MATLAB: The meaning of ‘MaxFunEvals’ in ‘fmincon’

Question

Hello,

The description of the argument 'MaxFunEvals' for 'fmincon' is 'Maximum number of function evaluations allowed.' I don't know which function it is referring to. Can someone help explain it in more details?

Thanks a lot!

Sincerely

Elvin

Answer 1

Hi,

it refers to the objective function, e.g.

fmincon(@myfun,....)

and setting MaxFunEvals to 1000 would mean that the fmincon function stops optimizing after calling 1000 times myfun (as long no other stop creatia was hit).