Local tuning and partition strategies for diagonal GO methods

Abstract

In this paper, global optimization (GO) Lipschitz problems are considered where the multi-dimensional multiextremal objective function is determined over a hyperinterval. An efficient one-dimensional GO method using local tuning on the behavior of the objective function is generalized to the multi-dimensional case by the diagonal approach using two partition strategies. Global convergence conditions are established for the obtained diagonal geometric methods. Results of a wide numerical comparison show a strong acceleration reached by the new methods working with estimates of the local Lipschitz constants over different subregions of the search domain in comparison with the traditional approach.