# coding: utf-8 # # Newton's method in $n$ dimensions # In[1]: import numpy as np import numpy.linalg as la import scipy.optimize as sopt import matplotlib.pyplot as pt from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import axes3d # Here are two functions. The first one is an oblong "bowl-shaped" one made of quadratic functions. # In[2]: def f(x): return 0.5*x[0]**2 + 2.5*x[1]**2 def df(x): return np.array([x[0], 5*x[1]]) def ddf(x): return np.array([ [1,0], [0,5] ]) # The second one is a challenge problem for optimization algorithms known as [Rosenbrock's banana function](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenbrock_function). # In[3]: def f(X): x = X[0] y = X[1] val = 100.0 * (y - x**2)**2 + (1.0 - x)**2 return val def df(X): x = X[0] y = X[1] val1 = 400.0 * (y - x**2) * x - 2 * x val2 = 200.0 * (y - x**2) return np.array([val1, val2]) def ddf(X): x = X[0] y = X[1] val11 = 400.0 * (y - x**2) - 800.0 * x**2 - 2 val12 = 400.0 val21 = -400.0 * x val22 = 200.0 return np.array([[val11, val12], [val21, val22]]) # Let's take a look at these functions. First in 3D: # In[4]: fig = pt.figure() ax = fig.gca(projection="3d") xmesh, ymesh = np.mgrid[-2:2:50j,-2:2:50j] fmesh = f(np.array([xmesh, ymesh])) ax.plot_surface(xmesh, ymesh, fmesh, alpha=0.3, cmap=pt.cm.coolwarm, rstride=3, cstride=3) # Then as a "contour plot": # In[5]: pt.axis("equal") pt.contour(xmesh, ymesh, fmesh, 50) # * You may need to add contours to seee more detail. # * The function is *not* symmetric about the y axis! # ### Newton # First, initialize: # In[14]: # Initialize the method guesses = [np.array([2, 2./5])] # Then evaluate this cell lots of times: # In[117]: x = guesses[-1] s = la.solve(ddf(x), df(x)) next_guess = x - s print(f(next_guess), next_guess) guesses.append(next_guess) # Here's some plotting code to see what's going on: # In[119]: pt.axis("equal") pt.contour(xmesh, ymesh, fmesh, 50) it_array = np.array(guesses) pt.plot(it_array.T[0], it_array.T[1], "x-")