Set up of the example

Set up of the example#

Learning Objectives#

After working through this topic, you should be able to:

  • describe the basic properties of the function used in the example for the videos providing intuition behind different types of optimisation algorithms.

Materials#

Here are the slides.

Quiz#

How many parameters does the example function have?
Does the example function have multiple local optima?
Is the example function differentiable?