Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

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A common problem in many domains is to optimize the weights for a mixture of K components. In this case the search space is a simplex. I didn't see this covered in the tutorials/docs (apologies if it ...