Nelder–Mead method
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The Nelder–Mead method (also downhill simplex method, amoeba method, or polytope method) is a numerical method used to find the minimum or maximum of an objective function in a multidimensional space. It is a direct search method (based on function comparison) and is often applied to nonlinear optimization problems for which derivatives may not be known. However, the Nelder–Mead technique is a heuristic search method that can converge to non-stationary points[1] on problems that can be solved by alternative methods.[2]
The Nelder–Mead technique was proposed by John Nelder and Roger Mead in 1965,[3] as a development of the method of Spendley et al.[4]