A SUPERLINEARLY CONVERGENT TRUST REGION ALGORITHM FOR LC^1 CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS

In this paper, a new trust region algorithm for nonlinear equality constrained LC^1 optimization problems is given. It obtains a search direction at each iteration not by solving a quadratic programming subproblem with a trust region bound, but by solving a system of linear equations. Since the computational complexity of a QP-Problem is in general much larger than that of a system of linear equations, this method proposed in this paper may reduce the computational complexity and hence improve computational efficiency. Furthermore, it is proved under appropriate assumptions that this algorithm is globally and super-linearly convergent to a solution of the original problem. Some numerical examples are reported, showing the proposed algorithm can be beneficial from a computational point of view.     

LC1约束规划问题的超线性收敛ODE型信赖域算法

本文对带线性等式约束的LC^1优化问题提出了一个新的ODE型信赖域算法，它在每一次迭代时，不必求解带信赖域界的子问题，仅解一线性方程组而求得试验步。从而可以降低计算的复杂性，提高计算效率，在一定的条件下，文中还证明了该算法是超线性收敛的。     

一类变分不等式问题的信赖域算法

基于J.M.Peng研究一类变分不等式问题（简记为VIP）时所提出的价值函数，本文提出了求解强单调的VIP的一个新的信赖域算法。和已有的处理VIP的信赖域方法不同的是：它在每步迭代时，不必求解带信赖域界的子问题，仅解一线性方程组而求得试验步。这样，计算的复杂性一般来说可降低。在通常的假设条件下，文中还证明了算法的整体收敛性。最后，在梯度是半光滑和约束是矩形域的假设下，该算法还是超线性收敛的。     

一类LC1规划问题的超线性收敛ODE信赖域算法

In this paper, a new trust region algorithm for unconstrained LC1 optimization problems is given. Compare with those existing trust regiion methods, this algorithm has a different feature: it obtains a stepsize at each iteration not by soloving a quadratic subproblem with a trust region bound, but by solving a system of linear equations. Thus it reduces computational complexity and improves computation efficiency. It is proven that this algorithm is globally convergent and locally superlinear under some conditions.     

基于信赖域技术的处理带线性约束优化的内点算法

基于信赖域技术,本文提出了一个求解带线性等式和非负约束优化问题的内点算法,其特点是:为了求得搜索方向,算法在每一步迭代时仅需要求解一线性方程组系统,从而避免了求解带信赖域界的子问题,然后利用非精确的Armijo线搜索法来得到下一个迭代内点. 从数值计算的观点来看,这种技巧可减少计算量.在适当的条件下,文中还证明了该算法所产生的迭代序列的每一个聚点都是原问题的KKT点.     

An interior trust region algorithm for solving linearly constrained nonlinear optimization

In this paper, an interior point algorithm based on trust region techniques is proposed for solving nonlinear optimization problems with linear equality constraints and nonnegative variables. Unlike those existing interior-point trust region methods, this proposed method does not require that a general quadratic subproblem with a trust region bound be solved at each iteration. Instead, a system of linear equations is solved to get a search direction, and then a linesearch of Armijo type is performed in this direction to obtain a new iteration point. From a computational point of view, this approach may in general reduce a computational effort, and thus improve the computational efficiency. Under suitable conditions, it is proven that any accumulation of the sequence generated by the algorithm satisfies the first-order optimality condition.     

An improved trust region method for unconstrained optimization

In this paper,we propose an improved trust region method for solving unconstrained optimization problems.Different with traditional trust region methods,our algorithm does not resolve the subproblem within the trust region centered at the current iteration point,but within an improved one centered at some point located in the direction of the negative gradient,while the current iteration point is on the boundary set.We prove the global convergence properties of the new improved trust region algorithm and give the computational results which demonstrate the effectiveness of our algorithm.     

A parallel descent algorithm for convex programming

In this paper, we propose a parallel decomposition algorithm for solving a class of convex optimization problems, which is broad enough to contain ordinary convex programming problems with a strongly convex objective function. The algorithm is a variant of the trust region method applied to the Fenchel dual of the given problem. We prove global convergence of the algorithm and report some computational experience with the proposed algorithm on the Connection Machine Model CM-5.     

Approximate solution of the trust region problem by minimization over two-dimensional subspaces

The trust region problem, minimization of a quadratic function subject to a spherical trust region constraint, occurs in many optimization algorithms. In a previous paper, the authors introduced an inexpensive approximate solution technique for this problem that involves the solution of a two-dimensional trust region problem. They showed that using this approximation in an unconstrained optimization algorithm leads to the same theoretical global and local convergence properties as are obtained using the exact solution to the trust region problem. This paper reports computational results showing that the two-dimensional minimization approach gives nearly optimal reductions in then-dimension quadratic model over a wide range of test cases. We also show that there is very little difference, in efficiency and reliability, between using the approximate or exact trust region step in solving standard test problems for unconstrained optimization. These results may encourage the application of similar approximate trust region techniques in other contexts.Research supported by ARO contract DAAG 29-84-K-0140, NSF grant DCR-8403483, and NSF cooperative agreement DCR-8420944.     

一类非线性互补问题的信赖域算法

In this paper,an ODE-type trust region algorithm for solving a class of nonlinear complementarity problems is proposed.A feature of this algorithm is that only the solution of linear systems of equations is required at each iteration,thus avoiding the need for solving a quadratic subproblem with a trust region bound.Under some conditions,it is proven that this algorithm is globally and locally superlinear convergent.The limited numerical examples show its efficiency.