A Spectral RMIL plus Conjugate Gradient Method for Unconstrained Optimization With Applications in Portfolio Selection and Motion Control

The Spectral conjugate gradient (SCG) methods are among the efficient variants of CG algorithms which are obtained by combining the spectral gradient parameter and CG parameter. The success of SCG methods relies on effective choices of the step-size alpha(k) and the search direction d(k). This paper presents an SCG method for unconstrained optimization models. The search directions generated by the new method possess sufficient descent property without the restart condition and independent of the line search procedure used. The global convergence of the new method is proved under the weak Wolfe line search. Preliminary numerical results are presented which show that the method is efficient and promising, particularly for large-scale problems. Also, the method was applied to solve the robotic motion control problem and portfolio selection problem.