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Lecture 4 Constrained vs Unconstrained Formulations 4.1 Lecture Objectives • Understand the basic types of optimization problems we face, in terms of the pres-ence of absence of …

a±ne invariant, i.e., independent of linear changes of coordinates: Newton iterates for ~f(y) = f(T y) with starting point y(0) = T ¡1x(0) are y(k) = T ¡1x(k) Unconstrained minimization

1 Introduction In this set of notes, we consider the problem of unconstrained optimization. That is, given a function

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