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A Trust-Region Algorithm for Global Optimization 13where n is the dimension of the problem.2.3 ConclusionsWe presented a two-phase procedure for the global optimization of funnel functions. Theapproach builds on ALSO [2] and combines sampling with local searches. ALSO constructsa local smooth mo<strong>de</strong>l from the samples by applying Gaussian smoothing. We <strong>de</strong>monstratedhow to embed ALSO within a trust-region framework that adaptively updates the sampleradius.To extend the trust-region framework to global optimization, we introduced the conceptof global quality, which triggers a mo<strong>de</strong>l improvement step. Global quality measures thelargest number of samples that have the same objective value and stem from the same basinof attraction. If global quality is large, then a mo<strong>de</strong>l improvement step removes all but onesample from the largest set and generates a new set of uniform samples.We compared our algorithm to ALSO and variants of monotone basin hopping (MBH). Thenew algorithm is more robust than ALSO and MBH on a range of test problems, and faster interms of the number of local searches it requires per successful run.1log2 ( local searches / least local searcher )0.90.80.7% of problems0.60.50.40.30.2MBH0.1AMBHALSOTRF00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8solved within factor 2 x of best solverFigure 3.Performance profile of the average number of local searchesAcknowledgmentsThis work was supported by the Mathematical, Information, and Computational Sciences Divisionsubprogram of the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science,U.S. Department of Energy, un<strong>de</strong>r Contract W-31-109-ENG-38. The first author was also supportedby the Italian national research program “FIRB/RBNE01WBBBB Large Scale NonlinearOptimization”.

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