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Tutorial of Armijo backtracking line search for Newton method in Python

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  • newton.py contains the implementation of the Newton optimizer.
  • main.py runs the main script and generates the figures in the figures directory.
  • plot.py contains several plot helpers.

Results

The 6 hump camelback objective function:

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A sample trajectory ending at a global minimum:

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The line search at one of the optimization steps:

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(red shows initial step; green shows after line search).

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