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¹Complex Systems Group, School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.

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Area of Science:

Computational Science
Optimization Algorithms
Mathematical Modeling

Background:

Standard optimization methods often fail for complex parameter fitting problems.
Manual parameter adjustment, though tedious, can yield superior results.
A need exists for automated methods that mimic effective manual tuning.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce Adaptive Stochastic Descent (ASD), an automated optimization algorithm.
To replicate the effectiveness of manual parameter fitting in an automated process.
To demonstrate ASD's efficiency in minimizing objective functions.

Main Methods:

ASD probabilistically assesses parameter influence on the objective function.
ASD determines optimal step sizes for individual parameters.
Algorithm performance is compared against Nelder-Mead, Levenberg-Marquardt, simulated annealing, and genetic algorithms.

Main Results:

ASD significantly reduces function evaluations for specific optimization problems.
Outperforms classic methods in problems with many scalar dimensions, especially with varying parameter importance.
Demonstrates superior performance in a case study of HIV infection resource allocation.

Conclusions:

Adaptive Stochastic Descent (ASD) offers an efficient alternative to standard optimization techniques.
ASD is particularly effective for high-dimensional, heterogeneous parameter spaces.
The algorithm shows practical utility in real-world resource allocation challenges.