Criteria for Unconstrained Global Optimization

E. Demidenko ()
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E. Demidenko: Dartmouth College

Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2008, vol. 136, issue 3, No 5, 375-395

Abstract: Abstract We develop criteria for the existence and uniqueness of the global minima of a continuous bounded function on a noncompact set. Special attention is given to the problem of parameter estimation via minimization of the sum of squares in nonlinear regression and maximum likelihood. Definitions of local convexity and unimodality are given using the level set. A fundamental theorem of nonconvex optimization is formulated: If a function approaches the minimal limiting value at the boundary of the optimization domain from below and its Hessian matrix is positive definite at the point where the gradient vanishes, then the function has a unique minimum. It is shown that the local convexity level of the sum of squares is equal to the minimal squared radius of the regression curvature. A new multimodal function is introduced, the decomposition function, which can be represented as the composition of a convex function and a nonlinear function from the argument space to a space of larger dimension. Several general global criteria based on majorization and minorization functions are formulated.

Keywords: Existence; Nonconvex optimization; Minimization; Least squares; Maximum likelihood (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/s10957-007-9298-6

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