It attempts to avoid steps that are too large and can help improve robustness
of convergence in some cases.
Ray
> On Oct 17, 2016, at 4:53 AM, André Carvalho da Silva
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I’ve been wondering about what does the “optional step-control” part of the
> MIPS algorithm serves for.
>
> Ok, I understand it must be associated with the MIPS alphaD and alphaP steps,
> but I wonder for what kind of particular conditions it is useful.
>
> Does it try to accelerate convergence? Does it solve convergence problems?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> André
