Title
Improving Hit-and-Run for global optimization
Abstract
Improving Hit-and-Run is a random search algorithm for global optimization that at each iteration generates a candidate point for improvement that is uniformly distributed along a randomly chosen direction within the feasible region. The candidate point is accepted as the next iterate if it offers an improvement over the current iterate. We show that for positive definite quadratic programs, the expected number of function evaluations needed to arbitrarily well approximate the optimal solution is at most O(n5/2) wheren is the dimension of the problem. Improving Hit-and-Run when applied to global optimization problems can therefore be expected to converge polynomially fast as it approaches the global optimum.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1007/BF01096737
J. Global Optimization
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Random search,Monte Carlo optimization,algorithm complexity,global optimization
Journal
3
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0925-5001
24
PageRank 
References 
Authors
5.02
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zelda B. Zabinsky143055.93
Robert L. Smith2664123.86
J. Fred McDonald3245.02
H. Edwin Romeijn476983.88
David E. Kaufman5537.29