Improvements on a robust conjugate-gradient algorithm which minimizes L-functions

✍ Scribed by W.S. Gesing; E.J. Davison

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 123 KB
• Volume: 14
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0005-1098
• DOI: 10.1016/0005-1098(78)90012-2

✦ Synopsis

This note outlines some modifications in implementing the Davison Wang algorithm[l] for minimizing functions with a finite number of variables; the modifications result in fewer function evaluations required for calculating the gradients of the objective function.