In this paper, a sequential adaptive regularization algorithm using cubics (ARC) is presented to solve nonlinear equality constrained optimization. It is motivated by the idea of handling constraints in sequential quadratic programming methods. In each iteration, we decompose the new step into the sum of the normal step and the tangential step by using composite … Read more
In this paper, we propose a filter sequential adaptive regularisation algorithm using cubics (ARC) for solving nonlinear equality constrained optimization. Similar to sequential quadratic programming methods, an ARC subproblem with linearized constraints is considered to obtain a trial step in each iteration. Composite step methods and reduced Hessian methods are employed to tackle the linearized … Read more
The adaptive regularisation algorithm using cubics (ARC) is initially proposed for unconstrained optimization. ARC has excellent convergence properties and complexity. In this paper, we extend ARC to solve nonlinear equality constrained optimization and propose a sequential adaptive regularisation using cubics algorithm inspired by sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods. In each iteration of our method, the … Read more
We present a derivative-free separable quadratic modeling and cubic regularization technique for solving smooth unconstrained minimization problems. The derivative-free approach is mainly concerned with building a quadratic model that could be generated by numerical interpolation or using a minimum Frobenious norm approach, when the number of points available does not allow to build a complete … Read more
Cubic Regularization methods have several favorable properties. In particular under mild assumptions, they are globally convergent towards critical points with second order necessary conditions satisfied. Their adoption among practitioners, however, does not yet match the strong theoretical results. One of the reasons for this discrepancy may be additional implementation complexity needed to solve the occurring … Read more
In this paper we consider the problem of minimizing a smooth function by using the Adaptive Cubic Regularized framework (ARC). We focus on the computation of the trial step as a suitable approximate minimizer of the cubic model and discuss the use of matrix-free iterative methods. Our approach is alternative to the implementation proposed in … Read more
In this paper, we present a primal-dual interior-point method for solving nonlinear programming problems. It employs a Levenberg-Marquardt (LM) perturbation to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) matrix to handle indefinite Hessians and a line search to obtain sufficient descent at each iteration. We show that the LM perturbation is equivalent to replacing the Newton step by a … Read more
In this paper, we present a barrier method for solving nonlinear programming problems. It employs a Levenberg-Marquardt perturbation to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) matrix to handle indefinite Hessians and a line search to obtain sufficient descent at each iteration. We show that the Levenberg-Marquardt perturbation is equivalent to replacing the Newton step by a cubic regularization … Read more
We present a branch and bound algorithm for the global optimization of a twice differentiable nonconvex objective function with a Lipschitz continuous Hessian over a compact, convex set. The algorithm is based on applying cubic regularisation techniques to the objective function within an overlapping branch and bound algorithm for convex constrained global optimization. Unlike other … Read more
The adaptive cubic regularization method [Cartis, Gould, Toint, 2009-2010] has been recently proposed for solving unconstrained minimization problems. At each iteration of this method, the objective function is replaced by a cubic approximation which comprises an adaptive regularization parameter whose role is related to the local Lipschitz constant of the objective’s Hessian. We present new … Read more