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Month: August, 2010

Optimization: Himmelblau’s Function

31 August, 2010 (00:18) | General | 1 comment

I just came across Himmelblau’s function (226 hits) for testing optimization routines. It has four local minima and one maxima so it provides a good test: (226 hits) I’m pleased to say my implementation of the Nelder-Meade Simplex Algorithm (on my C++ page here (240 hits)) was able to optimize it for each minima (depending [...]