will greatly speed up the computations. A zero entry means that a corresponding element in the Jacobian is identically zero. If provided, forces the use of 'lsmr' trust-region solver. If None (default) then dense differencing will be used. Notes ----- Finite difference schemes {'2-point', '3-point', 'cs'} may be used for approximating either the Jacobian or the Hessian. We, however, do not allow its use for approximating both simultaneously. Hence whenever the Jacobian is estimated via finite-differences, we require the Hessian to be estimated using one of the quasi-Newton strategies. The scheme 'cs' is potentially the most accurate, but requires the function to correctly handles complex inputs and be analytically continuable to the complex plane. The scheme '3-point' is more accurate than '2-point' but requires twice as many operations. Examples -------- Constrain ``x[0] < sin(x[1]) + 1.9`` >>> from scipy.optimize import NonlinearConstraint >>> import numpy as np >>> con = lambda x: x[0] - np.sin(x[1]) >>> nlc = NonlinearConstraint(con, -np.inf, 1.9) ú