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1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, United States.
Abstract:
Optimization of parameters and hyperparameters is a general process for any data analysis. Because not all models are mathematically well-behaved, stochastic optimization can be useful in many analyses by randomly choosing parameters in each optimization iteration. Many such algorithms have been reported and applied in chemistry data analysis, but the one reported here is interesting to check out, where a naïve algorithm searches each parameter sequentially and randomly in its bounds. Then it picks the best for the next iteration. Thus, one can ignore irrational solution of the model itself or its gradient in parameter space.
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