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SimonBlanke

gradient-free-optimizers

Lightweight optimization with local, global, population-based and sequential techniques across mixed search spaces
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Monthly downloads
14.9K
Weekly downloads
1.7K
GitHub stars
1.3K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.13.0
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
MIT
Last Release
5 months ago
First Release
April 16, 2020
Total Releases
63
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
63
Adoption
41
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
42 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,873
Active
Activity within 30 days
• Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
14,873
Stars
1,277
Stars per 1k downloads
85.86
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
248
Month daily avg
496
Momentum
-49.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
153 days ago
Total releases
63
Releases/year
9.7
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
7
Monthly downloads
14,873
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
45
 
Issue Burden
13.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
111d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 207
macOS 1

Python Versions

3.12
40.3% 83
3.10
32.0% 66
3.11
21.8% 45
3.8
2.9% 6
3.9
2.9% 6

Top Countries

1. US US
135
2. DE DE
30
3. CN CN
27
4. AU AU
10
5. CH CH
7
6. GB GB
3
7. BE BE
2
8. CA CA
2
9. JP JP
2
10. MY MY
1

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

2
15 optional dependencies
  • build[build]
    extra == "build"
  • flake8[test]
    extra == "test"
  • pytest==9.0.3[test]
    extra == "test"
  • pytest-cov[test]
    extra == "test"
  • scikit-learn!=0.23.*,>=0.21[test]
    extra == "test"
  • scikit-learn!=0.23.*,>=0.21[full]
    extra == "full"
  • scikit-learn!=0.23.*,>=0.21[sklearn]
    extra == "sklearn"
  • scipy<2.0.0[full]
    extra == "full"
  • scipy<2.0.0[scipy]
    extra == "scipy"
  • scipy<2.0.0[test]
    extra == "test"
  • setuptools[build]
    extra == "build"
  • surfaces[test]
    extra == "test"
  • tqdm<5.0.0,>=4.48.0[full]
    extra == "full"
  • tqdm<5.0.0,>=4.48.0[progress]
    extra == "progress"
  • wheel[build]
    extra == "build"

Used By

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