mikeph
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Hi
I have some function f = f(x1,x2,...xn) over some domain [0,1]^n, and I'd like to find the global minimum. The function is *highly* non-linear and takes about 1 second to evaluate. I know it's positive because it's the sum of squares of about 1,000,000 arguments, each of which pretty much depends (non-linearly) on every single argument x1,x2...xn., where n ≈ 50; As a result I expect there to be a very large number of local minima.
Can anyone suggest a good approach to this problem? Standard minimum search algorithms get lost in a local minima or take forever calculating 50-D Jacobians.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
I have some function f = f(x1,x2,...xn) over some domain [0,1]^n, and I'd like to find the global minimum. The function is *highly* non-linear and takes about 1 second to evaluate. I know it's positive because it's the sum of squares of about 1,000,000 arguments, each of which pretty much depends (non-linearly) on every single argument x1,x2...xn., where n ≈ 50; As a result I expect there to be a very large number of local minima.
Can anyone suggest a good approach to this problem? Standard minimum search algorithms get lost in a local minima or take forever calculating 50-D Jacobians.
Any suggestions?
Thanks