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Re: Re: New in 5.1.1?

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• Subject: [mg55189] Re: [mg55171] Re: New in 5.1.1?
• From: Brett Champion <brettc at wolfram.com>
• Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:36:06 -0500 (EST)
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On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:22 PM, hlovatt wrote:

>
>> a new nonlinear interior point method has been added
>> to NMinimize
>
> Does anyone know what this new option to NMinimize is?
>

The interior point method is automatically used to refine results.  It 
can be run using

	Method->{"RandomSearch", Method->"InteriorPoint"}

which will use the nonlinear interior point from several starting 
points.  You can also use

	Method->{"RandomSearch", Method->"InteriorPoint", "SearchPoints"->1}

which will just use a single starting point (and so will be more likely 
to just find a local optimum.)

I apologize for this information not making it into the documentation.

Brett Champion

• References:
  • New in 5.1.1?
    • From: "snoofly" <snoofly@snoofly.com>
  • Re: New in 5.1.1?
    • From: "hlovatt" <howard.lovatt@csiro.au>