(b) The MEP after 6 iterations using LI generated path as the initial guess. To evaluate the computational save, we measure the compute time required to reduce the step length to be below 1 × 10 -2 , 5 × 10 -3 , 1 × 10 -3 , 5 × 10 -4 and 1 × 10 -4 using LI path and FMT path as the initial guess. In addition to r = 10, two other search radiuses in FMT, namely r = 5 and r = 20 are also experimented with. The computational time to reduce the step length to the aforementioned value, measured in seconds, is shown in Table below.