A New Nonmonotonic Trust Region Algorithm for A Class of Unconstrained Nonsmooth Optimization

This paper presents a new trust region algorithm for solving a class of composite nonsmooth optimizations. It is distinguished by the fact that this method does not enforce strict monotonicity of the objective function values at successive iterates and that this method extends the existing results for this type of nonlinear optimization with smooth, or piecewise smooth, or convex objective functions or their composition. It is proved that this algorithm is globally convergent under certain conditions. Finally, some numerical results for several optimization problems are reported which show that the nonmonotonic trust region method is competitive with the usual trust region method.