| Title: |
Global Convergence of Radial Basis Function Derivative Free Trust Region Algorithms |
| Authors: |
Stefan Wild,
Christine Shoemaker |
| Abstract: |
We analyze globally convergent derivative-free trust region algorithms relying on radial basis function interpolation models. Our results extend the recent work of Conn, Scheinberg, and Vicente to fully linear models that have a nonlinear term. We characterize the types of radial basis functions that fit in our analysis and thus show global convergence to first-order critical points for the ORBIT algorithm of Wild, Regis and Shoemaker. Using ORBIT, we present numerical results for different types of radial basis functions on a series of test problems. We also demonstrate the use of ORBIT in finding local minima on a computationally expensive environmental engineering problem. |
| Keywords: |
Derivative-Free Optimization, Radial Basis Functions, Trust Region Methods, Nonlinear Optimization |
| Thanks: |
Wild's work supported by a DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship under grant number DE-FG02-97ER25308, by an Argonne Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship, and by DOE under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357. Shoemaker's work supported by NSF grants BES-022917, CBET-0756575, CCF-0305583, and DMS-0434390. |
| Status: |
Submitted, February 2009. |
| Link: |
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| BibTeX: |
@techreport{SMWCAS08,
author = "Stefan M. Wild and Christine A. Shoemaker",
title = "Global Convergence of Radial Basis Function Trust-Region Algorithms",
institution = "Mathematics and Computer Science Division",
month = "February",
year = "2009",
number = "Preprint ANL/MCS-P1580-0209"
}
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