ad-4.2.1.1: Automatic Differentiation

Copyright(c) Edward Kmett 2010-2014
LicenseBSD3
Maintainerekmett@gmail.com
Stabilityexperimental
PortabilityGHC only
Safe HaskellNone
LanguageHaskell2010

Numeric.AD.Halley

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Description

Root finding using Halley's rational method (the second in the class of Householder methods). Assumes the function is three times continuously differentiable and converges cubically when progress can be made.

Synopsis

Halley's Method (Tower AD)

findZero :: (Fractional a, Eq a) => (forall s. AD s (Tower a) -> AD s (Tower a)) -> a -> [a] Source

The findZero function finds a zero of a scalar function using Halley's method; its output is a stream of increasingly accurate results. (Modulo the usual caveats.) If the stream becomes constant ("it converges"), no further elements are returned.

Examples:

>>> take 10 $ findZero (\x->x^2-4) 1
[1.0,1.8571428571428572,1.9997967892704736,1.9999999999994755,2.0]
>>> last $ take 10 $ findZero ((+1).(^2)) (1 :+ 1)
0.0 :+ 1.0

inverse :: (Fractional a, Eq a) => (forall s. AD s (Tower a) -> AD s (Tower a)) -> a -> a -> [a] Source

The inverse function inverts a scalar function using Halley's method; its output is a stream of increasingly accurate results. (Modulo the usual caveats.) If the stream becomes constant ("it converges"), no further elements are returned.

Note: the take 10 $ inverse sqrt 1 (sqrt 10) example that works for Newton's method fails with Halley's method because the preconditions do not hold!

fixedPoint :: (Fractional a, Eq a) => (forall s. AD s (Tower a) -> AD s (Tower a)) -> a -> [a] Source

The fixedPoint function find a fixedpoint of a scalar function using Halley's method; its output is a stream of increasingly accurate results. (Modulo the usual caveats.)

If the stream becomes constant ("it converges"), no further elements are returned.

>>> last $ take 10 $ fixedPoint cos 1
0.7390851332151607

extremum :: (Fractional a, Eq a) => (forall s. AD s (On (Forward (Tower a))) -> AD s (On (Forward (Tower a)))) -> a -> [a] Source

The extremum function finds an extremum of a scalar function using Halley's method; produces a stream of increasingly accurate results. (Modulo the usual caveats.) If the stream becomes constant ("it converges"), no further elements are returned.

>>> take 10 $ extremum cos 1
[1.0,0.29616942658570555,4.59979519460002e-3,1.6220740159042513e-8,0.0]