An Idea for Optimization as if Solving ODE

Please don’t take this the wrong way, but numerical optimization is a very well established field. Generations of researchers have studied these problems in detail, characterizing the convergence properties and trade-offs of various solvers. Improving on the current best algorithms may take more than some heuristic idea.

If you want a nice introduction, I would recommend

Nocedal, Jorge, and Stephen Wright. Numerical optimization . Springer, 2006.

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