An Augmented Lagrangian Trust Region Method with a Bi-Object Strategy

An Augmented Lagrangian Trust Region Method with a Bi-Object Strategy

Year:    2018

Author:    Caixia Kou, Zhongwen Chen, Yuhong Dai, Haifei Han

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 36 (2018), Iss. 3 : pp. 331–350

Abstract

An augmented Lagrangian trust region method with a bi-object strategy is proposed for solving nonlinear equality constrained optimization, which falls in between penalty-type methods and penalty-free ones. At each iteration, a trial step is computed by minimizing a quadratic approximation model to the augmented Lagrangian function within a trust region. The model is a standard trust region subproblem for unconstrained optimization and hence can efficiently be solved by many existing methods. To choose the penalty parameter, an auxiliary trust region subproblem is introduced related to the constraint violation. It turns out that the penalty parameter need not be monotonically increasing and will not tend to infinity. A bi-object strategy, which is related to the objective function and the measure of constraint violation, is utilized to decide whether the trial step will be accepted or not. Global convergence of the method is established under mild assumptions. Numerical experiments are made, which illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm on various difficult situations.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1705-m2016-0820

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 36 (2018), Iss. 3 : pp. 331–350

Published online:    2018-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    20

Keywords:    Nonlinear constrained optimization Augmented Lagrangian function Bi-object strategy Global convergence.

Author Details

Caixia Kou

Zhongwen Chen

Yuhong Dai

Haifei Han