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Evolution and Optimum Seeking

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Multidimensional Strategies 67<br />

The gradient strategy, however, cannot distinguish global from local minima. The<br />

optimum at which it aims depends only on the choice of the starting point for the search.<br />

The only chance of nding absolute extrema is to start su ciently often from various<br />

initial values of the variables <strong>and</strong> to iterate each timeuntil the convergence criterion is<br />

satis ed (Jacoby, Kowalik, <strong>and</strong> Pizzo, 1972). The termination rules usually recommended<br />

for gradient methods are that the absolute value of the vector<br />

or the di erence<br />

krF (x (k) )k

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