TITLE:
A New Unified Path to Smoothing Nonsmooth Exact Penalty Function for the Constrained Optimization
AUTHORS:
Bingzhuang Liu
KEYWORDS:
Penalty Function, Constrained Optimization, Smoothing Method, Optimal Solution
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Optimization,
Vol.10 No.3,
August
12,
2021
ABSTRACT: We propose a new unified path to approximately smoothing the nonsmooth exact penalty function in this paper. Based on the new smooth penalty function, we give a penalty algorithm to solve the constrained optimization problem, and discuss the convergence of the algorithm under mild conditions.