%0 Journal Article %T Numerical Experiments with Matrices Storage Free BFGS Method for Large Scale Unconstrained Optimization %A Malik Hj. Abu Hassan %A Mansor Monsi %A Leong Wah June %J Matematika %D 2003 %I Universiti Teknologi Malaysia %X We study the numerical performance of a matrices storage free quasi-Newton method for large-scale optimization, which we call the F-BFGS method. We compare its performance with that of the limited memory BFGS, L-BFGS methods developed by Nocedal (1980) and the conjugate gradient methods. The F-BFGS method is very competitive due to its low storage requirement and computational labor and also able to solve large-scale problems with 106 variables successfully while other methods fail. %K Large scale optimization %K matrices storage free methods %K limited memory methods %K conjugate gradient methods. %U http://www.fs.utm.my/matematika/images/stories/matematika/200319204.pdf