A family of improved secant methods via nonmonotone curvilinear paths technique for equality constrained optimization (Q5948567)

The author considers the nonlinear equality constrained minimization problem \[ \min f(x)\quad\text{subject to }c(x)= 0, \] where \(f: \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^1\) and \(c: \mathbb{R}^n\to \mathbb{R}^n\) \((m\leq n)\) are twice continuously differentiable. A family of improved secant algorithms via two preconditional curvilinear paths, the preconditional modified gradient path and preconditional optimal path is presented. The results of numerical experiments are reported to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms.