Abstract

A rank-one algorithm is presented for unconstrained function minimization. The algorithm is a modified version of Davidon's variance algorithm and incorporates a limited line search. It is shown that the algorithm is a descent algorithm; for quadratic forms, it exhibits finite convergence, in certain cases. Numerical studies indicate that it is considerably superior to both the Davidon-Fletcher-Powell algorithm and the conjugate-gradient algorithm.

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