... faster.¹

A global method searches the entire range of possible parameters for the most optimal cost function value, whilst a local method simply starts somewhere in parameter space and moves about locally trying to find an optimum, and stopping when there is no better nearby set of parameters.

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... (FMRIB's²

The Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain.

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