Some new results in derivative free optimization

Andrew R. Conn
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Mathematical Sciences
32-206 1101 Kitchawan Rd., Yorktown Heights NY 10598
arconn@us.ibm.com
Luis Vicente, Katya Scheinberg

Some new results on derivative free methods will be presented. These have broader implications for, for example, second-order trust-region methods.