Gradient-only approaches to avoid spurious local minima in unconstrained optimization

DOI10.1007/s11081-011-9178-7zbMath1294.65071OpenAlexW2140303265MaRDI QIDQ402201

Schalk Kok, Daniel Nicolas Wilke, Johannes Arnoldus Snyman, Albert A. Groenwold

Publication date: 27 August 2014

Published in: Optimization and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2263/39764

zbMATH Keywords

unconstrained optimizationshape optimizationpartial differential equationsgradient-only optimizationstep discontinuousvariable discretization strategies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

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