#Newton-Raphson algorithm

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Newton Raphson Method Formula

In the general form, the Newton-Raphson method formula is written as follows:

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Newton-Raphson Method − A Root Finding Algorithm

The red curves are F(x,y)=0, and the blue ones are G(x,y)=0.

The algorithm’s convergences is guaranteed locally (not globally), so determination of initial value is really important.

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Print the value of root i.e value of 'x'.Loop up to desired iterations and stop.We are using x to store the current value as well as next approximation as we are using loop. Use the formula of Newton Raphson method inside the loop.Use any loop (for loop, while loop) according to your convenience, if you are using for loop there is no need to initialize 'i' earlier.If two points are given in which the root lies then calculate the average of both, if they are not given then choose a suitable starting value according to the function.Define the derivative function f'(x)=0 using deff keyword in scilab.Define a function f(x)=0 as required using deff keyword in scilab.Aim: Scilab program for lagrange polynomial interpolation / X 1 2 5 10 //set the arguments Y 10 75 100 12 //set the corresponding values of f (x) nlength (X) // store the length of total arguments x.

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Here is algorithm or the logical solution of Scilab program for Newton Raphson Method The following is the source code of scilab program for polynomial interpolation by numerical method known as lagrange interpolation. Get more information about Derivation of Newton Raphson formula. This method is named after Sir Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson. Scilab Program for Lagrange Polynomial Interpolation -> Computer Science AI provides resources like python programs, c programs, java programs, c++ programs, php programs, html and css free resources, articles and 'how to' tutorials on computer, science, artificial intelligence and tech world. In numerical analysis, Newton's method which is also known as Newton Raphson method is used to find the roots of given function/equation. Singular is developed under the direction of Wolfram Decker, Gert-Martin Greuel, Gerhard Pfister, and Hans Schönemann who head Singular's core development team within the Department of Mathematics of the University of Kaiserslautern.Write a Scilab program for Newton Raphson Method. This includes tools for convex geometry, tropical geometry, and visualization.

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CS 3430 Homework11- Newton-Raphson Algorithm and Line Detection with Hough TransformSolved

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Faster generalised linear models in largeish data

There basically isn’t an algorithm for generalised linear models that computes the maximum likelihood estimator in a single pass over the $N$ observatons in the data. You need to iterate.  The bigglm function in the biglm package does the iteration using bounded memory, by reading in the data in chunks, and starting again at the beginning for each iteration. That works, but it can be slow, especially if the database server doesn’t communicate that fast with your R process.

There is, however, a way to cheat slightly. If we had a good starting value $\tilde\beta$, we’d only need one iteration -- and all the necessary computation for a single iteration can be done in a single database query that returns only a small amount of data.  It’s well known that if $\|\tilde\beta-\beta\|=O_p(N^{-1/2})$, the estimator resulting from one step of Newton--Raphson is fully asymptotically efficient. What’s less well known is that for simple models like glms, we only need $\|\tilde\beta-\beta\|=o_p(N^{-1/4})$.

There’s not usually much advantage in weakening the assumption that way, because in standard asymptotics for well-behaved finite-dimensional parametric models, any reasonable starting estimator will be $\sqrt{N}$-consistent. In the big-data setting, though, there’s a definite advantage: a starting estimator based on a bit more than $N^{1/2}$ observations will have error less than $N^{-1/4}$.  More concretely, if we sample $n=N^{5/9}$ observations and compute the full maximum likelihood estimator, we end up with a starting estimator $\tilde\beta$ satisfying $$\|\tilde\beta-\beta\|=O_p(n^{-1/2})=O_p(N^{-5/18})=o_p(N^{-1/4}).$$

The proof is later, because you don’t want to read it. The basic idea is doing a Taylor series expansion and showing the remainder is $O_p(\|\tilde\beta-\beta\|^2)$, not just $o_p(\|\tilde\beta-\beta\|).$

This approach should be faster than bigglm, because it only needs one and a bit iterations, and because the data stays in the database. It doesn’t scale as far as bigglm, because you need to be able to handle $n$ observations in memory, but with $N$ being a billion, $n$ is only a hundred thousand. 

The database query is fairly straightforward because the efficient score in a generalised linear model is of the form  $$\sum_{i=1}^N x_iw_i(y_i-\mu_i)$$ for some weights $w_i$. Even better, $w_i=1$ for the most common models. We do need an exponentiation function, which isn’t standard SQL, but is pretty widely supplied. 

So, how well does it work? On my ageing Macbook Air, I did a 1.7-million-record logistic regression to see if red cars are faster. More precisely, using the “passenger car/van” records from the NZ vehicle database, I fit a regression model where the outcome was being red and the predictors were vehicle mass, power, and number of seats. More powerful engines, fewer seats, and lower mass were associated with the vehicle being red. Red cars are faster.

The computation time was 1.4s for the sample+one iteration approach and 15s for bigglm.

Now I’m working on  an analysis of the NYC taxi dataset, which is much bigger and has more interesting variables.  My first model, with 87 million records, was a bit stressful for my laptop. It took nearly half an hour elapsed time for the sample+one-step approach and 41 minutes for bigglm, though bigglm took about three times as long in CPU time.  I’m going to try on my desktop to see how the comparison goes there.  Also, this first try was using the in-process MonetDBLite database, which will make bigglm look good, so I should also try a setting where the data transfer between R and the database actually needs to happen. 

I’ll be talking about this at the JSM and (I hope at useR).

Math stuff

Suppose we are fitting a generalised linear model with regression parameters $\beta$, outcome $Y$, and predictors $X$.  Let $\beta_0$ be the true value of $\beta$, $U_N(\beta)$ be the score at $\beta$ on $N$ observations and $I_N(\beta)$ theFisher information at $\beta$ on $N$ observations. Assume the second partial derivatives of the loglikelihood have uniformly bounded second moments on a compact neighbourhood $K$ of $\beta_0$. Let $\Delta_3$ be the tensor of third partial derivatives of the log likelihood, and assume its elements

$$(\Delta_3)_{ijk}=\frac{\partial^3}{\partial x_i\partial x_jx\partial _k}\log\ell(Y;X,\beta)$$ have uniformly bounded second moments on $K$.

Theorem:  Let $n=N^{\frac{1}{2}+\delta}$ for some $\delta\in (0,1/2]$, and let $\tilde\beta$ be the maximum likelihood estimator of $\beta$ on a subsample of size $n$.  The one-step estimators $$\hat\beta_{\textrm{full}}= \tilde\beta + I_N(\tilde\beta)^{-1}U_N(\tilde\beta)$$ and $$\hat\beta= \tilde\beta + \frac{n}{N}I_n(\tilde\beta)^{-1}U_N(\tilde\beta)$$ are first-order efficient

Proof: The score function at the true parameter value is of the form $$U_N(\beta_0)=\sum_{i=1}^Nx_iw_i(\beta_0)(y_i-\mu_i(\beta_0)$$ By the mean-value form of Taylor's theorem we have $$U_N(\beta_0)=U_N(\tilde\beta)+I_N(\tilde\beta)(\tilde\beta-\beta_0)+\Delta_3(\beta^*)(\tilde\beta-\beta_0,\tilde\beta-\beta_0)$$ where $\beta^*$ is on the interval between $\tilde\beta$ and $\beta_0$. With probability 1, $\tilde\beta$ and thus $\beta^*$ is in $K$ for all sufficiently large $n$, so the remainder term is $O_p(Nn^{-1})=o_p(N^{1/2})$. Thus $$I_N^{-1}(\tilde\beta) U_N(\beta_0) = I^{-1}_N(\tilde\beta)U_N(\tilde\beta)+\tilde\beta-\beta_0+o_p(N^{-1/2})$$

Let $\hat\beta_{MLE}$ be the maximum likelihood estimator. It is a standard result that $$\hat\beta_{MLE}=\beta_0+I_N^{-1}(\beta_0) U_N(\beta_0)+o_p(N^{-1/2})$$

So $$\begin{eqnarray*} \hat\beta_{MLE}&=& \tilde\beta+I^{-1}_N(\tilde\beta)U_N(\tilde\beta)+o_p(N^{-1/2})\\\\ &=& \hat\beta_{\textrm{full}}+o_p(N^{-1/2}) \end{eqnarray*}$$

Now, define $\tilde I(\tilde\beta)=\frac{N}{n}I_n(\tilde\beta)$, the estimated full-sample information based on the subsample, and let ${\cal I}(\tilde\beta)=E_{X,Y}\left[N^{-1}I_N\right]$ be the expected per-observation information.  By the Central Limit Theorem we have   $$I_N(\tilde\beta)=I_n(\tilde\beta)+(N-n){\cal I}(\tilde\beta)+O_p((N-n)n^{-1/2}),$$ so $$I_N(\tilde\beta) \left(\frac{N}{n}I_n(\tilde\beta)\right)^{-1}=\mathrm{Id}_p+ O_p(n^{-1/2})$$ where $\mathrm{Id}_p$ is the $p\times p$ identity matrix. We have $$\begin{eqnarray*} \hat\beta-\tilde\beta&=&(\hat\beta_{\textrm{full}}-\tilde\beta)I_N(\tilde\beta)^{-1} \left(\frac{N}{n}I_n(\tilde\beta)\right)\\\\ &=&(\hat\beta_{\textrm{full}}-\tilde\beta)\left(\mathrm{Id}_p+ O_p(n^{-1/2}\right)\\\\ &=&(\hat\beta_{\textrm{full}}-\tilde\beta)+ O_p(n^{-1}) \end{eqnarray*}$$ so $\hat\beta$ (without the $\textrm{full}$)is also asymptotically efficient. 

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Newton Raphson Method | Algorithm and Cpp Implementation

Newton Raphson Method | Algorithm and Cpp Implementation

Newton Raphson Method is another iterative method to find approximate root of nonlinear equation. Previously we’ve discussed Bisection Method and Secant Methodthat how we can find approximate root using them. In this article we will discuss about derivation of Newton Raphson Method and its Algorithm. Later we will also see a Cplusplus implementation of the method to solve a nonlinear equation.…

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Difference between Gradient Descent and Newton-Raphson

Below are some extracts from an interesting Quora discussion on this topic. Quotes: * The gradient descent way: You look around your feet and no farther than a few meters from your feet. You find the direction that slopes down the most and then walk a few meters in that direction. Then you stop and repeat the process until you can repeat no more. This will eventually lead you to the valley! * The Newton way: You look far away. Specifically you look around in a way such that your line of sight is tangential to the mountain surface where you are. You find the point in your line of sight that is the lowest and using your awesome spiderman powers ...you jump to that point! Then you repeat the process until you can repeat no more!" Another contributor wrote: The Newton method is obtained by replacing the Direction matrix in the steepest decent update equation by inverse of the Hessian. The steepest decent algorithm, where theta is the vector of independent parameters, D is the direction matrix and g represents the gradient of the cost functional I(theta) not shown in the equation. The gradient decent is very slow. For convex cost functionals a faster method is the Newtons method given below: Above equation for Newtons method Becomes, where H is the hessian If the first and second derivatives of a function exist then strict convexity implies that the Hessian matrix is positive definite and vice versa. Drawback of Newton method: * As pointed out earlier the Hessian is guaranteed to be positive definite only for convex loss functions. If the loss function is not convex the Hessian as a direction matrix may make the equation above not point in the steepest decent direction. * Computation of Hessian and its inverses are time consuming processes. Far from the optimum the Hessian may become ill conditioned. To prevent these problems several modifications that approximate the hessian and its inverse have been developed Read the full discussion here. http://bit.ly/2YDE7Ji

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Where will the next revolution in machine learning come from?

\(\qquad\) A fundamental problem in machine learning can be described as follows: given a data set, \(\newcommand\myvec[1]{\boldsymbol{#1}}\) \(\mathbb{D}\) = \(\{(\myvec{x}_{i}, y_{i})\}_{i=1}^n\), we would like to find, or learn, a function \(f(\cdot)\) so that we can predict a future outcome \(y\) from a given input \(\myvec{x}\). The mathematical problem, which we must solve in order to find such a function, usually has the following structure: \(\def\F{\mathcal{F}}\)

\[ \underset{f\in\F}{\min} \quad \sum_{i=1}^n L[y_i, f(\myvec{x}_i)] + \lambda P(f), \tag{1}\label{eq:main} \]

where

\(L(\cdot,\cdot)\) is a loss function to ensure that the each prediction \(f(\myvec{x}_i)\) is generally close to the actual outcome \(y_i\) on the data set \(\mathbb{D}\);

\(P(\cdot)\) is a penalty function to prevent the function \(f\) from "behaving badly";

\(\F\) is a functional class in which we will look for the best possible function \(f\); and

\(\lambda > 0\) is a parameter which controls the trade-off between \(L\) and \(P\).

The role of the loss function \(L\) is easy to understand---of course we would like each prediction \(f(\myvec{x}_{i})\) to be close to the actual outcome \(y_i\). To understand why it is necessary to specify a functional class \(\F\) and a penalty function \(P\), it helps to think of Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) from the standpoint of generic search operations.

\(\qquad\) If you are in charge of an international campaign to bust underground crime syndicates, it's only natural that you should give each of your team a set of specific guidelines. Just telling them "to track down the goddamn drug ring" is rarely enough. They should each be briefed on at least three elements of the operation:

WHERE are they going to search? You must define the scope of their exploration. Are they going to search in Los Angeles? In Chicago? In Japan? In Brazil?

WHAT are they searching for? You must characterize your targets. What kind of criminal organizations are you looking for? What activities do they typically engage in? What are their typical mode of operation?

HOW should they go about the search? You must lay out the basic steps which your team should follow to ensure that they will find what you want in a reasonable amount of time.

\(\qquad\) In Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\), the functional class \(\F\) specifies where we should search. Without it, we could simply construct a function \(f\) in the following manner: at each \(\myvec{x}_i\) in the data set \(\mathbb{D}\), its value \(f(\myvec{x}_i)\) will be equal to \(y_i\); elsewhere, it will take on any arbitrary value. Clearly, such a function won't be very useful to us. For the problem to be meaningful, we must specify a class of functions to work with. Typical examples of \(\F\) include: linear functions, kernel machines, decision trees/forests, and neural networks. (For kernel machines, \(\F\) is a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.)

\(\qquad\) The penalty function \(P\) specifies what we are searching for. Other than the obvious requirement that we would like \(L[y, f(\myvec{x})]\) to be small, now we also understand fairly well---based on volumes of theoretical work---that, for the function \(f\) to have good generalization properties, we must control its complexity, e.g., by adding a penalty function \(P(f)\) to prevent it from becoming overly complicated.

\(\qquad\) The algorithm that we choose, or design, to solve the minimization problem itself specifies how we should go about the search. In the easiest of cases, Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) may have an analytic solution. Most often, however, it is solved numerically, e.g., by coordinate descent, stochastic gradient descent, and so on.

\(\qquad\) The defining element of the three is undoubtedly the choice of \(\F\), or the question of where to search for the desired prediction function \(f\). It is what defines research communities.

\(\qquad\) For example, we can easily identify a sizable research community, made up mostly of statisticians, if we answer the "where" question with

$$\F^{linear} = \left\{f(\myvec{x}): f(\myvec{x})=\beta_0+\myvec{\beta}^{\top}\myvec{x}\right\}.$$

There is usually no particularly compelling reason why we should restrict ourselves to such a functional class, other than that it is easy to work with. How can we characterize the kind of low-complexity functions that we want in this class? Suppose \(\myvec{x} \in \mathbb{R}^d\). An obvious measure of complexity for this functional class is to count the number of non-zero elements in the coefficient vector \(\myvec{\beta}=(\beta_1,\beta_2,...,\beta_d)^{\top}\). This suggests that we answer the "what" question by considering a penalty function such as

$$P_0(f) = \sum_{j=1}^d I(\beta_j \neq 0) \equiv \sum_{j=1}^d |\beta_j|^0.$$

Unfortunately, such a penalty function makes Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) an NP-hard problem, since \(\myvec{\beta}\) can have either 1, 2, 3, ..., or \(d\) non-zero elements and there are altogether \(\binom{d}{1} + \binom{d}{2} + \cdots + \binom{d}{d} = 2^d - 1\) nontrivial linear functions. In other words, it makes the "how" question too hard to answer. We can either use heuristic search algorithms---such as forward and/or backward stepwise search---that do not come with any theoretical guarantee, or revise our answer to the "what" question by considering surrogate penalty functions---usually, convex relaxations of \(P_0(f)\) such as

$$P_1(f) = \sum_{j=1}^d |\beta_j|^1.$$

With \(\F=\F^{linear}\) and \(P(f)=P_1(f)\), Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) is known in this particular community as "the Lasso", which can be solved easily by algorithms such as coordinate descent.

\(\qquad\) One may be surprised to hear that, even for such a simple class of functions, active research is still being conducted by a large number of talented people. Just what kind of problems are they still working on? Within a community defined by a particular answer to the "where" question, the research almost always revolves around the other two questions: the "what" and the "how". For example, statisticians have been suggesting different answers to the "what" question by proposing new forms of penalty functions. One recent example, called the minimax concave penalty (MCP), is

$$P_{mcp}(f) = \sum_{j=1}^d \left[ |\beta_j| - \beta_j^2/(2\gamma) \right] \cdot I(|\beta_j| \leq \gamma) + \left( \gamma/2 \right) \cdot I(|\beta_j| > \gamma), \quad\text{for some}\quad\gamma>0.$$

The argument is that, by using such a penalty function, the solution to Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) can be shown to enjoy certain theoretical properties that it wouldn't enjoy otherwise. However, unlike \(P_1(f)\), the function \(P_{mcp}(f)\) is nonconvex. This makes Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) harder to solve and, in turn, opens up new challenges to the "how" question.

\(\qquad\) We can identify another research community, made up mostly of computer scientists this time, if we answer the "where" question with a class of functions called neural networks. Again, once a particular answer to the "where" question has been given, the research then centers around the other two questions: the "what" and the "how".

\(\qquad\) Although a myriad of answers have been given by this community to the "what" question, many of them have a similar flavor---specifically, they impose different structures onto the neural network in order to reduce its complexity. For example, instead of using fully connected layers, convolutional layers are used to greatly reduce the total number of parameters by allowing the same set of weights to be shared across different sets of connections. In terms of Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\), these approaches amount to using a penalty function of the form,

$$P_{s}(f)= \begin{cases} 0, & \text{if \(f\) has the required structure, \(s\)}; \newline \infty, & \text{otherwise}. \end{cases}$$

\(\qquad\) The answer to the "how" question, however, has so far almost always been stochastic gradient descent (SGD), or a certain variation of it. This is not because the SGD is the best numeric optimization algorithm by any means, but rather due to the sheer number of parameters in a multilayered neural network, which makes it impractical---even on very powerful computers---to consider techniques such as the Newton-Raphson algorithm, though the latter is known theoretically to converge faster. A variation of the SGD provided by the popular Adam optimizer uses a kind of "memory-sticking" gradient---a weighted combination of the current gradient and past gradients from earlier iterations---to make the SGD more stable.

\(\qquad\) Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\) defines a broad class of learning problems. In the foregoing paragraphs, we have seen two specific examples that the choice of \(\F\), or the question of where to search for a good prediction function \(f\), often carves out distinct research communities. Actual research activities within each respective community then typically revolve around the choice of \(P(f)\), or the question of what good prediction functions ought to look like (in \(\F\)), and the actual algorithm for solving Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\), or the question of how to actually find such a good function (again, in \(\F\)).

\(\qquad\) Although other functional classes---such as kernel machines and decision trees/forests---are also popular, the two aforementioned communities, formed by two specific choices of \(\F\), are by far the most dominant. What other functional classes are interesting to consider for Eq. \(\eqref{eq:main}\)? To me, this seems like a much bigger and potentially more fruitful question to ask than simply what good functions ought to be, and how to find such a good function, within a given class. I, therefore, venture to speculate that the next big revolution in machine learning will come from an ingenious answer to this "where" question itself; and when the answer reveals itself, it will surely create another research community on its own.

(by Professor Z, May 2019)

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[ Authors ] Anders Eriksson, Truls Martin Larsen, Larisa Beilina [ Abstract ] A radial transverse resonance model for two cylindrical concentric layers with different complex dielectric constants is presented. An inverse problem with four unknowns - 3 physical material parameters and one dimensional dielectric layer thickness parameter- is solved by employing TE110 and TE210 modes with different radial field distribution. First a Newton-Raphson algorithm is used to solve a least square problem with a Lorentzian function (as resonance model and "measured" data generator). Then found resonance frequencies and quality factors are used in a second inverse Newton-Raphson algorithm that solves four transverse resonance equations in order to get four unknown parameters. The use of TE110 and TE210 models offers one dimensional radial tomographic capability. An open ended coax quarter-wave resonator is added to the sensor topology, and the effect on the convergence is investigated.

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