PRECONDITIONED LOW-ORDER NEWTON METHODS

In this paper, low-order Newton methods are proposed that make use of previously obtained second-derivative information by suitable precondi tioning. When applied to a particular 2-dimensional Newton method (the LS method), it is shown that a member of the Broyden family of quasi- Newton methods is obtained. Algorithms based on this preconditioned LS model are tested against some variations of the BFGS method and shown to be much superior in terms of number of iterations and function eva luations, but not so effective in terms of number of gradient evaluati ons.