derivative-free method

Using generalized simplex methods to approximate derivatives

  • Gabriel Jarry-Bolduc
    • Categories Nonlinear Optimization Tags , ,

    This paper presents two methods for approximating a proper subset of the entries of a Hessian using only function evaluations. These approximations are obtained using the techniques called generalized simplex Hessian and generalized centered simplex Hessian. We show how to choose the matrices of directions involved in the computation of these two techniques depending on … Read more

    A class of derivative-free CG projection methods for nonsmooth equations with an application to the LASSO problem

  • Tian Maoying
  • Min Sun
    • Categories Nonlinear Systems and Least-Squares Tags , , ,

    In this paper, based on a modified Gram-Schmidt (MGS) process, we propose a class of derivative-free conjugate gradient (CG) projection methods for nonsmooth equations with convex constraints. Two attractive features of the new class of methods are: (i) its generated direction contains a free vector, which can be set as any vector such that the … Read more