A Line Search Multigrid Method for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization

  • Authors:
  • Zaiwen Wen;Donald Goldfarb

  • Affiliations:
  • zw2109@columbia.edu and goldfarb@columbia.edu;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We present a line search multigrid method for solving discretized versions of general unconstrained infinite-dimensional optimization problems. At each iteration on each level, the algorithm computes either a “direct search” direction on the current level or a “recursive search” direction from coarser level models. Introducing a new condition that must be satisfied by a backtracking line search procedure, the “recursive search” direction is guaranteed to be a descent direction. Global convergence is proved under fairly minimal requirements on the minimization method used at all grid levels. Using a limited memory BFGS quasi-Newton method to produce the “direct search” direction, preliminary numerical experiments show that our line search multigrid approach is promising.