Tedford and Martins

  • New plugin mechanism for extension of features

Changed

  • Refactored and much improved documentation

  • Moved to matplotlib 2.x and 3.x

  • Support for scipy 1.x

  • Improved API

  • Improved linear solvers robustness

  • Improved surrogate models based on machine learning capabilities and Dataset class.

  • Improved scalable models

  • Improved BasicHistory: works for design variables also

  • Improved XDSM diagrams for MDAChain

  • Improved BiLevel when no strong coupling is present

  • Improved overall tests

Fixed

  • Bug in GradientSensitivity

  • Bug in AutoPyDiscipline for multiple returns and non pep8 code

Version 1.3.2 (December 2019)

Fixed

  • Bugfix in Discipline while updating data from the cache

Version 1.3.1 (July 2019)

Added

  • COBYLA handle NaNs values and manages it to backtrack. Requires specific mod of COBYLA by IRT

  • OptHistoryView and BasicHistory handle NaNs values

  • BasicHistory works for design variable values

Changed

  • Improved error message when missing property in JSONGrammars

  • Improved imports to handle multiple versions of sklearn, pandas and sympy (thanks Damien Guenot)

Fixed

  • Bug in Caching and Discipline for inouts (Thanks Romain Olivanti)

  • Bug in MDASequential convergence hisotry

Version 1.3.0 (June 2019)

Added

  • Refactored and much improved documentation

  • All algorithms, MDAs, Surrogates, formulations options are now automatically documented in the HTML doc

  • Enhanced API: all MDO scenarios can be fully configured and run from the API

  • AutoPyDiscipline: faster way to wrap a Python function as a discipline

  • Surrogate models: Polynomial Chaos from OpenTurns

  • Surrogate model quality metrics:Leave one out, Q2, etc.

  • MDAs can handle self-coupled disciplines (inputs that are also outputs)

  • Lagrange Multipliers

  • Multi-starting point optimization as a bi-level scenario using a DOE

  • New aerostructure toy MDO problem

Changed

  • Bi-Level formulation can now handle black box optimization scenarios, and external MDAs

  • Improve Multiprocessing and multithreading parallelism handling (avoid deadlocks with caches)

  • Improve performance of input / output data checks, x13 faster JSONGrammars

  • Improve performance of disciplines execution: avoid memory copies

  • Enhanced Scalable discipline, DOE is now based on a driver and inputs are read from a HDF5 cache like surrogate models

  • More readable N2 graph

  • Improved logging: fix issue with output files

  • Improved progress bar and adapt units for runtime prediction

  • NLOPT Cobyla: add control for init step of the DOE (rho)

  • Surrogate GPR: add options handling

Version 1.2.1 (August 2018)

Added

  • Handle integer variables in DOEs

Changed

  • Improve performance of normalization/unnormalization

  • Improve x_xstar post processing to display the optimum

Fixed

  • Issue to use external optimizers in a MDOScenario

Version 1.2.0 (July 2018)

Added

  • New API to ease the scenario creation and use by external platforms

  • mix parallelism multithreading / multiprocessing

  • much improved and unified plugin system with factories for Optimizers, DOE, MDAs, Formulations, Disciplines, Surrogates

  • Surrogate models interfaces

  • MDAJacobi is now much faster thanks to a new acceleration set of methods

Changed

  • HTML documentation

  • Small improvements

Fixed

  • Many bugs

Version 1.1.0 (April 2018)

Added

  • Mix finite differences in the disicipline derivation and analytical jacobians or complex step to compute chain rule or adjoint method when not all disciplines’ analytical derivatives are available

  • Ability to handle design spaces with integer variables

  • Analytic discipline based on symbolic calculation to easily create disciplines from analytic formulas

  • A scalable surrogate approximation of a discipline to benchmark MDO formulations

  • A HDF cache (= recorder) for disciplines to store all executions on the disk

  • The P-L-BFGS-B algorithm interface, a variant of LBFGSB with preconditioning coded in Python

  • Parallel (multiprocessing and / or multithreading) execution of disciplines and or call to functions

  • New constraints plot visualizations (radar chart) and constraints plot with values

  • Visualization to plot the distance to the best value in log scale ||x-x*||

  • Possibility to choose to nomalize the design space or not for each variable

  • IDF improved for weakly coupled problems

  • On the fly backup of the optimization history (HDF5), in “append” mode

  • We can now monitor the convergence on the fly by creating optimization history plots at each iteration

  • Famous N2 plot in the CouplingStructure

  • Sphinx generated documention in HTML (open doc/index.html), with:

    • GEMS in a nutshell tutorial

    • Discipline integration tutorial

    • Post processing description

    • GEMS architecture description

    • MDO formulations description

    • MDAs

Changed

  • Improved automatically finding the best point in an optimization history

  • Improved callback functions during optimization / DOE

  • Improved stop criteria for optimization

  • Improved progress bar

  • Improved LGMRES solver for MDAs when using multiple RHS (recycle Krylov subspaces to accelerate convergence)

Fixed

  • Many bugs

Version 1.0.0 (December 2016)

Added

  • Design of Experiment (DOE) capabilities from pyDOE, OpenTURNS or a custom samples set

  • Full differentiation of the process is available:

    • analytical gradient based optimization

    • analytical Newton type coupling solver for MDA (Multi Disciplinary Analyses)

    • analytical derivation of the chains of disciplines (MDOChain) via the chain rule

  • Post processing of optimization history: many plots to view the constraints, objective, design variables

  • More than 10 MDA (coupled problems) solver available, some gradient based (quasi newton) and hybrid multi-step methods (SequantialMDA) !

  • OptimizationProblem and its solution can be written to disk and post processed afterwards

  • Handling of DOE and optimization algorithm options via JSON schemas

  • Introduced an OptimizationProblem class that is created by the MDOFormulation and passed to an algorithm for resolution

  • Serialization mechanism for MDODiscipline and subclasses (write objects to disk)

  • Intensive testing: 500 tests and 98 % line coverage (excluding third party source)

  • Improved code coverage by tests from 95% to 98% and all modules have a coverage of at least 95%

  • Reduced pylint warnings from 800 to 40 !

Changed

  • Code architecture refactoring for below items

  • Modularized post processing

  • Refactored algorithms part with factories

  • Removed dependency to json_shema_generator library, switched to GENSON (embeded with MIT licence)

  • Moved from JsonSchema Draft 3 to Draft 4 standard

  • Refactored the connection between the functions and the optimizers

  • Refactored MDOScenario

  • Refactored IDF formulation

  • Refactored Bilevel formulation

  • Refactored MDAs and introduced the CouplingStructure class

  • Refactored the DataProcessor for data interface with workflow engines

  • Refactored Sobieski use case to improve code quality

  • Included AGI remarks corrections on code style and best practices

Version 0.1.0 (April 2016)

Added

  • Basic MDO formulations: MDF, IDF, Bilevel formulations

  • Some optimization history views for convergence monitoring of the algorithm

  • Optimization algorithms: Scipy, OpenOPT, NLOPT

  • Possible export of the optimization history to the disk

  • Complex step and finite differences optimization

  • Benchmark cases:

    • Sobieski’s Supersonic Business Jet MDO case

    • Sellar

    • Propane