A Spectral Conjugate Gradient Method for Unconstrained Optimization

Applied Mathematics and Optimization

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 117-128

  Birgin, E G ^a   Martinez J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Conjugate gradients; Spectral gradient method; Unconstrained minimization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); FUNCTION EVALUATION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR ALGEBRA; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; THEOREM PROVING;

FUNCTION-GRADIENT EVALUATIONS; SPECTRAL CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; UNCONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

GRADIENT METHODS;

EID: 0141467950     PISSN: 00954616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00245-001-0003-0     Document Type: Article

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