Hyperparameters

In order to better understand this process, you will start simple with Branin function which has 3 global minima:

The following code snippet shows you the minimization of the Branin function:

import numpy as np

def branin(x):

    # Branin function has 2 dimensions and it has 3 global mimima
    x1 = x[0]
    x2 = x[1]

    # Global minimum is f(x*)=0.397887 at points (-pi, 12.275), (pi,2.275) and (9.42478, 2.475)

    # Recommended values of a, b, c, r, s and t for Branin function
    a = 1
    b = 5.1 / (4 * np.pi**2)
    c = 5. / np.pi
    r = 6.
    s = 10.
    t = 1 / (8 * np.pi)

    # Calculating separate parts of the function first for verbosity
    p1 = a * (x2 - (b * x1**2) + (c * x1) - r)**2
    p2 = s * (1-t) * np.cos(x1)
    p3 = s

    # Calculating result
    ret = p1 + p2 + p3

    return ret

# minimize function from scipy.optimize will minimize a scalar function with one...