Arnold, Dirk V.Fu, Yuhan2024-07-032024-07-032024-07-02http://hdl.handle.net/10222/84315Incorporating multiple elements of evolution strategies, a first-order variable metric method for unconstrained optimization that is invariant to strictly increasing function value transformations is proposed. The algorithm’s performance is evaluated relative to that of a quasi-Newton algorithm using a large set of test problems.Text