Global convergence Unconstrained optimization 76 Conjugate gradient method 48 Superlinear convergence 28 Line search 19 Nonlinear programming 17 Sufficient descent property 15 mehr ... Sufficient descent condition 14 Local convergence 13 Nonmonotone line search 13 Alternating direction method of multipliers 12 Nonlinear equations 11 Nonconvex optimization 10 Convergence rate 9 Derivative-free optimization 9 Projection method 9 Three-term conjugate gradient method 9 BFGS method 8 Derivative-free method 8 Homotopy method 8 Nonlinear monotone equations 8 Spectral conjugate gradient method 8 Trust region method 8 Nonsmooth optimization 7 Sequential quadratic programming 7 Conjugacy condition 6 Constraint qualifications 6 Convex programming 6 Large-scale optimization 6 Smoothing Newton method 6 weniger ...