Hi professor! Thank you for your explanation. I do however wonder why in your "proof" the ratio was (3-sqr(5))/2 and the golden section is (1+sqr(5))/2. Thank you from the Netherlands!!!
I would like to see a real example. In my case the line search begins from the current point in the opposite direction of the gradient. I must search along the line. I can just repeatably iterate along the line and evaluate the cost function until it no longer gets smaller. You are suggesting searching between two points but how far should the end point or 'low" point be from the current "high" point. You are assuming the boundary of the end point is known and will bracket the minimum point along the line search. What if it isn't?
Fabulous work. Many thanks!
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Hi professor! Thank you for your explanation. I do however wonder why in your "proof" the ratio was (3-sqr(5))/2 and the golden section is (1+sqr(5))/2. Thank you from the Netherlands!!!
This is explained at 14:51.
When strict-unimodality holds?
Proving unimodality is often hard. If it does not hold, the method will converge to one of the local optima.
I would like to see a real example. In my case the line search begins from the current point in the opposite direction of the gradient. I must search along the line. I can just repeatably iterate along the line and evaluate the cost function until it no longer gets smaller. You are suggesting searching between two points but how far should the end point or 'low" point be from the current "high" point. You are assuming the boundary of the end point is known and will bracket the minimum point along the line search. What if it isn't?