User Guide

CBX implements consensus based particle schemes. Below, we list the pages that explain the main functionality and modules.

• Dynamics
• Schedulers
• Test Objectives
• Plotting
• Examples

Basic Parameters and nomenclature

We collect some basic parameters and terminology that are used in the following

symbol	description
\(x\)	The ensemble of points
\(f\)	The objective function
\(M\)	The number of runs
\(N\)	The number of particles
\(d\)	The dimension
\(dt\)	The time step parameter
\(t\)	The current time
\(\alpha\)	The weighting parameter for the consensus point
\(\sigma\)	The noise scaling parameter