Questions tagged [mathematical-optimization]
Questions on the optimization functions of Mathematica such as FindMinimum/FindMaximum, Minimize/Maximize, NMinimize/NMaximize, etc.
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How to make Minimize with Sqrt calculate faster?
This code ran a long time without getting a result (v12.0 & v11.3)
Minimize[{Sqrt[3 + x] + Sqrt[3 - x*y], x^2 + y^2 == 9}, {x, y}]
But with $x=3\cos t,y=3\...
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Using Globally Convergent Newton's Method to solve for minimum of function [closed]
My goal is to write a function for the Globally Converging Newton's method to find the minimum of a function. It should stop when the derivative of it is less than 10^-6. This is what I have so far ...
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Linear programming problem(Not Hard) [closed]
Suppose there is a furniture retail store that buys products from suppliers. Four main items the store wants to buy as stock are chair, table, sofa, and closet, costing 500, 700, 600, 300, ...
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smallest distance to place the capital? [migrated]
A country has four cities where should the capital be built. it is desirable that the sum of distances of the cities from the capital be as small as possible?
how do i solve it ?
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Finding minimum for a function of four variables [closed]
I would like to find the min of the following function,
-5 + 2 Sqrt[5] + 4 (5 - 3 Sqrt[5]) b^2 + Sqrt[2] (-1 + 2 b^2 - 2 a Sqrt[1 - a^2 -
2 b^2] Cos[ρ - ϛ])
for ...
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All positive integer points up to a certain distance from a hyperplane
I have the hyperplane $\sum_{i=1}^{d} x_i c_i = z$ for $x \in \mathbb{R}^d$, defined by the vector of postivive numerical coefficients $c_i \in \mathbb{R}, c_i > 0$, and the value $z > 0$.
I ...
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cannot get EvaluationMonitor to output number of iterations taken to find a root
I was given the following problem:
Consider the equation x = exp(-x2). Plot the two curves on the same plot to get a rough idea of the intersection point. Then use a built - in function (e.g. ...
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Is a seven-dimensional constrained maximization problem too demanding for meaningful analysis?
I am interested in finding the maximum of
a[1]^2 a[2]^2 a[3]^2 a[4]^2 a[5]^2 a[6]^2 a[7]^2
subject to the (entanglement) constraint
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Maximize a six-dimensional function subject to joint positive-semidefiniteness constraints
I want to maximize
Abs[a1 b1] + Abs[a2 b2] + Abs[a3 b3]
subject to the joint constraints
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How to use genetic algorithm to calculate the maximum value of this matrix
1-9 the 9 numbers are arranged into 3 * 3 matrix without repetition.How to select the matrix with the largest determinant value:
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Fitting different data sets with different models and 2 free variables using FindFit
I have a T1 equation from which I got two noisy datasets, one for y=0 (datax) and the other for x=0 (datay) (t is always equal to 1):
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ABC analysis in Mathematica
I would like to take a table with columns for the product name and total profit and segment it into three categories. Each category would have ~1/3 of the total profit (for all products). The first ...
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Plotting “Maximize” function takes long time!
In the following code, I am trying to plot the function GG[DM_] that contains Maximize problem as shown in Fig:
where /omega_a and ...
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How to interpolate {{xi,yi},… ,{xn,yn}} with minimum bending energy?
Thin Plate Splines are explained here, and a Mathematica implementation of that for real samples { { x1, y2, z1 }, { x2, y2, z2 }, ... , { xn, yn, zn } } is ...
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Plotting NMinimize function
I want to plot the following NMinimize function:
I used
GGPlot = Plot[GG[DM], {DM, 0.02, 10}, PlotRange -> All]
But I get nothing!
My code is
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Issue with NMaxValue Constrained to an ImplicitRegion
I am trying to find the maximum (and minimum) value of an interpolated function constrained to an ImplictRegion with a (partly) curved boundary. I have followed the documentation carefully and tried ...
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How to compute Max function of the following form:
I knew that in Mathematica, the "Max" function yields the largest element of any of the lists, for example, Max[x,y,z,....].
How do I implement this function with Mathematica? and what does this ...
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Minimize with constraints on parameters does not stop running [closed]
I have the following simple optimization problem, but when I tried to put the values into Mathmatica, it does not stop running for hours.
Actual problem is:
$\qquad min_{x1, x2, x3} : a1\,x1 + a2\,...
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Optimizing a nested function in mathematica getting stuck at local maximum and giving wrong answer
I am trying to maximize this function over the value "p":
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Nested maximum function not working
I am trying to maximize a function which is itself a maximized function. For example, see the below.
Can someone explain this error:
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ArgMax problem with Piecewise function
I'm having an issue with finding the maximizer of a very simple piecewise function.
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How to solve an optimization problem with multiple constraints? [closed]
I would like to minimize a function in four variables with respect to multiple constraints. $a+b+c+d\leq 1$ and $a, b, c, d \geq 0$, i.e. minimizing on the unit simplex in 4D. How do I incorporate ...
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Maximizing Output from ParametricNDSolve [closed]
Given a system of differential equations that are dependent on two parameters, such as the system below (the equation below is not that important, I am interested in a general procedure given a ...
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Multiple agents routing optimisation problem
We are given an array of nodes of the form {{xcoordinate,ycoordinate}, weight, "name"}. This represents nodes on a 2D euclidean coordinate system. Further, we are given a number n which is the number ...
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How to make the computation of a minimum efficient?
I have a $80\times 80$ matrix $A$ and a vector $P$ and I want to compute efficiently the following minimum
$$
\min\{n\in \Bbb N :\|A^nP\|_\infty < 1\}
$$
Then I defined my matrix and vector in ...
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Find (numerically) point where derivative is infinite
I have a function that is shown in the image, below.
The point I am interested in extracting (numeric fine) is, in this case, 200. This appears to be the point at which one derivative is infinite.
It ...
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Maximizing over a 1D region
Why does the following not compute?
MaxValue[-y^2, y ∈ Interval[{-1, 1}]]
I expect it to compute the maximum value of the funtion over the interval from -1 to 1 ...
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NDSolve with Events that reevaluate with different Discrete Variables
I have the following problem:
I have a set of ODEs and some discrete variables which I can solve successfully. Now I want mathematica to check at every $0.1 \,t$ time step, wether it would increase ...
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Using preconditioners efficiently
I am trying to numerically solve a linear system of equations of the form
A x = a
where A is really ill-conditioned and ...
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Maximizing efficiency of a power-tower (tetration) calculation
I'm working on a power tower $\displaystyle z^{z^{.^{.^{.}}}}$ and wish to maximize the efficiency of my algorithm to compute a cycle map. This is a color-coded diagram of the cycle period of each ...
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NDSolve with Functions Depending on time and time dependent Functions
EDIT:
following the advice of using Raw Input Form, the equations have the following form
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Calculating the volume of a paraboloidal region
I have an inequality that defines a paraboloid. I would like to calculate the volume of the intersection of this paraboloid and a cylinder of radius R.
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Is it possible to minimize this function in Mathematica/wolframAlpha?
I want to minimize this function $f(x, y)=\left(n_{1}\right)\left(1-x(1-x)^{k_{1}}(1-y)^{k_{2}}\right)^{T}+\left(n_{2}\right)\left(1-y(1-x)^{k_{1}}(1-y)^{k_{2}}\right)^{T}$
Though it is a function in ...
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Finding a center and radius that minimizes total distance
I have a list of $d$-dimensional data points $x_i$, and I want to find a $d$-ball which minimizes the sum of the squares of distances between the surface of the ball and the points. In other words, I’...
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Find the minimum of an expression with multiple constraints
I need help to find a value for "d" which the expr has the minimum value at that "d" value. Constraints are added to the code
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Minimal and maximal angular separation of two spheres as viewed from surface of third sphere
Short version: find the values of theta and phi that make overlapValue (defined below) maximal and the values of theta and phi that make it minimal, given that all other values are constants and ...
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Finding the maxima of a function of two variables
I am trying to understand how Mathematica finds the local maxima of a function of two variables, but I am a bit lost here.
For example, consider:
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Minimization problem!
Im probably not seeing the obvious question but i want to minimize an expression like:
Func[A_,B_,θ_,θ1_]:= A Cos[θ-θ1] + B Sin[θ]^2
where i do to minimize in ...
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How can I find the coefficients which minimize my non elementary integral?
I have the integral
which I express in Mathematica code as:
Integrate[
(-((x^2 (c + x^2 (b + a x^2)))/(m + x^2 (v + d x^2))) + Abs[x])^2,
{x, -1, 1}]
I ...
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How to interpolate a set of points with given local extrema?
I have a set of points on the 0xy plane: say
(-3,0), (-2,4), (-1,0), (1,2), (3,0), (5,1), (6,0), (8,-2), (10,0)
I would like to use software, like Mathematica, ...
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Maximise a function over real and complex parameters [closed]
I have the function
f[b_x_] := Exp[-I b] Sin[I x],
where $x$ is real and $b$ is complex. I want to maximise the function $f$ over $x$ and $b$, but it is ...
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Plotting only one piece of an implicit 3d surface (the one value of the order parameter wich minimizes some free energy function)
I would like to plot a graphic of spontaneous magnetization vs T vs h for a Curie Weiss Model. The equation for stationary ...
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Question for function FindMaximum
I need some advice on using the function FindMaximum as follows.
I find the function y(x) from a differential equation as below, and then for each c and each xMax I have different solutions y(x) and ...
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Prime Number Generator using Sieve of Eratosthenes
I was trying to apply the Sieve of Eratosthenes to find the prime numbers within the range of 100. I understand that Mathematica has a built in procedure to find prime numbers, but I was trying to ...
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NMinimize : Finding which method was used [duplicate]
Is it possible to find out which method Mathematica used when using the NMinimize method? Ie, either Nelder-Mead, differential evolution, etc...
Thanks.
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Problem when using NMinimize in a RecurrenceTable
I have a problem when I'm trying to use NMinimize in my RecurrenceTable, like in this example :
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