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From: student melaku fekadu on 23 Jul 2010 23:22
"John D'Errico" <woodchips(a)rochester.rr.com> wrote in message <i2der9$p5q$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> "student melaku fekadu" <melaku.fekadu(a)gmail.com> wrote in message <i2de4a$ceu$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> >
> > John,
> >
> > thanks for your swift response.
> >
> > As my problem is numerical opt, I am not giving derivatives. so with fminunc I get some warning which says that line search method is used. I am running it now just for an hour, and it did not do yet the first iteration. Does it take a long time until it does the first iteration? Fminsearch does this within 5 minutes or so.
> >
> > Should I wait or I am missing something?
>
> No, this is not really a "warning". It is merely a
> statement of fact.
>
> In 54 dimensions, fminunc will need to call your
> objective function roughly 55 times before it starts
> to iterate. After all, it needs to compute a gradient
> vector.
>
> If your optimization takes roughly a minute per
> function call (or longer) then, yes, I would expect
> to need to wait that long.
>
> Perhaps you might consider using the profile tool
> to find ways to speed up your code.
>
> John

John,

I hope you see this reply of mine, if not I will send it as an independent post.

You don't know how much of a help you are because this thing is really messing my life.

If it is a matteR of waiting I will wait so long as it is better than fminsearch. I am just afraid that it is not able to compute the gradient in my case because one element of my function is that it draws random numbers to simulate shocks (that Is why I myself do not not give gradients). So my question: could it be the case that fminunc is not able to calculate the gradients?

It is about two hours now and It did not do the first iteration.

You don't know how much thanks you are going to get if this thing runs:)
Can I send you my codes if you want to have a quick look at them?

Melaku
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