this paper we examine the underlying ideas of the SQP method and the theory that establishes it as a framework from which effective algorithms can

CFSQP is a set of C functions for the minimization of the maximum of a set of smooth objective functions (possibly a single one, or even none at all) subject to general smooth constraints (if there is no objective function, the goal is to simply find a point satisfying the constraints). If the initial guess provided by the user is infeasible for some inequality constraint or some linear equality constraint, CFSQP first generates a feasible point for these constraints; subsequently the successive iterates generated by CFSQP all satisfy these constraints. Nonlinear equality constraints are turned into inequality constraints (to be satisfied by all iterates) and the maximum of the objective functions is replaced by an exact penalty function which penalizes nonlinear equality constraint violations only. When solving problems with many sequentially related constraints (or objectives), such as discretized semiinfinite programming (SIP) problems, CFSQP gives the user the option to use an algo...

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FFSQP is a set of FORTRAN subroutines for the minimization of the maximum of a set of smooth objective functions (possibly a single one, or even none at all) subject to general smooth constraints (if there is no objective function, the goal is to simply find a point satisfying the constraints). If the initial guess provided by the user is infeasible for some inequality constraint or some linear equality constraint, FFSQP first generates a feasible point for these constraints; subsequently the successive iterates generated by FFSQP all satisfy these constraints. Nonlinear equality constraints are turned into inequality constraints (to be satisfied by all iterates) and the maximum of the objective functions is replaced by an exact penalty function which penalizes nonlinear equality constraint violations only. The user has the option of either requiring that the (modified) objective function decrease at each iteration after feasibility for nonlinear inequality and linear constraints has b...

this paper we describe Fortran 77 software that implements the nonmonotone spectral projected gradient (SPG) algorithm. The SPG method applies to problems of the form min f(x) subject to x 2 ; where is a closed convex set in IR n . It is assumed that f is dened and has continuous partial derivatives on an open set that contains Users of the software must supply subroutines to compute the function f(x), the gradient rf(x) and projections of an arbitrary point x onto Information about the Hessian matrix is not required and the storage requirements are minimal. Therefore, the algorithm is appropriate for large-scale convex-constrained optimization problems with aordable projections onto the feasible set. Notice that the algorithm is also suitable for unconstrained optimization problems simply by setting = IR n

. It was recently shown that, in the solution of smooth constrained optimization problems by sequential quadratic programming (SQP), the Maratos effect can be prevented by means of a certain nonmonotone (more precisely, three-step or four-step monotone) line search. Using a well known transformation, this scheme can be readily extended to the case of minimax problems. It turns out however that, due to the structure of these problems, one can use a simpler scheme. Such a scheme is proposed and analyzed in this paper. Numerical experiments indicate a significant advantage of the proposed line search over the (monotone) Armijo search. Key words. Minimax problems, SQP direction, Maratos effect, Superlinear convergence. 1 This research was supported in part by NSF's Engineering Research Centers Program No. NSFD-CDR88 -03012, by NSF grant No. DMC-88-15996 and by a grant from the Westinghouse Corporation. 2 To whom the correspondence should be addressed. 1. Introduction. Consider the "m...

this paper we investigate incorporating the Mayne and Polak scheme, modified along the lines of this second alternative, into the algorithm of [9]. The balance of this paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we present the algorithm (a few of the details are deferred to Section 4 in order to avoid any loss of continuity). Section 3 is devoted to establishing convergence. In Section 4 we discuss an implementation and some numerical results. Finally, we offer some concluding remarks in Section 5. 2 ALGORITHM Let \Omega

Abstract. A new nonmonotone line search algorithm is proposed and analyzed. In our scheme, we require that an average of the successive function values decreases, while the traditional nonmonotone approach of Grippo, Lampariello, and Lucidi [SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 23 (1986), pp. 707–716] requires that a maximum of recent function values decreases. We prove global convergence for nonconvex, smooth functions, and R-linear convergence for strongly convex functions. For the L-BFGS method and the unconstrained optimization problems in the CUTE library, the new nonmonotone line search algorithm used fewer function and gradient evaluations, on average, than either the monotone or the traditional nonmonotone scheme.

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We compare and contrast a number of recent sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods that have been proposed for the solution of large-scale nonlinear programming problems. Both line-search and trust-region approaches are considered, as are the implications of interior-point and quadratic programming methods.