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The Jacobian determinant is sometimes simply referred to as "the Jacobian". The Jacobian determinant at a given point gives important information about the behavior of f near that point. For instance, the continuously differentiable function f is invertible near a point p ∈ R n if the Jacobian determinant at p is non-zero.
I am new to the Hessian vs Jacobian debate, but appreciate the consistency of this article. The section on trace derivatives seems to go against this however: the gradient of a sc
Newton's method requires the Jacobian matrix of all partial derivatives of a multivariate function when used to search for zeros or the Hessian matrix when used for finding extrema. Quasi-Newton methods, on the other hand, can be used when the Jacobian matrices or Hessian matrices are unavailable or are impractical to compute at every iteration.
The following test can be applied at any critical point a for which the Hessian matrix is invertible: If the Hessian is positive definite (equivalently, has all eigenvalues positive) at a, then f attains a local minimum at a. If the Hessian is negative definite (equivalently, has all eigenvalues negative) at a, then f attains a local maximum at a.
The above rules stating that extrema are characterized (among critical points with a non-singular Hessian) by a positive-definite or negative-definite Hessian cannot apply here since a bordered Hessian can neither be negative-definite nor positive-definite, as = if is any vector whose sole non-zero entry is its first.
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There also exist various quasi-Newton methods, where an approximation for the Hessian (or its inverse directly) is built up from changes in the gradient. If the Hessian is close to a non-invertible matrix, the inverted Hessian can be numerically unstable and the solution may diverge. In this case, certain workarounds have been tried in the past ...
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