Quasi-Newton algorithms for solving interval-valued multiobjective optimization problems by using their certain equivalence

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a class of interval-valued multiobjective optimization problems (IVMOP), and formulate a certain equivalent multiobjective optimization problem (MOP). We establish that any Pareto optimal solution of the equivalent MOP is also an effective solution of IVMOP. We introduce two variants of the quasi-Newton method to solve IVMOP when every component of the objective function has second-order partial generalized Hukuhara derivatives. In the first variant, we assume that the objective function of IVMOP is strongly convex, and approximate Hessian matrix of each component of the objective function of MOP by using the well-known BFGS method. The algorithm generated by this variant exhibits superlinear convergence to a locally effective solution of IVMOP. In the second variant, we approximate the Hessian matrix of each component of MOP by applying the Levenberg–Marquardt method. Moreover, this variant can be applied to non-convex functions, and the sequence generated by this variant converges to a locally effective solution of IVMOP as well. Finally, some numerical examples are furnished to illustrate the effectiveness of our developed methodology.