Minimize string value Basic Accuracy: 29.82% Submissions: 104 Points: 1 Given a string of lowercase alphabets and a number k, the task is to find the minimum value of the string after removal of ‘k' characters. Given a number n, count minimum steps to minimize it to 1 according to the following criteria: If n is divisible by 2 then we may reduce n to n/2. If n is divisible by 3 then you may reduce n to n/3. Decrement n by 1. Examples: Input: n = 10 Output: 3 Input: 6 Output: 2.
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Minimization of scalar function of one or more variables.
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minimize_scalar
- Interface to minimization algorithms for scalar univariate functions
show_options
- Additional options accepted by the solvers
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This section describes the available solvers that can be selected by the‘method' parameter. The default method is BFGS.
Unconstrained minimization
Method Nelder-Mead uses theSimplex algorithm [1], [2]. This algorithm is robust in manyapplications. However, if numerical computation of derivative can betrusted, other algorithms using the first and/or second derivativesinformation might be preferred for their better performance ingeneral.
Method Powell is a modificationof Powell's method [3], [4] which is a conjugate directionmethod. It performs sequential one-dimensional minimizations alongeach vector of the directions set (direc field in options andinfo), which is updated at each iteration of the mainminimization loop. The function need not be differentiable, and noderivatives are taken.
Method CG uses a nonlinear conjugategradient algorithm by Polak and Ribiere, a variant of theFletcher-Reeves method described in [5] pp. 120-122. Only thefirst derivatives are used.
Method BFGS uses the quasi-Newtonmethod of Broyden, Fletcher, Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) [5]pp. 136. It uses the first derivatives only. BFGS has proven goodperformance even for non-smooth optimizations. This method alsoreturns an approximation of the Hessian inverse, stored ashess_inv in the OptimizeResult object.
Method Newton-CG uses aNewton-CG algorithm [5] pp. 168 (also known as the truncatedNewton method). It uses a CG method to the compute the searchdirection. See also TNC method for a box-constrainedminimization with a similar algorithm. Suitable for large-scaleproblems.
Method dogleg uses the dog-legtrust-region algorithm [5] for unconstrained minimization. https://bestqfile898.weebly.com/samsung-phone-with-apple-computer.html. Thisalgorithm requires the gradient and Hessian; furthermore theHessian is required to be positive definite.
Method trust-ncg uses theNewton conjugate gradient trust-region algorithm [5] forunconstrained minimization. This algorithm requires the gradientand either the Hessian or a function that computes the product ofthe Hessian with a given vector. Suitable for large-scale problems.
Method trust-krylov usesthe Newton GLTR trust-region algorithm [14], [15] for unconstrainedminimization. This algorithm requires the gradientand either the Hessian or a function that computes the product ofthe Hessian with a given vector. Suitable for large-scale problems.On indefinite problems it requires usually less iterations than thetrust-ncg method and is recommended for medium and large-scale problems.
Method Powell is a modificationof Powell's method [3], [4] which is a conjugate directionmethod. It performs sequential one-dimensional minimizations alongeach vector of the directions set (direc field in options andinfo), which is updated at each iteration of the mainminimization loop. The function need not be differentiable, and noderivatives are taken.
Method CG uses a nonlinear conjugategradient algorithm by Polak and Ribiere, a variant of theFletcher-Reeves method described in [5] pp. 120-122. Only thefirst derivatives are used.
Method BFGS uses the quasi-Newtonmethod of Broyden, Fletcher, Goldfarb, and Shanno (BFGS) [5]pp. 136. It uses the first derivatives only. BFGS has proven goodperformance even for non-smooth optimizations. This method alsoreturns an approximation of the Hessian inverse, stored ashess_inv in the OptimizeResult object.
Method Newton-CG uses aNewton-CG algorithm [5] pp. 168 (also known as the truncatedNewton method). It uses a CG method to the compute the searchdirection. See also TNC method for a box-constrainedminimization with a similar algorithm. Suitable for large-scaleproblems.
Method dogleg uses the dog-legtrust-region algorithm [5] for unconstrained minimization. https://bestqfile898.weebly.com/samsung-phone-with-apple-computer.html. Thisalgorithm requires the gradient and Hessian; furthermore theHessian is required to be positive definite.
Method trust-ncg uses theNewton conjugate gradient trust-region algorithm [5] forunconstrained minimization. This algorithm requires the gradientand either the Hessian or a function that computes the product ofthe Hessian with a given vector. Suitable for large-scale problems.
Method trust-krylov usesthe Newton GLTR trust-region algorithm [14], [15] for unconstrainedminimization. This algorithm requires the gradientand either the Hessian or a function that computes the product ofthe Hessian with a given vector. Suitable for large-scale problems.On indefinite problems it requires usually less iterations than thetrust-ncg method and is recommended for medium and large-scale problems.
Method trust-exactis a trust-region method for unconstrained minimization in whichquadratic subproblems are solved almost exactly [13]. Thisalgorithm requires the gradient and the Hessian (which isnot required to be positive definite). It is, in manysituations, the Newton method to converge in fewer iteractionand the most recommended for small and medium-size problems.
Bound-Constrained minimization
Method L-BFGS-B uses the L-BFGS-Balgorithm [6], [7] for bound constrained minimization.
Method TNC uses a truncated Newtonalgorithm [5], [8] to minimize a function with variables subjectto bounds. This algorithm uses gradient information; it is alsocalled Newton Conjugate-Gradient. It differs from the Newton-CGmethod described above as it wraps a C implementation and allowseach variable to be given upper and lower bounds.
Constrained Minimization
Method COBYLA uses theConstrained Optimization BY Linear Approximation (COBYLA) method[9], [10], [11]. The algorithm is based on linearapproximations to the objective function and each constraint. Themethod wraps a FORTRAN implementation of the algorithm. Theconstraints functions ‘fun' may return either a single numberor an array or list of numbers.
Method SLSQP uses SequentialLeast SQuares Programming to minimize a function of severalvariables with any combination of bounds, equality and inequalityconstraints. The method wraps the SLSQP Optimization subroutineoriginally implemented by Dieter Kraft [12]. Note that thewrapper handles infinite values in bounds by converting them intolarge floating values.
Method trust-constr is atrust-region algorithm for constrained optimization. It swichesbetween two implementations depending on the problem definition.It is the most versatile constrained minimization algorithmimplemented in SciPy and the most appropriate for large-scale problems.For equality constrained problems it is an implementation of Byrd-OmojokunTrust-Region SQP method described in [17] and in [5], p. 549. Wheninequality constraints are imposed as well, it swiches to the trust-regioninterior point method described in [16]. This interior point algorithm,in turn, solves inequality constraints by introducing slack variablesand solving a sequence of equality-constrained barrier problemsfor progressively smaller values of the barrier parameter.The previously described equality constrained SQP method isused to solve the subproblems with increasing levels of accuracyas the iterate gets closer to a solution.
Finite-Difference Options
For Method trust-constrthe gradient and the Hessian may be approximated usingthree finite-difference schemes: {‘2-point', ‘3-point', ‘cs'}.The scheme ‘cs' is, potentially, the most accurate but itrequires the function to correctly handles complex inputs and tobe differentiable in the complex plane. The scheme ‘3-point' is moreaccurate than ‘2-point' but requires twice as much operations.
Custom minimizers
It may be useful to pass a custom minimization method, for examplewhen using a frontend to this method such as scipy.optimize.basinhopping
or a different library. You can simply pass a callable as the method
parameter.
The callable is called as method(fun,x0,args,**kwargs,**options)
where kwargs
corresponds to any other parameters passed to minimize
(such as callback, hess, etc.), except the options dict, which hasits contents also passed as method parameters pair by pair. Also, ifjac has been passed as a bool type, jac and fun are mangled so thatfun returns just the function values and jac is converted to a functionreturning the Jacobian. The method shall return an OptimizeResult
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The provided method callable must be able to accept (and possibly ignore)arbitrary parameters; the set of parameters accepted by minimize
mayexpand in future versions and then these parameters will be passed tothe method. You can find an example in the scipy.optimize tutorial.
References
[1] | (1, 2) Nelder, J A, and R Mead. 1965. A Simplex Method for FunctionMinimization. The Computer Journal 7: 308-13. |
[2] | (1, 2) Wright M H. 1996. Direct search methods: Once scorned, nowrespectable, in Numerical Analysis 1995: Proceedings of the 1995Dundee Biennial Conference in Numerical Analysis (Eds. D FGriffiths and G A Watson). Addison Wesley Longman, Harlow, UK.191-208. |
[3] | (1, 2) Powell, M J D. 1964. An efficient method for finding the minimum ofa function of several variables without calculating derivatives. TheComputer Journal 7: 155-162. |
[4] | (1, 2) Press W, S A Teukolsky, W T Vetterling and B P Flannery.Numerical Recipes (any edition), Cambridge University Press. |
[5] | (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Nocedal, J, and S J Wright. 2006. Numerical Optimization.Springer New York. |
[6] | (1, 2) Byrd, R H and P Lu and J. Nocedal. 1995. A Limited MemoryAlgorithm for Bound Constrained Optimization. SIAM Journal onScientific and Statistical Computing 16 (5): 1190-1208. |
[7] | (1, 2) Zhu, C and R H Byrd and J Nocedal. 1997. L-BFGS-B: Algorithm778: L-BFGS-B, FORTRAN routines for large scale bound constrainedoptimization. ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 23 (4):550-560. |
[8] | (1, 2) Nash, S G. Newton-Type Minimization Via the Lanczos Method.1984. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 21: 770-778. |
[9] | (1, 2) Powell, M J D. A direct search optimization method that modelsthe objective and constraint functions by linear interpolation.1994. Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, eds. S. Gomezand J-P Hennart, Kluwer Academic (Dordrecht), 51-67. |
[10] | (1, 2) Powell M J D. Direct search algorithms for optimizationcalculations. 1998. Acta Numerica 7: 287-336. |
[11] | (1, 2) Powell M J D. A view of algorithms for optimization withoutderivatives. 2007.Cambridge University Technical Report DAMTP2007/NA03 |
[12] | (1, 2) Kraft, D. A software package for sequential quadraticprogramming. 1988. Tech. Rep. DFVLR-FB 88-28, DLR German AerospaceCenter – Institute for Flight Mechanics, Koln, Germany. |
[13] | (1, 2) Conn, A. R., Gould, N. I., and Toint, P. L.Trust region methods. 2000. Siam. pp. 169-200. |
[14] | (1, 2) F. Lenders, C. Kirches, A. Potschka: 'trlib: A vector-freeimplementation of the GLTR method for iterative solution ofthe trust region problem', https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04718 |
[15] | (1, 2) N. Gould, S. Lucidi, M. Roma, P. Toint: 'Solving theTrust-Region Subproblem using the Lanczos Method',SIAM J. Optim., 9(2), 504–525, (1999). |
[16] | (1, 2) Byrd, Richard H., Mary E. Hribar, and Jorge Nocedal. 1999.An interior point algorithm for large-scale nonlinear programming.SIAM Journal on Optimization 9.4: 877-900. |
[17] | (1, 2) Lalee, Marucha, Jorge Nocedal, and Todd Plantega. 1998. On theimplementation of an algorithm for large-scale equality constrainedoptimization. SIAM Journal on Optimization 8.3: 682-706. |
Examples
Let us consider the problem of minimizing the Rosenbrock function. Thisfunction (and its respective derivatives) is implemented in rosen
(resp. rosen_der
, rosen_hess
) in the scipy.optimize
.
A simple application of the Nelder-Mead method is:
Now using the BFGS algorithm, using the first derivative and a fewoptions:
Next, consider a minimization problem with several constraints (namelyExample 16.4 from [5]). The objective function is:
There are three constraints defined as:
And variables must be positive, hence the following bounds:
The optimization problem is solved using the SLSQP method as:
It should converge to the theoretical solution (1.4 ,1.7).