A modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with two stepsize strategies for vector optimization

Abstract

In this paper, in order to find critical points of vector-valued functions with respect to the partial order induced by a closed, convex, and pointed cone with nonempty interior, we propose a nonlinear modified Polak-Ribiere-Polyak type conjugate gradient method with a nonnegative conjugate parameter. We show that the search direction in our method satisfies the sufficient descent condition independent of any line search. Furthermore, under mild assumptions, we obtain the results of global convergence with the standard Wolfe line search conditions as well as the standard Armijo line search strategy without convexity assumption of the objective functions. Computational experiments are given to show the effectiveness of the proposed method.