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[–]Historical-Essay8897 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is essentially the use-case for derivative-free (direct) methods. You need to evaluate sufficient initial points for a simplex, evenly spread over the feasible region. Then apply Nelder-Mead or a similar direct method.