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ically when it falls below some small threshold you define upfront geometric interpretation of newton s method picture a curve on a graph that s your function f x the root is where the curve crosses the x axis you don t know where that crossing is yet so you start with a guess x_0 somewhere on the x axis at each step you plot the point x_0 f x_0 on the curve then draw the tangent line at that point a straight line that touches the curve there and follows its slope that tangent line isn t horizontal it s tilted and if you follow it down it crosses the x axis at some point that crossing is your next estimate x_1 then you repeat at x_1 you draw a new tangent line and find where it crosses the x axis that gives you x_2 each tangent line is a local linear approximation of the curve and each crossing point lands closer to the actual root the chart below shows two iterations of newton s method applied to f x x 2 2 starting from x_0 2 5 geometric interpretation chart this works because a tangent line is the best straight line approximation of a curve at any given point the closer you are to the root the more the tangent line resembles the curve itself and the more accurate your next step becomes in practice the estimates don t just creep toward the root they jump there fast often doubling the number of correct decimal places with each iteration step by step example of newton s method let s apply newton s method to f x x 2 2 the root of this function is x sqrt 2 1 4142 in other words we re computing the square root of 2 the derivative is f x 2x so the update rule becomes example update rule let s start with an initial guess of x_0 2 5 iteration 1 example iteration 1 iteration 2 example iteration 2 iteration 3 example iteration 3 after just three iterations we re already accurate to four decimal places the error dropped from 1 086 at x_0 to 0 0001 at x_3 and it keeps reducing with each step here s how this estimate and error values work visually visual overview of estimate and error the left panel shows how each estimate gets closer to sqrt 2 1 4142 while the right panel shows the error getting smaller on a log scale each iteration roughly squaring the precision of the previous one convergence of newton s method newton s method can converge fast but only under the right conditions when your initial guess is close to the root and the function is smooth in that region the method exhibits quadratic convergence that s the technical term for what you saw in the example each iteration roughly squares the error from the previous one two correct decimal places become four four become eight and so on two conditions need to hold for this to work a good initial guess the closer x_0 is to the actual root the faster the method converges if you start too far away the tangent line at that point may send you in the wrong direction a well behaved function the function needs to be smooth and differentiable near the root sharp turns or flat regions can interfere with the tangent line approximation the most common failure mode is a derivative near zero if f x_n is close to zero you re dividing by a very small number in the update rule which sends the next estimate far from the root in the worst case f x_n 0 and the calculations stop working because you can t divide by zero a poor starting point can also cause the method to oscillate or diverge instead of closing in on the root the estimates jump back and forth or drift further away with each iteration newton s method rewards good setup a reasonable initial guess and a smooth function are all it needs to converge and converge fast advantages of newton s method when conditions are right newton s method is hard to beat the biggest advantage is quadratic convergence most numerical methods close in on the root at a linear rate meaning that each iteration reduces the error by a fixed amount newton s method squares the error instead which means it gets accurate fast with very few iterations it s also general purpose you can apply it to a wide range of functions polynomial trigonometric exponential without changing anything that s why it shows up across so many fields from engineering simulations to training machine learning models limitations of newton s method newton s method asks a lot in return for that speed here are a couple of limitations to keep in mind it requires a derivative you need an analytical expression for f x before you can run a single iteration for functions where the derivative is hard to compute or doesn t exist you need a different approach it s sensitive to the initial guess if you start too far from the root the method can send you in the wrong direction it may not converge if the function has flat regions or sharp curves the tangent line approximation just doesn t work it can diverge or oscillate in bad cases the estimates fail to converge and drift further from the root or indefinitely bounce back and forth so before you reach for newton s method make sure you understand your function newton s method vs other root finding methods newton s method isn t the only way to find roots and it s not always the right one for you two other methods often come up the bisection method and the secant method let me briefly explain these bisection method the bisection method is the simplest of the three you start with an interval a b where the function changes sign meaning a root must exist somewhere inside then you repeatedly cut the interval in half keeping the half that still contains the sign change it works but it s slow the error reduces by half with each iteration which is linear convergence but it s also guaranteed to work as long as the function is continuous and your initial interval brackets a root no derivatives required secant method the secant method is a close relative of newton s method instead of analytically computing the derivative it approximates it using two previous estimates secant method formula this is a good approach when the derivative is hard to compute you pay for it with convergence speed the secant method is faster than bisection but slower than newton s method applications of newton s method newton s method shows up across science engineering and machine learning let me explain how exactly numerically solving equations the most direct application when a function has no closed form solution newton s method finds the root this comes up constantly in scientific computing think finding equilibrium points in chemical reactions or solving transcendental equations in signal processing optimization finding the minimum or maximum of a function f x means finding where its derivative f x 0 that s a root finding problem which means newton s method can be applied you just run the algorithm on f x instead of f x using the second derivative f x in place of the first this variant is called newton s method for optimization and it converges faster than gradient descent on smooth well behaved functions machine learning in machine learning training a model means minimizing a loss function newton s method and its variants show up in a couple places here l bfgs limited memory broyden fletcher goldfarb shanno is a quasi newton optimizer that approximates the second derivative to avoid computing it directly it s a standard choice for logistic regression and other convex problems newton s method is also the basis for the newton raphson updates used in statistical model fitting such as generalized linear models physics and engineering newton s method is everywhere in simulation and design engineers use it to solve nonlinear systems of equations that describe physical systems think structural stress analysis and fluid dynamics in each case the underlying problem reduces to finding where a set of equations equals zero common mistakes with newton s method most errors with newton s method come down to the same four mistakes let me go through them starting too far from the root a poor initial guess is the most common reason the method diverges or oscillates if you don t have a good intuition for where the root is plot the function first this will tell you where to start getting the derivative wrong the update rule depends on f x an incorrect derivative whether from a calculation error or a coding mistake produces wrong estimates from the very first iteration and the error compounds with iterations not checking for division by zero if f x_n equals zero or gets very close to it the update step can t work add a guard in your implementation if the derivative falls below some small threshold stop and report the failure rather than producing a nonsense result stopping too early cutting off the iterations before the estimate has converged leaves you with an answer that looks close but isn t set your stopping condition on the actual error either f x_n or x_ n 1 x_n falling below a threshold you ve chosen deliberately not just a fixed number of iterations conclusion newton s method is one of the most useful tools in numerical computing a single update rule applied repeatedly can find roots to arbitrary precision in just a couple of iterations you pay for that speed with conditions you need a good initial guess a non flat function a non spiky function and a non zero derivative to achieve fast convergence just understand these conditions and you ll know when to reach for newton s method and when to use something else like bisection or secant methods the best way to build that intuition is to practice on simple examples start with f x x 2 2 try different starting points and watch what happens move on to functions with multiple roots or flat regions and see where the method breaks down if you like the concept of optimization through iteration you must know about gradient descent read our gradient descent in machine learning a deep dive to learn how it optimizes models for machine learning author dario radečić linkedin senior data scientist based in croatia top tech writer with over 700 articles published generating more than 10m views book author of machine learning automation with tpot faqs what is newton s method used for newton s method is a numerical technique for finding the roots of a function the values of x where f x 0 it s used across science engineering and machine learning whenever an equation has no clean algebraic solution common applications include solving nonlinear equations fitting statistical models and powering optimization algorithms like l bfgs how many iterations does newton s method need to converge it depends on the function and the initial guess but newton s method typically converges in very few iterations when conditions are right thanks to quadratic convergence the number of correct decimal places roughly doubles with each step in practice just a couple of iterations is often enough to reach machine precision what happens if newton s method doesn t converge if the initial guess is too far from the root or if the function has a flat region near the starting point the method can diverge or oscillate instead of converging a derivative close to zero is a common cause it sends the next estimate far off course in these cases switching to a more stable method like bisection or improving the initial guess usually fixes the problem what is the difference between newton s method and the secant method both methods use the same core update idea but newton s method requires the analytical derivative f x while the secant method approximates it using two previous estimates the secant method works well when the derivative is hard to compute but it converges a bit slower than newton s method what does quadratic convergence mean in newton s method quadratic convergence means the error at each iteration is roughly proportional to the square of the error from the previous iteration in plain terms if you have two correct decimal places the next iteration gives you four then eight and so on this is what makes newton s method so fast compared 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