Inexact-Restoration Method with Lagrangian Tangent Decrease and New Merit Function for Nonlinear Programming

A new inexact-restoration method for nonlinear programming is introduced. The iteration of the main algorithm has two phases. In Phase 1, feasibility is improved explicitly; in Phase 2, optimality is improved on a tangent approximation of the constraints. Trust regions are used for reducing the step when the trial point is not good enough. The trust region is not centered in the current point, as in many nonlinear programming algorithms, but in the intermediate more feasible point. Therefore, in this semifeasible approach, the more feasible intermediate point is considered to be essentially better than the current point. This is the first method in which intermediate-point-centered trust regions are combined with the decrease of the Lagrangian in the tangent approximation to the constraints. The merit function used in this paper is also new: it consists of a convex combination of the Lagrangian and the nonsquared norm of the constraints. The Euclidean norm is used for simplicity, but other norms for measuring infeasibility are admissible. Global convergence theorems are proved, a theoretically justified algorithm for the first phase is introduced, and some numerical insight is given.     

一种改进的无约束非光滑优化问题的信赖域算法

本文提出了一种新的求解无约束非光滑优化问题的信赖域算法,并证明了该算法的迭代点列的任何聚点都是的问题的稳定点。     

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.     

A modified SLP algorithm and its global convergence

This paper concerns a filter technique and its application to the trust region method for nonlinear programming (NLP) problems. We used our filter trust region algorithm to solve NLP problems with equality and inequality constraints, instead of solving NLP problems with just inequality constraints, as was introduced by Fletcher et al. [R. Fletcher, S. Leyffer, Ph.L. Toint, On the global converge of an SLP-filter algorithm, Report NA/183, Department of Mathematics, Dundee University, Dundee, Scotland, 1999]. We incorporate this filter technique into the traditional trust region method such that the new algorithm possesses nonmonotonicity. Unlike the tradition trust region method, our algorithm performs a nonmonotone filter technique to find a new iteration point if a trial step is not accepted. Under mild conditions, we prove that the algorithm is globally convergent.     

Combining nonmonotone conic trust region and line search techniques for unconstrained optimization

In this paper, we propose a trust region method for unconstrained optimization that can be regarded as a combination of conic model, nonmonotone and line search techniques. Unlike in traditional trust region methods, the subproblem of our algorithm is the conic minimization subproblem; moreover, our algorithm performs a nonmonotone line search to find the next iteration point when a trial step is not accepted, instead of resolving the subproblem. The global and superlinear convergence results for the algorithm are established under reasonable assumptions. Numerical results show that the new method is efficient for unconstrained optimization problems.     

带有固定步长的非单调自适应信赖域算法

提出了求解无约束优化问题带有固定步长的非单调自适应信赖域算法.信赖域半径的修正采用自适应技术,算法在试探步不被接受时,采用固定步长寻找下一迭代点.并在适当的条件下,证明算法具有全局收敛性和超线性收敛性.初步的数值试验表明算法对高维问题具有较好的效果.     

非线性不等式约束最优化快速收敛的可行信赖域算法

In this paper,by combining the trust region technique with the generalized gradient projection.a new trust region algorithm with feasible iteration points is presented for nonlinear inequality constrained optimization,and its trust region is a general compact set containing the origion as an inteior point.No penalty function is used in the algorithm,and it is feasible descent .Under suitable assumptions,the algorithm is proved to possess global and strong convergence as well as superlinear and quadratic convergence.Some numerical results are reported.     

AN INTERIOR TRUST REGION ALGORITHM FOR NONLINEAR MINIMIZATION WITH LINEAR CONSTRAINTS

AbstractAn interior trust-region-based algorithm for linearly constrained minimization problems is proposed and analyzed. This algorithm is similar to trust region algorithms for unconstrained minimization: a trust region subproblem on a subspace is solved in each iteration. We establish that the proposed algorithm has convergence properties analogous to those of the trust region algorithms for unconstrained minimization. Namely, every limit point of the generated sequence satisfies the Krush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and at least one limit point satisfies second order necessary optimality conditions. In addition, if one limit point is a strong local minimizer and the Hessian is Lipschitz continuous in a neighborhood of that point, then the generated sequence converges globally to that point in the rate of at least 2-step quadratic. We are mainly concerned with the theoretical properties of the algorithm in this paper. Implementation issues and adaptation to large-scale problems will be addressed in a     

Inexact trust region PGC method for large sparse unconstrained optimization

We present an algorithm, partitioning group correction (PGC) algorithm based on trust region and conjugate gradient method, for large-scale sparse unconstrained optimization. In large sparse optimization, computing the whole Hessian matrix and solving the Newton-like equations at each iteration can be considerably expensive when a trust region method is adopted. The method depends on a symmetric consistent partition of the columns of the Hessian matrix and an inaccurate solution to the Newton-like equations by conjugate gradient method. And we allow that the current direction exceeds the trust region bound if it is a good descent direction. Besides, we studies a method dealing with some sparse matrices having a dense structure part. Some good convergence properties are kept and we contrast the computational behavior of our method with that of other algorithms. Our numerical tests show that the algorithm is promising and quite effective, and that its performance is comparable to or better than that of other algorithms available.     

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.     

A Conic Trust-Region Method for Nonlinearly Constrained Optimization

Trust-region methods are powerful optimization methods. The conic model method is a new type of method with more information available at each iteration than standard quadratic-based methods. Can we combine their advantages to form a more powerful method for constrained optimization? In this paper we give a positive answer and present a conic trust-region algorithm for non-linearly constrained optimization problems. The trust-region subproblem of our method is to minimize a conic function subject to the linearized constraints and the trust region bound. The use of conic functions allows the model to interpolate function values and gradient values of the Lagrange function at both the current point and previous iterate point. Since conic functions are the extension of quadratic functions, they approximate general nonlinear functions better than quadratic functions. At the same time, the new algorithm possesses robust global properties. In this paper we establish the global convergence of the new algorithm under standard conditions.     

INTERIOR POINT PROJECTED REDUCED HESSIAN METHOD WITH TRUST REGION STRATEGY FOR NONLINEAR CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION

§1　IntroductionIn this paper we analyze an interior point scaling projected reduced Hessian methodwith trust region strategy for solving the nonlinear equality constrained optimizationproblem with nonnegative constraints on variables:min　f(x)s.t.　c(x) =0 (1.1)x≥0where f∶Rn→R is the smooth nonlinear function,notnecessarily convex and c(x)∶Rn→Rm(m≤n) is the vector nonlinear function.There are quite a few articles proposing localsequential quadratic programming reduced Hessian methods…     

Nonmonotone adaptive trust region method based on simple conic model for unconstrained optimization

We propose a nonmonotone adaptive trust region method based on simple conic model for unconstrained optimization. Unlike traditional trust region methods, the subproblem in our method is a simple conic model, where the Hessian of the objective function is approximated by a scalar matrix. The trust region radius is adjusted with a new self-adaptive adjustment strategy which makes use of the information of the previous iteration and current iteration. The new method needs less memory and computational efforts. The global convergence and Q-superlinear convergence of the algorithm are established under the mild conditions. Numerical results on a series of standard test problems are reported to show that the new method is effective and attractive for large scale unconstrained optimization problems.     

凸约束优化问题的带记忆模型信赖域算法

本文我们考虑求解凸约束优化问题的信赖域方法 .与传统的方法不同 ,我们信赖域子问题的逼近模型中包括过去迭代点的信息 ,该模型使我们可以从更全局的角度来求得信赖域试探步 ,从而避免了传统信赖域方法中试探步的求取完全依赖于当前点的信息而过于局部化的困难 .全局收敛性的获得是依靠非单调技术来保证的     

A nonmonotone adaptive trust region method for unconstrained optimization based on conic model

In this paper, we present a nonmonotone adaptive trust region method for unconstrained optimization based on conic model. The new method combines nonmonotone technique and a new way to determine trust region radius at each iteration. The local and global convergence properties are proved under reasonable assumptions. Numerical experiments show that our algorithm is effective.     

Global Convergence of a Nonmonotone Trust Region Algorithm with Memory for Unconstrained Optimization

In this paper, we consider a trust region algorithm for unconstrained optimization problems. Unlike the traditional memoryless trust region methods, our trust region model includes memory of the past iteration, which makes the algorithm less myopic in the sense that its behavior is not completely dominated by the local nature of the objective function, but rather by a more global view. The global convergence is established by using a nonmonotone technique. The numerical tests are also given to show the efficiency of our proposed method.     

一类带非单调线搜索的信赖域算法

通过将非单调Wolfe线搜索技术与传统的信赖域算法相结合,我们提出了一类新的求解无约束最优化问题的信赖域算法.新算法在每一迭代步只需求解一次信赖域子问题,而且在每一迭代步Hesse阵的近似都满足拟牛顿条件并保持正定传递.在一定条件下,证明了算法的全局收敛性和强收敛性.数值试验表明新算法继承了非单调技术的优点,对于求解某...     

An ODE-based trust region method for unconstrained optimization problems

In this paper, a new trust region algorithm is proposed for solving unconstrained optimization problems. This method can be regarded as a combination of trust region technique, fixed step-length and ODE-based methods. A feature of this proposed method is that at each iteration, only a system of linear equations is solved to obtain a trial step. Another is that when a trial step is not accepted, the method generates an iterative point whose step-length is defined by a formula. Under some standard assumptions, it is proven that the algorithm is globally convergent and locally superlinear convergent. Preliminary numerical results are reported.     

解无约束优化问题的一个新的带线搜索的信赖域算法

在传统信赖域方法的基础上, 提出了求解无约束最优化问题的一个新的带线搜索的信赖域算法. 该算法采用大步长 Armijo 线搜索技术获得迭代步长, 克服了每次迭代求解信赖域子问题时计算量较大的缺点, 因而适用于求解大型的优化问题. 在适当的条件下, 我们证明了算法的全局收敛性. 数值实验结果表明本文所提出的算法是有效的.     

无约束非光滑优化问题的信赖域算法及收敛性

1．引言考虑下列无约束非光滑优化问题：其中f为R”上的局部LIPSChitZ函数．本文将11·112简记为11·l．信赖域算法是通过求解一系列子问题3＊B（二，凸）：来求解问题（1）的，其中拉x，·）为j在x点的一阶近似，B为nxn阶对称阵．下面给出信赖域的基本算法TRA：步1·给定...