A comparison of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional particle and astrophysics applications
A comparison of optimisation algorithms for high-dimensional particle and astrophysics applications
Optimisation problems are ubiquitous in particle and astrophysics, and involve locating the optimum of a complicated function of many parameters that may be computationally expensive to evaluate. We describe a number of global optimisation algorithms that are not yet widely used in particle astrophysics, benchmark them against random sampling and …