TY - JOUR T1 - A Nonmonotone Second-Order Steplength Method for Unconstrained Minimization AU - Zhou , Qun-Yan AU - Sun , Wen-Yu JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 1 SP - 104 EP - 112 PY - 2007 DA - 2007/02 SN - 25 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8677.html KW - Nonmonotone method, Armijo's line search, Direction of negative curvature, Unconstrained optimization. AB -

In this paper, a nonmonotone method based on McCormick's second-order Armijo's step-size rule [7] for unconstrained optimization problems is proposed. Every limit point of the sequence generated by using this procedure is proved to be a stationary point with the second-order optimality conditions. Numerical tests on a set of standard test problems are presented and show that the new algorithm is efficient and robust.