A three-term conjugate gradient algorithm for large-scale unconstrained optimization problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 70-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songhai Deng ◽  
Zhong Wan
Author(s):  
Fanar N. Jardow ◽  
Ghada M. Al-Naemi

Many researchers are interested for developed and improved the conjugate gradient method for solving large scale unconstrained optimization problems. In this work a new parameter  will be presented as a convex combination between RMIL and MMWU. The suggestion method always produces a descent search direction at each iteration. Under Strong Wolfe Powell (SWP) line search conditions, the global convergence of the proposed method is established. The preliminary numerical comparisons with some others CG methods have shown that this new method is efficient and robust in solving all given problems.


Author(s):  
Gonglin Yuan ◽  
Tingting Li ◽  
Wujie Hu

Abstract To solve large-scale unconstrained optimization problems, a modified PRP conjugate gradient algorithm is proposed and is found to be interesting because it combines the steepest descent algorithm with the conjugate gradient method and successfully fully utilizes their excellent properties. For smooth functions, the objective algorithm sufficiently utilizes information about the gradient function and the previous direction to determine the next search direction. For nonsmooth functions, a Moreau–Yosida regularization is introduced into the proposed algorithm, which simplifies the process in addressing complex problems. The proposed algorithm has the following characteristics: (i) a sufficient descent feature as well as a trust region trait; (ii) the ability to achieve global convergence; (iii) numerical results for large-scale smooth/nonsmooth functions prove that the proposed algorithm is outstanding compared to other similar optimization methods; (iv) image restoration problems are done to turn out that the given algorithm is successful.


Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Zabidin Salleh ◽  
Ghaliah Alhamzi ◽  
Ibitsam Masmali ◽  
Ahmad Alhawarat

The conjugate gradient method is one of the most popular methods to solve large-scale unconstrained optimization problems since it does not require the second derivative, such as Newton’s method or approximations. Moreover, the conjugate gradient method can be applied in many fields such as neural networks, image restoration, etc. Many complicated methods are proposed to solve these optimization functions in two or three terms. In this paper, we propose a simple, easy, efficient, and robust conjugate gradient method. The new method is constructed based on the Liu and Storey method to overcome the convergence problem and descent property. The new modified method satisfies the convergence properties and the sufficient descent condition under some assumptions. The numerical results show that the new method outperforms famous CG methods such as CG-Descent5.3, Liu and Storey, and Dai and Liao. The numerical results include the number of iterations and CPU time.


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