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SecondDerivative2012.pdf

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Numerical Computation of Second Derivatives 1 with Applications to Optimization Problems Philip Caplan – pcaplan@mit.edu Abstract Newton’s method is applied to the minimization of a computationally expensive objective function. Various methods for computing the exact Hessian are examined, notably adjoint-based methods and the hyper-dual method. The hyper-dual number method still…

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