According to the graph, it is clear that the FMT-generated initial guess performs much better than the LI initial guess, since the step length is already decreasing monotonically in the FMT case, while it takes roughly 18 iterations for the LI initial guess. It can be seen that to achieve a step length that is less than 0.01, 24 iterations are required for LI, while only 6 are required for FMT. Such an advantage can also be visualised by seeing that after 6 iterations, the FMT initial guess-generated MFEP is already very close to convergence but not in the LI case, as is shown in Figure . Although the decrease in step length is faster in the LI path from iteration 18 to 32, the speed of the drop becomes the same as in the FMT path after that.