A fundamental procedure for minimizing a differentiable function of several variables. Central to the method is that the direction of steeptest descent, in moving from one intermediate solution point to another, is along the gradient of the function at the current intermediate solution point. Nonlinear programming.
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Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (2001). Steepest descent method . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_998
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