Chapter 10 Contents
Overview
Section 10.1: The Objective Function
Section 10.2: Factors Affecting the Choice of a Method
Section 10.3: Line Search
Section 10.4: Evaluation-Only Methods
Section 10.5: First-Order Gradient Methods
Section 10.6: Second-Order Gradient Methods
Section 10.6.1: Newton's Method
Section 10.6.2: Gauss-Newton
Section 10.6.3: The Levenberg-Marquardt Method
Section 10.6.4: Quasi-Newton Methods
Section 10.7: Stochastic Evaluation-Only Methods
Section 10.8: Discussion