Book Review: Introduction to derivative-free optimization

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Despite the popularity of artificial life over the last 15 years or so, as witnessed by the establishment of several international conferences on the subject and the birth of the Artificial Life Journal and similar publications, there has been a conspicuous lack of decent introductory texts on the subject. Notable exceptions include “Artificial Life: An Introduction” (Langton 1995), an eclectic...

Derivative Free Optimization

Derivative-Free Optimization

In many engineering applications it is common to find optimization problems where the cost function and/or constraints require complex simulations. Though it is often, but not always, theoretically possible in these cases to extract derivative information efficiently, the associated implementation procedures are typically non-trivial and time-consuming (e.g., adjoint-based methodologies). Deriv...

Derivative free optimization method

Derivative free optimization (DFO) methods are typically designed to solve optimization problems whose objective function is computed by a “black box”; hence, the gradient computation is unavailable. Each call to the “black box” is often expensive, so estimating derivatives by finite differences may be prohibitively costly. Finally, the objective function value may be computed with some noise, ...