| Article ID: | iaor19942366 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Start Page Number: | 229 |
| End Page Number: | 237 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1992 |
| Journal: | Optimization |
| Authors: | Wu Shiquan |
| Keywords: | programming: nonlinear |
This paper studies the convergence properties of a class of descent methods, proposes the necessary and sufficient conditions under which the general descent methods can have a linearly convergent rate, and proves some kind of convergence of the general descent method without assuming that the point sequence {