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package org.apache.commons.math3.optimization;

import org.apache.commons.math3.analysis.DifferentiableMultivariateFunction;

/**
 * This interface represents an optimization algorithm for {@link DifferentiableMultivariateFunction
 * scalar differentiable objective functions}. Optimization algorithms find the input point set that
 * either {@link GoalType maximize or minimize} an objective function.
 *
 * @see MultivariateOptimizer
 * @see DifferentiableMultivariateVectorOptimizer
 * @deprecated As of 3.1 (to be removed in 4.0).
 * @since 2.0
 */
@Deprecated
public interface DifferentiableMultivariateOptimizer
        extends BaseMultivariateOptimizer<DifferentiableMultivariateFunction> {}