toms611

toms611, a FORTRAN77 code which carries out the unconstrained minimization of a scalar function of multiple variables, by David Gay.

toms611 is ACM toms algorithm 611.

toms611 contains routines for the general unconstrained minimization of a scalar function of several variables. The routines use a model/trust-region approach, and the double-dogleg technique of Dennis and Mei. In cases where the Hessian is not supplied by the user, the BFGS secant update is used instead.

Three different implementations of the algorithm are available, which allow the user to supply just the function, the function and gradient, or function, gradient and hessian.

The user may also choose to supply the information about the function through subroutines, or to use a version of the algorithm that employs "reverse communication", allowing the user to evaluate the function in any suitable way.

The original version of toms611 is available through ACM: http://www.acm.org/pubs/calgo or NETLIB: http://www.netlib.org/toms/index.html

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

toms611 is available in a FORTRAN77 version and a FORTRAN90 version.

Related Data and Programs:

toms611_test

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Author:

David Gay

Reference:

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    An estimate for the Condition Number of a Matrix,
    Technical Report TM-310,
    Argonne National Laboratory, 1977.
  2. John Dennis, David Gay, Roy Welsch,
    Algorithm 573: An Adaptive Nonlinear Least-Squares Algorithm,
    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
    Volume 7, Number 3, September 1981, pages 367-383.
  3. John Dennis, Howell Mei,
    Two New Unconstrained Optimization Algorithms Which Use Function and Gradient Values,
    Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications,
    Volume 28, 1979, pages 453-482.
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    Quasi-Newton Methods, Motivation and Theory,
    SIAM Review,
    Volume 19, Number 1, January 1977, pages 46-89.
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    ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software,
    Volume 9, Number 4, December 1983, pages 503-524.
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    Volume 2, Number 2, June 1981, pages 186-197.
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    edited by GA Watson,
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    Technical Report ANL-81-83,
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    LC: QA218.N85.
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    A Fortran Subroutine for Solving Systems of Nonlinear Algebraic Equations,
    in Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Algebraic Equations,
    edited by Philip Rabinowitz,
    Gordon and Breach, 1970,
    ISBN13: 978-0677142302,
    LC: QA218.N85.
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    Journal of the ACM,
    Volume 14, Number 1, January 1967, pages 72-83.
  15. Richard Varga,
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    Pacific Journal of Mathematics,
    Volume 15, 1965, pages 719-729.

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Last revised on 28 November 2023.