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Chapter 10 Contents
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Select Section Section 10.1: The Objective Function
Select Section Section 10.2: Factors Affecting the Choice of a Method
Select Section Section 10.3: Line Search
Select Section Section 10.4: Evaluation-Only Methods
Current Section Section 10.5: First-Order Gradient Methods
Select Subsection Section 10.5.1: Gradient Descent
Select Subsection Section 10.5.2: Best-Step Steepest Descent (Cauchy's Method)
Select Subsection Section 10.5.3: Conjugate Gradient Descent
Select Section Section 10.6: Second-Order Gradient Methods
Select Section Section 10.7: Stochastic Evaluation-Only Methods
Select Section Section 10.8: Discussion