2024/02/19 by Melody Qiming Xuan, Jorge Nocedal, Xuan, Melody Qiming +1
Mathematics · Computer Science · #Advanced Optimization Algorithms Research #Numerical Methods and Algorithms #Matrix Theory and Algorithms
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2402.11920
This paper explores a method for solving constrained optimization problems when the derivatives of the objective function are unavailable, while the derivatives of the constraints are known. We allow the objective and constraint function to be nonconvex. The method constructs a quadratic model of the objective function via interpolation and computes a step by minimizing this model subject to the original constraints in the problem and a trust region constraint. The step computation requires the solution of a general nonlinear program, which is economically feasible when the constraints and their derivatives are very inexpensive to compute compared to the objective function. The paper includes a summary of numerical results that highlight the method's promising potential.