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I am genuinely in awe of how it was included in scipy 1.0. I am tagging two heavy hitters to attempt to bring discussion to this issue since, in general, scipy.optimize issues seem to go without discussion or fixes. @pv @teoliphant
As I understand, an effort was made in the last few version of scipy leading up to and including 1.0 to unify the interface of the different optimization routines and eventually deprecate fmin_xxxx.
A fairly large issue with this is that many of the inputs and outputs in the scipy documentation for these functions are simply wrong.
the documentation for disp is incorrect; convergence messages are not printed, only a blurb at the end. return_all appears in the call signature at the top and is undocumented. I looked to fmin_bfgs hoping its more specific documentation would be superior. The documentation for that is even more misleading. I hoped that the specified type for the constituents of allvecs being OptimizationResult would mean they hold cost function values and input vector values. They are simply input vector values. The documentation here is also misleading.
